They've also been stall-y and broken for me since today for some reason.
Would pay legitimate funding for such a playthrough of IWBTG.
I've yet to see an amateur musician on youtube with a nice bedroom.
Bedsheets for doors and desks the size of nightstands, away!
Compilation of scenes with the Wilhelm Scream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YDpuA90KEY
This is the best cartoon ever made. Tune in at 3:00 to see why.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xNvbPzSTpPI
FALCON PAWNCH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FO9L9QVCpg
http://www.myspace.com/superbowlads
Watch these:
1st Quarter
Audi (for your protection)
Diet Pepsi Max (for love)
Sales Genie (for unbridled racism)
Bud Light (for cheese runs)
Bridgestone (for screaming squirrels)
2nd Quarter
Cars.com (for Glondor)
Tide to Go (for talking stains)
Budweiser (for a righteous high-five)
T-Mobile (for conversation)
Doritos (for OH YEAH)
3rd Quarter
Cars.com (for shrunken head)
Sales Genie (for more racism)
Vitamin Water (for Shaq)
Bud Light (for wannabe cavemen)
Bridgestone (for screaming Richard Simmons)
CareerBuilder.com (for you voraphiles)
Wall-E (for the many souls of Pixar CG artists devoted to Satan)
Coca-Cola (for Brawl, confirmed)
4th Quarter
Classic Coke (for good feelings)
Bud Light (suck one)
Amp Energy (for man nipples)
Fox/NFL Promos
Sarah Connor Chronicles - 1 (for OH NO)
Sarah Connor Chronicles - 2 (for seeing that stupid mascot get punked)
Sarah Connor Chronicles - 3 (for rough robot rape, both ways)
Wait, so Brent's using the name eloH here?
Wait, so Brent's using the name eloH here?
Welcome to the party, Dooly, glad you could finally join us. :vampire:
http://www.myspace.com/superbowlads
It is called The Dancing Seeq.
@ 1:20:
Deep
cool
Even more tragically and unintentionally hilarious if you imagine the woman in the second video is the same one from the first and that they follow that chronological order.
big brass band
:scanners: :hurr:
... ::O:Be glad I didn't embed Dead Fantasy II (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/193489.html?playlist=featured) (which was released on the same day as 4 Billion, actually.)
Presenting "Heil Honey, I'm Home". A sitcom..with HITLER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2ygFn-yR8
:OoO: Prayer of the Bikerboys
MC Elemental, bringer of phat beats. (http://www.jazuk.f2s.com/)
*snip*
Thank Koipond for the link, BTW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDJMuLzxLE
Still on the fence as to whether the roles are correct or not.
(although i fucking hate all this guy's movies.)
Also, he has no sense of humor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbgB6X6S5c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66aySW4le8
The birds, the birds!
Man, I can't believe we're finally catching up to what the 80s thought music would be like in the future.
Whatever happened to the outerheaven youtube group? That thing was balls nasty and it ain't been updated since fuck you.
http://www.vimeo.com/1316102http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNRsIFKLDBk
Rad in Bionic Commando: Rearmed bellows out the best blood-curdling Big No of the year...
Microsoft Windows!
I like Haley's "HEY!" better though. Her trademark one, not the one she does later.
But that's going on there if I ever do a Top 10 Gayest Fucking Shits I Ever Done Seen.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdzjVnH9YoY
One of the downsides of writing lots of Top Whatever lists for videogame magazines is that you start seeing everything as a potential part of a list.
But that's going on there if I ever do a Top 10 Gayest Fucking Shits I Ever Done Seen.
Jesus Christ it's a Goblin Shark GET IN THE SUB
Investigators later determine that a 17 foot long crack in one of the rocket's boosters is the cause...
Video entitled "Dan Aykroyd has lost his mind".
There Will Be Brawl
:ohshi~:Niku has been challenged.
The Tourism Board's greatest success and greatest mistake:
:gasp:
coreans
"Who the hell are you?"
I'd hate to see the testimony of my friends, lovers, enemies and co-workers once I'm cremated or bronzed or had my head whacked off and stuck in a tank of liquid helium.On the contrary, I'd be delighted to see anything once I'm dead.
Really, though, I'd much rather have my entire body bronzed.
DameSpot.Really, though, I'd much rather have my entire body bronzed.some used toy dealer.
Smooth Jazz Sonic 1 (http://www.viddler.com/explore/docfuture/videos/28/)
:OoO: :kowhyee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuXr23ApME
:cake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuXr23ApME
:cake:
I AM THE SPACE INVADER
WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOU
WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE TERRIBLE SECRET OF SPACE
<Knights of Cydonia music video>
Still the best music video since Thriller
His civilization at the time had enough slave labor to build and power any work of architecture imagineable.
