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[Choop]

damn oball swingin the strong sack of knowery tonight

if i could umptouple-can you i would but there's a damn timer

[pmcd9]

I just noticed Lie Bot's angel wings.

[Toaster]

Is Rod referring to the ocean liner or the actual Queen?

[MagFlare]

Also: what the hell game are LN and Taffy playing? My videogame knowledge is pretty extensive - an artifact of a wasted youth - but I can't think of any game that a.) is playable with a Wii Classic controller and b.) requires you to fight Turkish food.

[Victoria Waterfield]

Also: what the hell game are LN and Taffy playing? My videogame knowledge is pretty extensive - an artifact of a wasted youth - but I can't think of any game that a.) is playable with a Wii Classic controller and b.) requires you to fight Turkish food.

Grand Theft Auto: Istanbul?

[theinevitable]

so, I like that there are no Winter sons.

also, my understanding was that the thinness was probably due to some kind of welsh horrid corset.

[pmcd9]

so, I like that there are no Winter sons.

I get the impression that Taffy is a winter son.  And I think there is another son mentioned in Molly's blog that isn't present.  Or did I count the numbers wrong?

also, my understanding was that the thinness was probably due to some kind of welsh horrid corset.

No, she has starved herself to be thin for her wedding.  It's the way things are done.

[jay-ell]

I get the impression that Taffy is a winter son.  And I think there is another son mentioned in Molly's blog that isn't present.  Or did I count the numbers wrong?

No, she has starved herself to be thin for her wedding.  It's the way things are done.

Yes, I too think Taffy is the only winter son.  Based on the fact that the 7/8 strip is titled, "A Winter Son."  Which is easy to miss if you don't get the strips off an RSS feed. 

Also, while I guess a lot of ladies starve themselves, I thought of the Welsh corset thing first, and then thought she looked oddly human-shaped, and maybe that was the point of the corset?  But then I thought that wouldn't explain the weird neck-lines.  Anyway, I didn't starve myself for my wedding, and actually weighed more on my wedding day than I did on our third anniversary.  But then, I'm kind of a freak that way. 

I guess my mother-in-law's seamstress finally refused to take her dress in any further, because she lost so much weight in the weeks before the wedding it had to be taken in multiple times. 

Weird. 

[Ben-San]

Also: what the hell game are LN and Taffy playing? My videogame knowledge is pretty extensive - an artifact of a wasted youth - but I can't think of any game that a.) is playable with a Wii Classic controller and b.) requires you to fight Turkish food.

Either it's a WiiWare title which has yet to receive non-Underground release or they're using a homebrew to emulate UFO Kamen Yakisoban! for the Super Famicom, in which you play as a superhero with a bowl of instant yakisoba on his head and one of the bosses is a man dressed as a gyro (gyros and doner kebab being easily confused, especially without translation). While I can see LN hellz a haxxin da wiiii with his Freeloader disc and hella swap trixx, I have trouble imagining him doing so for the purpose of playing UFO Kamen Yakisoban!.

[wombat]

Can someone tell me how much of that Ben-San is making up?

[jaydub]

I'm trying to decide whether he wrote that in English.

[Ben-San]

Can someone tell me how much of that Ben-San is making up?

None of it. UFO Kamen Yakisoban! was a Super Famicom (Japanese version of the Super NES) game released by the Nissin corporation in 1994 as a tie-in for their UFO Yakisoba brand instant noodles. (Nissin is best known in the US as the makers of Top Ramen.) At the time, the spokesman character for UFO Yakisoba was a superhero named UFO Kamen Yakisoban, who was briefly very popular in Japan much the same way the California Raisins were in the US. By collecting labels from UFO Yakisoba and sending them in with money, one could earn a copy of UFO Kamen Yakisoban!.

The game itself is a side-scrolling brawling game in which one plays as UFO Kamen Yakisoban and battles various colorful enemies while collecting bowls of yakisoba to power up, with the bosses being people dressed as various sorts of other fast food. From the times I played it, I vaguely remember one of the bosses being a gyro or something very similar. It's a decent game but not fantastic; the main things it has going for it are (1) its strange premise and (2) the fact that, as a limited-time promotional offer reward, actual cartridges are rare and therefore quite expensive. These two factors make it popular among gamers emulating video game systems on their computers with illegally-downloaded ROM images of the game cartridges, but as I said it doesn't seem like LN's kind of game.

[wombat]

He's pulling our legs, isn't he? But given that I have a collection of a Japanese character that is a depressed bean paste bun, it's hard to know where to draw the plausibility line.

If he's not, is there some way I can play this game?

[Toaster]

Why can't it just be a fictional game? After all, Picnic Panic and Breast Attack On Fuck Mountain aren't real, are they?

[wombat]

Why can't it just be a fictional game? After all, Picnic Panic and Breast Attack On Fuck Mountain aren't real, are they?

They're not???