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The “I’m drawing, I’m drawing!” linkdump…

by Aaron Williams on July 23, 2014 at 9:41 AM
Posted In: Articus Pharticus, Nostalgia!, Om Nom Nom!, Tabletop Gaming, You call that noise "music?"

It’s been absolutely crazy around here, and I hope to come up for air soon, but in the meantime, have some internet:

• Weird Al has been releasing a ton of videos, which are handily collected at his home page. Also, his new album entered the Billboard charts at #1. Our dreams have come true, Friends of Al!

• Here’s how artist Brynn Metheney uses reference photos from Pinterest to make alien creature designs.

• Apparently, a certain reviled leader from WWII practiced his posing and hand gestures with a photographer before rampaging all over Europe. Even though the photos were ordered destroyed, a few of them can be viewed here.

• An intrepid reporter dares to test the “All You Can Eat” policy regarding TGI Friday’s Mozzarella Sticks.

• It’s D&D’s 40th anniversary, there’s a new edition coming out, and it’s time for news outlets to write articles about this “game-role-play-thing” they’ve heard so much about. Here’s a handy checklist for their pieces, with a +2 bonus to cynicism. :)

• And it’s been a while since I posted a flash game, so here’s a simple and satisfying one: Purrmageddon has you, a cat, piloting your giant, beweaponed battle-mech against hapless military units that you playfully destroy. Like a real cat would, if given the chance.

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Six Californias? Probably not, but let’s pretend…

by Aaron Williams on July 16, 2014 at 10:19 PM
Posted In: From the Mouth of Madness, The Basement Storage Bin

You may have recently read about a Silicon Valley techno-billionaire who wants to break up California into six states because he hopes it will make him even richer says it’ll be awesomesauce for democracy and stuff (in spite of the dubious constitutionality of the proposal).

The biggest problem is, as you can see in the map accompanying the story above, the names for the new states are boring. Below is my own modest proposal, based on little more than a lack of sleep and about as much insight into California as Hollywood has about most of the states between it and New York. I’ll explain my decisions below:

• Winterfell: This name was chosen because Game of Thrones is cool, and it was the northernmost area. Residents can build an ice wall between them and Oregon if they want, for tourism.
• New California Republic: Fallout New Vegas was a great video game, and having someplace already named after the NCR is just planning for the future.
• United Federation of Planets: So if the Fallout apocalypse doesn’t happen, we can at least get Starfleet to set up shop where it’s supposed to.
• Otisburg: The guy never got to live his dream in Superman the Movie, so I think it’s time we honored this unsung hero of abused minions everywhere.
• San Diego Comic Con: It’s going to keep growing, so we might as well embrace it.
• Mordor: As with Winterfell, geography played the major role in this (it’s the farthest South) along with the Tolkien fanboy in me.

So if it actually manages to happen, I hope those in charge will consider this and take the opportunity to make some truly memorable places to live. The merchandising alone should pay for all the confusion that would ensue, right?

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The Al goes on and on…

by Aaron Williams on July 15, 2014 at 5:58 PM
Posted In: You call that noise "music?"

This is the second of eight new videos from The Al we’ll be getting this week. Here’s “Word Crimes,” a parody of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”:

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Weird Al returns!

by Aaron Williams on July 15, 2014 at 9:42 AM
Posted In: You call that noise "music?"

The king of parody (as well as original) music returns with the first of several music videos from his new album, “Mandatory Fun.” He starts out with “Tacky,” a spoof of Pharrell’s “Happy”:

At last, we can say “I like the Weird Al version better” about more recent pop songs. It was getting harder to annoy the punk kids who won’t get off my lawn with that line.

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A Minecraft classic gets an update.

by Aaron Williams on July 14, 2014 at 1:34 AM
Posted In: It Came from the Internet, Mystery Clip Theater, Video Gaming, You call that noise "music?"

True fans of Minecraft probably haven’t been seen for years, as the game keeps getting added on to, which means you have to start all new worlds every update, just to get a fresh start. In the latest testing version, you can muck about with rabbits. In addition to being a new source of food and leather, bunnies can be brewed into potions of jumping. This is in contrast to animals like cows which provide potions of milk without the need to cut them up.

