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Next-generation video game cereals:

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Next-Gen Cereal System Edition Winners

God bless the intrepid souls who go on to Chatroulette! to do video chat with totally random strangers. Without their brave explorations, we’d never get screenshots like these:

The 24 Best Chat Roulette Screenshots

A video game where you play by screaming:

The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft

“Cap’n Marsh, see, he’d been dealing with queer folks in the South Sea islands, and they taught him some peculiar ways. Out there on Devil Reef, he built a funct’n that called itself to print any leading digits, then printed out the trailing digit at the end.

“Matt Elliot, Obed’s fust mate, he allus was agin’ it, but he saw it with his own eyes how that funct’n used to call itself up like a serpent eatin’ its own tail–

      void Cthulhu
      (int Ia) {
      if (Ia/10)
      Cthulhu (IA/10);
      putchar // ftagn!
        (Ia % 10 + '0');
      } // neblod zin!

“Twistin’ and writhing like nothing of this Earth, it’d spit out those strings without no heap allocation in sight.”

Google Chrome Issue 31482: Huge amount of goats teleported

Comment 25 by luke.schlather, Jan 12 (2 days ago)

How is it that Chrome still has these enormous show-stopper bugs on Linux? I’m not going to introduce this kind of system instability just to get a mild performance improvement over Firefox. Firefox has never teleported an unreasonable amount of goats. It always keeps it within the acceptable range of my teleporter.

That’s right: Part 1 of fucking 7. A full decade after the release of “The Phantom Menace”, some guy releases a seventy minute review of the film. But if a seventy-minute fanboy hate-letter to a film isn’t strange enough, no worry. There’s also: Surprisingly incisive analysis of what makes a conventional action film work; a quick nod to directors like Peckinpah and Herzog right after serial mispronunciation of the word “protagonist”; passionately detailed arguments delivered in a strangely focused monotone; a funny-creepy serial killer theme (complete with demonic Pizza Rolls); and a production quality that makes me think maybe you can apply the term “dirt-style” to editing itself.

I don’t even really know how to classify the thing, but I did watch it all from start to finish. Of course, maybe I’m exactly in its sweet spot: Film snob with enough of a nerd background that I can recount obscure trivia about the Star Wars films, even though I don’t actually like any of them.