From the Brow of Zeus

This is the kind of thing I am faced with every time I check my Yahoo email account.

Friends List of the Ring. So not-funny it hurts.

First Gandalf asks, "R U there Frodo?"
To which Frodo responds, "What up, G?"

Get it? G....as in Gandalf! HAHAHAAHAHAHA!

Then Gandalf emails directions to Frodo. But they're bad directions, and we cut to a clip of a car plunging off a cliff, followed by a closeup of a cell phone with the text message, "Worst Directions EVER!"

I'm surprised Frodo can text after all the spinal damage from the car accident. Why not just go all out and use "EVAR"?

My mind reeled. How something like this legal? Then I remembered parody laws protect major corporations as well as the little guy. But come on, couldn't anyone at Something Awful have done a better job than this? Even the automatic spambot protection? I think I could write a QBasic program with a better sense of humor. Who does Yahoo hire for this stuff, the writers at SNL? (ooh diss.)

This is why I am switching to Gmail. Not just the free POP access. It's their gentle lack of "humor".

Labels: misc

Got a new article over at Bucket Bros. It deals with a rather touchy subject, so I went more for fact-based than funny, which is a direction I'm more comfortable in leaning towards these days. Call it the maturing of an Asshole Webmaster, a man who has leapt at the chance to finally discuss something truly meaningful. Also, I managed to work in a picture of Madonna and the Spice Girls holding the leashes of some groveling leather-gimps.

The internet rules!

Blacklash: How Accusations of Racism Force Blacks Out of Video Games.

It's wrong to deny someone a job because of the color of their skin, and surely this should also apply to video games. Yet time and time again, companies who include original (non-licensed) black characters in their games are hit with accusations of racial insensitivity until they cave in and remove them entirely.

What follows is the strange story of how racist accusations have kept video games politically correct by banning an entire race of people.

Read full article here.

Fun fact: Inspired by Giant Bomb, the article has been scaled down from 700px to 600px wide. Which means now you can finally read it, instead of having your eyes jog across the screen until they get tired, pop out of your head and roll away.

Labels: videogames