Monkey Raptor V.2

This specimen ⬇️ ⬆️ That orc. Please Enable JavaScript. The modern concept of the orc in entertainment originates largely from J.R.R. Tolkien , who popularised them in The Lord of the Rings as brutish, corrupted creatures bred for war by dark powers. Though inspired by earlier mythological beings such as goblins, ogres, and various demonic entities from European folklore, Tolkien gave orcs a distinct identity — organised, militaristic, and inherently malicious. His influence shaped fantasy literature, tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons , and video games, where orcs are now a staple enemy race, often portrayed with green skin, muscular builds, and a tribal warrior culture. Over time, variations have emerged, but most still trace back to Tolkien's original wartime allegory. Brutish. 🤔 If they were British, composed creatures bred by tea and honour, I postulate they would go like: Biscuits? What a splendid day, this is. And they don...

In this 3 minutes blitz game, I played as the defence side. This isn't a high Elo game, obviously. 1600–1700ish max, but in sheer entertainment? 3000+ 🤣 We have inaccuracies, mistakes, and blunders crayon-coloured all over the board. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. Proper Street Hawk Chess. Englund Gambit The motto is What if I give you free material from the very beginning? Englund is taken from Fritz Carl Anton Englund (1871–1933), a Swedish chess player and writer. Do you know "Dancing Queen" by ABBA? Indeed. He wasn't a world champion, but more of an enthusiast with a love for offbeat openings and aggressive lines. "Dancing Queen" is a song, not a male. But I'm amused by my own typing. Imagine if it were taken from "England". Well, it would be like someone took London System an...

Did you realise YouTube was... having issues? They perhaps then: git revert redesign-nightmare You see, James the QA was off jiving to Alizée's songs. Lead : JAMES! Did you test the new layout across all CDN clusters!? James: : (Taking off headphones.) Huh? What layout? Wait… we're deploying today? Blimey… C'est pas ma faute… Lead : You... 🤦 Fine... Revert back, lads! YouTube is back. Though the matter is resolved, it has been resolved, and thus we resolve that it is resolved. ⬅️ That is called a formal shrug, Shakespearean-level dithering. We do...

This is hilarious. I'm on Windows 11, I use Microsoft Clipchamp often to edit videos. There's this quirk since last week or so. This is how big the application upon starting a new session: It gets smaller each time. 🤣 It's fine, since the maximise button can still be clicked until it can't. 😂 This is utterly comical. Somewhere in the development room: Bob : Done, mate. All unit tests passed. Merged to staging. Gary: : (Sipping coconut tree.) Well? Ship it, then. Bob : Where's James? Don't we need his QA brilliance? Gary: : (Sipping coconut...

I was on YouTube. This film was featured on my homepage. The title caught me off guard. The Transposition First of all, it's: Shaolin vs Ninja But then... On Startpage... Oi, let's swap things around, nobody would notice. Propaply because no proper "American Shaolin", only "American Ninja" — thus the reflex-swap. 🤷‍♂️ American Shaolin. 🤔 It sounds like "Zen with shotguns" or "igloo skyscraper". Or perhaps IMDb did: arrayOfWordsInTitle.sort() You see, "N" is before "S" in alphabet . Let's try that: title = "Shaolin vs. Ninja"; title.split(" ").sort().join(" "); // Ninja Shaolin vs. // ⬆️ See? Almost. The machine hath spoken. 👑 The Title Right. Let's continue. The title is bloody abstract. Shaolin? Which part? The entire institution? The whole temple complex? Every monk ...

There was that telly show, Street Hawk (1985). The theme music is grand — "Le Parc" by Tangerine Dream . Here, marvellous. The Intro He was a motorcycle cop, injured. Now, he's riding a more deadly motorcycle. A top secret government mission to ride... Street Hawk. ... designed to fight urban crime. Capable of an incredible speed up to 300 miles an hour. 🤨 And a Minsk firepower. 🤔 (PVCs tumble. The wall loses them. Plung. Dung. Tung. One rolls. Clonk. ) The Guest Star I ride a motorbike. If I rode a papaya plant, then I wouldn't ride the bike. It's either the plant or the bike. Officer Jesse Mach, the main lad, rode a motorcycle with a jet engine shoved inside. Jet. Engine. The phrase "motorcycle with a jet engine" should raise instant alarms, like shouting "flamethrower in a nursery" or "chainsaw ballet". Let's see here: Motorcycle ➡️ Two wheels. Balances by physics, gyroscopic ...

I played offence here in 3 minutes Super Blitz on Lichess as Anonymous. The board looked like it was littered with landmines of ?! and ?? . The battle roar should sound: Mistake, inaccuracy, mistake. Forward! It ended with a checkmate. I did that checkmate. If it were the opposite side, well, it would like plunging myself into a carburettor. Usually, I can't fit... in. Physics. 🤷 You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board.

Listen on YouTube Music As if your bones heard something familiar from before you were even born. That song is from the Amis (阿美族) people of Taiwan. 老人飲酒歌 or Elders Drinking Song is a traditional Amis chant, famously performed by Difang (郭英男) and Igay (郭秀珠) who were Amis from the Maran (馬蘭社) settlement. The vocals were lifted straight from a 1988 recording of Difang and Igay singing during a French government-backed ethnomusicology project — meant for research. With EMI as the outsourced vault. EMI (Electric and Musical Industries), a commercial British label. Because even "non-commercial" academic recordings were often pressed to vinyl/CD by big labels, just for reach or preservation. EMI probably saw it as just another folk catalogue item. The original singers never expected their voices to hit global charts — through Enigma. Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Michael Cretu. They were under Virgin Records. Aside f...

I was watching a gameplay of METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER on YouTube by MKIceAndFire . I "read" that, handketchup , in the inventory. I thought, oh, that's probably just a condiment for his ration. What I'm saying is, there's "snake eater" bit in it — ketchup for eating a roasted snake, juicy rat, tingly spider, Russian false mango, and goblin perhaps? 🤔 Hm, all right. It would mask the uncharted taste. Never mind the possibility of poison — looks edible, ketchup. Russian false mango is fictional. It's like Saharan false snow. But, handketchup? Is it like hand grenade? One word? Really? So, squirt squirt to the face? Oi you! You enemy, aye? (Squirts ketchup from the handketchup to the face. The opposite side's face. Not his own face. 🤦) ... opposite side's ... 🤔 It's possessive, but it's abstract. It's got that unhingedness to it. Who refers to a person or group as "the opposite side" in casual speec...