Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Trabant
Nov 26, 2011

All systems nominal.

Grassy Knowles posted:

He is nowhere near the number of folks Captain Jack went through yet; still funny

None of the three women -- my favourite guy -- in the videos so far have been the actual singer, so it's both perfectly played and closer to Captain Jack than it might seem.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



https://i.imgur.com/MaV9tGN.mp4

Warbird
May 23, 2012

America's Favorite Dumbass


Him just going nuts in the background is the best part. That and the apparent insistence on only filming in Czechoslovakia or something.

LASER BEAM DREAM
Nov 3, 2005

Oh, what? So now I suppose you're just going to sit there and pout?
https://twitter.com/PDLComics/status/1688613099954462720

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



Warbird posted:

That and the apparent insistence on only filming in Czechoslovakia or something.

Especially when it’s clearly NYC

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Snowy posted:

Especially when it’s clearly NYC

The second video was shot on Roosevelt Island. I don't recognize the background for this one but I'm guessing it's not too far off.

Sweeper
Nov 29, 2007
The Joe Buck of Posting
Dinosaur Gum

ultrafilter posted:

The second video was shot on Roosevelt Island. I don't recognize the background for this one but I'm guessing it's not too far off.

The first one was in the oculus

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1688320702158655488

Elon is so pathetic that he's getting completely destroyed by Mark loving Zuckerberg.

God he is such a pussy. What's he doing, crunching his way in to being able to hold his own in a fight with a dude who's been doing martial arts for years at this point?

I don't want to root for Zuck in anything, but goddamn do I need this fight to be the most one-sided affair. It needs to be pathetic.

Friend
Aug 3, 2008


I wonder when she added the i :thunk:

https://twitter.com/NickKrollKidman/status/1688627864554582016

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Happy Landfill posted:

It needs to be pathetic.

Seems like it already is.

Jabberlock
Nov 29, 2014



Happy Landfill posted:

God he is such a pussy. What's he doing, crunching his way in to being able to hold his own in a fight with a dude who's been doing martial arts for years at this point?

Don't worry he's got it figured out.



It's also his signature sex move.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/22/elon-musk-vs-mark-zuckerberg-cage-fight/

Jabberlock has a new favorite as of 23:45 on Aug 7, 2023

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

Jabberlock posted:

Don't worry he's got it figured out.





Elon... Tusk?

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR

Jabberlock posted:

Don't worry he's got it figured out.




Yeah, the only thing Musk has going for him at all in this hypothetical never-going-to-happen fight is his weight. I don't really want to start a derail here but weight classes exist for a reason, and it's not entirely inconceivable to think that someone with >50lbs on someone else could simply brute-force their way to a victory, probably on the ground. That said, it does sound like the vast gulf between their martial arts experience levels is a way bigger factor here, and I would absolutely bet on Zuck in this case. It's not 'Bruce Lee vs. Mike Tyson' here.

minato
Jun 7, 2004

cutty cain't hang, say 7-up.
Taco Defender

Mister Speaker posted:

it's not entirely inconceivable to think that someone with >50lbs on someone else could simply brute-force their way to a victory
Maybe if you're comparing 2 in-shape people, large-but-untrained vs small-and-trained. Elon ain't holding 50lbs of muscle over Zuck.

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Weight classes matter mostly when it comes to trained people. At low skills basic fitness is worth much more than size.

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

Maximum Tomfoolery posted:

God drat we keep joking about this guy pulling a Lowtax but even Lowtax actually showed up for his dipshit boxing match challenge.

how pathetic do you have to be to lose out to lowtax of all people

Kestral
Nov 24, 2000

Forum Veteran

Tree Bucket posted:

Yes, let's name our son after the process of soaking wool in urine

Wait. Wait just a goddamn minute.

The setup for Home Alone is that Kevin doesn't want to "sleep on the hideabed with Fuller" because Fuller has a reputation for wetting the bed: "He'll pee all over me!" and as a result, Kevin ends up sleeping in the attic and gets overlooked. I desperately want to believe that is an intentional reference, because if it is, it might be one of the most obscure, overlooked jokes in a movie of all time.

Warbird
May 23, 2012

America's Favorite Dumbass

Snowy posted:

Especially when it’s clearly NYC

Oh huh. I saw some tweet saying something about filming in former Soviet states or whatever and just took it at face value. It would be a hell of a bit to commit to.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
https://twitter.com/s8n/status/1688586681249681408

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



Warbird posted:

Oh huh. I saw some tweet saying something about filming in former Soviet states or whatever and just took it at face value. It would be a hell of a bit to commit to.

Yeah sorry I guess it’s actually not super obvious but jumps out if you know it.

https://twitter.com/wowterrifying/status/1633245177178386436?s=46&t=oql5ML5-7u4J72W8bn7HAw

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

For some reason all I can see is Ty Pennington from Trading Spaces as the guy, and it makes it even funnier.

EDIT: it would be loving hilarious if the single that he’s releasing on the 15th or whatever was just the exact same slice of the song.

Blue Moonlight has a new favorite as of 07:26 on Aug 8, 2023

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

While the first one's probably the best (which is likely intentional), this one has my favorite part of any of them, where at twenty seconds she jumpcuts but he doesn't.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



Deep Glove Bruno posted:

i just want to know where a japanese guy gets a fetish that brazilian people are green skinned orcs

Well that's easy.

