Meme Machine Memorial Thread of Things You Saw on Reddit

[Cheebs]

Nic Cage plans to be buried like an Egyptian pharaoh

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Cage went bankrupt and had to sell his homes not long ago. He doesn't seem to know how to manage his money well at all. No wonder he does so much shit in between doing the occasional great performance, he seems to spend every paycheck he gets instanty.

[The Dark Shake 3000]

Cage spends all his money on really eccentric shit. Personal islands and pyramids, etc. He is basically living all of our fantasies.

[Diunx]

I bet his body if gonna lay in a huge pile of vintage comic books.

Nic Cage

[Phoenix Dark]

Beezy explain this
[youtube=560,345]9RCPIowchyQ[/youtube]
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[The Dark Shake 3000]

He'd bring them home if they were Lil Wayne's panties

[Beezy]

Why do I have to explain?

He'd bring them home if they were Lil Wayne's panties

true

[Phoenix Dark]

you were the first EBer to co-sign this rapper, your honor is on the line  breh

[Beezy]

I was? Oh well, his mixtape is really good. He would never get by on his rap skills alone though.

[Draft]

Stolen from GAF.

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All I can think of while they do that is if they can and DO eat themselves out.

Imagine if you picked a girl up in the bar and she started doing that shit. It'd be like the beginning of Wicked City.

[Himu]

Beezy explain this
[youtube=560,345]9RCPIowchyQ[/youtube]
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Dude, give the guy a break. If you were doing your job and panties landed in your hand you gotta throw those panties away and keep on truckin'!

But at the very least he should have put em on his head.

[WrikaWrek]

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[lennedsay]

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ZOMG

He looks identical to my male! The size, color, the way he plays and mannerisms! Both shibas are curled up next to and on top of me right now.  Awwwwww now she has her head on his back. ICP should make a song about this magical shit.

Did you get your puppy yet? Is there a shiba meetup group where you live?

[Madrun Badrun]

No, the puppies are only 2 weeks old so it will be a while.  No to meet up too as far as I know.  In fact just to get a shiba we have to get it from people who live 3 hours away, lol.

[lennedsay]

No, the puppies are only 2 weeks old so it will be a while.  No to meet up too as far as I know.  In fact just to get a shiba we have to get it from people who live 3 hours away, lol.

You'd be surprised. We bought her from people 4 hours away and him 1.5 hours away, but we have a decent meetup group that's only a year or so old. There were 20 shibas at the last one we went to. We used meetup.com to find it, but now we're on a FB group. So many awesome shibas all in one place!

Through that group, we hear about adoptable rescue shibas, usually through Midwest Shiba Rescue. Although we're not looking to adopt right now, we have the option to help - donate money or supplies, foster, check out potential homes, help transport them (Say they need to move from Nebraska to Ohio, they split up the trip into various 2 hour legs and you can choose to do one or more leg near you). Awesome group of people for sure.

[Kestastrophe]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20810956&postcount=13

 

[M3wThr33]

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  Name a Country you most admire....

"Africa? Europe? Africa? Europe? Africa? Europe? AFRICA?"

[Himu]

[Third]

"We like Europe, cause there's a lot of choices there"

"Right"

 

[Skidmark]

I am sure many here have tried this one before but if you haven't yet then give it a try, you will be surprised by how well this one works.
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[Great Rumbler]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20810956&postcount=13

 

They probably spent all their money on the cutscenes, because they certainly didn't spend much on the gameplay.

[Kestastrophe]

That's amazing that five people can't collectively discern the difference between a continent and a country

[Himu]

That's amazing that five people can't collectively discern the difference between a continent and a country

black people  :'(

[Veidt]

I am sure many here have tried this one before but if you haven't yet then give it a try, you will be surprised by how well this one works.
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Awesome

[Great Rumbler]

I am sure many here have tried this one before but if you haven't yet then give it a try, you will be surprised by how well this one works.
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Awesome

I'm freaking out over here!!

[Veidt]

That video + space images = heaven

[Himu]

My eyes are contorting images after that video. I'm going to watch that next I get high.

[Fresh Prince]

Dude, give the guy a break. If you were doing your job and panties landed in your hand you gotta throw those panties away and keep on truckin'!

But at the very least he should have put em on his head.

It was probably some nasty fat chick too. Did he say they were wet or something? 

