links, often food-related
May. 1st, 2012 01:07 pmSo dating sims are apparently a thing, wherein you do a sort of choose-your-own-adventure and try to end up dating one of a number of people in the story. Hatoful Boyfriend is sort of a parody of that, only with pigeons. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. And you say "okay, pigeons, that's kinda weird," and I say YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW WEIRD IT IS. The link goes to an Actual Play thread with screencaps and, I mean, it just... gah. Look, that thread has twenty-one pages worth of posts (three playthroughs? four?), and then there's another one with another thirty-nine pages, and THE CRAZY JUST KEEPS COMING and it's making me CAPSLOCK because I have no other way to express how utterly bonkers this game is. It starts with the poster trying to get her character to hook up with the school doctor, and goes... just... look, just take the hit to your productivity and read it, okay?
Tangentially related, pet parrots, such as cockatoos, that are let loose in the wild are teaching native birds to talk. There is no way this ends well.
Race & Gender in D&D Art: "[T]o the credit of a number of people--artists, art directors, designers and editors alike--our disdain for [the generic white-male-fighter] Regdar made its way into a lot of art."
Ashley Judd is awesome. A sample: "When I have gained weight, going from my usual size two/four to a six/eight after a lazy six months of not exercising, and that weight gain shows in my face and arms, I am a 'cow' and a 'pig' and I 'better watch out' because my husband 'is looking for his second wife.' (Did you catch how this one engenders competition and fear between women? How it also suggests that my husband values me based only on my physical appearance? Classic sexism. We won't even address how extraordinary it is that a size eight would be heckled as 'fat.')"
Megaman as Malware: "Megaman’s actions make him seem less like the savior of mankind and more like an assassin hell-bent on destroying Dr. Wily’s creations and sabotaging his work. It’s important to note that in every game, Megaman’s actions are always preemptive strikes."
Via Charlie Stross, the economics of owning a tank.
On cooking, unintended side effects of:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks makes a carrot souffle, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heptadecagram makes disasater cookies.
And finally, from Karawynn a month or more ago, How to eat a pomegranate (no bowl of water): as advertised. Now I want a pomegranate.
Tangentially related, pet parrots, such as cockatoos, that are let loose in the wild are teaching native birds to talk. There is no way this ends well.
Race & Gender in D&D Art: "[T]o the credit of a number of people--artists, art directors, designers and editors alike--our disdain for [the generic white-male-fighter] Regdar made its way into a lot of art."
Ashley Judd is awesome. A sample: "When I have gained weight, going from my usual size two/four to a six/eight after a lazy six months of not exercising, and that weight gain shows in my face and arms, I am a 'cow' and a 'pig' and I 'better watch out' because my husband 'is looking for his second wife.' (Did you catch how this one engenders competition and fear between women? How it also suggests that my husband values me based only on my physical appearance? Classic sexism. We won't even address how extraordinary it is that a size eight would be heckled as 'fat.')"
Megaman as Malware: "Megaman’s actions make him seem less like the savior of mankind and more like an assassin hell-bent on destroying Dr. Wily’s creations and sabotaging his work. It’s important to note that in every game, Megaman’s actions are always preemptive strikes."
Via Charlie Stross, the economics of owning a tank.
On cooking, unintended side effects of:
rushthatspeaks makes a carrot souffle, heptadecagram makes disasater cookies.And finally, from Karawynn a month or more ago, How to eat a pomegranate (no bowl of water): as advertised. Now I want a pomegranate.