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Posts Tagged “fail”

Chart Party – The search for the saddest punt in the world

Posted on May 25th, 2019 by Hitstun

Sports geekery is geekery like anything else. SB Nation’s Chart Party answers tricky questions by doing deep dives into a vast amounts of statistics. The show has tackled what if Barry Bonds didn’t have a bat and just how profoundly bad the Cleveland Browns are. This one’s still my favorite. It uses a complex formula […]

Crappy Design

Posted on October 6th, 2016 by Hitstun

/r/CrappyDesign is a blindingly colorful Subreddit that collects unfortunate design mistakes from all over the world. They’re the Engrish.com of half-baked engineering. Good old TwistedSifter recently did what I do with artists and made a post of the best/worst of the bunch. 25 Examples of Crappy Design Source: TwistedSifter via RSS feed, video of a […]

TMNT Tournament Fighters

Posted on April 29th, 2015 by Hitstun

Remember when Konami made video games? Their best fighting game was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters on the SNES. Last night, we played a tournament in this at our local fight night, and I did my best to explain it during the first few matchups. Source: Ragnorok64 via Columbus Fighting Games

RIP Justin.tv 1997-2014

Posted on August 5th, 2014 by Hitstun

UPDATE: I’m getting tired of these videos that don’t even stay online for four years. The original Vimeo video is private now, but somebody re-posted it to YouTube. Twitch got better and I stream there now. In May 2009, I started a weekly video game stream on Justin.tv. Justin.tv was just getting video game streams, […]

Oregon Trail and the Sewn-Together Ox

Posted on December 24th, 2013 by Hitstun

Oh boy, sometimes my Twitch.tv stream is comedy gold. When I play Oregon Trail, I have a rule to always ford every river. Even when we reach the 20 foot deep Green River, I must attempt to drive the wagon right across the bottom, drowning all the oxen. This degenerated into my Skype chatters Jdetan, […]