He must have visited Brazil.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Maximum Tomfoolery posted:

God drat we keep joking about this guy pulling a Lowtax but even Lowtax actually showed up for his dipshit boxing match challenge.

lowtax at least got banned from twitter for insulting nazis too. He sucked but I think I hate him less

Captain Invictus posted:

one more EVO post

Blind Warrior Sven did pretty well and also won a match on the main stage during pools. despite being completely blind, he is able to use the accessibility options to be able to play at a competitive level.
https://twitter.com/JakeSucky/status/1687633561405534208
his full main stage match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqe0lJxPHLM&hd=1

Maximilian Dood does not usually react like this, but there was a moment during SF6 top 6 that was so insane that he just literally Pogged and someone screenshotted it lol
https://twitter.com/BIO19K/status/1688396935122784256

and it was immediately turned into an emote for his channel


one of the most absurd moments of the SF6 top 6:
https://twitter.com/HiFightTH/status/1688397800856567808

just unbelievably insane, literally ANYTHING would have killed him including chip damage, and he ran it all the way back, just insane skill. and that's only like, the third most impressive moment

https://twitter.com/NE_PERSON7/status/1688409940942012416

I am excited for next year when people have had a lot more time to train up rather than only a handful of months.

Excellent sportsmanship to the guy who lost to a blind guy lmao. What is the accessibility options how does that help

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



The blind dude was consulted by capcom in developing their blindness accessibility options which heavily rely on sound, not sure how it's supposed to be like in actual gameplay

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

https://twitter.com/kurominah/status/1578520291424116736

those sounds aren't there in the EVO video though, can they mix it so that the accessibility sounds come through his headphones but not through the main feed?

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

repiv posted:

https://twitter.com/kurominah/status/1578520291424116736

those sounds aren't there in the EVO video though, can they mix it so that the accessibility sounds come through his headphones but not through the main feed?

Wake up babe, new Kraftwerk just dropped

Warbird
May 23, 2012

America's Favorite Dumbass

Snowy posted:

Yeah sorry I guess it’s actually not super obvious but jumps out if you know it.

https://twitter.com/wowterrifying/status/1633245177178386436?s=46&t=oql5ML5-7u4J72W8bn7HAw

No worries, going back to the first one it’s pretty clearly the spine-y 9/11 building thing now that I know what to look for. I need to go in there the next time I go to the city.

On the train one I do have a bit of a fun anecdote: If I remember my time at the railroad correctly the engineers have to be at their stations more or less at all times. There is a lever they have to keep depressed at the the control console or the brakes get kicked on. As a result bodily functions have to be addressed more or less in the same place as you would on a fighter jet or whatever. Apparently the setup is less than ideal for folks with lady parts which was once brought up in detail to the CEO at an all hands meeting one year. Not sure why the lady was at a corporate hq meeting but I’m glad she was.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/damienics/status/1688756521860009984

Algorithmic feeds are a deal breaker

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Also the entire pitch for Threads is "twitter died use this" and then twitter didn't die

ponzicar
Mar 17, 2008
If Zuckerberg were smart enough to understand the concept of "show only the posts of people I follow in chronological order" it would have been a hit. He should have held off on the drip feed of algorithmically derived bullshit until he had crushed twitter.

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

projecthalaxy posted:

Also the entire pitch for Threads is "twitter died use this" and then twitter didn't die

To me it was more like "Twitter has become poo poo, don't you want good Twitter back?" Except apparently their idea of Good Twitter is just Text Instagram, i.e.

zoux posted:

Algorithmic feeds are a deal breaker

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

repiv posted:

those sounds aren't there in the EVO video though, can they mix it so that the accessibility sounds come through his headphones but not through the main feed?

I don't know what the EVO setups were, but I can tell you that modern fighting games in general are really good for blind players, since they usually have pretty clear audio tells. So it's possible he didn't actually need them.

There was a story of a blind Mortal Kombat player (for all I know might've been the same guy) who actually did really well just running off of audio cues... until he hit someone who happened to play the same character as him.

wash bucket
Feb 21, 2006

ponzicar posted:

If Zuckerberg were smart enough to understand the concept of "show only the posts of people I follow in chronological order" it would have been a hit. He should have held off on the drip feed of algorithmically derived bullshit until he had crushed twitter.

That's not what his customers (advertisers) wanted.

Blackula Vs. Tarantula
Jul 6, 2005

😤I am NOT Captain_Redbeard🧔

repiv posted:

https://twitter.com/kurominah/status/1578520291424116736

those sounds aren't there in the EVO video though, can they mix it so that the accessibility sounds come through his headphones but not through the main feed?

I'm not blind but I have to imagine they play through headphones, otherwise 2 people who both need them couldn't play against each other

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

wash bucket posted:

That's not what his customers (advertisers) wanted.

I would assume advertisers would want to pay for ads on a platform that people actually use. Somewhere with 50 million pairs of eyeballs is a better place to advertise than one with 10 million pairs of eyeballs.

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

Air Skwirl posted:

I would assume advertisers would want to pay for ads on a platform that people actually use. Somewhere with 50 million pairs of eyeballs is a better place to advertise than one with 10 million pairs of eyeballs.

Maybe, but 10 million people all looking at your ads is probably better than 50 million of which only 1% are looking.

Obviously the success and influence of a platform is way more complicated than that, but you can't expect that level of cognition from a business executive.

A Moose
Oct 22, 2009



I thought we were all just pretending to move to threads so the Brands would all go there, and then we went somewhere else while they just jerked each other off trying to be "relatable" and drop "sick burns" on each other

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
:capitalism:

https://twitter.com/Factsonfilm/status/1688410309176999936?s=20

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.


Hmm... Radio Shack in what year? Because my answer will be different if we're talking about the worthless late-stage cellphone store that wants your full name and address to sell you a 4-pack of AAA batteries, or the cool little electronics shop that it was forty years ago.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply