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Project Rant

sciurus — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:46:14 -0800

Project: Rant - "We republish or recreate other people’s anonymous posts and submissions from around the web." (all episodes)

the missing letters are u, c and k.

shmegegge — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:17:58 -0800

At GDC this year, Heather Chaplin to game developers: "You're a bunch of f***ing adolescents." Chaplin, co-author of the book Smartbomb, spoke at the Game Developers Conference during a panel called the Rant Session. The panel, a regular attraction at the conference, routinely features members of the gaming community going off on topics that they feel merit attention. This year's panel, "Burned by Friendly Fire: Game Critics Rant," gave games journalists an opportunity to let loose. Chaplin's rant has sparked some controversy thanks to her attacks on the perceived immaturity of video games, and specifically developers themselves. While many attendees of the panel (such as Gamasutra's and Sexy Video Game Land's Leigh Alexander) were partly invigorated by the points made, this feeling was often tempered by disappointment with Chaplin's insults. David Jaffe (creator of the Twisted Metal and God of War series) responded to her accusations in a recent blog post. While his initial, angrier response has been taken down, his utlimate, more tempered response remains. Overall, the vibe online at the moment seems ambivalent. Chaplin may have given voice to the frustrations many feel toward gaming's homogeneity, but few people feel comfortable with her gender and sexuality based attacks.

Rant Of The Century

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:30:20 -0800

Mark Kermode reviews Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. "Is that a nest of tables? No, it's Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley having some red hot passionate embrace that is positively teaky." More of the good doctor's reviews: Daddy Day Camp "Excrementally terrible" Death Proof "A really half-witted idea" Die Hard 4.0 "Like watching Hits On 45 of action movie clichés" Good Luck Chuck "This thing is eating my soul from the inside." Transformers "The aesthetic sensibilities resemble that of someone who has just ingested half a ton of weapons grade plutonium." But he doesn't hate everything... here he is on Inland Empire and Control and Black Sheep "Money can buy art, but it can't make squishy sheep movies." Several more on the 'tubes. And catch him weekly via this BBC podcast with Simon Mayo He also interviews people: Warren Clarke on a Clockwork Orange set visit David Cronenberg Werner Herzog - during which Herzog is shot! Shane Meadows Guillermo del Toro Edward Woodward on a Wicker Man set visit Neil Young who he now likes but didn’t used to He's more than slightly obsessed by The Exorcist (Presenting this excellent documentary. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7) Until very recently he didn't own a television. He gets mentioned in the odd advert. Presents his alternative Oscars every year. And in what remains of his free time he plays bass in an a skiffle band.

Zed Shaw freaks out on the Ruby/Rails community.

chunking express — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:06:19 -0800

Zed Shaw freaks out on the Ruby/Rails community. It's an enjoyable rant even if you don't know much at all about Ruby and/or Rails. To quote Shaw:

I’ll add one more thing to the people reading this: I mean business when I say I’ll take anyone on who wants to fight me. You think you can take me, I’ll pay to rent a boxing ring and beat your fucking ass legally. Remember that I’ve studied enough martial arts to be deadly even though I’m old, and I don’t give a fuck if I kick your mother fucking ass or you kick mine. You don’t like what I’ve said, then write something in reply but fuck you if you think you’re gonna talk to me like you can hurt me.

someone thinks you're all rubbish

rhymer — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:21:07 -0800

Bloglash Blogger: Term used to describe anyone with enough time or narcissism to document every tedious bit of minutia filling their uneventful lives. Possibly the most annoying thing about bloggers is the sense of self-importance they get after even the most modest of publicity..." and so it goes. Might bruise a few egos, but it is a very funny bit of ranting - with a few home truths.

What, exactly, is a poltroon?

iron chef morimoto — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:18:07 -0800

Any girls wanna go cycling around the world?

Ben Stein Loses His Shit

Ty Webb — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 20:37:45 -0800

Former Nixon speechwriter (and Ferris Bueller's economics teacher) Ben Stein loses his mind over Mark Felt: "There is a lot of debate about whether or not Mark Felt was a hero. Obviously, I don't think so. I think the hero was Richard Nixon, fighting for peace even as he was being horribly mistreated and crucified just for his fight for peace." And that's not nearly the worst of it.

NYFD Bath House?

amberglow — Sat, 07 May 2005 15:43:48 -0800

Smell The Brimstone --Have you ever asked yourself, "Self, what if the folks at JibJab made another political cartoon, but before doing so were to remove their souls, morals, intellect, decency, and common sense?"--Good as You's review of this little flash piece, from the GodHatesFags crew (Phelps). I think it's so poorly done and insane, it's actually funny, but NSFW and offensive.

