Wastelanders Decry Lack of Change In Punishment Wheel 37
If you've spent time in the wasteland you've no doubt gone to Bartertown. Famous for its functioning walls, the oasis gives traders a chance to watch people battle to the death in a giant cage and deal busters spin The Wheel to learn their fate. While most wanderers enjoy watching the bloodsport many are now complaining that The Wheel is starting to feel old. "It's been around so long I think everyone has seen every option many times. You never know what's going to happen when someone is trying to smash someone else with a giant hammer, but The Wheel is getting predictable. It's worked so well that nobody has bothered to come up with new options," says one purveyor of slightly irradiated meat. His voice is just one in a growing chorus of dissatisfied wanderers. Another long-time resident adds: "I know it may not seems like a big deal, but part of the fun of living out here is the excitement. If the punishment to my eventual crime can't be fresh or creative I don't know what we're trying to build. These are not the values of the Bartertown I grew up in."
Seriously... (Score:3)
...just stop.
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Today even real news looks fake. I woke up to GoDaddy doing an IPO and just thought that it was an April Fool's joke.
At least that would have had some interesting angles to it.
Hopefully it was fake, that will keep my buddies who used to work there from jumping out of windows
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Death by thigh attack
death by ass smothering
is there anything she hasn't filled with silicon/whatever?
Kill me now. (Score:2)
These aren't jokes. Jokes are supposed to be funny.
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These aren't jokes. Jokes are supposed to be funny.
These are a perfect joke to compliment the larger one we label April Fools. It's the only other holiday that Halloween can actually make fun of.
April Fools had a purpose...before we invented internet trolls.
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We don't need internet trolls. The natural polarising effect of the internet echo chamber works. Just go to any fringe news site, ideally a political one - far-left or far-right, works either way - and look at the comments.
My favorite right now, on the subject of same-sex marriage: "The plan is to depopulate the world by 2050 to about 1 billion. Encouraging same sex attraction and indoctrinating the young to accept such as normal behaviour is just one of the many methods being used to accomplish this."
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We don't need internet trolls. The natural polarising effect of the internet echo chamber works. Just go to any fringe news site, ideally a political one - far-left or far-right, works either way - and look at the comments.
My favorite right now, on the subject of same-sex marriage: "The plan is to depopulate the world by 2050 to about 1 billion. Encouraging same sex attraction and indoctrinating the young to accept such as normal behaviour is just one of the many methods being used to accomplish this."
Ironically, that mentality is almost as insane as the traditional method of depopulation that mankind has used for centuries...pointless warmongering.
Ugh. (Score:2)
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April 1st (Score:5, Insightful)
And there will be much fewer tedious and annoying posts to go through for those of us unfortunate enough to have mod points today.
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"But sir, that's the old wheel with a fresh coat of paint."
"Right, giant hammer for you then!"
If anyone knows why Gnome chose to depend on systemd, please let me know.
It was an April Fools prank taken waaaay too far.
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Or just have a story category dedicated to this so we can set our options to exclude these posts.
Please. Seriously. More so than mod points, being able to disable ads or filtering comments by mod score.
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The difference between the Internet on April Fool's Day and on other days is on the one it is packed with false stories full of pandering nonsense written by charlatans to gain page views, and on the other it is the first day of April.
I, for one... (Score:2)
I, for one, preferred it when it was called Hokuto no Ken or Fist of the North Star.
The worst thing about April Fools Day... (Score:3)
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The funniest thing is that every story is filled with comments from whingers who don't realize they're being trolled by Slashdot. The editors are no doubt sitting in a conference room, keeping score on all of the comments. Maybe they've even turned it into a drinking game where they drink every time someone types 'stop', and have to chug for each goatse.
YHBT. HTH. HAND.
THIS IS NOT FUNNY!!! (Score:3)
If you want to do something funny on 4/1, collect the submitted attempts at humor, and choose the best one or two to post. Then it might actually be funny. But running every stream-of-lameness piece of shit that crosses your inbox is just pathetic. In other words, editors, act like editors.
Oh, wait, never mind...
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I dunno, man, I'm having fun with these. They're not deep, so what?
These days, it's the less obvious news stories that annoy me more.
Approved (Score:2)
Master Blaster approves.