| Nothing Escapes Satire Posted by on July 29, 2005 - P'kunk a.m. |
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To those who were not swept away by a tidal wave of nostalgia by the slave shield, go here and play one of the greatest games ever, completely free of charge. So, I had to do one more pseudo-break comic before we got back to the crew. If you haven't noticed, I find endless pleasure making fun of everything, so this was one of those things that just got more fun as it went along. This is actually the biproduct of a conversation Dan and I had as we scoured Berkeley for a place to live for the next 10 months. I even had to leave a lot of good ideas out and condense some others, because as you can see, the thing is friggin huge, and I want to get on with other stuff. Soooo, on to other stuff we go. |
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| Unnecessary Explanations of Critical Hippos Posted by on July 29, 2005 - hungry hungry a.m. |
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I�d like to take this opportunity to completely destroy whatever just happened with some analysis and barking. In response to all the excessively bitter folk, pleeeeeeease consider lightening up. I'll occassionally play the bitter game myself, but the most common argument I hear is, "Things like that could never happen," and such. Yes, you're right, such things are very rare and unlikely. That doesn't mean you should shun everything that falls in that category. Sure, gearing your life expectations towards movies, anime, comics, manga, cheesy romance novels, pulp fantasy, or whatever, is frightening to most of us, but lashing out against everything is the other end of the spectrum and often just as nauseating. It may surprise some to find out that it is indeed possible to enjoy some occassional fantastical/cheesy/dramatic/romantic stuff without inundating yourself in it or assimilating it into your being. Also, (in answer to one of my favorite responses so far), note that everything did not necessarily turn out �all goody goody.� A guy just happened to work his guts up. Who knows what she thinks. You filled in anything that happened afterwards yourself, so think a bit before you complain about it. Now for the "but you said you hate drama" people. As I�ve said before, I don't like doing it because we normally update so infrequently. That�s wasn�t a problem here. Second, I only consider the last comic �dramatic,� if that. If you read the others, hopefully you noticed that I was making fun of the whole teen angst bit, not spewing it. So, this is not necessarily aimed at you, you person, I just figured I should argue that drama can be palatable in small doses. Also, if you don�t care about the drama and whatever and want to whine about bad writing, sure, that�s fine too. Drew seems to be alive, maybe he'll take this spot back sometime. |
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| 184. Video: Edith and I are up late |
| 183. Video: Edith, the darling lass pictured above, will be performing this later this semester. I'm not sure what the protocol is when you find out your girlfriend is a zombie, but I guess I'm glad to have advanced warning that she'll be eating my brains at some point. |
| 182. Video: Women in Western Art. Pretty niftay. |
| 181. Comic: Copper is updating again! Glee! |
| 180. Japanese Insanity Guitar Bear Pink Japan: WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT? |
| 179. Video: Pac Man invasion. Old, I guess, but still required viewing. |
| 178. Comic: Piled Higher and Deeper: So awesome! Also makes me not want to go to gradschool. Though, it worked out for my dad anyway, so who knows. |
| 177. Artist: JF Bruckner: Oh yeah, jfb is awesome too! Right, right, more artists and comics, I forget so easily... |
| 176. Comic: Copper: Copper is my favorite webcomic. Every strip is inspiringly beautiful and bursting with imagination, but beyond that, they consistently resonate with profundity without screaming "Look at ME, aren't I profound!?" I tried to write a lot more corny praise, but just go read all of them instead, you won't be sorry. I was hoping to wait for Kazu Kibuishi to get back to it so I could scream about its return, but it's been quite a while already, so I'll just link it again once that happens. |
| 175. Artist: Mitsui. Life must be hard when you're this awesome. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
| 174. Comic: The Unfeasible Adventures of Beaver and Steve. I don't actually read this often, but the toaster knob makes me want to. That sentence will make no sense as soon as they update. |
| 173. Humor: Kyle linked me to this, but I can't imagine why. P.S. Kyle sucks. |
| 172. Comic: Socks. Okay, Socks is also amazing. I need to read through both these soon. Yargh. |
| 171. Comic: Minus. Leo just linked me to minus, and it is aggggghjustgoreaditIcan'tthinkofwhattowriteitisamazing. |
| 170. Flash Game: Fancy Pants. Fancy Pants!!! Made me want to drop everything and make an awesome speedy platformer with simple but incredibly smooth smooth animation with my roommates. Who knows what they'd do, but Kyle already agreed to it. Right Kyle? Study for your midterms to signify "yes." |
| 169. Random: Revenge of Zoom Quilt. |
| 168. Comic: Sinfest. How could you not know about Sinfest already? :| |
| 167. Apps: doPdf. People keep asking how to write out pdfs. If you don't own Acrobat Pro, apparently this works. |
| 166. Humor: Then Japan puts Berkeley to shame in the flash mob arena. But c'mon, it's Japan, it's probably weird when stuff like that doesn't happen. |
| 165. Humor: Berkeley ninja flash mob battle royale round 1 fight. |
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