[Barry Egan]

[youtube=560,345]G7heHF4CMyU[/youtube]

[Himu]

[brawndolicious]

I am sure many here have tried this one before but if you haven't yet then give it a try, you will be surprised by how well this one works.
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Saved.

[Madrun Badrun]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8627835.stm

  Washington

[GilloD]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/18/christina-hendricks-in-es_n_541955.html

What the fuck did they do to Christina Hendriks? That's the opposite of air brushing. Ugly brushing. Jesus.

[Fresh Prince]

Name a Country you most admire....

"Africa? Europe? Africa? Europe? Africa? Europe? AFRICA?"

So that's what happened to Al.

[etiolate]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=393040

Opinions: Is Ebert just trolling? Or is he just being stubborn old man?

In the article in question: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_never_be_art.html

He contradicts himself by holding to the idea of taste and experience allowing him to be a better judgement of art:

She quotes Robert McKee's definition of good writing as "being motivated by a desire to touch the audience." This is not a useful definition, because a great deal of bad writing is also motivated by the same desire. I might argue that the novels of Cormac McCarthy are so motivated, and Nicholas Sparks would argue that his novels are so motivated. But when I say McCarthy is "better" than Sparks and that his novels are artworks, that is a subjective judgment, made on the basis of my taste (which I would argue is better than the taste of anyone who prefers Sparks).

but then trips up his own authority by admitting he is basing his response without engaging the medium(playing the game):

Although the player must don a Koresh mask and inspire his followers to play, the game looks from her samples like one more brainless shooting-gallery.

I don't think Ebert is dumb enough to really make this big of a mistake in his own critique. Hence, I am pretty sure he's just trying to be an ass.

[brob]

Didn't this start with him making some off-hand comment about games? I assume self-labeled "gamers" who define their personality around the fact that they play games kept bitching at him and he feels forced to further explain himself. Not that it matters though, art is such a loose word it doesn't have any inherent meaning.

[etiolate]

It is weird that a film critic would decide to go in this direction. Nobody was really inviting him into the discussion and I don't see where his interest is in the discussion.

[Phoenix Dark]

Is Wii Fit art?

[Dickie Dee]

When a terrible,soulless movie bores him to tears he tends to go off on tangents in his reviews rather than directly review them. I imagine this happened in a few shitty videogame movies he's reviewed (though I don't know of any specific one)

Add on the fact that he keeps a pretty open dialogue with the public. I imagine he just got a pile of mail and felt the need to respond and elaborate on something he might not actually give a passing fart about.

[brob]

I think he referenced video games in a negative way somewhere in the past and people kept bugging at him because 'omg this game is so art, ur 50year old ass should play it and learn to appreciate the medium'. I'd come out far harder if I had a bunch of model train enthusiasts spamming my email and twitter months on end for throwing out a barely thought-out diss.

[etiolate]

He has a pretty open dialogue with his readers. I imagine he just got a pile of mail and felt the need to respond and elaborate on a point he probably never gave a passing fart about until asked.

If he does do the jibber-jab with readers then this is a likely cause. You get a ton of questions on the same thing and finally respond. Unfortunately, he wasn't really ready to respond and this currently minor footnote to his legacy will end up being a bigger footnote in time for being such an example of the audacious gestures of knowitall oft supplied by the temporal gusto of critics. Why fuck yourself in the end like that?

[etiolate]

I think he referenced video games in a negative way somewhere in the past and people kept bugging at him because 'omg this game is so art, ur 50year old ass should play it and learn to appreciate the medium'. I'd come out far harder if I had a bunch of model train enthusiasts spamming my email and twitter months on end for throwing out a barely thought-out diss.

He commented on the lack of authorship in videogames before, and that was a valid criticism of the medium. There is multiple people involved in making a game, and further dividing those people are the groups of work they are assigned. On large scale game production, game designers have less control than a film director would.

The response to this is indie development, which works with smaller, tighter productions that offer a sense of authority nearing what Ebert is use to reviewing.

His second writing is in response to a presentation which explores the issue and his response is merely lazy dismissal.

[brob]

So he actually engaged this debate? I was under the impression that it started by him slighting 300 in a review saying it was too much like a video game or something along those lines.

