AtmanRyu

Man "beats" World of Warcraft

"Taiwanese man has been named the first ever person to successfully beat World of Warcraft, getting all 986 achievements, completing 5906 quests and /hugging 11 players.

'Little Gray" beat the game after killing 390,895 creatures, administering 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completing 5,906 quests (averaging 14 quests a day), raiding 405 dungeons and hugging 11 players. I believe we can safely add another statistic to the numbers -- he has had sex 0 times during this period."

One has to wonder: Is this something to be truly proud of?  "I beat a MMORPG that I'm not supposed to beat, and I got nothing in return!!!"

Notice that once again it's an Asian pulling out stuff like this; one really has to wonder...

Finally got to see 2012, and despite of not having an Earth-shattering Kaboom, I enjoyed it overall.

Let's see if I can summarize it in a few sentences:

- The destruction scenes were delicious; if you looked closely, you could actually see people falling to their death.
- "In Soviet Russia, airplane fucks end of world!"
- The science in the movie would be the equivalent of water boarding to the average scientist.
- In a related note, the reason the movie gives for the planet to get mangled the way it does sounds rather stupid if you say it out loud. (Hint: Think a microwave)
- Good lord, people can't be THAT dumb... Can they?
- Bring up Princess Diana and pretty much compare it to an an incident in the movie that was blatant cover up conspiracy; class act...
- Was mad at first that there were no spaceships and instead were big boats, but got over it rather quick for one reason: Humanity sucks at progress. Seriously: it's 2009. No flying cars, no jet packs, no teleportation. Are you telling me that by 2012 we can suddenly pull spaceships out of our asses that can carry a quarter of a million people (plus supplies) to a planet or satellite we haven't even colonized to begin with?
- Some death scenes were just plain cruel, even for Emmerich's standards.
- Did I mention how delicious the destruction was?

In short, if you have little to no faith in the human race and want to see it squirm under a sadistic God's thumb, you'll have a fun time. For the rest of you, you'd be better off waiting for the Rifftrax version of it.

Dear Furry Fandom:

It's been almost 30 years now. When are you going to have an official definition? Or at least have a set definition of standards? You say you do, but in truth the boundaries are so murky it's not even funny.

You say it's about liking anthropomorphic characters. That in it's own right is valid enough, but then you have this compulsive Borg-like attitude to absorb just about anything that YOU want to call furry, not matter how ludicrous or far fetched the "furriness factor" is (Japanese cat girls, Playboy bunny girls, even Smurfs). Not only that, you go one step further, claiming that such is made FOR furries, despite of how nonsensical the argument might be (ALL cartoons ever made, most ancient mythology... Heck, even the movie Avatar for instance have some of your members claiming that is a furry movie). And let's not get into your sexual deviations...

Most people by now know what a trekker/trekkie is, or what an otaku is, or for that matter be able to tell fandoms apart. Up to this point, even professional artists can't decide on a proper explanation when the topic of furry fandom is brought to discussion, so they stay either neutral, use it as a butt of a joke, or simply tell you to "watch that CSI episode"... Do you have any idea how hard is to play Devil's Advocate for a fandom that keeps shooting itself on the foot?

For that matter, can you be able to control your members? Yes, until recently there has been some positive outlooks on you by the media, but then you have members that are going Jehovah's Witnesses style on the general public. It's good that people see that you're not just about being a sex maniac, but remember, that doesn't mean they're willing to be interested into it.

This is not by any means a "cease and desist" petition; you're already old enough to make your own decisions. However, you're long overdue for a true definition, so when people are making fun of you, they at least have a clue of what they're talking about.

Sincerely,

Edgardo "AtmanRyu" G. Salomon

...This has to be the STUPIDEST question I've seen up to date...

Oh, I'm sure an even greater one will appear eventually, but until then, this one takes the cake.

Japanese.

Twitter.

Think about it: Its mere existence celebrates the mundane over actual achievements people actually may have, under the pretense of false friendship and "community".



Facebook comes dangerously close to second place in terms of useless inventions.

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!!!"