Caltrops: Unfiltered!

Well we already know the answer: The parody is invariably better. No exceptions

2012-02-04 13:47:20

The Zionist Media Conspiracy - Well we already know the answer: The parody is invariably better. No exceptions by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)

Onstad is still going way out of his way to alienate us.

2012-02-04 12:30:57

Mac Hall Complaints Department - Onstad is still going way out of his way to alienate us. by Mysterio

Meet Your New Mercury Food Critic!

The Death and Return of Superman (video)

2012-02-04 12:16:26

Garth Ennis's The Punisher - The Death and Return of Superman (video) by Mysterio

what's the difference between a parody of star wars episode 1 and the real thing

2012-02-04 03:05:33

The Zionist Media Conspiracy - what's the difference between a parody of star wars episode 1 and the real thing by sdroa jists

trick question

Tell us again how you liked the endings.

2012-02-03 21:56:20

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Tell us again how you liked the endings. by Mysterio

Fucking retard.

Just make a shield of boxes around you when the game wants you to hack in public

2012-02-03 20:20:53

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Just make a shield of boxes around you when the game wants you to hack in public by Worm

or murder everyone, it's Dues Ex after all, all about options

spacewarz cuntum man-ass review

2012-02-03 19:23:30

The Zionist Media Conspiracy - spacewarz cuntum man-ass review by Mischief Maker

probably the best star wars movie of all, less of the annoying jawas, less mark hammil BUTIWASGOINGTOTASHISECTORTOPICKUPSOMEPOWERCONVERTERS, carrie fisher doesn't have a career in hollywood anymore so we will be seeing her naked soon hopefully before she becomes old and ugly (ie 56), instead of a tribe of tiny worthless racist ethnic stereotype aliens we get a big worthless racist ethnic stereotype alien

I thought the retcon of the midichlorions was going to be insulting and annoying but instead it was handled surprisingly well and is actually really interesting

perhaps the reason why I don't hate any of the star wars prequels has to do with the use of human characters in conjunction with the CGI robots. in the original trilogy the humans are there to be purposelessly put in a trash compactor and then rescued by the droids, in these movies it's the humans who are helping just as much to save the world and defeat evil. the last act of the movie, where the bad guy robots with the really stupid and obvious name set up their own evil fortress/dictatorship on naboo and so it's sort of a guerrilla war, everything pretty much fits together as it should without getting too confusing.

the movie isn't perfect and I don't blame anyone who can't find a way to enjoy it. the problem is when they say obviously stupid or wrong shit like "this is the worst movie in the history of movies" or "the empire strikes back was so much better than these george lucas movies" you are provably wrong and have bad taste if you actually think that. at worst these movies are stupid childrens action movie dreck, at best they are a perfectly serviceable series of CGI robot fights starring lots of explosions, but no one except for me is actually smart enough or has enough personal integrity to admit these truths, and instead falls back onto group think

xformers dork of the mewn review

2012-02-03 18:08:46

The Zionist Media Conspiracy - xformers dork of the mewn review by sdroa jists

probably the best transformers movie of all, less of the annoying parents, less shia laboof NONONONONONOing, megan fox doesn't have a career in hollywood anymore so we will be seeing her naked soon hopefully before she becomes old and ugly (ie 29), instead of 2 tiny worthless racist ethnic stereotype robots we get 2 tiny worthless non racist non ethnic stereotype robots

I thought the retcon of the moon landing was going to be insulting and annoying but instead it was handled surprisingly well and is actually really interesting

perhaps the reason why I don't hate any of the bay transformers movies has to do with the use of human characters in conjunction with the giant robots. in the cartoons the humans are there to be purposelessly put in danger and then rescued by the autobots, in these movies it's the humans who are helping just as much to save the world and defeat evil. the last act of the movie, where the bad guy robots with the really stupid and obvious name set up their own evil fortress/dictatorship in chicago and so it's sort of a guerrilla war, everything pretty much fits together as it should without getting too confusing.

the movie isn't perfect and I don't blame anyone who can't find a way to enjoy it. the problem is when they say obviously stupid or wrong shit like "this is the worst movie in the history of movies" or "the 80s animated movie was so much better than these michael bay movies" you are provably wrong and have bad taste if you actually think that. at worst these movies are stupid childrens action movie dreck, at best they are a perfectly serviceable series of giant robot fights starring lots of explosions, but no one except for me is actually smart enough or has enough personal integrity to admit these truths, and instead falls back onto group think

Posted on their twitter.

