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.

We are messed up cables not tangled.

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.

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.