Flickr user fatheed has an excellent photo set, where he overlays 8-bit video game characters onto photographs.

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Parallel Lines is a project for which 5 directors created short films, all with the exact same dialogue. The genres covered are drama, action, animation, science fiction, and thriller. It’s amazing what can be done with the same words, and all of these shorts are unique and well worth watching.

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Killian Martin as filmed by Brett Novak.
The skateboarding and cinematography are both top-notch

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Chrono Trigger basically began as a jam session — a couple of star designers and a manga artist getting together to brainstorm and seeing what they might produce. No pressure. No cynicism.

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Ultimately, the best thing about Chrono Trigger is something that can’t quite be quantified in terms of mechanics, aesthetics, or plot. It’s impossible to play without getting the sense that that its designers really had a lot of fun in conceiving it (barring a stomach ulcer or two) and were wholly dedicated to making sure they got it right. Chrono Trigger is a labor of love effected by a group of very talented game designers, and their enthusiasm for the project permeates every aspect of the experience.

Talk about nostalgia. I still consider Chrono Trigger to be the best game of all time, and this article expresses its appeal perfectly. If you haven’t played it before, fire up the emulator. If you have played it before, reading this will make you want to play again.

Read the rest of the article here.

This was originally posted as a question on Japan’s Yahoo! Answers. It made me laugh so much I had to share. Original source, from Yahoo知恵袋

Every day when I come home, my wife pretends to be dead.
What does this mean?
I came home, opened the front door, and my wife was on the ground.
I was surprised at first, but she does it every day
So I started just saying, “Come on, get up.”
Then the day after that, she was dripping blood from her mouth,
And one week later her white shirt was covered in blood.

Has she been running out of ideas?
Or maybe she’s been doing it so much that her thinking is off?
She’s had arrows going through her head,
Covered her head with a plastic bag (she’s breathing, and the bag is clearly moving).
Yesterday she was in full army attire with a gun in hand, dying an honorable death.

I, of course, just pass by her.

What does she want me to do?
And where does she want to go with this?
I have no idea. Somebody please help me out.

The other day, she was cooking dinner with an arrow still in her head.

[Addendum]
I’m surprised by the number of responses this has received. In early spring this year, she had left “Tuna” as a dying message, and I learned that we were having Tuna for dinner that night so I complimented her saying that day’s was pretty functional. The following day, a clown was collapsed on the floor. She gets encouraged far too easily. Helping her remove all of the makeup was pretty difficult.
It seems that she bought that army gear at an army shop. I told her that she shouldn’t spend too much money on things like that, so today I found her eaten by some alligator-like creature that looked to be home-made.