2012-02-03 17:20:35

RedLetterMedia - Posted on their twitter. by Claborsar

Also redlettermedia did a Half in the Bag for Red Tails if you guys didn't know yet (we know immediately).

that doesn't even happen at the end what

2012-02-03 16:47:38

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - that doesn't even happen at the end what by sdroa jists

never had anyone notice me when hacking the console inside the hive, maybe I'm just so awesome

I also never had to do anything else to get inside the hive since there's an ID card for the place right next to where you land as soon as you arrive in the country

life is good when you are smart

Metro 2033 development floundering without anyone from whom to steal

2012-02-03 11:38:30

Gamerasutra - Metro 2033 development floundering without anyone from whom to steal by motherfuckerfoodeater

or at least that's how I read this.

BATTLE TAGS

2012-02-03 09:30:10

Diablo 3 - BATTLE TAGS by Entropy Stew

Entropy#1572

Re: Except for all the times it does save you, of course.

2012-02-02 23:46:57

Rants - Re: Except for all the times it does save you, of course. by Mysterio

How many guesses exactly? wrote:

Except for all the times it does save you, of course.

2012-02-02 21:48:17

Rants - Except for all the times it does save you, of course. by How many guesses exactly?

Yeah it was 100k invites!

2012-02-02 21:07:54

Diablo 3 - Yeah it was 100k invites! by Worm

Same. Must've had a huge beta invite, because I know several people that got in

2012-02-02 21:00:26

Diablo 3 - Same. Must've had a huge beta invite, because I know several people that got in by Rafiki

today. I'm still downloading it, but I hate it already. I've known someone who's had the beta for a while now, and they told me it's still click to move / click to attack. I hate that so much, because whenever I desperately need to do one or the other I accidentally get the opposite and die. Why can't they at least give the option of movement keys, as if it's going to fuck up their precious lore or make it not Diablo. Probably too busy making attunement quest chains and multiplayer bosses that require impossible precision.

I did today

2012-02-02 20:24:21

Diablo 3 - I did today by Entropy Stew

women are so good at empathy part 2: "murder my husband or I wont fuck you"

2012-02-02 19:15:40

Laurence Fishburne's Dance Dance Revolution - women are so good at empathy part 2: "murder my husband or I wont fuck you" by sdroa jists

http://www.mgtowforums.com/forums/anecdotals/7146-woman-convinces-lover-murder-husband-avoid-custody-battle.html

Wife told lover, 21, 'to batter husband to death with a shovel' to avoid custody battle over children

A wife went on trial today accused of goading her lover into killing her husband to avoid an expensive custody battle over their young children.

Morgan Marie Mengel, 35, convinced 21-year-old Stephen Shappell to take part in her alleged murder plot to batter Kevin Mengel, 34, to death with a shovel in Chester County, Philadelphia.

The jury will then hear how Mengel tried to persuade her lover to take the full blame for the murder by pretending she had given birth to his twins while in prison.

Prosecutors plan to introduce letters in which Mengel allegedly asked Shappell to exonerate her from the murder as she had to bring up their children.

Mengel described her labour and pregnancy and even the infants weight and eye colour to Shappell in a bid to convince him not to implicate her in her husband's murder.

Shappell is set to be the star prosecution witness having already pleaded guilty to murder.

Mengel and Shappell started their affair after having met at the landscaping business Morgan ran with her husband.

Do you think giving a robber what he wants will save you? Guess again.