Real. Brand New. Sold-Out. (http://www.strapya-world.com/products/29358.html)
and many others, based upon
The best video
Dude, they CHRISTMAS'D a copy of Katamari Damacy.
The point is, you're dumb as hell.
somewhere in the world there is a warehouse of a thousand asian women doing that for 12 hours a dayI just got the image of a thousand asian women folding out shirts in blinding speeds.
:goggles: Totally worth never having sex with her again. Totally.
red thing
I expect you've all seen this, but here it is again. High quality mode recommended
Youtube seems to have added titles to videos now. It's harder to surprise people with youtube embeds now - titles tend to spoil the mystery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0MVuWDc5RQ
The black soldier at the end sounds familiar, but I can't quite place his voice. Any idea?
This is going to annoy me all day
that was a taxidermy'd robin it was attacking (probably because its tiny bird brain thought the already dead one was invading its territory)
Wii Breakfast
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.
I know what the mask is supposed to look like, but damn it. It looks like some Asian chick in a hockey mask dancing about.
GOD-SURPASSING DIVINITY OF MELEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8L7TnWx8As&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjonesbigasstruckrentalandstorage.com%2F&feature=player_embedded
Incredible High-Fives to Shinra for linking me this.
http://www.vimeo.com/1223566
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew9YQVRSlHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1R5PhReY5k
:dance: Love that brand new sitcom smell.
Edit: well never fucking mind, the video was taken down for copyright violation. And apparently the user got suspended. Fucking YouTube.
Full Life Consequences, the thrilling conclusion!
This is a real thing. This is what some people actually think is a big issue.
When that thing started I was thinking "Wow, those games were so silly, I might have to give it a rental or something."
Then I watched the whole review. Sort of satisfied that urge, really.
There's a videogame that looks that good?
The amazing thing isn't that it syncs up.
The amazing thing is that the end result sounds really fucking good.
Wow. That actually makes Nirvana sound remotely decent...
Conan and Andy go to an anime dubbing studio on the Tonight Show. (http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/conan-and-andy-do-manga-072409/1139088/) :perfect:
Poochinski
LOOKWELL (1993), another failed TV pilot, this one produced by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel in their early days as comedy writers. Adam West stars as a former TV star who thinks that his experience as a cop show star makes him a detective. Very silly, but West is perfect for the role.
QuoteLOOKWELL (1993), another failed TV pilot, this one produced by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel in their early days as comedy writers. Adam West stars as a former TV star who thinks that his experience as a cop show star makes him a detective. Very silly, but West is perfect for the role.
I would never stop watching this.
Guy: I just passed the dumpster but there's no address "8". Ah, Address 8, Building 4, further past the sign. Ah, I see it. (Notice the ghetto "8" on the dumpster)
Later on when he's in the office:
Guy: Excuse me? I'm looking for insurance in accordance with OSAGO (mandatory Russian auto insurance law).
Everyone bails.
Don't want a problem with OSAGO? Buy a policy from a reliable company.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEEXydQc9KE
Awwww yyyeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I think that girl can be used to break the myth that the Asian culture has some mystery or wisdom the rest of us westerners are not privy to.
Really? Mortal Kombat actually ran out of different forms of killing people that they included suicide as a fatality?
...
Carry on.
If you play with drugs, you're playing on the losers' team!
ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod
OH
MAN
OH MANNNNN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udd8svocU8o
we won't be needing the slumberland thread anymore
Those who only casually listen to the lyrical stylings of hip-hop scribe Eminem may not be aware of the many intricacies found therein. However, any serious scholar of the man’s oeuvre will inform you that, should one truly wish to understand the depth and sheer breadth of his work, one must listen to it in the original Klingon. Only then will one truly grasp his mastery of the language, the way in which he subverts and molds the guttural utterances, fashioning witty puns and subtle adianoetae — which are, more often than not, lost in the translation to English — making him very much the Nabokov of rap. To that end, I present his classic treatise and social indictment, Without Me performed in his native tongue.
Mordy Koots describes itself as “the world’s first MOGIE (Movie Over Game Integrated Entertainment)”. While I don’t believe for a second that it’s the first, it’s possibly the first to be done with the support of a broadcast network. It’s an Australian project by brothers Shane and Clayton Jacobson along with producer Jim Shomos, about an overweight, brash World War II pilot who sounds fresh from New York. The reason we’re mentioning it? The action is greenscreened onto footage created in Heroes Over Europe and Blazing Angels.
