2008feb29. Friday is sometimes a “free day,” and sometimes it’s re-heated pizza. That’s when you and your friends get in a car and drive to White Castle. You collectively pay for the burgers, then you individually pay for them again a little bit later.
Giant sticky man schlorps down side of
skyscraper
Zero Punctuation: Guitar Hero
III
Moo by Syriak.
Echochrome.
An upcoming surreal maze game.
La Jetée [26min].
Promotional video for the Retro
Encabulator, a glorious
offspring of the Turbo
Encabulator.
Backhoe paddle.
Attenborough: Geckos coax leafhoppers to feed them
honeydew.
Abraham Lincoln: A Short
Documentary.
Bert & Ernie: Total
Destruction
[via titivil].
Never Mind the Buzzcocks: w/Amy Winehouse [
1
2
3 ] “She’s dead.”
Pink and Blue
Project.
Hoshi Saga 2
Say, why not take a look at QI, a British quiz show hosted by Stephen Fry. One could find 80% of all five series of Qi on the “youtube” facility if one applied the proper search terms (I suggest “qi series”).
“So ... Culloden was really more of a local difficulty ... it was highland versus lowland, it was like Celtic and Rangers ... Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It’s that kind of fight, and it goes on to this day. Will we never learn. Who knows. Religion: shit it.”
A book entitled “The Book of General Ignorance” was based on the show and apparently sold quite well over here. Then, after you get a few episodes under your Sansabelt™, check out the 2005 program Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 ]. Short appearances by (among others) Robbie Williams, Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuss, and Jo Brand (who also appears frequently on QI). QI is also the only TV show I’m aware of that has its own members’ club. I wish there were something around here like it. I mean, without it costing 400USD+. Finally, QI provides an answer to the timeless question, “What exactly happened to Rich Hall?” He is now a beloved UK panel show traveler, from the looks of it – he is, as we go to press, the 2nd most frequent guest on QI. America clearly needs more panel shows because we’ve all grown sick of seeing our neighbors on “reality” programs, and I’m just the guy to provide this sort of service for a nominal fee.
A series of point-and-click flash adventure games: Submachine. I have hated “point and click” flash adventure games for awhile now – but the mechanics and storytelling of this set are wonderful. Don’t chintz out and play it sans audio; the ambient backing track does help to establish mood (and sometimes there are audio clues). There were two or three parts to almost every game when I had to grab a spoiler to move on, especially the first puzzle in Submachine 3 (Loop) ... it has enough states that it can easily be overthought, leading to oodles of unnecessary toil (especially, in my case, when you get a false positive at the exact time you were expecting a positive). Play them in order, you build knowledge and there are interesting sequential sub-plot elements. The author’s site occasionally has problems serving up the games, so check out this metafilter post for alternative locations.
Knytt Stories. Atmospheric adventure game. Really well done. Be sure and familiarize yourself with what certain items provide for you in the way of new abilities before you tootle off, I did not and suffered for it.
Dwarf Complete. A well-crafted walk-around puzzle game. I needed some help twice in the game; now people are posting walkthroughs for puzzly games to Youtube, which is much better than trying to read someone’s written interpretation of a visual world.
