Many months ago, while browsing the internet, some friends and I discovered a webcam showing a little cute tortoise (that we thought was a turtle, because we're dumb) who would be fed every day, and run around his little enclosure. He was super fun to watch, and given he had a webcam set up, we figured someone around here may know who owned him, or if he's still got a sweet live webcam feed.
We don't remember the exact URL we used to see Edmund, but here is a video showing him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9PL2A1SFCQ (the music was added by me, not the original stream). The website we found seemed to indicate he was from New Zealand, and clarified his name and that he was a tortoise.
The other information that might help find him is that the camera feed seemed to have real-time "Edmund detection", that tracked his location in the frame by drawing a little box around him.
Can anyone help us find out if he's still out there?
We know and have known for a long time the mods of that sub will bring down the ban hammer for the most arbitrary of reasons, especially if anything Yang related. Going there, baiting them with a Yang related post of comment, and decrying censorship when the expected ban happens isn’t a good use of our time and energy. Let’s focus on the stuff that will actually win the primary for Yang canvassing and phonebanking.
For decades, it was considered an "anti-Mormon lie" that smith married young girls and that smith married other men's wives.
Then, a few years ago, the church finally admitted it was all true.
Last century's "anti mormon lies" are this century's truths.... what a funny world we live in.
Hey we are Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel and we released The End is Nigh on the switch today! Check out the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fASCsApuP4
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where the player takes control over Ash, one of few "things" that have "survived" the "end of the world." Follow Ash as he flops his way through a future of pain and suffering. Feel his stress levels rise as you throw him into an endless swarm of decaying, mutant animal-like creatures and help aid his final epic quest...to simply make a friend (out of pieces of people he finds along his journey).
Edmund McMillen is /u/EdmundMcMillen, he did the art and designed most of the levels (the "easy" main ones and the carts)
Tyler Glaiel is /u/Glaiel-Gamer (me), I programmed the game and also designed some levels (the hard secret ones)
Ridiculon did the music (it's all rock/metal remixes of classical music)
Jay Fernandes did the SFX (squish squish)
Nicalis ported the game to the Switch and made the physical goodies
(unsure if these guys will show up as well but I'll add their usernames in here if they do)
Feel free to ask us anything about it!
Besides Edmund Kemper what serial killers do you consider to be the most intelligent?
Ever read Shakespeare? Well, this 1,000 page poem is just like the Bard...on crack-cocaine, that is.
This poem, The Faerie Queene, was written to celebrate Queen Elizabeth and tells a long, convoluted allegorical tale. I'm only about 5 pages in, and I'm already wowed by the sheer brilliance. The verse is like constructing new worlds with each stanza and going deeper and deeper into new worlds of meaning. It's also super trippy. This epic, obscure poem began fantasy novels before they even existed.
So far, I've understood that it starts off with an Anime-like party: with a knight, a beautiful lady travelling on an ass, with a small lamb in her arms, and - get this - a freaking Dwarf "lagging behind" them on their journey. They end up going into a tree area, which houses a really dangerous monster that confronts the party. It's a wondrous strange beast, whose children go inside of its own mouth to hide. Here is Spenser describing the foolish knight deciding to venture into a dark place to see the monster:
The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide,
But forth vnto the darksome hole he went,
And looked in: his glistring armor made
A litle glooming light, much like a shade,
By which he saw the vgly monster plaine,
Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide,
But th'other halfe did womans shape retaine,
Most lothsom, filthie, foule, and full of vile disdaine.
This disgusting beast, half serpent and half woman, is seen by the knight and a battle ensues. Spenser even devotes an ENTIRE 6-line stanza to describing its puke!
And in the battle, guess what happens? An elf out of nowhere comes in and basically holds the monster captive at knife-point, threatening to shank it if it moves:
"Which when the valiant Elfe perceiv'd, he leapt
As Lion fierce upon the flying pray,
And with his trenchand blade her boldly kept
From turning backe, and forced her to stay"
And I'm only about 5 pages in! This epic poem is wild ! Anyone ever read it?
I've heard almost nothing good about him other than maybe tackling.
