Computer science student with a specific sense of humour. Gamer. Smartass. Metalhead. Much more.
- Socialism: You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbor.
- Communism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.
- Fascism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.
- Nazism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.
- Bureaucratism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away..
- Traditional Capitalism: You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
- An American Corporation: You have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow dropped dead.
- A French Corporation: You have 2 cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
- Japanese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.
- An Italian Corporation: You have 2 cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
- A Swiss Corporation: You have 5000 cows. None of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
- Chinese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
- An Iraqi Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No one believes you and they bomb your arse. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.......
- Counter Culture: 'Wow, dig it, like there's these 2 cows, man, grazing in the hemp field. You gotta have some of this milk!'
- Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
- Apathyologism: You have 2 cows. You do not care.
- Fatalist: You have 2 doomed cows...
- Atheism: You have 2 cows. There is no God.
- A West-Country Corporation: You have 2 cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.
- A Brazilian Corporation: You have 2 cows. You pay taxes for 6 cows. You have to sell one cow in order to pay the taxes. Your remaining cow gets sick and dies while waiting for availability in the public vet hospital.
- Russia: You have two cows. Since they are both female, if you happen to keep them in the same stable you will pay a 5,000 rouble fine for homosexual propaganda.
- PETA: You have two cows. You kill them both. You then use naked women to convince other people that killing cows is wrong.
- Moffat: You have two cows. Both of them are your daughters time traveling from the past where they had a brief love affair with Da Vinci making you the rightful Queen of England. As you assume the throne, you throw them off a building.
- Hussie: You have 2 cows. You ask for another one. Instead of getting just 1 cow, you get 2,485,506 cows.
- Romney: You have 2 cows. You are not the president of the united states.
- Once-ler: You have 1 cow. Everyone decides to make 5 different versions of that cow.
- Old Spice: You have 2 cows. The cows are now diamonds. I'm on a horse.
- An Irish Corporation: You have a million cows because they're everywhere
- Tumblr: You have 2 cows. You ship them together and make GIF posts screaming about how much you love your cows, but they should stop existing because they are so perfect.
- Also Tumblr: I give you a hamburger.
- Cows: The shit you go through.
- This post: Started off as a post that explained different goverments but then everything changed when the fire nation attacked
Aperture Science Laboratory Multiperson Enrichment Device - A Portal Board Game
During my second semester in grad school I took Game Design class with Jesse Schell. One of the assignments was to make a dice or board game. I tried to make a board game version of Portal. I figured I would share it.
By far the coolest part of the game is that I made actual 3D printed companion cube dice. Now this was back in 2008, so 3D printing was not nearly as ubiquitous as it is these days. One of the things I tried to do as part of the design is make the cubes relevant to the player. I did this by making the player roll the cubes to get through doors and if they rolled poorly they would die and be forced to go back to start.
The innovation I wanted to bring into the game was the idea of a non-linear board, where players are choosing their path with some amount of risk and reward. The game plays a bit like shoots and ladders where all the players start at one end of the board and they need to make it to the other end (where there is cake of course)
If you want to make a copy for yourself and try it out feel free to download the rules, board and list of all the pieces here. I even included the model I used to get the dice printed. Have fun and remember to mind the gap.
May the 4th be with you!
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Literary Birthday - 28 April
Happy Birthday, Terry Pratchett, born 28 April 1948
12 Quotes On Writing
- Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‘The A-Team’ - if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
- Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
- Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
- I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.
- You can’t die with an unfinished book.
- I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
- No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
- In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
- Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
- I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
And one more on life: I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.
Pratchett is an English author of fantasy novels who was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010. He is best known for the Discworld series. Pratchett has sold more than 70 million books in 37 languages. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. Pratchett announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2007.
by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write
Wingman by Emily “Emmy” Choi, Sheridan College Bachelor of Animation
Here’s my thesis film! I hope you enjoy! This was a huge learning experience and I thank everyone who helped along the way. :) Cheers!
so great! ;w; congratulations~!
AWWW! This is beyond cute!
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and only got 16 notes on tumblr what a bummer
My brain just went boom
no
now 3000, but it’s not fair
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What do we do now?
Was it made in England?
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