Heheh, I'm tempted to get a video of Tuco's introduction where he jumps out that window with the turkey leg.
http://www.jaroo.comSuper Human Samurai Syber Squad! Only 5 episodes though.
It's Hulu for Saturday Morning Cartoons!
My God. It's been removed by the user.
Japan knows how to do a fucking opening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfjAbXrvkFw&feature=player_embedded
Ignoring the other very obvious counterarguments, Superheroes wear the exact same fucking thing as Sentai Squads do. Spiderman is basically a Power Ranger with webbing all over him.
Japan knows how to do a fucking opening.
Which is expected seeing as how the standard over there is to spend your entire budget on them.
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Will you go out with me?
Sorry I'd like to focus on baseball
(then the 2nd meeting she says something like):
I'd make miso soup for you every morning!
Sorry, I'd really like to focus on baseball
Photosounder is a one-of-a-kind image-sound editing program. It is unique in that it opens images and sounds indiscriminately, treats and processes them as images, and synthesizes them as sounds. Sounds, once turned into images, can be powerfully modified to achieve effects and results that couldn't be obtained in any other way, while images of all sorts reveal the infinite kinds of otherworldly sounds they contain. Ultimately, knowing how sounds look and how images sound, you'll be able to create images that sound like what you want to hear, or like what you couldn't imagine to hear.
I have found the greatest thing, and a probable source of future avatars, if I can figure out how to conveniently make anigifs from movie files.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKYEdit: Checked beast, pets, terrible, videodrome. No posting for it when it was put on youtube. I think you have the wrong video DNI.You are being shagged by a rare parrot. Continue [y/b]? (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/you-are-being-shagged-by-a-rare-parrot.html)
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/17/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
Goddamn hippie pianos! Get a job!
Isn't that Thom Yorke from Radiohead?
:salutewithasingletearrollingdowncheek:
There is no emoticon to express the mixture of honor and reverence I feel for this chicken.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H2bRd91sZw
:nyoro~n: I haven't watched it, but there appears to be a constipated dragon quest villain on it. this leads me to believe it may have been posted in the other video thread. :nyoro~n:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9m1an-pQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGWZxI9lAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhnL6imolE#
EDIT2: Haha, the line dancing is totally sweet in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MiG2fe8lE&feature=channel
That guy at 1:09? Holy shit. I almost pissed myself.
Everything he did...
People dance like that when they are MAKING FUN OF PEOPLE DANCING.
The guy in the yellow shirt at 1:55 kills me too. But mostly this video just makes me =^__________^=
It's like a range from talented dancers to drunk relatives at a wedding reception.
Olympic figure skaters need to have more ambition with their theming.
...
An interpretive routine done to "Terra's Theme" by a figure skater who is herself cosplaying as Terra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrOhvSvKIhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86cQobU-n4What I learned from this video
Every Star Wars lightsabre battle ever ends when one of them remembers he has telekinesis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZquaoUMfIc&feature=related
that video is terrible because no tree rape
I could watch Grass-Man harrumph for hours.
Also, Constantine, we are KARMA BUDDIES
single lady
full circle
oh holy shitDoes every country have an overweight autistic super singer?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7552635/Worlds-biggest-rabbit-weighs-three-and-a-half-stone.html
Oh cool, an article about the world's largest rabbit. That's moderately intere-
The rabbit's owner has spent thousands of pounds to become Jessica Rabbit???? :wat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsO60Q1VbuE
So Tycho and I are up in front of the audience with Harlen, and Hank (the con organizer) presents us with some jester hats (“Fool’s caps”). Tycho and I put ours on because we are polite, but Harlen - who is apparently too cool for school - refuses to wear his. I turn to him and say, “Don’t you want your hat?” and he tells me to fuck off. This caught me off guard, I mean I have no clue who this fucking coot is. Then he points to a pad of paper he has and asks if I’m aware that his paper is also called foolscap. Now, I’ve never heard that term before, I pretty much just call it paper so I shake my head “no.” This really isn’t a fair question. I mean, it would be like me asking him about Photoshop or if he can remember what he had for lunch. The guy was essentially setting me up to look stupid in front of all these people. So then he asks me if I even attended college and I say “No, I did not.” Then, he says “did you at least finish high school?”
I said that I had, but you couldn’t really hear me because the audience is laughing at me along with Harlen. So once they stop, I turn to him and I say, “While I’ve got you here I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Star Wars stuff you wrote.”
