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natti-karlo:

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burtmacklin:

webissance:

This 2009 image captures the scene on a foggy night in Odessa, Ukraine, when a digital billboard crashed and displayed a floating error warning in the night sky.

 #this sits right on that border between hilarious and terrifying

while the image is hilarious in itself, the idea is terrifying

like, imagine looking up into the sky and seeing this

Noooooooooooooooope

I like having nightmares.

odditiesoflife:

Frozen Swiss Landscape

In January 2005, Lake Geneva and the surrounding area were hit with a horrific ice storm. Everything was completely blanketed with ice when waves breaking on the lake’s shore hardened into a solid coating in the sub-freezing temperatures. Several boats even sank under the weight of the ice. The wind gusts reached 110 km/h (60 mph) and literally froze water sprays in their place.

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hitoritabi:

Korean version of Western folk stories — Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Swan Lake, Little Red Riding Hood.

I adore these.

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ffgamers-net:

Fable

Later this year Fable Anniversary will be released for Xbox 360. It will be an HD remake of the original Fable, including The Lost Chapters and with a slew of extra content, upgraded mechanics and (optional) integration of Smart Glass. The news might have gone buried a bit under the noise of Watch Dogs, Call of Duty Ghosts, the Second Fanboy War of Consoles and everything else that came out of E3, but it put a big smile on my face. I will try to explain why.

I love the little story a female friend once told us about her little brother. One day she stood up in the early morning and found the kid in the living room playing Fable III, dressed in a pirate outfit with a hat and everything. Nonchalantly he started telling something about the best way to deal with wolves, not concerned with the fact how early it was and that he was dressed as a pirate. It fits the feel of Fable so well because it’s essentially what the game is all about: play dress up and go on adventuring. Fable is about pirate villages, swampy graveyards with hollow men, misty forest lanes with crows sitting on a wooden signpost, highwaymen, taverns and hidden treasures. In short Fable is full of clichés and tropes, but somehow it manages to pull it off in a way that it doesn’t bother. […]

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• KID: "I love Iron Man."
• ME: "Yeah, I love Iron Man too."
• KID: "No, I REALLY love Iron Man."
• DUDE: *rolls his eyes*
• ME: "Iron Man is pretty cool, yeah."
• KID: "I love his beard."
• ME: "... I'm also quite fond of his beard, I must admit."
• DUDE: *raises his eyebrows at me*
• KID: "I want to marry Iron Man."
• ME: "..."
• DUDE: "..."
• ME: "..."
• DUDE: "You can't marry Iron Man, he's with Miss Potts, remember? Pepper?"
• KID: "I don't know why. Girls are icky... no offence."
• ME: "That's okay."
• KID: "I think Black Widow would make a pretty bridesmaid, though."
• DUDE: "Can I marry her?"
• KID: "NO! She's a BLACK WIDOW Dad, she'll eat you! You can marry... Captain America, because he's nice and he's old like you."
• and then the bus came and the kid fist bumped me goodbye, and then so did the kid's dad and he said thanks for not pointing out that you can't marry a fictional character.

wilwheaton:

mckelvie:

Aww thanks Sam! You too.

BUTTS

The Playstation 5 and the Xbox Two

http://ammopickups.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/the-playstation-5-and-the-xbox-two/#more-288

Just a wee bit of musing on the future of games and how you buy and play them. 

• (Our Japanese restaurant is near a school that annually hosts an anime convention. So, it’s fairly common to have cosplayers among our customers at the time of the con. The owner is okay with it as long as they don’t annoy the other customers. On this day, we seat twelve cosplayers and, later, I seat three young customers near them.)
• Young Customer #1: “What is this? Why are those guys costumed?”
• Me: “Oh, there’s a large anime convention ongoing at the local school. It’s rather common to see them at the times of the gathering.”
• Young Customer #1: *chuckles* “Yeah, what a bunch of dorks.”
• Young Customer #2: “Total nerds.”
• (Since there are no other free tables and they didn’t pre-order a table, they sit near the cosplayers while mocking them under their breath. In the meantime, a cosplayer of Pikachu is talking somewhat loudly on his phone.)
• Young Customer #2: *waves at me* “Hey, you! Tell those dorks to shut up!”
• Halo Cosplayer: “Oh, I’m sorry, sir.” *to ‘Pikachu’* “Dude, not so loud. You’re bothering people.”
• Pikachu Cosplayer: “What? Oh, sorry to bother you guys.” *starts talking again, but much quieter*
• Young Customer #3: “Yeah, that’s right. Shut up, you virgin nerd!”
• Young Customer #1: “Go back to the library, virgins!”
• (At this point, I warn the owner about the behavior of the younger customers. He immediately goes to their table.)
• Owner: “What seems to be the problem?”
• Young Customer #1: “It’s not our fault. Those nerds started to insult us! We’re not going to stay here and do nothing!”
• Owner: “My staff told me the contrary, actually.”
• Young Customer #3: “What?! That b***h waitress is lying!”
• Owner: “Sir, I won’t allow you to insult my staff or customers. Those cosplayers were extremely polite and quiet during their meals, unlike you. If someone must be thrown out, it’s you.”
• (In the blink of an eye, one of the young customers gets up and tries to grab the owner. However, to our surprise, one of the cosplayers playing Batman grabs him by the hair, slams him on the table and holds him still.)
• Young Customer #1: “OW! That f***ing hurts! Who the f*** do you think you are, you motherf***er?!”
• Batman Cosplayer: *in a raspy tone* “I am vengeance. I am the night. I am… Batman.”
• (The two other customers begin to yell, but quickly shut up when all the cosplayers get up and surround them, showing that most of them are clearly larger than them. The mall security arrests the bad customers, and the cosplayers leave after apologizing for the trouble. However, it’s not before we snap a picture with them. Now, we frequently joke about that time when Batman, Pikachu and Master Chief saved the restaurant!)

niknak79:

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fer1972:

Decay and Colors: Photography by Matthias Haker

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