Interesting Links for 29-05-2013

[andrewducker]

• Plus-Size Dress Form A Reality Thanks To Cornell Students
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• This "Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods" trailer tries to make clicking on icons look exciting. Not very successfully.
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• The Ridiculously Racist Robots Of Mobile Fighter G-Gundam. (Tequila Gundam FTW)
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Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Did you post a link to that trailer for a battleships-style game that was hilarious? Looks just as clicky, but the trailer was far more fun and knowing.

[momentsmusicaux]

It was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vxxnq5YAVHw#!

[andrewducker]

Not sure - I'll watch it later at home!

[call_waiting]

I may be being dense, but who the frack is "John Bull"?

[hfnuala]

British equivalent of Uncle Sam. Less popular since the 1960s or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull

[call_waiting]

Yeah, having asked the question I then looked it up (as I'm obliged to do ;) but I have never, ever heard of this before. I have seen the fellow on a pub sign, but had no idea he was a Thing.

I'd totally fail the citizenship test, I'm sure.

[momentsmusicaux]

I've only heard of him because of the rock factory.

[octopoid_horror]

The Crusader Kings II trailer is a parody of a parody. I assume it's a reference to the joke extreme dubstep pro gamer videos for Farming Simulator/train sim type games which themselves are a parody of the (regrettably serious) videos make of their ~sweet noscope montages~ for Call of Duty etc.