Having a brain: Ur doing it wrong

Today's definition of made of fail. Because as we all know it's super fun to co-opt horrific events from Nazi Germany for the purposes of whaddya call it? Oh yeah - ANYTHING. Lord almighty how does that even need explaining to people? Shouldn't this be right up there with the lesson on how you breathe in this invisible stuff around you called air and then a short time later you breathe it out again and that's how you keep your body from becoming unhappy?

And yanno, I realize this is waaaaaaaaaaaay down on the list of crimes here but under the category of "Even when you're wrong you're wrong" can we also point out Metaphors: Your friend, your enemy? Because yes you CAN use Harry Potter to talk about issues of racism and classism and slavery and war because the books do that already. You don't have to yank from real life events because the books have done the scutwork on the symbolism and allegory for you. Also? Half the frakking point of JKR's writing is the Dickensian use of names. How is it possible to be playing in the world of Rita "DO YOU GET IT? SHE'S A BUG" Skeeter and Remus "Werewolf McDidWeMentionTheWerewolfThing" Lupin and be saying to youself "You know, we lack for both the tools and the precedent to come up with an original name for our RPG so let's just grab the Nazi thing because clearly people will understand that there were no alternatives."

Fail fail fail fail FAIL.

[With a tip o' the hat to zvi_likes_tv and jennem for the heads-up]

We need faith in humanity again

A happier post, to help cleanse the palate:

You've probably heard of the Discovery Channel's I love the whole world commercial by now. But did you know that it has a live version?

Did you know the live version has, amongst others, Mike Rowe, Bear Grylls, and the Deadliest Catch boys? SINGING??

Watch. Watch NOW.

(Discovered - no pun intended - thanks to this post)

Fairness in linking

An actual mod of that Harry Potter RPG (as opposed to the "YOUR HELP IS NOT HELPING" idiots in the comments) has asked for suggestions on what to rename their game.