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Totoro Bento

2008-12-16T13:42:00Z

Cat Haiku

2008-12-04T21:02:00Z

« I lounge in the sun
savoring the morning scents
have fun at your job »

—Cat Haiku by Will Braden.

Narrative Games Get the Beatdown In Every Internet Community That Spawns Them Apparently

2008-11-24T13:53:00Z

This quote will seem quite familiar if you follow small press—or so-called “indie”—RPG design and the corresponding response to it by the likes of the pugnacious RPGPundit. When she describes the argument over the terms “interactive fiction” and “text adventure,” think “story-game” versus “role playing game.”

«
In form, this is interactive fiction. Over the course of amateur IF development, there’s been a movement towards more complete implementation and more literary story-telling: more descriptions of objects, more actions for the player to use on everything and sundry, more plausible settings, more logical solutions to puzzles, greater concern for literary values in story, and so on.

There has also been a compensatory school of authors and players who reject the literary nonsense (deeming it pretentious), and who prefer obvious puzzles and unsubtle implementation as more essentially fun. These are often the same people who dislike the term “interactive fiction” and consider “text adventure” more honest, or at least a better description of what they want to play.

»

—Emily Short, from her review of Treasures of a Slaver’s Kingdom

Violet's Response to the Xyzzy Command is Brilliant

2008-11-24T13:36:00Z

«
That time on the sixth floor of the library:

“Violet, that was—that was—”

“Magical?”

“How did you do that?”

“Any sufficiently awesome girlfriend is indistinguishable from magic.”

»

—Violet’s response to the xyzzy command.

Raise the white flag of … beer!

2008-10-27T15:36:00Z

« Here is the food system [of Lesotho, which has no currency]: If you have an excess of vegetables, put a green flag over your roundhouse hut. If you have an excess of meat, put up a red flag. And if you have an excess of beer, put up a yellow or white flag. After awhile, you’ll get an idea of who tends to have an excess of what, and you send them an instant message to see if they want to trade. By IM’ing, I mean you send one or two kids. I couldn’t stomach the pineapple beer they brew. However, their greens are excellent. »

—Joshua Levin at Goodeater.com

Straight Up Chess

2008-10-24T12:41:00Z

Straight Up Chess. I want one! [Via Purple Pawn]

We Deserve Better Than Palin Porn!

2008-10-23T20:28:00Z

« I think, perhaps, that we are a nation as depressed as our economy. Everyone knows that in chronic depression, one of the first things to go is the sex drive. We must not let it destroy us. As Americans, we deserve better porn. If a MILF shall lead us, it will be to the dry desert of celibacy. Trust me. I’ve seen Palin porn. »

—Violet Blue

Don't we all want our food to be like bursts of fire and panting gladiators?

2008-10-22T16:54:00Z

« Don’t we all want our food to be like bursts of fire and panting gladiators? »

—Hapy, fat and meatless

Sardines with a red dress on

2008-10-21T14:22:00Z

Sardines with a red dress on…

Ode to Sean Hannity

2008-10-09T13:23:00Z

« Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity »

— Ode to Sean Hannity, John Cleese

Penis Sandwiches

2008-09-16T20:27:00Z

somebody said: Lunch: penis & jelly sandwich on white bread, mac ‘n cheese. I am five years old.
somebody said: there’s always cold penis sandwiches.
somebody said: eating penis sandwiches and drinking decaf earl grey. So Happy
somebody said: currently eating a ham cheese and penis sandwhich thinking how funny Kerian would look dressed as a pirate!

Twitter is Penis is obsessed with penis sandwiches.

Dexter Dining Room

2008-09-16T19:31:00Z

A Dexter inspired dining room. Wtf?

Poison'd Wordle

2008-09-16T17:34:00Z

Poison’d (as wordled).

I Wear Gloves On My Hands And Feet Because I Am A Monkey

2008-09-09T03:10:00Z

I Wear Gloves On My Hands And Feet Because I Am A Monkey by Elin

Sleeping Beauty Gives Me Calcium

2008-09-06T21:38:00Z

Sleeping Beauty Gives Me Calcium by Elin.