Joystiq reviews editor Justin McElroy spent a whole hour of his life trying to catch a fish in the new Xbox360/PS3 game from Square Enix, Nier. It’s an essential quest to save the character’s dying daughter, but so frustratingly and poorly implemented that it led to the creation of this outraged video rant. Funny stuff.
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➟ The Simpsons cover Tik Tok
As far as I know, this is the first time in 20 years that The Simpson’s opening couch scene has been done as a minute-long parody of a music video, bearing almost no resemblance to the usual format. It’s almost a paid commercial, but it’s also pretty awesome.Update: Original video was taken down, new copy linked.Link [youtube.com]
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➟ Badass mobile home commercial
Errol Morris loves this ad, and you have to admit it’s really something. Buy a mobile home from Cullman Liquidation, or don’t. He doesn’t care.The making-of video is cool too, and has Star (the token hot salesgirl) saying a few lines.
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➟ That Hair
Pretty sure this look is more “crazy homeless girl” when viewed outside the studio.
Link [oh! you pretty things]
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➟ A Microsoft Employee’s Guide to Humor
Microsoft thinks having a good sense of humor is an important “competency” for any employee to have, and has a page to help “improve proficiency” and avoid overdoing it. It also grades a person’s funniness on a four-level scale.Dilbert is listed under Recommended Readings.Where to find humor. There are topics that can be near universally humorous. Misers, bad drivers, absent-minded people, anything that is understood worldwide as the human condition. What’s a ridiculous situation you’ve been caught in lately? There are funny things in the workplace. The jargon of it, memos, ironic rules. And there is always the news. Humor that unites people rather than puts down people or groups is always safe.
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➟ Henry Kissinger on Lee Kuan Yew
High praise for the founder of modern Singapore, from Nobel Peace Prize-winning former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in the 2010 Time Magazine list of the world’s 100 most influential people.There is no better strategic thinker in the world today. Two generations of American leaders have benefited from his counsel.
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Since You Asked
I think I do a good impression.Just wanted to mention a great birthday gift I got today, a signed copy of Cary Tennis’ Since You Asked. Cary is Salon.com’s resident advice columnist, and a damned good one. Certainly the best I’ve ever read. The book is a collection of his responses, which are unfailingly thoughtful, inspiring and human, even when they don’t have any solutions to offer.
Buy the book from Cary’s own site here (he even signed the receipt, adding “Enjoy!”) or from Amazon via the link below.
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➟ Super Mario Crossover
It’s hard to believe you can play a game this awesome for free, in your browser. Programmer Jay Pavlina spent over a year recreating the entire Super Mario Bros. game, with playable characters from other NES-era classics.I just powered through World 1-1 as Mega Man, shooting Goombas with my arm cannon, and machine-gunned the hell out of World 1-2 as Bill from Contra. Also available: Samus Aran from Metroid, Simon Belmont from Castlevania, and Link from the Legend of Zelda.
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