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cpnbeeb
Thumbnail had me thinking it was this chump asshole:
IridescentLotus
This man had so much much-ness
BitchButcher
rhz1181
Sauce: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg
TheRoyalDong
What's the point with these 1 second gifs?
Myfamilyjewelshaveascendedinsidemeturnedintoovariesandexploded
Fuck he is gorgeous
ReverseTrapTsukasa
lupusfulgaris
http://time.com/money/4175086/david-bowie-bond-royalties-securitized/ Not only did he predict a change, he acted on it.
gorillaClutch
I mean guitars and drums are just tools too, until someone like bowie lays hands on them
killercorbyn
Bowie had his own ISP was really prolific in the newsboard days. F/a really in depth discussion about this check out the Adam Buxton podcast
Greenplantpaperwork
Bowie identifies the Matrix.
c4ifford
you can hear his facial expressions
darwinhacker
Bowie is an alien lifeform so he should know.
matthewsavino1996
I bet that interviewer feels really stupid now
OSCgal
I don't know. I think he was saying that not b/c he believed it, but b/c it's how he assumed his audience would respond.
JeffGodofBiscuits
rhz1181
Relevant, as Bowie was in that film lol
ScreamingFirehawk
haha, yes! I love how everyone just shrugs when he shows up, like it happens all the time.
moxymox
*David Bowie saying some non-committal words and being rediscovered by kids who have been told David Bowie was amazing.
HtCtiwtchyk
You're a cunt.
moxymox
VoidGearArie
So only adults who are 'true fans' are allowed to love David Bowie? Whats bad about kids rediscovering him? Thats how his memory stays alive
moxymox
boethius
Certainly a more intelligent response to the Internet threat to conventional music distribution compared to Prince or Lars Ulrich.
rhz1181
Bowie actually froze his assets in 1999, after seeing that pirated music would drop record sales significantly. This was viewed as crazy 1/2
rhz1181
At the time, but ended up working heavily in his favor 2/2
boethius
His assets in recorded music including his own? Curious what is meant by freezing exactly.
rhz1181
My bad, I was thinking of something completely different. I meant this: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bowie-bond.asp
rhz1181
More info here too: http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6843009/david-bowies-bowie-bonds-55-million-wall-street-prudential
armeggedonCounselor
On the other hand, he also thought Omikron: The Nomad Soul would be a great thing to get involved with. So....
JeffGodofBiscuits
Do we need to mention "The Linguine Incident?"
RLSpine
Two Best Friend's RIDE OR DIE!
Fivemachinesinjapanese
Always upvote David Cage hate
FoxLovesCats
Yo fuck David Cage
Fivemachinesinjapanese
This guy knows what's up
rhz1181
Actually, that was a pretty good game imo. I played it.
Forsooth167
It killed Liam.....
thexian
Almoste killed Matt too.
Bigcurly2000
#5 Takes one to know one
ra1nfield
Fu for making these pictures into small stupid and unnecessary gifs....
rhz1181
They look fine on mobile, I guess they don't on desktop. Sorry!
NaziZombiePrincessKenny
Actually they would make great reaction gifs, especially the last one.
ScooterMcDongleberry
Thats pretty freaky bowie
FrankiesGirl
Bowie always was ahead of the curve.
rhz1181
Mhm
BitterJive
He should know. He's the Starman.
TemporaryUzername
everyone in the 90's made that prediction, david bowies prediction isn't anything spectacular.
removekarling
by 1999 it was pretty much underway anyway. Still interesting to see what people thought of it though
mattjuvia13
MithridateEupator
JugOfVoodoo
My siblings and I are proud members of the small group who saw Zoolander in a theater.
Hungrypiemonger
he always did things unpredictably.
Lexiconicopia
"Let's dance"
rhz1181
Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
rhz1181
Indeed
Buckbeak1486
He is a vastly prettier lady than Caitlyn Jenner and Steven Tyler combined, and he didn't spend thousands on an operation. 1/2
Buckbeak1486
(I know Steven Tyler never had an operation.) 2/2
lykanlupus
RIP in peace
WitchyVixen
RoombaTheAssaultVacuum
Someone get me a priest of every religion, a unicorn and some duct tape. The world needs him more than ever now.
SupermassiveZebra
Pretty sure he did actually die
WitchyVixen
Shun the nonbeliever Shhhuuuuuunnnnn
ladyatlas777
lottieteatoddy
I still cry when I hear his songs and wasn't expecting them. Especially Major Tom. He meant a lot to me.
