This is why YouTube was invented.
It’s a series of short animations showing people-like figurines being mauled by what look like experiments set up in some sort of do-it-yourself physics software. Evidently it was originally posted on the Something Awful forum. I’ll have to sign up for that someday.
I laughed out loud a lot. Warning: some bad language (written)… and there are ninjas.
Oh– Best. Music. Ever. If anyone knows what it is, let me know! You guys really came through last time I asked. It’s like Run Lola Run meets The Matrix.
Tip o’ the second class lever to Seed’s (awesome) Daily Zeitgeist.
P.S. The new Tangled Bank science carnival and the new Skeptics Circle are up!
November 22nd, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Wasn’t that song in the third Matrix movie?
November 22nd, 2006 at 1:52 pm
The Song is “Navras” from “The Matrix Revolutions” soundtrack.
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:14 pm
By Juno Reactor on the Labyrinth CD.
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:15 pm
*yawn*
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:26 pm
I want that physics program badly
Can i get it somewhere on the net?
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:30 pm
I dunno, Phil, we’re really on different pages on this one. This bring new meaning to the term “cartoon violence.” I didn’t laugh once, and, in fact, got bored enough halfway through that I fast forwarded to the end to see just how this thing would resolve. (It didn’t. It just ended.)
As for the music, ever since Jerry Goldsmith did “The Omen” thirty years ago, it seems that all dramatic violence music has to be is a large chorus chanting in a Latin-sounding language (even if it’s made up) in a minor key. Of course, never having seen any of the Matrix movies (they fail my guns/explosions/car-chase test) I’m hearing it out of context.
Then again, maybe I’m just grumpy because I have a cold coming on just in time for T’day tomorrow.
- Jack
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:50 pm
I’m right along side you with this one, Phil. Little moist spot in the front of the jeans, it was so funny. Would give a testicle for this software. Well… not my testicle.
E.
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:51 pm
I’m right along side you with this one, Phil. Little moist spot in the front of the jeans, ’twas so funny. Would give a testicle for this software. Well… not my testicle.
E.
November 22nd, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Ah, a man after my head, you would appreciate a game of Porrasturvat
November 22nd, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Yeah, that’s the ending theme to the third Matrix movie, I think. It’s in Sanskrit, with a really bad accent.
November 22nd, 2006 at 6:06 pm
As for the music, ever since Jerry Goldsmith did “The Omen†thirty years ago, it seems that all dramatic violence music has to be is a large chorus chanting in a Latin-sounding language
I’ve always connected it to Carl Orffs Carmina Burana ,quite possibly the most sampled classical work ever.
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Murdering line drawings and figures – sick. I prefer the Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy for funny ha ha violence. Possibly because the short animations imply the finality of death, which isn’t funny to me due to associations with reality. The Stooges get into incredible trouble but Curly remains impervious.
But that’s OK – to each their own. – I laughed hard at the insane stupidity in Borat though other folks are totally offended by it.
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:13 pm
If Buster (the crash test dummy on MythBusters) could dream, this would be his nightmare.
Great stuff.
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:49 pm
Zoot Says: “I’ve always connected it to Carl Orffs Carmina Burana ,quite possibly the most sampled classical work ever.”
Absolutely right. I didn’t know how many people would get the reference, though (I should have known better with this crowd) so I used the “Omen” reference. CB is a whole cantata, though, and all of this movie music seems to derive from just “O Fortuna”!
- Jack
PS – Boorman’s “Excalibur” went straight to the source
November 22nd, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Oh yeah; this has been on Google Video for several months. The software is “Pintar VirtuaLab Mechanics”.
Speaking of physics on Google Video, this may be an edifying experience:
http://tinyurl.com/yb86b3
November 22nd, 2006 at 9:09 pm
I have an account to the forums. I saw this video a few weeks ago, and thought it was freakin’ hilarious. I’ve tried to find the software myself, but have been unsuccessful (the forums are pretty big and the search function sucks).
November 22nd, 2006 at 11:31 pm
That’s right.
Correct. It’s one of the more popular extracts from the Upanishad. http://archives.amritapuri.org/bharat/mantra/asatoma.php
Most certainly.
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:23 am
This looks a bit like the Soda Constructor at http://www.sodaplay.com...
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:43 am
The software looks like Interactive Physics to my bloodshot eyes. But IP is this really weird program–they make you pay in order to use it. When did people start doin’ that?
November 23rd, 2006 at 4:25 am
I cracked up. My wife, looking over my shoulder, thought it was dumb. Takes all kinds.
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:40 am
Amusing, but I would prefer “Itchy and Scratchy” with a similar soundtrack.
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:18 pm
You can download the software here: http://www.pintarmedia.com/pdload/
Just click on “Mech,” enter the required fields, and it’ll download.
November 24th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
When it comes ot animated violence you really cannot beat the stick figure flash animations created years ago. In case you have not seen them: http://www.martialartssupplies.com/stickfight.html
November 24th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
If you like animated violence nothing beats the stick figure flash anims that xiaoxiao made years ago. http://www.xiaoxiaomovie.com/index02.htm
November 27th, 2006 at 8:57 am
The Marx Brothers are much better than the Three Stooges
November 28th, 2006 at 11:33 am
Well that’s funny, my SA forums username is at the end of this and I can’t even remember what I contributed to it.