MusingMatt: Matt's Summary of the Xbox One Reveal →

musingmatt:

Gosh its some amazing presenters. Wearing grey and fake enthusiasm.

 

This conference is being presented out in a massive shed.  Just so you know.

This guy turned up, which is good because we know how massively integral he is to the gaming community.

This guy turns up and spouts some history bollocks that no one gives a fuck about.  He uses generic phrases such as “stories lighting up on every device” and “provide compelling answers to difficult questions” which actually mean NOTHING.” My favourite phrase was “it must be built for the future”, as if you can build something for the past. Bellend.

 

Oh my word it’s Xbox One, it’s so shiny! It’s also fucking massive. Jesus, it looks like an old VHS player.

 

That better not be a fucking Kinect.

Hey it’s Yusuf, doing relevant things like playing [POPULAR RACING GAME] and listening to [POPULAR MUSICIAN]. I hope he ‘kinects’ with the audience! He also shows the audience a lot of Star Trek.  You can also skype on your xbox now and have incredibly awkward conversations with the xbox team.

 

This is Marc, who talks a lot about the specs and is incredibly boring. He says numbers and letters in such a combination that people cheer.

 

Microsoft are pairing up with EA (which is a brilliant idea, because EA are so, so loved) to bring new, unique games, such as [GENERIC BASKETBALL GAME 20XX] and [GENERIC SOCCER GAME 20XX]. They also talk to sports people who I don’t give a flying fuck about (which seems to be a general theme at this conference)

Next up is Phill who’s going to talk us through some original, unique, never-thought of games before the likes of which are so ground-breaking, so amazingly new and fresh and brilliant that you will break down and weep at the sheer originality of it all.

Oh for fucks sake.

There’s also a game about a little girl who projects ships crashing into bridges into peoples minds.

This is Nancy and Bonnie who take 15 minutes to tell us they’re making a Halo TV show. Also something about American Football which just ties nicely into the prevalent theme of ‘shit I don’t give a fuck about’.

Wait! A new great game??! I wonder what it could be?!

Oh seriously fuck right off, Xbox.

Almost identical words could be said about most of their conferences.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

iheartmyart:

Naturally occuring metal. 

(via tibets)

sparkellyskellyton:

pilosopogyno:

This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.

On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”

He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.

Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.   

To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous. 

This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.

Healthcare is ridiculously expensive. I sit around all day and bill people for it. It’s such a business it’s unbelievable.

odditiesoflife:

Grand Prismatic Spring

Located in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, the Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest natural hot spring found in the US. The spring has a scalding temperature of 160 °F (70 °C), a total depth of 160 feet and a diameter of 300 feet. The vivid, rainbow colors in the spring are the result of pigmented bacteria in the microbial mats that grow around the edges of the mineral-rich water.

(Source: womenwithink)

helloworlditsjared:

Kayla Maree // Los Angeles CA

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earthisalie:

War is not fucking cool. Stop glorifying it. There is nothing romantic about people killing each other. There is nothing heroic about bombs and tanks and fighter jets - it all represents money stolen from people, and people’s sons and daughters sent to kill people they’ve never met and never had a problem with, all because the people stealing the money said so. Stop.

anime-backgrounds:

The Secret World of Arrietty. Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and scripted by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa. Created by Studio Ghibli.

bored-im:

Kick.