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[CortJstr]

http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-adventures-in-text.html

This is weird timing. I was really bored about work last week and just installed some "interactive fiction" programs. Yesterday I played one where you're trapped in a balloon with a guy whose overcoat carrying capacity rivals that of Jerry Steiner

[littlefallsmets]

I could see an Achewood text-based retro-game being interesting.

Sorta along the lines of what Homestarrunner did except... y'know... R-rated. That has always been my one problem with Homestarrunner, actually, the cartoons have always felt kind of confined creatively by their family-friendliness.

Also, it'd be nice if an Achewood version of it would be... large and needlessly sprawling as opposed to relatively plot-based as the Homestar experiments were.

[Golfhaus]

I don't know... I always thought part of the charm of H*R was that they didn't work blue. Everything that's "Internet-exclusive" takes advantage of the freedom to show nekkid people/cats/*****s/geraniums/etc. The Chaps don't do that, even though Homestar himself doesn't wear any #####.

That being said, I haven't visited H*R in about two years.

[littlefallsmets]

I'm not saying that I need to see, like, Marzipan getting fingered by Homestar's invisible hand or anything... though I'm sure there are people out there who'd pay Large Bucks to see that, now that I mention it.

I'm just saying, there are some characters and some situations where a little cursing is the logical dialogue for the moment and... to not use that dialogue pulls me out of the moment of the entertainment medium.

I mean, Strong Bad's supposed to be a lil stinker, y'know, for example. Every once in a while, dude's gonna swear. The fact that he doesn't, it kinda pulls a dude out.

[wombat]

OK, we know Philippe for president won't work. But maybe the next administration could appoint him Crazy Guys Czar.

[lprkn]

In charge of The War on Insanity. And we all know how our Wars on Stuff go.

[Golfhaus]

I dunno, Philippe. Your idea sounds a lot like Bumfights to me. Then again, you are five.

[littlefallsmets]

Y'know, I am not usually with Phillipe on political points but...

I am all for closing every Wendys in Los Angeles.

Maybe some of them would turn into In-And-Outs, which we are desperately short on.

[Lister]

The West Coast needs more Chick-fil-A.

That is all.

[Golfhaus]

I'll give you my local Chick-Fil-A if I can get an In-N-Out from you.

Then again, we have Five Guys, which isn't the same, but is still hell of awesome in the burger sense.

[CortJstr]

I'll give you my local Chick-Fil-A if I can get an In-N-Out from you.

Then again, we have Five Guys, which isn't the same, but is still hell of awesome in the burger sense.

I'm not a chick-fil-a fan. Pickles are gross and fuck closing on Sunday.

I hope Five Guys doesn't degrade now that they've gone franchise and there are more than 5 of them. But hey, some of the new ones even take credit cards, so that's nice.

[theinevitable]

there is a five guys real close to my house.

[wombat]

Uh oh, sounds like the second cookbook is all Teodor-style.

[Ben-San]

I'm not saying that I need to see, like, Marzipan getting fingered by Homestar's invisible hand or anything... though I'm sure there are people out there who'd pay Large Bucks to see that, now that I mention it.

I'm just saying, there are some characters and some situations where a little cursing is the logical dialogue for the moment and... to not use that dialogue pulls me out of the moment of the entertainment medium.

I mean, Strong Bad's supposed to be a lil stinker, y'know, for example. Every once in a while, dude's gonna swear. The fact that he doesn't, it kinda pulls a dude out.

In interviews, the creators have said that they're not deliberately aiming to be family-friendly but rather to capture a certain sort of feel from their childhood and adolescence - Nintendo and Atari, early computer games, Saturday morning cartoons, etc. The "family friendly" aspect is an outgrowth of the vibe they're going for.

[colmore]

Good to know his fingernails aren't like 3 inches long or anything.  It's a little funny how we expect web celebrities to be constantly visible to the public.  Nature of the medium I guess.