A blogger I have come to respect, The Curtal Friar, got us into a pickle by coming up with a pretty darned good composite offensive name for a video game that should be made (and would be if I were king) along the lines of Tea Party Zombies Must Die (but in stark contrast to the philosophy implied by TPZMD).
You want to hear what he helped spawn? Of course you do! And if you can come up with something – some niggling little tweak- that makes the title of the fictitious game sizzle more than it already does then you will be a winner and your name will be read by literal tens of people.
Twilight Of The Undocumented Cheesing Gay Afro-Chinese Chainsaw-Wielding Diaper-Wearing Midget-Mafia-Zombie-Mime Stuttering Tea Party Apocalypse Priests From Tijuana
That gives me shivers right up to the point where my brain swells and shuts down. No, I’m sure the title doesn’t make complete sense, but I’m not one to judge after looking at it and having so many brain-swellings today.
Update: Speaking of “Twilight” – the source of the inspiration for the beginning of the above title – there really is too much importance put on that shite. How does nature say “Lock her up forever and lose the damn key“? This is how.
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In the “We’ve Got New Stoopid Technology” category…
The fuel cell inside PowerTrekk is a completely passive system. Without fans or pumps, the fuel cell silently converts hydrogen into electricity via its Proton Exchange Membrane.
The chemistry process is safe, controllable and eco-friendly, and the only bi-product from the fuel cell is a little water vapor. To operate, hydrogen must be supplied to the fuel cell, and the fuel cell must be exposed to the open air.
The fuel cell charger is electronic waste and will be part of an industry program for recycling. The fuel pack is part of an industry program for reusing its materials and is made of coated can materials which prevent corrosion and leakage of chemicals.
Oooh, only a little water vapor! Wow! And, uh… where are you getting the hydrogen? Oh, only a little water vapor and coal-originated carbon dioxide from the process to break down water into oxygen and hydrogen. Oh, and only a little water vapor, carbon dioxide, and mercury from the coal burning process.
Wait. You say there are multiple sources of hydrogen? Really?
Since the hydrogen fuel can be supplied from several alternative sources, the system is “flexifuel”.
Ok. Name them. Tell me what they are.
Still waiting.
Ok, I read through their site to the point where I got really bored and I still get hung up on this part:
The chemistry process is safe and eco-friendly, and the only by-product from the fuel cell is a little water vapor.
I’m sure that hydrogen-to-electrons is safe and friendly. I totally buy that. Really, I do. But I don’t believe that you’re getting a free lunch in getting that hydrogen, and I don’t believe that if you close the loop and account for where all that golden-chewy-nougaty-goodness absolutely pure energy came from, that all you spin off is a little water vapor.
But fine… if what we’re really talking about is a cool portable power source, like batteries, then that is totally cool, and in fact they are mega-super-cool. I even think they’re pretty damned neat. But please don’t spin it to make it sound like you are cheap-and-clean zero-point-energy-mavericks and the eco-paladins of the world.
I’m not saying the power packs are comparable to the CFL in any way/shape/form. But the simple “don’t think so hard, trust us, apples and chihuahuas can be compared one-to-one” kind of ridiculousness is similar. You don’t get to say “Hey, CFL’s are great because they use less wattage” when the total KWH from cradle to grave is much worse. How we all got screwed by CFL’s.
Lighting expert Lucy Martin told the Daily Express, which is crusading for a referendum to pull Britain out of the EU: “The carbon footprint of manufacturing, distribution and disposal of a compact fluorescent bulb is far greater than the energy usage of a standard bulb.”
Really? You don’t say…
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If we’re going to keep coming back to energy, let’s go over to SOYLENT GREEN’s and look at the state of retrograde warming, shall we? (pretty sure it was safe for work as of ten minutes ago)
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Deus Ex update: If it were not for the boss fights it would be the best FPS, finally knocking the original Deus Ex out of the #1 spot after more than a decade. But it has them so it didn’t. Bummage.
Guns don't kill people. Compromised robots with guns kill people.
Lemur King's Folly 
Okay. I’m not sure if I should be responding here or at the Friar’s, but My thinking is it should counter the libtard “humor” with the other shoe, as it were.
Something Like…
SCOAMF: Rampage Of Hoffa’s Ball-Gargling Zombie Longshoremen, Mindlessly Taking Out Teacher Because they Never Learned To Spell Barbarian.
Also available for Xbox and Wii.
How’s that?
How about, “President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden”?
That’s scary.
“Twilight Of The Undocumented Cheesing Afro-Chinese Lesbian Feminist Union Card-Carrying Chainsaw-Wielding Diaper-Wearing Midget-Mafia-Zombie-Mime Stuttering Socialist Apocalyptic Jihadist From Tijuana”
I debated between Socialist and the DNR, but union cards and homosexuality simply don’t jive with the Tea Party so that had to go. Couple those words together, and people might figure out you are trying to make fun of them.
Oh, and stick cannibalistic in there.
The “vampire” needs to be simply taken out back and shot to save the money of putting her in prison. Attacking a wheelchair bound geriatric is pretty damn low.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and will suggest that drugs and/or alcohol wwre involved in the alleged vampire attack.
The little power pack thingies are for USB powered devices I see. The site doesn’t say how much they cost. Looks like they’re trying to recruit mass retail distributors. It could be useful if you’re camping and need a quick charge for your mp3 player.
*Poke*
Look at the tag-line of this blog.
No poking zone is strictly enforced.
Why, pray tell, would I go camping with my MP3 player? Why not just sit at home with your MP3 player and listen to “Sounds of Nature”, “Beluga Belches”, and “Woodpeckers on My Mind”?
If I want inspirational music while camping it’ll be listening to the sound of a fish or some other critter frying over the coals of my fire.