There is something bizarre about looking at the American Nazi Party’s Twitter feed.
It also seems odd that they frequently retweet Freakonomics.
Oh, and before I forget: Happy birthday, America!
Girl with umbrella, by Eddie O’Bryan.
Webcomic is The Far Left Side, by Mike Stanfill.
The following clip is a (safer-for-work than the Big Bad Blog) trailer for a Star Trek porn parody.
Photo of the hooded man with the cock (get it?) is found at FFFFound. Credit unknown.
Webcomic is Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, by Zach Weiner.
This probably happens a lot: a new bar is opening, and the local community church disapproves. They petition to the relevant authorities, and pray that divine forces will intervene in the bar’s opening. Construction goes ahead, regardless.
However, in Mount Vernon, Texas, the story takes a twist: the bar is hit by lightning before it can open, and burns to the ground.
Struck. By. Lightning.
The churchgoers are all smug, of course. Power of prayer, and all that. Until the bar owner sued the church, claiming that their prayers caused the damage to his establishment.
And the church is now in the awkward position of having to argue in court that the power of prayer is not real.
And we at the Big Bad Blog are left smirking.
Image is by Heng Swee Lim, and for sale on etsy.
Webcomic is Cat Versus Human, by Yasmine Surovec.
There are video game competitions. Some, like the one celebrated in The Wizard, are about playing video games. The more interesting ones are about designing video games.
The Game Design Challenge of 2011 challenged designers to create a game that was also a religion. The winning game, Chain World, sounds like a game that I would love to play:
There’s only one true copy of Chain World and it exists on a USB drive Rohrer carried with him into the GDC session. This USB drive contains a Minecraft world and a custom script that Rohrer created. A player of Chain World inserts the USB stick and loads a Minecraft world onto his PC. He then plays in this Minecraft world as usual and does whatever he desires.
He plays until his character dies. Following the character’s death, the player must immediately save, quit to the main menu, and leave the game. Rohrer’s script than creates a duplicate of this altered world, saves it onto the USB drive, and deletes it off the player’s PC. The player can never play again and must pass the drive on to the next player.
Of course, the game will only truly become a religion once somebody has hacked it and returned to life after being dead for three days.
Photo by Brent Stirton, found at Smashing Picture.
Webcomic is Murray the Nut, by An unidentified individual.
