The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Are you fucking serious? / Entertainment

Why you don’t hire comedians to sell your products.

I never heard of Patton Oswalt until this recent twitter thing. But I have a feeling more people will after reading his product endorsements.

Friday afternoon, a company called Brander solicited comedian Patton Oswalt via Twitter to ask him to tweet about products they represent, and Oswalt ended up having a lot of fun with it. He went on a tear making fun of the company and their strategy with a series of tweets that amassed hundreds of retweets and attention from the press. You’d think it’d be enough to shame Brander into not publicly asking comedians to tweet about brands for them, but they’re still at it apparently.

My personal favorite:

.@BA_Influencers Tired of the tooth enamel loss from bulimia? The roaring bout of diarrhea from @TacoBell keeps your smile fresh!

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) December 27, 2013

I would seriously love to see some real life adverts like that. 😀

All in an Overlord's day

Happy New Year!

As usual I don’t have any resolutions to make other than the ones on my computers. But instead I’ve decided to try something different and unrelated. If you haven’t noticed I’ve installed a calendar. It’s mostly for me to remember things and put up weird things, mostly personal stuff that I would forget and what my “adoring fans” might want to know… if they’re bored and have nothing better to do. I also plan on using it to hopefully schedule when I’ll be working on and releasing video projects among other things. Nevertheless it’s a new toy and I’m excited to play with it.

Speaking of new I’m looking into a newer theme. I found some nice ones but they don’t show YouTube videos on the main page. :S Perhaps if I’m bored enough I’ll look into the CSS for the templates and see if I can hax it to do what I want.

Update

Found this really nice one! Has lots of custom options built into it like the last one that I used. I’ll be adding onto it when I find spare time (images, colors etc).

Gaming

Open Thread

Aside from getting a bad allergic reaction to some good ol Oregon black mold I’m doing alright. I decided to tidy up a bit and do some more linux related experiments involving games and a controller. I decided to play Dust: An Elysian Tail with the Logitech G310 and did a lot better than with the regular mouse and keyboard combo. I didn’t bother with FPS since I know by heart that FPS games (PC ones especially) are best used with the good ol keyboard and mouse.

For the record the Logitech G310 works perfectly under Fedora 19 using the joystick-support drivers that I downloaded via RPM. I took it for a spin under Big Picture mode and had a blast.

All in an Overlord's day

Hope everyone had a good holiday.

I hope everyone had a good holiday. Sure enough I slept like a baby without even trying. Seriously I got up to get something and next thing I knew I was in bed. Christmas was alright too. Thanks to my friends my Linux library has grown quite a bit. I also invested in a few goodies for myself while filling my inventory with stuff.

Now that I got my bank account sorted and with the Christmas rush being over I feel I can safely deliver a Christmas package to a dear friend. 🙂 I’ll probably get that taken care of during my weekend.

Work

I’m gonna sleep goooooood tonight.

I knocked off at about 1 am this morning, sadly my brain didn’t shut off until about 6am. Then my alarm went off at 8am. I pretty much ran on auto-pilot for the entire day.

Sure enough it was crazy busy, hell it felt like it could have been Black Friday minus the injuries and deaths. 😛 Just about everyone had a good tone, and understood that if they couldn’t find it then that was that. Also Doctor Who was on in our breakroom all day which always puts me in a good mood. 😛 We did have one person get extremely pissed that we closed early today. Didn’t even know what day it was. My what a special snowflake…

Now I can focus on having a nice Christmas eve/Christmas day. As soon as I get some food into me I’ll be collapsing like a mofo.

Work / zzzzzzzzzz

It’s almost over…

In less than ten hours I can finally put an end to this shit-tastic holiday. The majority of the last minute Christmas shoppers have been just insufferable pricks in large numbers. So large in fact that we can’t get anything done. This could be dealt with if they had more than four cashiers scheduled downstairs and not calling other departments to fill in the gaps. This lead to me running literally the entire upstairs alone again. I kept my cool though and probably made some of the cashiers rage a bit though, everytime they needed help over the phone I was already helping a customer, then another customer, then another. Sometimes I had them waiting on the phone for up to 20 minutes. One finally said “Is there anyone else you can direct me to since you’re busy?” and I said “Yeah! They’re all checking!”. Oh that was such a small but excellent pleasure.

I should be going to bed right now, but there’s no way in hell I can instantly go from getting home to going straight to bed. I need to unwind first.

Are you fucking serious?

What the duck?

I’ll be honest. I’ve heard of Duck Dynasty but never really had an interest in watching it or looking up what it even was. I just knew that everyone else in town thinks it’s the bees knees for whatever reason. At work we sell lots of Duck Dynasty Merch (Shirts, Cups, Pillows, Beards etc) and by looking at it I thought it was some kind of fictitious redneck show about four guys that hunt and got famous by making a special duck call whistle. Then I find these pictures and find… well I’m half right. Look at these before and after pics:

Before:

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After:

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Damn, amazing what can happen to you in about ten years time. But yeah, I was half right about the fiction part. This is a reality show… now I’m even happier I haven’t made time to watch it.

Anyway, as I said earlier we sell lots of Duck Dynasty stuff where I work. Sales have increased since Phil Robertson, one of the four guys, made some comments about Gays and African Americans. Which Colbert does a good job discussing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NfbgA2sTSo

The funny part is the people decrying that all he did was speak for himself, so why should he be denied his freedom of speech? He’s not being denied… He has the right to say whatever he wants, and A&E has the right to run their channel however they want. It’s kinda like when Rush Limbaugh lost all of his sponsors after attacking Sandra Fluke and saying some, rather indecent things. People thought his freedom of speech was being violated when in reality it wasn’t. Freedom of speech can impact things. These people said things that pissed off a bunch of people, and they used THEIR freedom of speech to do as they pleased in both situations. In this case losing sponsors or getting rid of an racist anti gay fuckwad from a show on a channel you run.

In the end though it’s kinda funny to see someone talk about how wrong gay sex is, from the very guy who created a duck whistle to make male ducks think you want to fuck them. I think I’ll file this show under American Idol status and just bury it.

Update

Looks like the crazies got him back on the air. Soooo, about that free speech?