2012-02-02 18:08:48

Rants - Do you think giving a robber what he wants will save you? Guess again. by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)

If you think that giving a robber what they want will save you, watch the video on this page. I warn you, it's not pretty. (It's not on YouTube or I could include a link.)

http://www.frontsight.com/video/lastchance.asp?vid=2

The summary: The two men had three people bound and gagged, lying on the ground in a home invasion. Having gotten all their valuables, and lying there helpless, he shot them. One of them wasn't killed but pretended to be. His partner then came by and put a bullet into the back of the heads of each of the three victims, blowing their brains all over the floor, execution style. We only know about it because of the security video. We know what happened because two of the victims had two bullets in them.

The other video shows how a man drove off another home invasion because he was armed.

I was sickened and disgusted by the senseless and brutal murder of helpless people.

The guy who runs this gun training company refers to the two videos as "The Sitting Duck and the Sentinel."

Anyone else get into this round of beta invites?

2012-02-02 17:34:58

Diablo 3 - Anyone else get into this round of beta invites? by Worm

The best thing about it right now is trying to combo the barrels and pots you break for bonus XP.

This is amusing

2012-02-02 16:52:43

Minecraft - This is amusing by laudablepuss

You're constantly reminded that a gang in china town cuts people apart for augs

2012-02-02 15:45:55

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - You're constantly reminded that a gang in china town cuts people apart for augs by Worm

Then some guy's life is over because people know he's a murderer? It's CHINATOWN!

Since 2008, THQ has laid off nearly 700 people.

2012-02-02 14:45:41

Gamerasutra - Since 2008, THQ has laid off nearly 700 people. by jeep

THQ confirms 240 job cuts, CEO takes pay cut

2012-02-02 14:15:49

Gamerasutra - THQ confirms 240 job cuts, CEO takes pay cut by jeep

"To:
THQ Board of Directors
Lawrence Burstein
James Whims, Gigex, Inc.
Henry DeNero, Arcturus Capital
Brian Dougherty, AirSet, Inc.
Jeffrey Griffiths , Lumber Liquidators

From:
Current and Ex-Employees, Shareholders, and The Public

Dear THQ Board,
I am an ex-employee at THQ. I saw the tweet-started headlines over the past week from an "industry expert." This expert is one who I and my friends and co-workers in the industry have never heard of after a long time in the field. I had been reading the various following articles and accounts and it generated sympathy for friends both recently laid off and currently still there. I thought it would be a good idea to send a note with their input. This note has honest facts and thoughts about THQ and the current problems there. Most of these facts are public knowledge and they have been confirmed by public records or can be confirmed by current and former THQ staff there both before and after my and their time.

I have long felt the need to explain to outsiders how this beaten-down company has wound up in this position. It is to the point where having it on your resume is not a point in your favor. And that shouldn't be the case. I'm/We're sending this note anonymously because some of us are still awaiting final checks and others know how little corporations like employees who air their dirty laundry. We feel the need to say something to combat the partial misinformation being written.
THQ had been known through the years for having a formula. They find a hot license, make a cheap game, barely advertise it, and make money. This formula worked during the Playstation and Xbox and Gameboy days and made the company a lot of cash. Unfortunately, THQ's old guard executives seem to be stuck trying to manage the company the same way they did back then and haven't realized the industry has changed.

The beginning of the end came years ago as Brian Farrell lead an executive team to acquire a large number of studios. A large amount of cash was used in the acquisition or setup of game developers with different degrees of talent. The problem was they were bought without strategic reasoning or specific plan on to use them. So after awhile another large amount of money was spent as those studios failed and were sold off and shut down. The executive team at the time were an entirely different group of people with one key exception in the CEO. The CEO/the then executive team wasted the cash that the company had built up with these massive investments and selloffs.
The studio purchase errors were not helped by the mistakes in the licensing deals that were signed by the same CEO. Millions and millions of dollars were wasted on acquiring licenses at the same time the kids, family, casual business was declining at a rapid rate. Instead of slowing those acquisitions he overpaid for more of them until again cash was wasted in paying for brands that didn't sell well anymore.

The mistakes in decisions and cash losses triggered wave after wave of layoffs. In the most recent wave, about 40 people lost their jobs this past December through no fault of their own. The reason why is the chronic and constant mismanagement of their company. The fact is that the CEO and executive committee were so focused on trying to hit an unrealistic financial goal that they bet everything on an extremely risky proposition in the uDraw tablet. When they lost, they further displayed their lack of management skills by not having a contingency plan. Three weeks after the game launched, an entire business unit was wiped out when it didn't meet its goal due to relying on that one product to hit an unrealistic target.

