the funkstorung website just got a nice redesign. funk/sto/rung
“Electronic Arts announced plans today to release a new game in the Sims series titled The Urbz for PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and the Game Boy Advance. The idea of the game is similar to The Sims, but with an inner-city bent — instead of competing for the nicest lawn and happiest lifestyle, your little guys (called Urbz) are fighting for street reputation and style. It’s the player’s goal to build up your street cred and become the very literal king of tow—” SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.
thanks to slashdot for this little nugget of disturbingness: “An anonymous reader writes “Over at GameSpot, there’s an interview with Dr. Michael Macedonia of the U.S. Army about the AWE training sim, a ‘massively multiplayer simulation [based on the There ‘virtual world’ game engine] that will be used by military personnel to train troops in urban situations before they are airlifted to a battle zone.’ Macedonia says ‘We built downtown Baghdad in this environment’, and also says ‘we call our games tactical decision aids. Our thing is not making people shoot better; it’s making people think better.'”
so i just got home. not like SF home but like NY (parents) home. so far i’ve been here for like three hours and i’ve watched three hours of TV and eaten 35,000 lbs. of food. some things i’ve learned:
1. curb your enthusiasm is pretty funny, but not quite as shit-through-my-jeans funny as i thought it’d be. i’ll watch more though, maybe these weren’t the best episodes.
2. chris rock is a funny motherfucker. i’ve decided that jews and blacks are the funniest people, straight up. i think being oppressed/enslaved/exterminated leads to comedy gold. canadians are funny too. (not sure about the canadians though.)
3. i need a cat.
“abandonware” is commercial software that has been discontinued by the publisher and is not sold or supported anymore. this here site is a mecca for abandonware in the form of mac games, with such downloadable classics as doom 2, prince of persia, lemmings, leisure suit larry 6, and one of my favorite games of all time, indiana jones and the last crusade. hot shit, folks. free mac game smorgasbord
this may be the sickest web-based game i’ve ever seen. basically, you have to travel around a city recording sounds on your minidisc player, and then come home and mix all of the sounds into a track, to be played later that night at a big club in london. okay, so it sounds kinda corny, so just peep it and behold its glory. stupid fresh
dear folks: this is kind of off the heez. love, evan: osama big mac with 9-piece mcNuggets
the internet has taught me that life in africa is nothing more than a series of violent wild animal attacks. (such as this one)
yup, believe it. this really is a fully-functional replica of kaneda’s motorcycle from akira. wtf do they put in the drinking water over there (besides msg)?
this one’s an all-time classic, despite the fact that it was made by several hundred indonesian children, working 19-hour shifts in a basement made of asbestos and used air force ones. real life transformer
joy division + missy, “love will tear us apart”. mashup shit can be wack but this one is, like, meant to be. you really should hear it, it’s hot. hollaaaaaaa.
you have absolutely no choice but to click on this link and laugh. “right wingers are funny (looking)”
seriously, shut up and watch this: the brothers mario.
when guitars meet videogames: jimi hendrix would be proud.
from the AP: “The percentage of Americans who believe Jews were responsible for killing Jesus has grown in recent years, although it remains a view held by a minority of people, according to a poll released Friday.
The survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found 26 percent of respondents believe Jews were to blame for the Crucifixion, up from 19 percent in ABC News poll in 1997.
The greatest increase was among young people and blacks.
Thirty-four percent of those under age 30 now believe Jews were responsible, compared to 10 percent in 1997, the Pew Center said. And 42 percent of blacks hold that view, compared to 21 percent seven years ago.” tight.
sickest game concept i’ve heard about in ages. location-based gaming is where it’s at, people: freshness
interesting interview with alex rigopulos, founder of harmonix, on music-slanted videogames: play more music
sony japan’s newest game Koufuku Sousakan, which translates as “happiness and prosperity controller.” a quote: “if a person is very happy, the player can ‘suck’ some of that person’s happiness (or sadness) and give it to some unhappy sod by rapidly hitting the circle button.” deep shit.
for all the counterstrike heads: h-o-o-o-o-o-t
okay, this is fucked up. peep the ugly animal zoo: ugly animal zoo
an alarm clock that starts to emit a scent 30 minutes before you’re supposed to wake up. i swear i had this idea like five years ago. click us
holy white basketball player, batman: white men got hops
watch, and feel your brain subsequently melt into a puddle of kanji: this