Anyway, a YouTube show called “The Yogscast” gave birth to a fan-made song called “Diggy Diggy Hole.” Fun little earworm, isn’t it? Well, if that wasn’t enough, someone has given the song the Peter Jackson treatment, and now I want this played somewhere in the extended version of The Hobbit:

You’re all dismissed to go hunt for diamond ore. Have fun!

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Where’d I go? It’s been a busy week…

by Aaron Williams on July 14, 2014 at 1:27 AM
Posted In: From the Mouth of Madness

Apart from Twitter (which I consider to be an IM client with you on one and and an open computer terminal in an institution for people with multiple personalities) and posting comics, things have been a mite quiet on the blogging front. The reasons have been as follows:

1. Catching up after having my laptop fizzle out at the amazingly fun Inconjunction (more on that later).
2. Medical problems with my mother-in-law.
3. And said problems requiring me to perform more duties at home and away, stretching my time even further.

Anyway, I think I’ve gotten some of #1 under control, or at least, to the point where I thought I needed to come up for air and actually let everyone know what was going on. Thanks for standing by, and my next trick will be to produce some posts of general interest to the fine nerdic community at large.

Stay tuned!

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On the road postin’…

by Aaron Williams on July 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM
Posted In: From the Mouth of Madness, It Came from the Internet, It's got Robots and Lasers, Mystery Clip Theater, The Idiot Box

Stick around for news/happenings from InConJunction over the next several days, and while I’m driving for one of two trips to Indianapolis this month, here’s a few 4th of July items to while away the hours before fireworks start going off:

• The whole weekend could be spent in a zen-like trance watching this animated GIF loop of a pretzel machine just doin’ its thing.

• One of those Raspberry Pi mini-computers was used to revive this cool antique radio. The inclusion of an iPad touchscreen helped, too.

• Be warned before listening, as this is the worst demo tape compilation in the world.

• I’m sure this makes sense to one of the world’s largest banks, but I find it humorous that anyone would demand that Google un-send an e-mail, no matter what it contained. Next up, Goldman-Sachs demands a plumber un-flush a toilet.

• In case you want to see the new Doctor for a few seconds without spoiling any of the upcoming season, here’s about the shortest Doctor Who trailer you could ask for.

• Some news that will surprise no one disappointed by MGM and SyFy’s track record: The new Stargate movie trilogy will be a reboot. I guess that’s about it for the crew of the Destiny, eh?

• And when enjoying the summer sunshine, remember those who can’t with the flash game The Sun For The Vampire. Traverse a trap-filled castle as a hapless vamp in a quest to see daylight.

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Packing for Inconjunction, so here’s an incredibly well-done pun.

by Aaron Williams on July 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM
Posted In: Mystery Clip Theater, The Internetonomicon

I give you “Metal Construction”:

This has been “Metal Construction.” Please direct any rotten fruit at the uploader of the video.

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And now, music…

by Aaron Williams on June 28, 2014 at 1:18 AM
Posted In: Mystery Clip Theater, You call that noise "music?"

Over the past few days, a few oddities of a ditty-ish nature have crossed my radar, and we start with Pearl Jam including a bit of “Let it Go” in one of their sets:

• Take “Master of Puppets” by Metallica and some “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees and you’ve got an interesting clash of musical styles perpetuated by men with long hair called Master of Stayin’ Alive.

• Submitted for the Game of Thrones reference more than anything else is this blending of the show’s music with Phil Collins, giving us In the Castamair Tonight. Oh lawd, oh lawd…

• And this one might be a stretch for a musical post if it wasn’t for the inclusion of “Spirit in the Sky.” Here’s a fan-made trailer for Star Wars done Guardians of the Galaxy-style.

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Where have I been all week? Coloring ps238, mostly!

by Aaron Williams on June 27, 2014 at 4:40 PM
Posted In: Sequential Artistry

tylerLet me clear out the tumbleweeds and notify anyone who might have missed it that three all-new pages of ps238 have gone up this week in full color, starting here! This is what my eventual Kickstarter will be about, funding printed versions of this new story along with any other stretch goals we can come up with. I’ll dump some link backlogs tonight, as well as a new page of Use Sword On Monster, so keep an eye out for those!

Now I need to go work some more and keep as far away from the Steam Summer Sale as possible…

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