...I see these as kind of pointless. I mean, if you want to get to know me, send me a message. After all, its not like you meet someone in the real world, and the first thing you do is list off things about yourself, you get to know that person through conversation, so converse!
Pearltrees tips. Cracked.com - America's Only Humor Site. 15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped. It's hard to be amazed by anything you see online, when you know any teenager with a computer and a pirated copy of Photoshop can cobble together a fake photograph in minutes.
Unfortunately this means there's a whole bunch of jaw-dropping yet real pics that the internet declared "FAKE! " the moment they appeared. A couple of times a year we collect the most amazing/ridiculous examples. Enjoy the first 15 images below, be sure to follow the link at the end for the rest of our mind-boggling library. The Machine Apparently Made to Saw the World in Half. 6 Glitches That Accidentally Invented Modern Gaming. Half of the art you enjoy every day is probably due to some happy accident. For instance, most of the tension in Jaws can be credited to the fact that the fake shark they were using was a mechanical nightmare and too ridiculous to show on screen.
You wouldn't think video games would be subject to this, however -- a mistake in the code of a game would most likely just melt your Xbox (again) rather than invent some fun new game mechanic. Yet, some of the most iconic features of games can be credited to serendipity: A Bad Mouse Click Leads to Lara Croft's Rack. 9 Video Game Easter Eggs That Took Years to Find. Video game Easter eggs are fun extras for the fans and are usually even easier to find than the real thing--they might demand 10,000 coins, but you never need to stand up.
But some of these little secrets, cheats or glitches are so well-hidden they stay out of sight for years, even with millions of gamers exploring every nook and cranny of the game world. For instance... Sarcastic Announcer (Wave Race Blue Storm, GameCube) Right off the bat here's one that took nine years to find. The jet ski racing game Wave Race: Blue Storm for the Nintendo Gamecube already had a secret password entry screen (accessed by pressing START+Z+X on the options menu) unlocking everything from dolphin riding to secret time attack competitions.
The cheat was based on messing around in the audio options and, sadly, the only three people who play with the audio options screen are the guy who programmed it, the guy testing it, and the guy who doesn't exist. Chris Houlihan Room (A Link to the Past, Super Nintendo) Virtual game is a 'disease model'
An outbreak of a deadly disease in a virtual world can offer insights into real life epidemics, scientists suggest.
The "corrupted blood" disease spread rapidly within the popular online World of Warcraft game, killing off thousands of players in an uncontrolled plague. The infection raged, wreaking social chaos, despite quarantine measures. The experience provides essential clues to how people behave in such crises, Lancet Infectious Diseases reports. In the game, there was a real diversity of response from the players to the threat of infection, similar to those seen in real life. Some acted selflessly, rushing to the aid of other characters even though that meant they risked infection themselves. Others fled infected cities in an attempt to save themselves. And some who were sick made it their mission to deliberately infect others. Researcher Professor Nina Fefferman, from Tufts University School of Medicine, said: "Human behaviour has a big impact on disease spread.
The 7 Biggest Dick Moves in the History of Online Gaming. Tens of millions of adults spend all their free time in fictional worlds that are full of more tedious work and assholes than most real-life jobs.
Combining Internet anonymity with people who have absurd amounts of free time, massive multiplayer online role-playing Gamers (MMORPG)are a better guarantee of asshole-ry than a digestive system, and yield uglier results. But there are some spectacular douche bags who have put more work into screwing with strangers than should be humanly possible. EVE Online's universe consists of 350,000 active subscribers piloting customizable space craft around 7,500 solar systems. Putting that many people in space with lasers might sound like an open horizon to awesome, but the players who hang out there created a fully functional free market economy that ends up feeling more like space accountancy.
6 Beloved TV Shows (That Traumatized Cast Members For Life) Anyone who's worked shoveling shit at a circus can tell you that making entertainment isn't as much fun as watching it.
The same goes for TV shows, and in some cases, it's even worse than the elephant shit thing. There are shows you loved and grew up with that, behind the scenes, were a constant, dark carnival of torment. The Show: An extraterrestrial puppet confounds his adopted Earth family with his cat-eating ways. But Behind The Scenes... 7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Works of Art. Sure, if you look hard enough you're going to see bestiality, orgies and freakishly small penises in EVERYTHING. But in the case of classic works of art, you're often right. Yes, as much as we mock Dan Brown around here, the one thing he's right about is that old-school artists like Michelangelo and Da Vinci loved to plant little "Easter Eggs" in their work, often things that would never have made it past the censors.