[The Dark Shake 3000]

Games aren't an art form. They bring nothing new to the table, but rather combine elements from various other art forms (yes, even the "immersion" aspect is not beholden to video games). All other art forms created new forms of expression; games do not.

[brob]

take that shit to gaf shake.... 

[Cheebs]

Shake is dead on about games not being art, it's not even worth saying so because there is nothing more to add to what he said. He is dead on.

Second, the older I get the more I realize how much a waste of time video games are, I haven't played a real video game in over a year I'd say and I couldn't be happier. I can't believe how much time and money I wasted on that hobby in retrospect. I use my PS3 for blu-rays but I haven't put a game into that machine since probably 2008 or so.

Though that has nothing to do with the video games as art thing, I remember agreeing video games weren't art back at gaf when I still was into them.

[EmCeeGrammar]

I go back and forth on the 'issue'.  The problem I have with most who game is they like to say certain games are and aren't art.  They'll point to a game with heavy exposition and loads of fmv and say that this more artistic than tetris.  If I had to decide if a game had any artistic merit, I would have to exclude the narrative, cinematography in fmvs, static images, graphic design, etc from my consideration.  THOSE ARE OTHER THINGS WITHIN A GAME.  A game boils down to its interaction with the player and how the mechanics express those inputs into the framework of the game.  Which brings me to a simple question.  Is the game of chess art?  Is a 100 meter dash art?  I don't think so.  So at this moment, games are simply games that may house pieces of art such as music/graphic design/narrative.  The game itself is not art.


This is a dumb thing to discuss 

[The Dark Shake 3000]

Eh? I'm sure GAF would laugh it off and say "bu bu bu games are just interactive movies and Roger Ebert is a too old to know anything about anything."

[drew]

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art?

[Cheebs]

Eh? I'm sure GAF would laugh it off and say "bu bu bu games are just interactive movies and Roger Ebert is a too old to know anything about anything."

Also admit it, life became better after you stopped spending your money on video games.  

[brob]

I always try to squeeze in a game of pacman whenever I'm high. It's art as fuck.

[The Dark Shake 3000]

I'd rather spend my money on DVDs and weed than games

I still play them occasionally but only when I'm at a friend's house or something. I haven't owned a console in years and honestly don't miss it. Now I have more free time to do productive shit.

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[drew]

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art?!

[Cheebs]

I'd rather spend my money on DVDs and weed than games

I still play them occasionally but only when I'm at a friend's house or something. I haven't owned a console in years and honestly don't miss it. Now I have more free time to do productive shit.

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[drew]

I'd rather spend my money on DVDs and weed than games

I still play them occasionally but only when I'm at a friend's house or something. I haven't owned a console in years and honestly don't miss it. Now I have more free time to do productive shit.

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[Cheebs]

I'd rather spend my money on DVDs and weed than games

I still play them occasionally but only when I'm at a friend's house or something. I haven't owned a console in years and honestly don't miss it. Now I have more free time to do productive shit.

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[Himu]

Like anything else in the world, games can be art. It's funny how my ideal choice example of games having the capabilities of being artistic - Silent Hill 2 - is always overlooked in lists full of pap like Braid or fucking Flower.

Also, it's hilarious how Shake was vouching for Britney Spears and Ke$ha being "art" the other day and giving me guff when they flat out say that "games aren't art".

You and your double standards. Or should we say, extremely low standards.

Then again, I don't like getting into the "games are art" discussions because they're mostly just full of losers who aren't arguing for arts sake, but for the own ridiculous validation of their hobby so that their relatives don't make fun of them.

[Great Rumbler]

Vib Ribbon is art.

Prove me wrong.

[The Dark Shake 3000]

Video games are not an art form. There is no debating this. They are not accepted in the cultural consensus as art because they have not validated their existence by inventing any new forms of expression. Add to that what EmCeeGrammar described and it's pretty clear to see why people don't think games are art. Just because you happen to enjoy playing them does not make them art.

And yes, Ke$ha's songs are art while whatever Japanese MORPG you are currently playing is not.

[Cheebs]

It's not about the artist, its about the form. That was your problem last time as well. Trying to say individual things were art but others are not.

Music is a art form and thus every piece of music is art. Same with poetry and so forth.

[The Dark Shake 3000]

Games can certainly be influenced by an authorial voice and even include art within them, but the games themselves are not art.