I didn’t know him very well but I felt like mistaking him for someone who writes Star Wars books was the sort of insult that would cut right to his brittle old bones. The audience seemed to agree because I could hear a lot of ooooooooh’s and oh no’s over the laughing. Some people in the front even suggested a fist fight was now in order. I look over at Harlen and he’s staring at me like he wants to choke me. He then says “so that’s how it’s going to be.” Now keep in mind that he’s the one that started hostilities when he told me to fuck off. I’m just the one that finished it. The guy tells some pretty funny stories about how witty he is and how he’s always saying clever things at exactly the right moment. When confronted with someone who was unwilling to take any crap from him he had no clever retort. The great writer just glared at me and then walked off stage. I don’t doubt that given enough time he could craft a perfectly worded and extremely vicious response but up there on stage in front of all his fans the man didn’t have shit.
I don’t blame Harlen for not knowing who I am. I honestly don’t expect him to. I don’t expect anyone that old to know who I am. I did expect him to be polite and at least respect the fact that I was a fellow guest of honor. That was apparently too much to ask for from the great Harlen Elison.
Every time I hear about Harlan Ellison, I remember this story and the world seems a little brighter.
The Door to Hell, as local residents at the nearby town of Darvaza have dubbed it, is a 70 meter wide crater in Turkmenistan that has been burning continuously for 35 years. In 1971, geologists drilling for gas deposits uncovered a huge underground cavern, which caused the ground over it to collapse, taking down all their equipment and their camp with it. Since the cavern was filled poisonous gas, they dared not go down to retrieve their equipment, and to prevent the gas escaping they ignited it, hoping it would burn itself out in a couple of days. Unfortunately, there was a slight miscalculation as to the amount of gas that was trapped, and the crater continues to burn to this day.
You can see it on Google Earth at 40°15′8″N 58°26′23″E
No matter what you might think of the music, this video is fucked up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4EK4HSPkI
Every video wipe from Season 3 of Home Improvement cut into a music video for Wavves "So Bored".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwnFE_NpMsE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwnFE_NpMsE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr_b9Z-B8Yk&feature=player_embedded
Hevisaurus, a Finnish "metal" group for children. Performers that wear dinosaur suits on stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYw_9kYssd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy8Ah4MTA-s
EAT DA POO POO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w#ws)
That's gassy. He just keeps talking on his cell phone and the guy puts a sack on top of the cash register and the cashier is like "slide"
"Yeah mom, just a sec, this is a stickup. No, I'll still be home for supper. What? No wai. Rossi is ten times better than Quagliarossa. There is no way he shouldn't be on the team."
pachinko
quick everyone hide it before catloaf gets here
Ain’t No Grave was Johnny Cash’s final studio album [...] The Johnny Cash Project is an Herculean effort to create a music video for that song from an huge number of drawings — each done by a different person — traced over simple frames that, strung together, become what you see below.
jingle all the way the musical.Arnold Schwarzenegger - Put That Cookie Daun! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQjQexcHVuc#ws)
How to Make Butter by Punching "hokutonoken" | 百烈拳の動きでバターを作ってみた。 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68hbFKyjFc#)
Robocop Fried Chicken Commercial 1980's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOoSe2K5DU#)
Super Mario Athlete's Rag Air Platform sight-read; Tom Brier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZMroQOtS_U#)
Then it became immediately obvious that they weren't going to even attempt to do anything new or interesting with the classic characters, which I suppose goes without saying.
Oh hey, new Hot Chip album to download.
Is
Is Persona 4 really like that or
what.
Probably the best quality of people who have dubbed Hiimdaisy's comics. Persona 4 spoilars warning.
:sarcasm: is supposed to be (http://brontoforum.us/Smileys/classic/ever.gif)
:lol: is supposed to be (http://brontoforum.us/Smileys/classic/laugher.gif)
:rolleyes: is supposed to be (http://brontoforum.us/Smileys/classic/rolleye.gif)
I dunno if any others are malfunctioning.
sorry, I am not a subscriber to the fucking Emoticon Times
Minitroid Gameplay 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN9WYo0Hogo#)The last Metroid is adorable; the galaxy is at peace.
Dawwwwww
Reminds me of this (http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/m05/designdoc.htm), except less condescending. I really hope it gets released.
It is based on Metroid 1, and might contradict the other games in the series (which, as far as I'm concerned are not Metroid games and not canon).
Reminds me of this (http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/m05/designdoc.htm), except less condescending. I really hope it gets released.QuoteIt is based on Metroid 1, and might contradict the other games in the series (which, as far as I'm concerned are not Metroid games and not canon).What the hell's that all about?