After the layoffs many ex-employees walked around shell-shocked and trying to figure out who was responsible. They came to the understanding that most of us do after leaving the company. The issue with THQ has never been one of lack of staff creativity, intellect or business intelligence. It all rests of the failure of its management team and you the Board of Directors.

This Board has allowed the Brian Farrell, the CEO, the ongoing ability to take a cash-rich profitable company and drive it from a $30 share price down to around $.70 without acting despite numerous mistakes that even for those lacking business training, could see were errors. Even without glaring mistakes how can the same CEO stay in charge after a 99% share price loss? Aside from the board, who is responsible for the current situation and who is accountable for the current and future job losses at the company? When you ask the recently departed who are a good source of information, you get the same answers. This uDraw failure is the largest and most recent one in a string of them that were hushed over and hidden. The answer aside from the Board is the current executive team that allowed this uDraw implosion to happen.
Brian Farrell, CEO with a 2011 salary of $1,289,558, for a lack of business intelligence or fiscal accountability. A vocal inside group pointed out the mistake of trying to launch a year-old product that received almost no software support in the last 12 months. Instead of listening and having a back-up plan, he went ahead and invested a ridiculous amount of money in the manufacturing and advertising of the product and failed miserably. It is passed time for him to go. We are wondering what is taking so long for you to act. We have been wondering this same question for a long time.

Martin Good, EVP and head of Kids, Family, Casual with a 2011 salary of $1,198,023, for bringing no strategic thought or business sense to the role. He was brought out from Australia sales to replace an outgoing head of the business unit and rapidly displayed a complete lack of leadership skills, vision, and any sort of analytical sense. Looking at his compensation package, he is an excellent negotiator as his salary is higher than anyone's except for the CEO. On the plus side he lost his job with the rest of those laid off. On the minus side, he will be floating down on a golden parachute while the rest of the former employees scramble to look for jobs in this challenging environment. Most of those jobs will be at studios in other parts of the country, so they will be forced to relocate their families in the middle of their childrens school years. It is incredible that he made this level of income while doing such a poor job, but it serves as a reflection of the lack of Brian Farrell's ability to staff well and manage.
Paul Pucino, CFO with a 2011 salary of $674,855, for not planning for this possibility and having a safety net or a plan to cover THQ just in case of failure. We have a line of credit that we likely used to buy the plastic that is not selling to customers. It is like taking a cash advance to buy THQ stock and just as worthless of an investment. Paul is known as an absentee executive who is missing when business situations gets complicated. While he was in the loop at the point of the risk, with the following failure he has been clearly unavailable. It is another example of Brian Farrell's inability to staff.

Ian Curran, EVP and head of global publishing with a 2011 salary of $1,037,047, for not flagging an unrealistic sales goal to the CEO or the Board when a big part of the corporation felt the numbers were unrealistic. He blindly held up an unachievable target and didn't act when multiple people told him he was aiming to high and out of step with the marketplace. If a sales executive's job is to anticipate the market, he has done a poor job of it. Another example of Brian Farrell not being able to find the right people for the right job.

Ed Kauffman, EVP of Legal and Business Affairs who clearly was signing bad deals on licensed products, not factoring in the changes in the business and being more critical with financial terms with partners. uDraw by itself cannot possibly explain the companies poor financial health. It is a combination of that product and a string of bad licensed deals that the company took on against better judgement. While Brain Farrell would logically be the final decisionmaker for deals, Kauffman is either unpersuasive in his arguments to not do them or supported them. Either situation equates to another example of poor staffing choices by the CEO.
uDraw was failure and the only people to blame are the people listed above. THQ and its current financial situation is also their responsibility. And they were paid around $4.5 million dollars for their poor decisions. If there is any doubt we would recommend talking to current and former staff to get the straight story. Don't read this note as bitterness on their part, but more as long overdue truth.

