This new trailer for Dragon Age, the upcoming “spiritual successor to Baldur’s Gate“, is absolutely hilarious. (And not work safe)
What’s even more hilarious is how appalled the entirety of the Internet seems to be about this. On the contrary, it’s quite genius. Millions of dumbasses looking for the next Gears of Killzone will be duped into playing a game with good writing. Holy shit. Meanwhile, people who hate this type of marketing can giggle at a blatant self-satire. Or they should.
TorrentFreak has told its friends about Burger King’s new King Deals. So cheap, and so tasty. Oh, also, their ad makes no sense. Apparently, Burger King is like downloading music from the Internet, only legal.
Check out the original post for the original ad. In the meantime, I’ll show you my improvements to it:
Current hearings in Congress about exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act are focusing on the following: should it be legal for teachers to circumvent copy-protection on DVDs so that they can show video clips to their classes?
No, says the Motion Picture Association of America. Besides, why would you want to do this? There’s a perfectly reasonable alternative: point a video camera at the screen!
MPAA shows how to videorecord a TV set from timothy vollmer on Vimeo.
Two things:
A recent New York Times video got my mother interested in reQall, a to-do list/reminder/calendar thingy with many interesting features, notably the fact that you can add items with your voice. Of course, because speech-to-text technology still isn’t 100% accurate, hilarity could occasionally ensue:
>From: reQall >Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 11:53:24 +0000 >To: <Withheld so you won't spam my mom> >Subject: Added: Look at Joe's gold in the Swiss Bank.... > >Added to reQall: >Look at Joe's gold in the Swiss Bank.That’s not exactly what I said. I said ‘look at Joe’s goals in the system.’ Whatever…
The botched transcription touches on the suspicious. If you decide to hop on reQall, make sure you don’t slur your words reminding yourself to “show up at” your son’s football game. An innocent mistake by the system could cause a suicide bomber panic at Giants stadium.
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Copyright Proven Homophobic as NOM Gathers a DMCA Takedown Storm
Same-sex marriage now violates intellectual property laws too! Who'dve thunk?
Remember that ridiculous anti-gay marriage ad which I made even more ridiculous by replacing the soundtrack with “It’s Raining Men”? Apparently the National Organization for Nomnomnom isn’t too pleased with that sort of behavior. Parody ads left and…well, who am I kidding, they’re all left…have been removed from YouTube because of NOM’s bitching and whining and DMCA takedown notices (Mine hasn’t been touched, probably because the audio confuses the Content ID robots). Included in this crusade against legal and fair use was one for which the creators were recognized as “Homo Heroes” for their brilliance: a group of Reddit readers spliced the word “interracial” in wherever “same-sex” was in the original ad.
NOM has succeeded at infuriating the entire Internet again, but this time it’s personal. If anything spreads faster than a viral YouTube video, it’s a removed YouTube video. Congratulations, National Organization for Marriage, now both gay people and copyright reformers hate you. Now those two groups will converge, and you will face butt pirates.
Sorry, I had to.
UPDATE: YouTube is apparently giving NOM preferential treatment in their own takedown notice predicament with Perez Hilton. It seems highly unlike Google to be supportive of their cause, so I’m gonna chalk this one up to…something else. I don’t know what.