Reminds me of this (http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/m05/designdoc.htm), except less condescending.
Top 50 worst videogame voice acting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulbotKa5LnM#)
In his blood? Way to go, kid!
[Dead Rising 2]
This video is no longer available because Murdoch finds pigs sexy.
An Open Letter to the Dude Playing Jughead:
That thing you do at 0:30 in this video?
DON'T. EVER. DO IT. AGAIN.
Your immediate attention to this demand would be appreciated.
Your pals,
The Human Race
his moves at 1:02 are unironically awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKqHZcXvUAs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKqHZcXvUAs)
Apparently the oldest piece of color videotape is of president Eisenhower. I find this fascinating, because until now, Kennedy is the earliest president I had ever seen television footage of. (I don't remember Kennedy from my own memories -- even I'm not that old.) The video starts black and white and then goes to color.
He doesn't really say anything political. He talks about how great electronic media will be.
Willie Wonka - Demise of Violet Beauregarde and birth of a fetish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuD_9CSyXYg#noexternalembed)
Willie Wonka - Demise of Violet Beauregarde and birth of a fetish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuD_9CSyXYg#noexternalembed)
BBC One Christmas Ident - Come Fly With Me and Dalek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyfAEgCyjLE#ws)This not being a Dalek singing Come Fly With Me is the most disappointing part of my day.
I didn't know Jason Schwartzman started a band!
Coconut Records "Microphone" Official Video From Davy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSDVX6fRSr4#ws)
And I want that instument at 1:50 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZSDVX6fRSr4#t=112s)
For South America and Africa, that's pretty inaccurate. There should definitely be some sizable battles in that time. Also, I'm fairly sure there's a bunch of Chinese battles missing from the transitions between dynasties, etc.
Africa in the 14th and 15th century was politically and technologically not much behind Europe, if at all, especially on the Western Coast. The political and technological devolution of Africa came about for a lot of reasons, some domestic, but by far the biggest catalyst and the reason for how things got so shitty was the trade for slaves (as exports) and guns (as imports), in conjunction with the tsetse fly. The latter meant that Europeans couldn't spend much time on land and work out a deal with the Songhai or some other major kingdom, propping up puppet rulers to make trade easier. Instead they had to rely on coastal trading fortresses (which still had a very high mortality rate even for the white traders), which meant that the most profitable dynamic was to form a roving gang of men with guns who went around kidnapping people and selling them into slavery for more and better guns. These conditions aren't conducive to any kind of stable political order, and a result most kingdoms and political states founded after the 16th century and before colonization had a very short shelf-life.
Then of course medical advancements allow Africa to be colonized in the late 19th century, and by that time most of Africa is a stateless, tribal and highly paranoid, nomadic place. European anthropologists come along of course and draw lines on maps and decide this is where such and such "tribe" has always lived and always in these conditions, because it's not like there was civilization here once or anything crazy like that; these are black people. Colonial treatment of native populations ranged from the merely brutal to the Belgian*, and for all the talk of "civilizing" Africa there was precious little effort to industrialize the place at all; then as now it's just a place for exporting raw materials and importing unquestioned aid. The only difference is that the despots are closer now and we feel less guilty about it because we're not directly exploiting the place.
So Africa sucks, sure, but the slave trade, both directly and because it started the meme that blacks were a mentally inferior race to be subjugated, has a lot to do with that, so it's kind of ridiculous to say that captured slaves were "lucky" because their ancestors would eventually be better off than people living at bare subsistence in a despotic wasteland.
*King Leopold was basically the prototype for Himmler. In fairness this was too much even for most Europeans, and there was wide condemnation of the activities in the Congo, Arthur Conan Doyle being one leading critic. It was the basis for the novella "Heart of Darkness", and one of the reasons why the Congo is so shitty today, even by the standards of sub-Saharan Africa.
I am confused. Wasn't the reason the Europeans started capturing and enslaving blacks that we perceived them to be inferior due to their culture and lifestyle being so primitive? If the Europeans arrived there and saw that they were advanced and enlightened, why would the Europeans have brought out the nets and collars?
Well, it's a bit more complex than that.
Slavery was common in Europe well into the medieval period. It was repeatedly banned by the Church, though they could not enforce the ban and it was unsuccessful. There was some success in banning the sale of Christians to non-Christian nations (mostly to the Muslim world, I think). Meanwhile, the established African kingdoms of the time had forms of slavery that varied in severity, but mostly resembled indentured servitude. Finally, Arab slave-traders had been operating in Africa for hundreds of years.
