Spoilers galore, this STAR WARS The Force Awakens tie-in fan comic by Blizzard Entertainment's Tyson Murphy is deep with the feels.
Thanks @DaringFireball
MacRumors World AIDS Day: magnet for informal fallacies
What's political about Apple recognising World Aids Day? The answer: the comments section. (NOTE: my notes below each (#'s denote comment order):
Comment #1: Apple is collecting funds to help people who contracted a disease.
Good for them.
- straw man fallacy
Comment #6: Not trying to be a downer or anything. But like one of the previous guy said, AIDS is mostly contracted disease. I wonder if it would be batter if they direct this toward cancer or something else.
- part straw man fallacy, part presuppositional fallacy
Comment #13: ...Apple would do much better focusing their huge pile of money on something else, but, Apple is a left wing leaning organization and the CEO is gay so no surprise.
- tu quoque fallacy, argument from ignorance fallacy
Ah, the internet, outside it, you will not find a more treacherous hive of uneducated scum and villainy.
Evangelion in Glorious Blu-ray
Last year on December 1st at precisely 5:02 PM, JST announced a thing that every anime fan over the age of 20 or so has been waiting for since the dawn of Blu-ray. That thing was that Neon Genesis Evangelion was hitting Blu-Ray in August of the following year.
Read moreApple bought Disney?
Gruber lays relied too much on Strunk's teaching in the concluding sentence to this blog post:
“Here’s a what-if: What if Apple had bought Pixar instead of Disney?”
Let's try: "What if Pixar was purchased by Apple instead of by Disney?" That would clear up the frantic morning Google of did Apple buy Disney?
Inside Japanese automatic transit validation machines
That famed Japanese work ethic is put to excellent use in train turnstiles. (Click image above to to to gif.)
Read moreUltima VI Remake update: Buccaneer's cave gains staircases
AgentOrangeGuy's work in Exult to liberate Ultima VI from its 1990 roots in order to enter the world of 2000's-assisted 1992 technology is coming along swimmingly. I mean look at that: a staircase into a Buccaneer's cave. Netherworlds didn't even exist in Ultima VII, but tweaks by the Exult team make things possible.
Read moreUltima VI: Combat, Equipment, and Magic
In preparation for the eventual debut of the Exult-powered Ultima VI Remake, I am currently slogging my through Ultima VI (via Dosbox). While it remains one of the most well-crafted examples of RPG storytelling and world-building, Ultima VI has its problems. CRPG Addict has documented many, if not most of them.
Read moreTheo Jansen's amazing walking kites
Theo Jansen, known also as strandbeest, is a geek not wasting anyone's time, or space. He's famous the world over for constructing incredible walking kites. If you've not checked him out yet, by all means, do.
Read moreBrian X Chen on a bad Samsung oven
Brian X Chen's NYT Op-ED piece sounds bad, I'll agree. But who in their right mind buys an oven from a company that not only makes kitchen appliances, but that imports and rebrands cars, sells groceries, life insurance, builds the tallest buildings in the world, makes handsets, computers, and started out making noodles?
That is, who in their right mind purchases from a company whose business can't be defined in a single, three-word sentence? Whose customer service department spans everything from elevator shafts to the turnstile in a supermarket?
I call poppycock on Brian X Chen's having really researched 'brand and appliances' for days.
Via Daring Fireball
"There need to be dozens of these dead teddy bears"
While the production quality of DoccGero's Lab's Youtube video is poor, and Docc sounds drunk, he hits on an important fact: Return of the Jedi pathetically "pandered to children". It, not the horrible prequels, was where George Lucas's STAR WARS went off the rails. Docc goes off on ewoks, Emperor Palpatine's shallowness, and Darth Vader's lack of integrity as a villain.
It is the film in the original series that I like the least.
The thumbnail image for this post is from this review of another horrible film from the STAR WARS universe, An Ewok Adventure.