Web Amusement Emporium

A marathon of Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting, made more special by Twitch chat's commentary on each episode.

Strangely soothing and enthralling.

Guys, I feel I should be pointing out this website at this time of year - A Cartoon Christmas. Written by former Future US legend and host of LaserTime Chris Antista, it essentially, for 3 or 4 years, covered every animated Christmas special. It's well worth a read; especially the flimsy Super Mario Bros. Super Show entry.

Oooh, I like that
I love that Rambo had one. Exquisite.

I've just discovered CEO Kaz Hirai's Twitter account. Brilliant stuff: hate directed equally at all the industry.

A quality account - I've long been overdue following that one, as Kaz's tweets often pop up on my feed by way of retweets.

Harsh words directed at our forum there!

We are messed up cables not tangled.

http://www.dorkly.com/post/75909/pokemon-teams-inspired-by-the-2016-presidential-candidates

I love the Bush vanilla line! What would George Bush have been - Quagsire and Magikarp?

Presumably you all know about "Boaty McBoatface"? Well, Twitter has taken it one step further.

I'm going to out here as it's a web thing, EofGiz and his developer partner have just submitted there application fro funding to the government which includes a pitch video of there new game for VR. Gintendo gets a mention right at the start of the video on there facebook page.

I'm hoping to give the game a go at some-point and do what could be the very first let's play of the game and a scoop for Gintendo for a game that hopefully gets funding and comes to Rift & PSVR like planned.

Which at the moment anything for VR is big news.

Presumably everybody has already seen this, but it's still funny.

I can see our man in Japan doing this. Not that he'd have to these days.

Where did 'absolute unit' originate from, does anyone know? It feels like a British phrase. I'm not sure it is.

@Balladeer wrote:

 

Where did 'absolute unit' originate from, does anyone know?  It feels like a British phrase.  I'm not sure it is.

It's from The Museum of English Rural Life, originally popularised in a tweet earlier this year:

https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/983341970318938112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E983341970318938112&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finews.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk%2Fbig-sheep-absolute-unit-museum%2F

Ah, I remember that! Top tweet, and authentically British.

(It did go back a bit further, apparently, but I think the sheep popularised it and it's definitely a better unit than Mr. Suits here.)

@Balladeer wrote:

I can see our man in Japan doing this.  Not that he'd have to these days.  

Where did 'absolute unit' originate from, does anyone know?  It feels like a British phrase.  I'm not sure it is.

I'm glad that story had a happy ending! I was worried for that big lad there.

In these times of widespread home-remaining, does anybody have any top sources of amusement they'd like to recommend (outside videogames, natch, and Netflix)?  Bonus points if they're free.

Here are some webcomics I follow that you can binge thus far:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/ - surprisingly moreish college drama with likeable characters, updates daily.
http://www.sssscomic.com/ - post-apocalyptic adventures in Scandinavia, striking art style, updates four days a week.
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/ - magical scientific slice-of-life with robots and forest spirits and that, updates three days a week.
http://h0lyhandgrenade.co.uk/mokepon/ - Pokémon adventure from the point of view of a rival character who just wants to watch Top Gear, updates Tuesdays.
https://figmentforms.tumblr.com/tagged/a+tale+of+two+rulers/chrono - Zelda/Ganon romance comic, but well drawn and well-written.  Get past the first few strips. Updates intermittently.