General "The Funny" news, plus- "A Word on Buttons"


Ok, here's where we are on various projects.

BU comic- Bu might get put on hold for a little while, at least the comic version. With any luck i'll start posting more stories here and there to bide the time. The artist I wanted to use, Jordan, just got back from a tour on a navy boat. I think we're gonna focus on his comic, Dark Duality (I'm writing it. It's cool. different) soon, at least I hope. If we get that off the ground, maybe I can guilt him into starting mine :)

Fourth Wall-

Apparently Jon, or "The crazy german" as I like to call him, is doing techie type things for some play. He claims he'll start up again when he gets more time. Crazy capricious artists. Heh. I might refer him to this page so he can see some of your comments on the page he drew. Maybe that'll get him going on it. Once we have the comic up, I will likely be annoying many of you to help me spread the word.

Comments- Right i forgot. Blogger randomly changed on me, and now you have to approve every comment that comes in. So a lot of your comments from the last 6 months are randomly showing up again. Heh.

BU script- I hope to get back to this at some point. You guys have some settings picked out so sometime i'll grab one and roll with it.


Oh by the way- The old fanfic I was writing for "Critical Craft" has started up again. Sorry, felt the need to pimp that. I know I know, it's fanfic. Maybe i'm the only sane person who think fanfic can be good if it's written right. But mine is. Damnit.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2051354/1/

I think it's dynamic enough to be ok even for non-rpg nerds. Lotsa weird crap. Ghost Chameleons, dough turning into steel, nerds being threatened by muscular hockey players, and later on, a major character even gets killed by bee stingers.

Spoilerified!

And now:

A Word on Buttons-

I've recently encountered a weird fact of the universe.

There are now buttons that can do absolutely freaking anything. We know from "The Jetsons" that making one button to do utterly any task known to man has been an american dream for a good 40 years now.

You know, ever since George Jetson made his entire carreer pushing one button. And he seemed to have other buttons in his reportiore that kept Jane from divorcing him, Elroy from joing the circus, etc.

I think the best modern example that capitalizes on this futuristic american wet dream, is in the opening to the "Power Rangers". I was watching the intro the other day when, er uh, I mean, evil demon hate-monkies strapped me to their nefarious torture machine that made me watch 90's action shlock, when i noticed something.

The beginning has a giant floating head say to this little robot thing-

"Alpha, we need 5 teenagers, with ATTITUDE". Then Alpha, (the afore mentioned robot) hits a button, and the 5 teenagers appear in the transporter.

That's right. He hit ONE button. That means he had a button labeled "kidnap 5 teenagers w/attitude" on his console for a rainy day. Just think what else is on that console...

"Alpha, I need 7 purple habrindashers wearing full civil-war gear!"

BEEP.

"Good, now turn Sweeden into a giant hybrid grape/radish."

BEEP.

That freaking simple.

The other thing I noticed about buttons is that those little 'games' you play on internet ads where you 'win a free ipod after 40 hours of back breaking labour' are getting lamer and lamer. I used to amuse myself by seeing how long i could NOT zap the monkey before probability caught up to me.

But they've finally done it. Now there are games out there that you CAN'T lose. There was one that shows a race car behind two other cars. It's helpfully labelled "hit the button to speed up!" next to a giant red button. You hit the button ONCE and you immediately win. The car races to a finish line before you can utter a physics-based objection.

No. Shut up. You WILL win a free Ipod and you will LIKE IT.

I feel like there must be some Confucian adage about buttons pressing you that I could quote. I guess i'll just leave you with an implied Yakov Smirnoff joke, since you were thinking it anyway.

"In Soviet Russia, button pound you!"