All of this is to say that all parties had some experience with slavery and it's infrastructure. EDIT: I see Xyre got that bit already.
The "slavery" you're thinking of (chattel slavery of black Africans by white Europeans) really took off in in the fifteenth century. The Portuguese discovered that the mid-Atlantic islands they now owned were great for sugar plantations, but couldn't get any settlers out there. So they purchased African slaves from the gold coast.
After that, the Pope made a landmark declaration that allowed the Portuguese to reduce Saracens, Africans and the like to chattel slavery. Armed with a moral blank cheque, the Portuguese and Spanish proceeded to build large scale slave-based economies in the Atlantic and in the new world, where (again) attracting settlers was very difficult. At the same time that the church gave the a-ok rubber stamp to enslavement of darkies, slavery of white Europeans by other white Europeans was increasingly frowned on. In order to justify the widening dichotomy, racial and religious justifications began to creep in, later followed by pseudo-scientific ones.
Admittedly, this is not one of my areas of expertise, but the important points are that Europe was at least familiar with coastal Africa prior to the age of exploration and that the African kingdoms (while hurting) really didn't collapse completely until the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
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Only somewhat related but interesting all the same: Did you know most of the Italian Renaissance was paid for by a huge amount of gold that was swindled from the Kingdom of Mali? As usual, the guys on the short end of the stick had no idea the Europeans valued the shiny stuff quite so much, though in that case the king (Mansa Musa) was pretty profligate.
The first slaves traded in Africa were like the first slaves traded anywhere; criminals, political dissidents, undesirables, victims of war. And they were traded by the African powerful elite just like they were traded at the time by the European and American and Asian powerful elite.
The reason that African slaves became en vogue had nothing to do with an initial perception of inferiority; the idea that they're an inferior "race" is a somewhat new meme, historically limited to the past handful of centuries. It was simply the fact that sub-Saharan Africans, due to exposure to the tsetse fly, were much more resistant to disease than other slaves, and could work harder and longer in the tropics due to this (the native populations of most of the Caribbean islands died off almost entirely within a few decades of the Spanish arrival, being far more vulnerable to the diseases the Europeans brought).
It was increasing demand for African slaves, coupled with the introduction of quickly advancing firearms technology and domestic fragmentation along ethnic and political and religious lines that caused Africa to slide backwards, really reaching a fevered pitch of disintegration after the collapse of the Songhai Empire in the late 16th century. The Songhai were pinched between domestic balkanization (at their height they ruled an area around twice the size of France), invasion from Morocco and the fact that as demand outpaced what had been the "legitimate" supply of slaves for Caribbean plantations, European traders were basically arming roving gangs of thugs with technology that the existing powers couldn't cope with on top of everything else. It's like some aliens set up shop in their UFOs over the sky and started offering laser guns, jet packs and force fields to anyone who brought them captives.
European powers probably would have tried to conquer these places directly, or prop up the existing structures that would become indebted to them, but Europeans that ventured into mainland Africa had a nasty habit of dying very quickly and painfully from exposure to diseases they couldn't cope with. The result is that the entire thing fell apart. By the time of African colonization in the 19th century, most of Africa really was a stateless society, and it was simply to European advantage to pretend that this was an inherent condition of being African rather than the result of specific forces in history for which they had some significant blame. Most of them also probably didn't know better.
Basically, a line graph of European and African economic development over time shows Europe ahead up until the Dark Ages, dramatic collapse in Europe, Africa continues upwards, they're about equal for a while, Europe begins pulling ahead a bit after the year 1000, but up until about 1500 they're about the same level. Then Europe surges up dramatically and Africa takes a long dive that continues pretty much unabated up til the modern day. In real terms the average sub-Saharan Africa, outside of the Southern Cone, is about as poor or poorer than they were five hundred years ago, and HDI is almost certainly lower than it was under the Songhai.
It could be that the societies in those areas were never as obsessed about dates, record-keeping or general logistics as the Europeans.
As for the other two continents, some of the North American hunter-gatherer groups were trending towards settlement and agriculture - and at times they started to have very structured agrarian societies, but most "battles" were still little more than large skirmishes or raids. I don't know too much about Australian aborigines, but they were never very thickly populated and had very little agrarianism (if any), remaining almost wholly hunter-gatherer. Cannibalism was by all accounts popular, but beyond fights with a handful of warriors (again, skirmishes or raids) it's extremely unlikely that anything would have taken place that would be of any scale you could call a battle.
It's always sad to see the networks denying girls of the world a role model so they know that not only boys can be horrible at what they do and manage to save the day only because the villains manage to be even more bumbling than them.
