game-related lolz of some fashion

https://www.wired.com/story/gamestop-stock-wall-street-bets-short-squeeze/

i should wait for this news to spread and then buy low on gamestock

I am morbidly curious to see how high GME will go this week. already peaked at $150 today - this stock was around $20 a month ago, and $5 a year ago!
Not sure I'm curious enough to start a Robinhood account though... but money won is always better than money earned, right?

Embracing the pyramid scheme of the stock market.

Should people be shorting GME or are there too many morons available to prop this thing up for long enough to make shorting prohibitively painful?

it's because there were already people shorting GME, that it's rising, because the stock market

Is this situation ONE WEIRD TRICK that's inherent to shorting, and that GME happened to be the one company that this happened to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP468OEln4U

good one

excellent

Power to the player!

posted three months ago!
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/jjctxg/gme_squeeze_and_the_demise_of_melvin_capital/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSgrumHw-XA

President Biden competing in Mario Kart against granddaughter Naomi. She says he “barely” won. pic.twitter.com/JhDMX1TTMv

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) February 14, 2021

just waiting for the conservative/tucker carlson exposé on "cheating" and "rubber-banding" in mario kart. biden didn't win, he cheated! the whole game is rigged!!

thinking about if i’ve seen a single photo of trump and his grandkids

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg

trump would play a 1-player game, promise to hand it off to the grandkid when he lost, and then every time he lost he would claim he was cheated and deserved another free turn

That Joel Haver channel is a real goldmine

the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/sCn56So8Ee

— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 19, 2021

There are articles about this but really that has it all.

https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/twitch-shamelessly-replaces-audio-of-metallicas-blizzcon-show-to-avoid-dmca-news.127063.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxmLD8y0RNQ

Why did that video decide to put the punchline right at the start?

probably b/c videos have about four seconds to get ppl's attention before they click away

Well, it worked, because even though the video is like a buck-thirty long, once I realized the bulk of it was the "making-of" the two-second joke, I didn't bother.

I assume that I am late to Japan World Cup, but what the hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmsRcsl_xA

Funny stuff instantly rendered unfunny by the people talking over it to tell us how funny it is (though I always hated ms3tk etc for the same reason so maybe I'm an outlier?)

There are like ReBoot fever dreams...

xp i have tried to get into ms3tk a million times

i think i'm so vain that i think my internal jokes about the bad movies are funnier

I riff to myself sometimes but classic mst3k episodes can’t be beat

Manos is on right now

https://www.twitch.tv/mst3k

i've said this on the MST thread, but the key to the classic period is that very few jokes are really of the type "hey, this movie sure is dumb/bad, huh?" and when they are, many of them get at that by picking up on some very small detail or odd bit of writing or production design that hits my brain in a left-field unexpected way. but YMMV!

i remember the first time i went to rocky horror, that was also a long time ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPRwLlpdTU

It took a day, but here it is: The Pokemon intro recreated using ONLY stock footage. pic.twitter.com/oMDvAYqT6A

— Matthew Highton (@MattHighton) April 6, 2021

also Evil Mario ftw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enBceUyGf9Q

"BOWSER MEANS... NOTHING TO ME"

The ridiculous plasticity of the Demon's Souls character creation system is always good for some laughs, but I came across this one randomly and nearly pissed myself.

https://i.imgur.com/1SuaN.jpg

dark laughter at how Microsoft Flight Simulator currently has a bug in the tutorial that causes the instructor to calmly do a Controlled Flight Into Terrain while explaining how to read the instruments pic.twitter.com/Dgfs30G1Mo

— Richard (@halkyardo) April 11, 2021

"last but not least check your altimeter..."

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Attention, Arks! A new Ultimate Quest is coming soon to #PSO2global! Are you ready to face the Final Battle: Space-time Interstice? Log in this week to find out! ✨

Learn more: https://t.co/OdHxJgwmJ2 pic.twitter.com/nTwux7zG13

— Phantasy Star Online 2 - Global (@play_pso2) April 13, 2021

what the heck is an interstice?
also surprised to discover this game still exists AND also just got a US release last year

As the comments point out, an interstice is defined as "an intervening space, especially a very small one," which is unfortunate, given the font choice.

lol, Microsoft Flight Simulator video is slowly, quietly hilarious. Needs Laurie Anderson "From the Air" dubbed over it.

also:

lol, Microsoft Flight Simulator

lol Microsoft Flight Simulator, but also i really wish it was on mac so i could play it! i haven't played one since the 90s at a friend's house

oh god that was brilliant

https://www.inputmag.com/design/bowsers-penis-being-censored-by-nintendo

I only just now saw the lol in that PSO ad.

what is it?

the kerning

ah, okay