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On another topic, this video boggles my mind at how much work must have been put in to it:

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e2: Fixed. Someone make a note that [noparse] tags break things.[/QUOTE]

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I love every second of that video crash punk.

+Rep

[quote=OddHunter;526842]Here’s the code you posted:

Note the part of the code, which has BBCode tags added to it. Youtube embed codes do not use those tags, ever.

Here’s the code with the BBCode tags removed:

This produces:

It’s possible the forum software saw the URLs in the code you posted and automatically wrapped them in [url] tags, but I couldn’t get it to do that myself.

e: Oh my god this post has broken horribly.
e2: Fixed. Someone make a note that [noparse] tags break things.[/quote]

I tried viewing the page source but didn't find anything wrong. Do I look at it another way?

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It fixed, IDK how, I guess I was messing with the posting options to see if I could fix it.

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If I paste the embed code in the post, surround it in [html] tags, preview the post, then delete them, it fixes. I'll quote it so you can see the fixed post.

[quote=Spooce-aholic;526663]There's a hidden song in Windows XP/Vista/7. Open up (my) computer or windows explorer and go to the directory C:\windows\media. (Replace the letter C with the letter of your local drive.)

You'll find three midi files.

flourish.mid
onestop.mid
town.mid

If you don't have Windows XP/Vista/7 then here's a video.

How did I fix it?[/quote]

I posted this on "I've just seen" thread. I am a big fan of the Old Spice adverts and one of the biggest stars of them has returned for another ad campiagn :D

Adam and dog Trailer from Minkyu on Vimeo.

and this

(design by adolf born)

also I am a very lucky guy because I purchased this book http://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/1045966-L.jpg for 10 euros in a nearby antique book store who is about to lock up and therefor sells every book for half the prize.

People avoid fan corner like the plague and are also fed up with the silly amount of Minecraft topics that are flooding the forums these days, I know. However, this does deserve your attention - It's something home brewed by the members of this forum. It's Oddworld related, and 7 months in the making...

Oh and the Onestop.mid thing and other midis are a very old "secret" that near enough everyone knows about these days - People should try playing those midis on actual instruments, done properly. Bet that'd wow a few people.

And what was with that Oldspice advert?

Haven't seen the other adverts? They are amazing.

And I thought I had them all...hehe

Also DarkHoodness that is amazing.

Pi-pi-pizza boomerang

@Crashpunk - Of course I have, they're getting weirder though.

Interesting form of censorship, maybe this just tickled me 'cause its late:

Wow Chubfish! I barely had the patience to make it through Portal 2, never mind figure out how to complete a level using the smallest amount of portals...

Weren't there enough cars in it for you?

there wasn't enough DICK

Zero gravity is amazing, it's a shame I'll never get to experience it - Same could be said for most people though.

I found this while snooping around Lorne's Facebook page ('cause I'm good at lurking), it deserves a listen:

Also maybe I should do this:
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/...e-you-lose.jpg

And this is tragic. :(

You won't believe how funny it can be doing impressions of this with friends

And for those who want to see Tommy Wiseau playing Mortal Kombat

Who the hell is Tommy Wiseau?

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Who the hell is Tommy Wiseau?

probably the most genius man alive and I was so much amazed by his film.

http://www.amazon.com/Room-Tommy-Wis...6664535&sr=8-3

let me just quote one of the comments

Let's assume that you've seen The Room. Imagine that Lisa's eyebrows matched her hair. Imagine that Johnny was about twenty years younger and a person that you actually wanted to see naked, with a decent haircut. Imagine that the movie's budget allowed for more than three or four sets. Imagine that characters didn't keep repeating the same meaningless lines over and over again--"Johnny is a good man." "Johnny is my best friend." "I don't want to talk about it." "Well I have to go now." Imagine that instead of being a simple Jekyll/Hyde caricature, Lisa was actually a complicated and real-seeming person, torn between security/domesticity and freedom/passion. Suppose that the revelation that her mother is dying of breast cancer actually contributed to her inner conflict. Imagine that the minor characters were adequately introduced and actually came across as real people with their own problems/motivations instead of simply allowing the filmmaker to kill some time while he waits to advance his plot. What would we have then? A simple morality tale (actions have consequences!) that no one would ever want to buy on DVD. Instead, we have The Room.

I first heard about The Room in the December 19, 2008 edition of Entertainment Weekly. I immediately tried to put it in my Netflix queue, but it was unavailable, so I came here, to Amazon, and was delighted to find that I could own this intriguing piece of cinema for only 8.49, so I bought it. I have watched it twice and have been trying to figure out what makes this movie so awful and yet so oddly entertaining ever since. Now I must admit I am a huge fan of bad movies--I can debate which is worse, Plan 9 from Outer Space or Manos: The Hands of Fate with the best of 'em. I have a tradition of watching Showgirls with the excellent commentary from David Schmader every Fourth of July, because it's so much better than fireworks, and you don't get caught in a traffic jam. I think it is hard to pin down all the disparate elements that make The Room sublime. Still, I agree with the EW article--it is the Citizen Kane of bad movies.

