Tag archives for humor

  1. Creative ads →

    buckle up

     

    A huge collection of videos and images of creative, funny, smart ads.  Many I’ve seen before.  Yet many were new to me.

  3. What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy? →

    This is hilariously funny and extremely sad at the same time … make sure to read the whole thing.

    The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail… Initially we thought about telling them their copy is an illegal copy, but instead we didn’t want to pass up the unique opportunity of holding a mirror in front of them and showing them what piracy can do to game developers. So, as players spend a few hours playing and growing their own game dev company, they will start to see the following message, styled like any other in-game message:

    pirate message

    Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally.
    If players don’t buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt.

    Slowly their in-game funds dwindle, and new games they create have a high chance to be pirated until their virtual game development company goes bankrupt.

  7. Vim Koans →

    Mastery of Vimscript

    A student enquired of Master Wq, “When will I know I have mastered Vimscript?”

    Master Wq answered, “When you never use it.”

  8. Killer … snails!

    By Leonid Mamchenkov

    Giant African land snail

    Slashdot reports the next invasion of species.  It’s in Florida for now, and these aren’t too fast or extremely vicious creates, but still … I do understand how uncomfortable and damaging this might be to people who are affected, but never-the-less one has to admit that it’s pretty funny.  If you do have enough of sense of humor to laugh about it, go read some Slashdot comments to the story.  I was literally laughing out loud.  If you prefer your humor in a video source, here is one.