better than hyperfacts

April 28, 2015 9:52 PM

ULTRAFACTS
posted by the man of twists and turns (13 comments total)

awwww.
posted by MartinWisse at 10:26 PM on April 28, 2015 [4 favorites]

The very first one showing when I click through (the Pac-Man one) is pretty widely discredited as apocryphal, but there's no other indication that this is supposed to be some sort of fake trolling-type thing, so I'm just gonna go with "not particularly choosy"
posted by DoctorFedora at 10:59 PM on April 28, 2015 [2 favorites]

I've been spending too much time on Tumblr, because it took me about 5 or 6 posts to realize that these weren't jokes
posted by showbiz_liz at 11:33 PM on April 28, 2015 [5 favorites]

“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
posted by ob1quixote at 12:21 AM on April 29, 2015 [2 favorites]

I see these passed around Tumblr all the time. Sometimes as "oh cool, didn't know that" and sometimes as "this is totally bullshit."
posted by kmz at 1:20 AM on April 29, 2015

I'm waiting for MetaFacts.
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:29 AM on April 29, 2015 [2 favorites]

The very first one showing when I click through (the Pac-Man one) is pretty widely discredited as apocryphal

Let's ask the designer:

IWATANI: The story I like to tell about the origin of Pac Man is that one lunch time I was quite hungry and I ordered a whole pizza. I helped myself to a wedge and what was left was the idea for the Pac Man shape.

INTERVIEWER: Is the story about the pizza really true?

IWATANI: Well, it’s half true. [...]
posted by effbot at 2:33 AM on April 29, 2015

As Chris Morris said in The Day Today - "Fact me till I fart."
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:35 AM on April 29, 2015 [1 favorite]

“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”

I found it somewhat amusing that they used a British "red top" tabloid as a source, so I googled for a real source and quickly discovered that the tumblr is just reposting stuff from reddit's TIL forum, and that the redditors of course called bullshit on the Don Johnson story; it's a story from HST's book Kingdom of Fear.
posted by effbot at 3:16 AM on April 29, 2015 [3 favorites]

POTOOOOOOOO
posted by idiopath at 5:16 AM on April 29, 2015 [1 favorite]

If it is published on the Internet it must be true.
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:43 AM on April 29, 2015

The story about Cui Xianren alone made it worth sifting through all the cute.

Thanks, Man of.
 
posted by Herodios at 6:23 AM on April 29, 2015 [1 favorite]

INTERVIEWER: Is the story about the pizza really true?

IWATANI: Well, there's a slice of truth there...

cf sliceoftruth.com
posted by parrishioner at 9:43 AM on April 29, 2015