JokesOnYouHater
He meant and still means a lot to all of us :(
Lloxxie
ohthatsgood
It's a series of tubes
MrJitterfingers
*drags cigarette* haven't heard that one in awhile... thanks for making me feel old.
Pharya
I never realised the origin of that until now. I always thought the 'series of tubes' thing was just some dank shitposting gone viral.
Pharya
Figures it'd come from a Republican Senator though.
AlabasterSexington
It not a big truck
WeatherWiz
SuperNintendoChalrmers
Sick reference gif
BlahBlahDinks
CatsandDnD
*Gasp*
Youts
Buttermeupandcallmetoast
If you type Google into Google, you will break the internet
Sharkytrs
no if you type 'askew' into google it breaks it...
NoOne156
Always up vote it crowd in any capacity
BlahBlahDinks
MarleafChef
What's the Internet doing outside the Tower of London?
HeadlessBodyofAgnew
BrotherofTheNightsWatch
What's Jen doing with the internet!?
FridayNightRamen
I hope not droping it.
kuvastin
Shit.
Haydzor
Duh, it's WIREless.
tachyonpulseN7
It's okay. Moss spoke to the elders of the internet.
BrotherofTheNightsWatch
Well if it's okay with the elders.
davegur
Bowie' great and all (really!), but if you want to see some predictions about the internet and such, read some William Gibson.
PraiseJeebus
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spladle
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JubeiSama
Read later
kdabosa
........read this thread later
TalosGuideUs
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TIGERsharkCAT
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daguq
Nice try, everyone - how about 1909, a short story by EM Forster called, The Machine Stops. You can find it online. It's freaky.
ProbablyNotTheBrightest
Thanks for the recommendation
Katsuni
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matortheeternal
Also try Earth by David Brin. In the book he made a bunch of predictions including the world wide web, blogging, and email spam.
Taranwanderinmyprydain
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Tehpest22
Hey future me, read what these comments say.
Tehpest22
Thanks past me!
eyetrain
Commenting for later
IamMadeOfShamrocks
Arthur C. Clarke nails it in '74 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxyCyDEaEg
IamMadeOfShamrocks
He also predicted (some say "invented") communication satellites.
GnomeDeGuerre
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EdgarAllanPoo
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AlwaysRate5of7
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secretlibby
Better still, read Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson. I love William Gibson, but he seriously thought VR was going to be the killer app.
UrKungFuNoGood
2)It just bothered me every time he talked about how people created geometry in the metaverse. it would be a real time rendering engine with
Pengarr
To be fair, the Internet's every bit as pervasive as he thought, just...not quite in the way he thought. And his is cooler, anyway.
UrKungFuNoGood
3) a gui for geometry and world building with scripting for customizing functionality. EXACTLY something like UED.
GenieMonzzz
I mean... VR gets good enough, people stop having sex... not 'killer per se, but population haulting/affecting? probable.
secretlibby
Isn't that a good thing, with a population of 8 billion increasing each year? Lack of breeding isn't gonna be what kills us off.
GenieMonzzz
I would have to agree with you, yes. We need to drop a few billion.
UrKungFuNoGood
I was surprised that he would do zero research on rendering engines (specifically game engines) & level editing before writing that book...
icelandicsealbear
It will be, the tech isn't there yet. In the 80s people thought tablets would rule the future. And they do.
SwedishRationalist
Just wait a bit longer.
sadro
Someone said the same thing about kinect and all those moving controllers. I'm still waiting.
surprisemotherfuckers
until i can move my legs in place in vr without a treadmill, its going to be rough going from here.
CommentsAboutYourMom
DoubleNubbin
Couple more hours.
UrKungFuNoGood
4) but no they just banged out code and suddenly a hundred thousand vertices are in the correct spots with shaders. FUCK! lol :cheers:
IlIIllIIl
It would be possible though, to bang out code to create those vertices with some flags and let the metaverse engine do the rest.
UrKungFuNoGood
2) place every piece of clutter in the correct XYZ? Nevermind that this would even be more like a plugin to get your work into the existing
UrKungFuNoGood
3) metaverse which must be controlled by a parent to prevent overlap. Also, just taking something from someone triggers an executable???
UrKungFuNoGood
4) he was so off on computer logic in general it was impossible to finish actually.
secretlibby
Strip away the pretend technical details and Stephenson's metaverse is much like Second Life, with the communty creating assets for sale etc
UrKungFuNoGood
Really? You think that someone is just gonna rip the XYZ for every vertex off the top of their head? Light placement and settings? nah