So, Board, it is time. Passed time for you to act and passed time for you to do something about the mismanagement that has gone on for too many years. We've watched the stock from the outside and read the comments and the reason why the company is valued so low despite its sales is because of this underqualified management team.
Board it is time for you to act before your names are added to the list above of things that must change.
Sincerely,

The Formerly Mismanaged"

Forum Im spamming

2012-02-02 14:12:52

Reviews - Forum Im spamming by jeep

I fucked Lana.

2012-02-02 13:17:55

The Knuckle Shuffle - I fucked Lana. by laudablepuss

*toke* Yeah me too

It sounds like Deus Ex hides its story the way Bastion hides its gameplay.

2012-02-02 12:37:50

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - It sounds like Deus Ex hides its story the way Bastion hides its gameplay. by Jerry Whorebach

His math skills suck

2012-02-02 12:24:18

Rants - His math skills suck by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)

He's intermixing sunk costs, capital costs, opportunity costs and G&A together and claiming the entire cost is the cost of the single usage. All of the non-overhead cost is supposed to be averaged out over the entire expected lifespan of the item in question.

By this sort of logic, I go to Target and buy an electric grill. It cost me, say, $3 in bus fare plus the $24 for the grill, and I make a batch of pancakes. I get 4 pancakes out of the 1 cup of pancake mix, so each of the pancakes costs me $6.

He doesn't use his camera once to take the picture. He isn't using Photoshop once for this picture then erasing it. He isn't tossing his computer after taking the picture, thus the sunk costs of his camera, his lenses, the software, the computer are all supposed to be apportioned over the entire collection of photos. So if he takes 10-12,000 photos he could allocate, say, 20c per photo for overhead.

If I have to buy a car to go to work, it doesn't cost me $1500 the day I drive it home, that's the capital cost of acquiring it, and is apportioned over the entire time I have it. Same for the $300 a month the purchase costs, it should be allocated to $10 a day in overhead, not presumed the first time I use it during the month that trip costs $300. This is what we call "G&A" - General overhead and Administrative costs; in a business, this is the costs you have for operating such as office expense, and you apportion a little on every contract

When you buy something at Target, Safeway, K-Mart, Sears, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Walgreens, CVS, Rexall, King Soopers, Ralphs, Giant, Vons, Jewel, ACME, Alpha Beta, Albertsons, Best Buy, Staples or Home Depot, they probably have an overhead of about $1,000 a day just to run the store not including payroll. Utility, rent or mortgage, property taxes, depreciation, all come together, and to cover that, they tack on about 1-2c per item. Payroll might add another 1/2c-50c per item depending on the price of the item. Profit for the store might be calculated by raising the wholesale price of everything by about 7%. So the store's overhead means you pay 25c more for a can of Chiili, a box of light bulbs or a package of bolts, a buck more on a tool kit or a loaf of bread, $10 more on a $300 drill press, depending on what type of store it is. They would not try to claim the first customer pay all of that day's overhead. Nobody would do it, of course, and more importantly, cost averaging is the correct way to apportion overhead and sunk costs, by apportioning it a little on everything.

Some of these costs have to be spent just to be in the line of work you're in, so they're overhead and you apportion them accordingly. But presuming the entire cost is apportioned to a single use is a dishonest accounting trick. It's one of those things record companies and motion picture studios do. A studio might spend $5 million on advertising promoting 10 films, and might charge that $5 million to all of the films (which is dishonest) or splitting it among all of them (okay, but allows popular films to subsidize less popular ones.) Record companies use G&A to cheat artists by charging them for costs on a record production, then charging studio overhead, instead of apportioning overhead evenly to everything as a part of costs. Which is why most artists don't make a dime from a record contract, if anything the record company claims they owe money.

This guy would fit in perfectly at a record company or a movie studio.

Wierd, this embed has no sound but playing it directly from You Tube does

2012-02-02 11:57:24

No Stairway to Heaven - Wierd, this embed has no sound but playing it directly from You Tube does by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)

Shay Laren wants to fuck me, I think

2012-02-02 11:56:46

The Knuckle Shuffle - Shay Laren wants to fuck me, I think by according to these gifs