Have you seen it?

It’s not new – I realize that. Two things:

a) You haven’t seen everything.
b) You might not have seen this.
c) Shut up.

Don’t get all “that’s three things, dickhead” on me. C != 3, that’s merely an oft-used convention.

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Still not satisfied. Take THIS:

You have most likely gone astray by assuming that the line breaks and the parentheticals above actually indicate the beginning of one thing, and the end of another. That, my friends, is also merely an oft-used convention.

Anhh? Anhhhhhhhhhhhhh?

Yeah. Pwnt.

Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that the Geek Chart(tm), while horribly outdated by this time, is still astoundingly true. There is an echelon, a pecking order, a…

…

(wait for it)

…level… [snicker, snort]

of geekdom, that we are, all of us, passing through. When I ranked myself, I discovered (much to my dismay) that I fell into different levels for different topics. “Fell” is a good word here – I quickly set about discarding my interest in the “lower” geek pursuits, in an attempt to elevate my geek level to a more aloof, condescending one.

Me being who I am, it lasted two weeks and resulted in a total collapse back into the very things I had “stopped doing”, but that’s not the point. The point is:

a) We can become aware of our geek level, and
b) We can game the system.

I fear, though, what will happen when some geek decides to take it on himself to make the chart where “Geek” is one box, and “Rockstar” is another (and “Politician” is another, etc, etc), and we get to see firsthand just where we stand.

“Rising”? We may well be. “High”? I fear for our frail egos.

Where’s MINE?!?!?!

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/video-fix-super.html

I’ve been mucking around under the hood this past week, making good on my recent threats to CHANGE EVERYTHING. It’s comin’!

But that’s not important right now. What is important is that Kongregate has determined, for once and for all, that I am a better Ninja than you. Or, perhaps more to the point, I am a cuter ninja than you.

The sounds he makes while climbing the grapple rope (SPOILERS!!!!!!111!1!!) are particularly nice.

“Yeah, okay, so that’s pretty cool,” you say, “but that’s not the very fucking game that the darklord himself once set out to write.”

True dat. That’s this game. It actually stunned me, how like the dungeoncrawl I want to someday make this Monsters’ [sic] Den is. I mean, it’s almost like we both ripped our idea off from the same source.

One of my designers came by my cube this morning. During the conversation, he began to struggle to remember something he clearly felt was awesome, and then, after several seconds of tension-mounting silence, popped out with the word “Animusic”.

I stared blankly.

He gave me that look that we nerds know so well: mock horror that you could possibly be so unsophisticated as to not have experienced the awesomeness that is the topic of discussion.

Normally, my response to this is dismissal. “Shun!” I say. Fie, I say, to you and your need to assert that things that you think are awesome will be awesome to me. FIE!

Something about the look in his eye, though.

I sat down, jacked in, and was directed to this:

It turned out he was justified in the look. Yes. It is awesome.

There’s no getting around it.

Gears Of War Crimes Court Finds 2006 Locust Horde Massacre Justified

Personally, I thought that Fenix should have been at least held accountable for delaying the war effort by talking into his headpiece. Conspiracy theorists have posited that he “had to, man, that’s when the map loads”, but I don’t buy that. He needed to show some urgency.