For those of you who haven't seen The Room, the plot goes something like this: Johnny is a guy who loves his live-in girlfriend, Lisa. He brings her presents. They have sex to horrible R&B-lite tunes. Their creepy teenage neighbor, Denny, tries to watch them having sex, but luckily they kick him out before things get too hot and heavy. Lisa seems to enjoy the sex, but it turns out Lisa is a big faker. Lisa doesn't love Johnny, but she thinks his best friend Mark is pretty hot, and apparently, no one can resist Lisa. To paraphrase what David Schmader said about Nomi in Showgirls, Lisa immediately pulls people into her orbit and makes them fall in love with her, because...well, we don't know why. Lisa and Mark have sex. Lisa and Johnny have sex again, just to make sure Lisa's duplicity is obvious enough. Lisa's mom is dying of breast cancer. Denny pisses off a drug dealer. Lisa encourages Johnny to drink too much and then makes up a story about him getting drunk and hitting her. A psychologist advises Johnny. Lisa and Johnny make out on the sofa in their house, except now they are played by two entirely different actors. Oh no, wait, these are different, unknown characters making out on their sofa. There is a mildly amusing incident with Lisa's mother and the unknown young man on the sofa and his underwear. We see the incident, and then it is repeated verbatim for us in the next scene. Johnny, Mark, and Denny play football while wearing tuxedos--ha ha! Lisa hosts a birthday party for Johnny and announces that she is pregnant, and then confesses to a friend that she's really not. Lisa then hits on Mark during the party, even though they had agreed to end their affair. Johnny finds out his beloved girlfriend is not really a human being, but is instead an evil robot. Disaster ensues. Actions have consequences!

I find that the movie makes more sense to me if I imagine that the character of Johnny is actually mentally challenged, but everyone is too polite to say this explicitly. (Once you hear Tommy Wisseau's odd accent and the strange cadence and emphases to his speech and his dorky laughs, not to mention what he's actually saying, it's actually not much of a stretch at all!) Johnny maybe has a rich, powerful uncle somewhere who has gotten him a handsomely-paid job fetching coffee at a bank. He's mentally challenged enough that he doesn't realize he's going to be the coffee boy forever, and he thinks his money-saving ideas for the bank are going to get him promoted ("Hey, if we stop giving away free toasters with new checking accounts, we could save money!" "That's a great idea, Johnny. Now go get me some more coffee. And a bagel. Cinnamon. Light on the cream cheese. That's a good man! We should think about promoting you to bank president, eh, Johnny? Heh heh!") Lisa is getting tired of having a mentally challenged boyfriend. Even though he is good to her, he has started to disgust her. And it's kind of understandable, really. It also explains Johnny's melodramatic reactions to everything.

Anyway, that's the backstory I have invented for The Room, but you could easily invent your own, and that's the great thing about this movie. The gaping holes in character and plot really encourage the viewer to use her own creativity. Whether you're throwing plastic spoons at the screen or trying to make up plausible reasons for the nutty behavior, it's a lot of fun, so buy this movie right now!!

seriously watch the film! I am still trying to persuade my friends to watch it, but they only think it's a "movie so bad it's good again" flick, but it's far beyond that.

this i s a masterpiece

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sry the most genius person is the one who did this trailer

what is this, i don't even

what

I couldn't watch it. So strange and creepy. Supposedly it was a love confession to someone and he put it on Youtube. Whatever, it's fucking creepy.

That video reminds me of Chris Chan or CWC.

But The Room is sadly a movie that is hard to come by in the UK. So I bought a copy off amazon.com and will need to wait about 28 days for it to arrive, but I'm sure the wait is worth it :D

It's strange, it's a bad movie, but, I'm sure at the same time it is an excellent movie from what I've seen, I just love how these days Tommy Wiseau tries to make out that he intended the movie to be the way it is...

It's unwatchable trash with a few funny lines and you're all counter culture influenced hipsters.

I have a obsession with Arnie.

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It's unwatchable trash with a few funny lines and you're all counter culture influenced hipsters.

Do you remember thinking 'This won't last long' when you first heard about people acting like The Room is so bad it's good or whatever too?

Lessons from the master:

And of course.

Compared to the first few episodes, Beavis and Butthead has come a long way.

Ehh Huhuhuh, 'long'.

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Love that show. Wish I could see it in the UK. Would you mind fixing a webcam in front of your TV?

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Oh Murdoch, you stupid stupid old man.

I wish I could work out what his intentions are. I had assumed that he started using Twitter in order to seem more like a common-man and improve his PR image after the hacking scandals. And then he does this.