I was bored, so sue me. (And Blame Para, he thought it was a good idea)The Beta's ComingCoding and Coding in the vanishing timeThe programmer cannot hear the gamer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere boredom is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is halted, and everywhereThe ceremony of gaming is drowned;The best lack all arena, while the worstAre full of passionate nonsense. (on the forums)Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Beta's Coming is at hand.The Beta's Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of InfogramesTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the internetA shape with Atari's body and the head of a fool,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow DRM, while all about itReel shadows of the lawyers made rich.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat many years of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by gamer's lament,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Impulseland to be born?
The Second ComingTURNING and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
To the tune of Still Alive?
... It's a parody of the poem 'the second coming', which is the second set of text.
ahh ok hadnt seen that
I thought the parralells would be fairly obvious... it's only one of the most well known poems in existance
Maybe I should do one based on 'do not ask for whom the bell tolls, friend, it tolls for thee!"
Putting this in the beta forum was a mistake. Buried too quickly.
LOL! Gold.
I'm amused
If just one new person has found it, and liked it, then the move was worth it!
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