Today continues the Rising Fun thing over at the Land of Paychecks with a Chulip preview and this thing, which is sort of OK. I wish I’d had more time to work on it, because “OK” isn’t really anything to brag about.
Also, I’m still trying to think of better name for the cover story, and still failing. Which isn’t to say I like the title we went with; when the EIC first suggested it I mentioned that the name provoked a “Rising Bile” response. He seemed unamused. But, alas, I’m stumped for anything better… so.
Tomorrow’s the big day, though — besides a massive Contact preview, it also includes my long-awaited (?) Earthbound Retronauts. I’ve never been much of a fan of the game, but the raison d’etre for Retronauts is to take an open-minded second look at older games. I guess tomorrow we’ll see if I’ve reconsidered my stand or if the game still kinda sucks. Either way, I’m proud of the fact that an off-handed comment on my work blog a month ago didn’t just spark a 150-response thread at Starmen.net, it actually provoked them to finally come clean that yes, they really are a lunatic cult. I think we’ve all grown a little from this.
I’m headed out of town for family time tomorrow, where I’ll be staying in a curious land where Internet access is rare and fleeting. Sadly, this means I will be forced to do no work whatsoever and spend all my time relaxing. The horror.
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FYI – you’re “starmen are actually a cult” link (http://www.toastyfrog.com/verbalspew/pivot/starmen.net/cult/) gives a 404 error…
Unbelievable. I put up a link leading to a 404 error on my site at 8:15 am this morning. Odd coincidence that you would do it, as well, Parish.
Oh man, 1UP is totally taking the fall this time :(
Does anyone have a higher-res pic of those horrifying Boong-ga Boong-ga faces?
How is one able to read 1UP, anyway? Nothing loads for me anymore. By the way, my cousin just arrived for Easter. He’s staying for a couple of days. Strange. Parish, are you ripping my cousin off? I know, it’s such a bad joke, but we have to move on. The only way to get over it is to make it stale.
“I will be forced to do no work whatsoever and spend all my time relaxing.” You poor bastard…
Unbelievable. JuanFrugal, I made that same stale joke at, uh, 16:49 on this very page. I work hard for my stale, unfunny jokes and I do not appreciate plagiarism.
Yeesh, I even kind of got on my own nerves there for a second. Glad that’s over.
Beaten in my own stupid game. Shame.
Ohmygod, I just ripped off Qubertio’s comment from yesterday and didn’t realise. It’s like stupid rip-off jokes imitate life now.
Ok, enough. The plagurism joke is done. Excepting the part concerning “(insert title)2: electric bugaloo” you owe me hella scrilla for ripping me off.
PS: Larry Potter for LYFE
Cultists are people too :(
(Except for the robotologists.)
The sad thing is that my last comment wasn’t a joke. It actually happened and I noticed only after posting it.
“The sad thing is that my last comment wasn’t a joke. It actually happened and I noticed only after posting it.”
I know, the same thing happened to me, man. It’s like the joke has come back to take revenge on all those who mistreated it. We didn’t respect its power, and now we’re paying the price. God, we didn’t know what we were doing!