Lex Luthor doesn't like sweets
Dream Harmonic - Corolla + Miku: Big Dream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15PE7iGT0U#ws)
uh
TMNT taste test (http://blip.tv/play/AYKs408C)
【MMD】愉快な仲間たちと『Go!Go!カリート!』PV【霊夢/リン/他いっぱい】 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzFSvPqSllw#ws)
I would say this ranks pretty far up on the list of "Incredibly, amazingly, stupid yet incredibly, amazingly, awesome stunts to try while young and dumb".yeah man filming something while driving is pretty dumb
BRODYQUEST (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygI-2F8ApUM&playnext_from=TL&videos=lPntD0YmdmI#ws)
So what are you guys doing on the 1st anniversary of Brodyquest? I'm thinking of going out, getting a few beers and reminiscing about that time I saw Brodyquest.You've been skipping out on celebrating Broday for so long?
Hell, let's make it a thing. June 1st is Adrien Brody day.
Some of these are damned impressive, but the Ghost Busters one is just all kinds of HOLY SHIT WOW.
Broccoli Wad TV Commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh0UvrR8UM4#ws)
Super Mario Guy RPG (Family Guy) pt. 1 - Let's Play Super Mario RPG (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI6J024yG0o#)
Last Tuesday, the residents of set a world record when they released 8,000 Chinese lanterns into the sky to mark the shortest night of the year — or what’s otherwise called Midsummer Night. The video above lets you see the lanterns in full flight.
That's not really the case. I just can't really see the point in treating an amusing student video like any other random amusing video on youtube and you haven't given even a semblance of an arguement to why I should. Which is "Golly, that sure was amusing" and if I'm significantly moved in one direction or the other giving it a rating or pasting it to friends. I mean, their grade isn't based on how viral it goes.
I mean, their grade isn't based on how viral it goes.
"We don't take too kindly to outsiders..." is kinda the vibe I'm getting here.The video was humorous.
"We don't take too kindly to outsiders..." is kinda the vibe I'm getting here.
Not trying to be hilarious. I was trying to have a discussion. Isn't this a discussion board? Or is this just another /b/?You... were? You didn't start out with much of an opener, bro.
What you just posted.
Looks That Kill - HD (http://vimeo.com/24374425)
My Little Pony attracts Brony fans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-oxLOZBhk#ws)
HD BLACKSTAR WARRIOR TRAILER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc7_KpPRyBs#ws)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YbPJmxIQqKc#at=85 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YbPJmxIQqKc#at=85)
Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli were once involved in the Little Nemo film.
The Fibonacci Sequence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0tLbl5LrJ8#ws)
Well, that's enough internet for today
Ahahahahaha holy shit, Google today! :perfect:
Guys I think I'm in love
SUPER MARIO CEREMONY -The 30th Anniversary Medley- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-DaJGGDoNI#ws)
holy shit
My "Somebody To Love" audition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREKkAk628I#)
It was funny until I realized it was serious.
Wasp sucking machine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk52XA4rFpw#ws)
Wasp sucking machine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk52XA4rFpw#ws)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAHWWEHAWAWWHAFDJGJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ
This is a dance production in Russia
I'VE GOT THE WEIRDEST BONER RIGHT NOW (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3A1nprfuJs#ws)
Imagine living next to that guy.
It's a fun video but he'd be a bastard of a neighbor.
Imagine living next to that guy. That light show would be annoying, even if he only did it on Halloween night.
Only if you're joyless monster, I would totally live in front of that dude's house.
North Korean People's Army Funky Get Down Juche Party (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk#)
Oh my word.
And to prove they suck, I reposted that video in #talkingtime and they were like, "wow that is crap."
SSFVII:AE - THE WU-TANG SECRET VS. SEPHIROTH THE ULTIMAT BATTLE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkXcDwRoI78#ws)
Global Astroliner (full version w/ english subs) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpGCyOzMQcw#)
Man, where did the SHOWS like that go?
Global Astroliner (full version w/ english subs) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpGCyOzMQcw#)
Man, where did the SHOWS like that go?
SONIC (http://vimeo.com/31773934)
So uhhhh when does this video stop bitching about video games nowadays being too easy for people to play and start talking about Megaman sequels?
modern-game bashing did really tie into the thesisThe thesis being that what makes Megaman so great is how skillfully the game teaches its rules and goals to the player. Without relying on any text instructions.