GFD

three blind mice — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:36:30 -0800

Angry? Tired of x-tian zealots? Having difficulty living with other people? Disappointed with your new job? Tired of childish rants? Getting old? Or just generally pissed off? We feel your pain. Come on in and tell us all about it! (NSFW)

ESR's response to SCO CEO

jeddings — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:40:49 -0800

OSI Prez slaps SCO CEO with blogauntlet You know, when Eric S. Raymond speaks, people listen. But I think this particular rant, he wants just one person to listen: Darl McBride, CEO of SCO.

watch your a**, or where you put it.

cadence — Tue, 20 May 2003 07:48:23 -0800

New York man gets ticket for sitting on a milk crate. Not, of course, that i take the NY Daily News all that seriously, but still... This is beyond ridiculous (much like a lot of things taking place in New York these days). Makes me ill that I have to wait until 2006 to vote this ridiculous mayor out of office.

We're still waiting for this year's Give Peace a Chance.

kirkaracha — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:21:50 -0800

"This war's musical outcry is no different from those of the past, with one gleaming caveat. Whatever your feelings on folk music, most of the new protest songs concerning the war in Iraq -- how to put this maturely -- suck fetid donkey biscuits. This is the worst dreck ever to to be digitized 'n' downloaded."

Hall — Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:19:09 -0800

You have become a nation of monsters, America. Hypocrites. Murderers. Fools. A letter by a Canadian published in the Baltimore Chronicle to all Americans. Is this merely displaced anger; a worthless rant, or does this feeling come from a more real problem?

riley370 — Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:40:54 -0800

The four noble truths of blogging
1. Painful Mediocrity (Kutaifishi)
2. Cause of Painfully Mediocre Blogging (Jittaifishi)
3. Cessation of Mediocre Blogging (Zeitgeistidiota)
4. The Path (drole la voie d'acces)

riley370 — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:57:46 -0800

Finding What You Are Looking For in a Music/Video Store
Sing to us if you want, but know that this method has a less than 50% success rate. Typically, we stand there and go, "Uhh... I dunno." And from my past experience, the people that work in music stores do not generally enjoy the majority of mainstream crap music.

Mo Nickels — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 07:54:42 -0800

Why the New York Post is a crappy newspaper: A 672-word story about a 15-year-old television actor getting busted for a $40 theft merits this byline: "By LARRY CELONA, MARIA MALAVE, ED ROBINSON, CLEMENTE LISI, HALLIE LEVINE, ADAM MILLER, LEONARD GREENE, IKIMULISA SOCKWELL-MASON, LINDA STASI, ALISA CONABOY, BILL HOFFMANN and CATHY BURKE." The Post's priorities are clear.

cfj — Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:11:03 -0800

Don't make Hunter mad. Hunter S. Thompson doesn't think the production company that optioned The Rum Diaries is doing a very good job. And he tells them. Man, does he tell them.

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:48:15 -0800

Anglo Women are an endangered species! Actually, it's time for me to post another diatribe and I didn't want to put it here. (More in first post)

mathowie — Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:50:42 -0800

Oh great another "weblogs are stupid and they all suck" article came out, but what I really want to know is: why does the other article running this week at ALA acknowledge that "99% of everything is crap," but the weblog article doesn't? Comparing the cruft at the bottom of weblogs with the 1% best of writers (Ginsberg and Kerouac) seems unfair and pointless. And where are the solutions? Tell everyone to stop? Tell them to write better? What's so hard about ignoring the sites you don't like instead (I do that with most advertising)?

glish — Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:47:43 -0800

Pat Methany accuses Kenny G of "lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing." And more! One of the best rants I have ever read.

DragonBoy — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:30:17 -0800

A Cancer on the Web called Flash - The publisher of Flazoom.com has published a lengthy opinion/rant about evil Flash designers. I love how this guy publishes a Flash site about cool Flash sites, then publishes an editorial about why Flash is bad for the web. His commentary is dead on though, something that all Flash designers should think about.

baylink — Fri, 05 May 2000 07:44:51 -0800

Personal Rant: Nationsbank (now Bank Of America) sucks. More inside.

mathowie — Tue, 04 Jan 2000 01:21:43 -0800

I'm impressed with Scott Kurtz' latest rant. I've never really found User Friendly all that funny, and I think Scott's point is part of the reason why. Something that I find much funnier is Silicon Alley, because it pokes fun at the industry itself, from the inside. Although I wish they'd give the user control of the panel flipping on Silicon Alley...