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Stalking Cat; the guy who made himself look like a tiger...

I wonder what's he upHOLY SHIT HE LOOKS LIKE CRAP!  D8>



Last time I saw him (5 years ago), he kinda looked like a tiger; recently he's looking more like a bulldog.

I really dread to imagine how he'll look like 10 to 20 years from now...

So it's been approximately a day since Michael passed away and right now we're divided in two groups:

1) People that are celebrating his death the same way the Munchkins did when the Wicked Witch of the West melted.
2) People that are more than likely to apply him for Sainthood.

And of course, there's a third group of people that's simply treating him as a person passing away; of course, this group is marginally small in terms of exposure.

Regardless, whether you liked him or not, that's entirely your own opinion; the problem is the general shallowness it generated: Before his death, people barely gave a flying rat ass for him, except perhaps the media hoping to capture his next shenanigans.  Now that he's dead, people are either berating how's he's finally dead, tossing in dead jokes even before he gets buried, people looking for and playing his songs, even though it's been decades since they played said songs...

What is it about a celebrity death that triggers this shallow reaction on people, whether good or bad? Just think about it...  It's almost an equation in which your popularity/notoriety will always be equally proportional to the chances of people suddenly giving a fuck about you when you die.

"A billion people died from a war conflict?  Meh, whatever..."

"Michael Jackson died!?  OMFG!!!  Quick, get the shrines!!!"

Anyway, there's also this group of people mourning his death as "he was taken from us too early"...

...I dunno about that, but let's analyze his situation for a moment:

Before he went Coo coo for Cocoa Puffs, he was indeed one of the greatest artists of the time (and one hell of a dancer in my opinion).  As time passed on, he developed one hell of a Peter Pan complex (more than likely due to trouble childhood), which led him to do a list of questionable actions, including the sleep-over with kids.

Now, let's review one little fact: The never wanting to grow up part for that matter.

Do you think a person like that would had aged well?  Worst case scenario, he'd end up like this:



Whether you admit it or not, perhaps for him to be able to die "young" rather than live old and senile was a blessing in disguise for him.

Ah well...

I hate it when they're right...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/8/

It really doesn't help that they increased the woobieness of the gryphon ten fold... Now he looks like he's crying all the time... ;-;

*hugs the gryphon*

(check the link at the news section to see what I mean)

Not a specific word, but rather the accent.

The japanese accent in general; it actually sounds like they put more emotion to their words in contrast to some other languages, specially when trying to pronounce foreign words.

For instance, compare Shadow the Hedgehog's "Chaos control" in English with "CHAOS CONTROL!!!" in Japanese.

Can't say much of fairy tales, though there is one Aesop tale I've grown rather fond of for years and tend to abide to in terms of artwork, yet can't find an online reference to it.

However, it went like this:

It was about a donkey who was singing and dancing around; a monkey comes by and watches the show and start criticizing the donkey's performance calling it really bad.

The donkey thought about the remark and kept dancing and singing; a pig comes by and watches the same show, which he then proceeds to applaud and appraise, calling him a genius.

That's when the donkey realized the following: He must be bad if the monkey criticized him, but he must be REALLY bad if the pig appraised him.

The moral being about taking note of the criticism of the wise and not the appraisal of the foolish.

Cho Aniki has been outgayed:



Thing though, this concept is incredibly hilarious to the point that you gotta play it at least once in your life.

Goddammit, Team ICO!  Why you keep making games so awesome it would make me want to buy a Playstation!?  XD

Beauty Pageants take stupidity to critical levels:



I'm officially embarrassed of being Panamanian...

Saw Star Trek last night with lordsathien.

It was pretty good overall, plus enjoyed the added bonuses here and there.

However, since I'm not a trekkie, and according to the algorithm of fandom vs regulars, that must mean that your average trekkie found it to be incredibly sucky.

Your result for What Circus Performer would you be?...

Bearded Lady!

You scored 44 percent on Bearded-Lady.

Take What Circus Performer would you be? at HelloQuizzy

Humor creativity's dead as it is; at this point, people will assume anything to be a joke immediately; do I need to go on?

http://community.livejournal.com/furryweekend/236993.html

I dunno what's worse:

• The fact that she has to consult the community, or
• The really misplaced priorities some of the repliers have.

And it makes you wonder: Isn't this kind of decision to be discussed with the ones you made the agreement with in the first place instead of some random strangers in a community?

For the Watchmen fanboys stills declaring that their childhood(...!?) has been once again raped by a movie adaptation, seriously, STFU!!!

The director actually put some effort to keep it as faithful to the original as possible, and it's an effort that need to be commended, unlike other cases out there, (I'm looking at you, Spirit!!!).

Besides, you well know it could had been worse.  Much, MUCH worse:

....Or "You must be THIS stupid to promote movies".

I actually heard this on the radio, promoting tickets for Watchmen...  I paraphrase:

"Watchmen is like the greatest superhero movie, EVER!  It's rated R, so it has gore!  And Boobies!  And SEX!!!  Imagine Superman and Wonder Woman getting it on...   It's THAT awesome!"

The fact that this is the very same station that considered Bush a genius doesn't help.  At all.

I recall graveyardgreg saying that this movie failed to capture the movie.  At first I was confused of why such a harsh remark on that area.

After hearing this radio ad, it all became clear...  It definitively missed the point if the first impression that most people get from the trailers involves "OMG!  I'm gonna see superheroes getting laid!!!"

Last night lordsathien and I went to see a midnight showing of Watchmen at an IMAX theater.

Needless to say, the movie turned out to be pretty good, with most of the characters being dead on to their comic counterparts and the story deliciously fleshed out.

Sure, there were some changes in the storyline, but they didn't hinder the main plot, and also, some changes turned out to be for the better.

And since this was a rather R movie, most events that you expected from the comic are there (yes, no discretion shots for Dr. Manhattan...).

If you want to see a good superhero movie (until the expected Marvel movies come out), definitively go see Watchmen; it'll help you forget the piece of shit The Spirit movie was.

It's so bad that even Hitler himself goes into a ranting spree:

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

More Black Friday Bloodshed: 2 Dead After Shooting at Toys R Us

Only 3 casualties this time?  Is the economy THAT bad?

...Seriously though, this is one of MANY reasons I'm disgusted with the holidays.

And thus, the shallowest time of the year begins...