I saw three out of the four Rangers that Jason Frank (Tommy) has been in the run of the show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1L1lj3XuK8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1L1lj3XuK8)
Awesome Series - PokeAwesome - Just a Pokemon Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHG-JO8gIGk#ws)
I cannot stop laughing
ziiro i think i have officially hit the point where any time you say something is good i know to immediately unplug my computer and throw it out the window in case i accidentally sneeze and click on whatever you are praising
Awesome Series - PokeAwesome - Just a Pokemon Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHG-JO8gIGk#ws)
I cannot stop laughing
That went on... kinda longer than it should have.
Awesome Series - PokeAwesome - Just a Pokemon Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHG-JO8gIGk#ws)
That went on... kinda longer than it should have.
The name Classic is already taken though
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Words of Advice for Young PeopleAw, man! I had a gothy ex who stuck a remix of that rant on a tape for me back in the early 90s.
wrong thread (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=62.0)
=☠= (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amPNbQRMRCo#ws)
Just flat-out incredible. An animated Polish short, I think from this year. Perfect in what it's trying to say and how it says it.
Pizza Boomerang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrKSWocbbdw#ws)
I like the original version butDude look back at least a page before you link something.
Somebody That I Used to Know - Walk off the Earth (Gotye - Cover) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M#ws)
That's pretty darn neat.
(Pretty sure that "drummer" is a sociopath)
best estimates put us at least 50 years off that goal, barring some unknown and unanticipated breakthrough.We've been 50 years away for almost as long, in equal parts because of the bullshit that goes on politically regarding nuclear power (even within the professional community, sadly) and how there's not too much economic incentive for anyone but a government to pay for any experimental work or even serious research.
Henry & Aaron - IT'S A SNAP! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Am7oKBD3PU#ws)
(http://i.imgur.com/TGmMT.gif)
Shep Smith reacts to Mitt Romney reacting to Newt Gingrich quitting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuF03PTNpp8#ws)
Holy fuck. :attn:
Jimmy Dean Sausage Complaint call (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4RNb3tt0LM#)
Cutman is Incompetent (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZdEZSsIZIs#)
Cutman is Incompetent (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZdEZSsIZIs#)
Prom Night (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKX6GhRBC8#)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKX6GhRBC8# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKX6GhRBC8#)
Some men just want to watch the world learn.
Surprise! Britney Learns 'Gangnam Style' from Psy! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZmkU5Pg1sw#ws)
I want to say it's something about how it's easier for a machine to understand a machine's intonations than a human's intonations
the madness in this video is probably too much for the plastics in this forum, but what the heck.
and yet somehow still manage to lose respect for it?the madness in this video is probably too much for the plastics in this forum, but what the heck.
Did... did you just make a Mean Girls reference?
Henry & Aaron - IT'S A SNAP! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Am7oKBD3PU#ws)
Henry & Aaron - IT'S A SNAP! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Am7oKBD3PU#ws)
We have got to stop repeating ourselves.
YouTube Reacts to the 2012 Election (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nMiavVQicU#ws)The General Ironicus quote at the end makes it.
Oh god, he's cosplaying Dipper.
A pickpocket's tale (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/07/130107fa_fact_green)
Losing My Religion shifted into a major scale. (http://vimeo.com/57685359)
It is delightful, and should be used in music theory courses.
Dexter's Lab: Dexter's Rude Removal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLN_ka1ZSDg#)
Losing My Religion shifted into a major scale. (http://vimeo.com/57685359)
It is delightful, and should be used in music theory courses.
Good lord, there's more.
Major Scaled #1 : Metallica - "Nothing Else Majeur" on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/24938649)
[Dark Souls] The Skulled Shuffle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I6fmvp37TU#ws)Dark Souls: The Wrath of the Darkwraith (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqacyIaq27o#ws)
The People's Republic of China decided that the original Beat It videoclip was not fit for the chinese people and asked the Office of censorship to create its own version of the clip, while keeping the original song. This is what resulted.
(I am of course kidding)
Man the shadow government run by lizard people are going through a lot to convince us that space is real...
My normal face tends to scour a bit. This leads to my friends constantly trying to make me laugh so that I don't look like that.
Thank you for doing this video and for helping myself to remembering a great game of my infancy, you have all my respect. Like and sub
remembering a great game of my infancy, you have all my
great game of my infancy, you
infancy
Chad Kroeger
doesn't he go away when you wake up
Big Bang Tidus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cyx6nWdFas#)
OK, so, every time Paul Rudd has a new movie, he goes on Conan to plug it. And every time, he says, OK, here is a clip from my new movie.
And every single time he instead shows a clip from the same (unintentionally) hilarious cheesy 80s movie.