And, while I’m snarfing links from other blogs, two choice entries from PlasticBag: (1) A rather lame “amateur” anti-Gore YouTube video turns out to be the work of GOP agit-prop artists, likely at the behest of Exxon; and (2) to keep up with the times, everyone’s favorite real estate robber baron simulation, Monopoly, is forsaking the multicolored cash for debit cards. “It is inserted into an electronic machine where the banker taps in cardholders’ earnings and payments.“
Tag: Gaming
Dot Dot Dot.
“Blinky: The most cunning and most dangerous: Fast and trying to corner you with direction changes. When he’s after you run quick and run twisty through lots of corners to shake (as with all others, cornering successive turn is most likely to lose the ghost)…Blinky owns and patrols the top right hand corner of the maze.” Having trouble with Ghosts in the Machine? DYFL points the way to a handy primer on how to excel at Pac-Man.
A Numbers Game.
Also via Blivet (as well as Webgoddess), and in a great blow for those of us inclined toward the crossword side of things, this helpful site offers a foolproof, grind-it-out method of beating any Sudoku puzzle out there (provided you have a pencil and eraser.) Well, that’s not much fun, is it?
Escape from New York.
And, in related news, the Knicks end their thoroughly depressing 23-59 season with a meaningless win over the playoff-bound New Jersey Nets. (Of course, the nightmare won’t fully be over until Chicago uses our possible #1 pick, which it scored in the Curry trade after Isiah Thomas, not the best GM out there, neglected to lottery-protect it.) And now, the post-mortem begins: Larry Brown sounds like he’ll be back for now, which means many of the more recalcitrant Knicks this year (I’m looking at you, “Starbury”) are likely as good as gone. Still, one small bit of consolation for Garden fans this season, courtesy of swingman Jalen Rose: “I put together our roster on ‘NBA Live,’ and we’re pretty good.”
Stick Figure Theater.
Two decently amusing fanimation links courtesy of Ed Rants (who, it should be noted, has had a really lousy week): Stick Figure Dragon’s Lair and Raiders of the Lost Ark in GIF form. Enjoy.
West of House.
“You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door. There is a small mailbox here.” PHP Zork. (Via Must See HTTP://)
I Want Simbody to Share…
Capitalizing on the computer world they live in (and life in general), Depeche Mode recut their latest single, “Suffer Well,” in Simslish for The Sims 2: Open For Business.
Twenty Years at Hyrule House.
Before links, there was Link. Happy 20, Zelda. (Via Ed Rants)
Block Party.
In keeping with LEGO’s recent renaissance as an font of funny memes (this link via pretty much everywhere), check out these LEGO’d video game screens (by way of Lotta.)
The Lurking Horror.
“> EXAMINE CHAIRS
They are two several chairs arranged around the center of the room, along with two couches. Under one couch you find Clinton’s shoes.
> FILL SHOES
You are unable to fill Clinton’s shoes.“
This may be the funniest political Internet post I’ve seen since the Cheney poker game: By way of WebGoddess and from the brain of Defective Yeti, it’s the George W. Bush text adventure. Beware of lurking grues, special prosecutors, and that goshdarned Constitution.