the R’lyehan tourist phrasebook

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Elizabeth Bear’s doing a series of posts where she shares things she overheard
at WisCon. They’re all pretty awesome, but this one is TOTALLY FUCKING
AWESOME:

12.) R’lyehan tourist phrasebook:

Help. I am being devoured by your octopus.

My species does not breathe water.

No thank you. I do not wish a fungus.

I’m sorry, no. I have claustrophobia.

You seem to have a frog in your throat.
You seem to have a frog in your soup.
You seem to have a frog in your pants.

Would you like a lemon drop?

(from Overheard at WisCon)

Fear and Loathing in Mushroom Kingdom

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Huntersmario
Joystiq is one of my daily reads, and a frequent source for my Propeller links.

While skipping around the Internets like a pixie this morning, I landed at Joystiq, where I was rewarded with this:

"We had two bags of 1-up mushrooms, seventy-five pellets of fire
flower, five sheets of high-powered stars, a saltshaker half-full of
raccoon tail, a whole galaxy of multi-colored turtle shells, hammers,
POW blocks, laughers… Not that we needed all that for the trip, but
once you get locked into a serious power-up collection, the tendency is
to push it as far as you can."

You HST junkies will enjoy the additional text at Joystiq, which cites PixelGen, which cites ircimages.

Update: Livejournal user steelcaver says:

I’m constantly amused by the randomised collection of
six-degree-separated things that surface on the internet; in this case,
a page where an actor who once worked on a TV show that I watched is
showing pictures based on a video game I used to play, created by some
kid with an computer and image editing software. 

steelcave then discovers that:

[info]thornleaf has located the image’s original source, on suzyage4’s DeviantArt pages.  The image displayed has been replaced with the original version from her pages. 

Six degrees, indeed.

in which blue light special is adapted for comics

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PegsI’m working like crazy on actual fiction writing, so my time and motivation for posting in my blog is a bit lacking, as I immerse myself in a dystopian future Los Angeles which is hopefully unique from all the other dystopian future Los Angeles (Los Angelesses? Los Angeli?) that we’re all familiar with.

However, I’m taking a break from all that to point you, dear reader, to this adorable adaptation of Blue Light Special that I helped write for a comic called Blogjam.

I quite enjoy it, and the archives are absolutely worth digging through; there’s some very funny stuff in there. Best of all, regular people like you and me can submit stories from our totally awesome lives in the hopes that they’ll be adapted into future strips.

it’s a good day to be a gamer

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A Florida judge recommends that Jack Thompson be found guilty of being
a complete and utter douche 27 of 31 counts of misconduct.

Tunis made 21 recommendations of guilt in relation to Thompson’s participation in Strickland vs. Sony,
an Alabama case in which the anti-game attorney represented the
families of two police officers and a police dispatcher slain by
18-year-old Grand Theft Auto player Devin Moore. Tunis also recommended
that Thompson be found guilty on four out of five counts relating to
his 2006 attempt to have Rockstar’s Bully declared a public nuisance in
a case before Miami Judge Ronald Friedman. An additional two guilty
counts stemmed from a non-video game matter."

While we wait breathlessly for the verdict to be delivered, we can play the Penny Arcade game! On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness is finally available for Mac, PC, Linux and from Xbox Live Arcade.

Just because I haven’t packed enough pure awesome into one post: Harmonix announced yesterday that next week’s Rock Band DLC will be the entire album The Cars, from the Cars. Time to watch Fast Times — well, part of Fast Times — over and over again in, uh, preparation.