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“People are suckers for fonts.”

April 8th, 2008
  1. Jeremy Dalberg
    April 8th, 2008 at 09:46 | #1

    LOVE

  2. pharniel
    April 8th, 2008 at 10:36 | #2

    wow. southpark callback for second life mockery.

    to quote Gir: “I love this show.”

  3. kalain
    April 8th, 2008 at 10:50 | #3

    So. Wonderful.

  4. Blackblade
    April 8th, 2008 at 11:25 | #4

    That was so awesome….

  5. chabuhi
    April 8th, 2008 at 12:17 | #5

    I don’t see how you all can just sit here and joke about what amounts to virtually a terrorist training ground!!

    I wonder if I could get Congress to earmark a few billion $$ for my virtual war on terror … oh, wait.

  6. April 8th, 2008 at 12:29 | #6

    For a measly 5 million I can and will mount a virtual war on virtual terror. I promise I will be at LEAST as successful as the war on drugs!

    Make the check out to “cash”, please.

  7. syncaine
    April 8th, 2008 at 13:44 | #7

    The virtual war on terror is serious business!

  8. Kayn Gliteractica Cookie 4
    April 8th, 2008 at 14:48 | #8

    “It’s official. Congress has given up on the actual world!”

    To quote Nathan Lane afterwards…
    “I shall be haunted by porpoise breasts for weeks to come”

  9. April 8th, 2008 at 14:49 | #9

    /snicker

  10. tannenburg
    April 8th, 2008 at 15:38 | #10

    The problem, hellfire, is that they’ll give you the money in WoW gold and Linden Dollars.

  11. April 8th, 2008 at 15:54 | #11

    You realize what this means, right?

    SLS are anti-terrorist HEROES.
    http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari/

  12. DJ Larkin
    April 8th, 2008 at 17:07 | #12

    I loved i when I saw it last night, and I still do.

  13. Anticorium
    April 8th, 2008 at 19:26 | #13

    Yeah, but has there ever been a congressional subcommittee about South by Southwest? Has there? No there has not.

    (It’s not so much that I want to dredge up old topics, as that I’m far too cheap to go to the bookstore to research my term paper on Russian politics of the late 20th century.)

  14. TPRJones
    April 8th, 2008 at 23:52 | #14

    Needs more flying peni.

  15. April 9th, 2008 at 01:17 | #15

    But if they actually shot Riggle’s segment in Second Life, the porpoise’s tits would jiggle:

    http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/01/like-a-natural.html

  16. Stormwaltz
    April 9th, 2008 at 10:27 | #16

    “We’re sorry, but this video is not available.”

    Que?

  17. Baroo
    April 9th, 2008 at 15:15 | #17

    Stormwaltz: I am guessing you’re located outside the US? I get the same message from north of the border.

    Try a proxy located in the US or a VPN service like Hotspot Shield to get yourself a US ip address temporarily. Works great for Pandora, and for watching shows/content on the US tv networks websites that they’re not allowed to broadcast internationally… presumably because they’ve sold the broadcast rights to individual networks in each country.

  18. Merkwurdigliebe
    April 9th, 2008 at 18:09 | #18

    I’d like to hear from Sideshow Prokofy on this.

  19. Anticorium
    April 11th, 2008 at 07:54 | #19

    Just saw this: the comments over at the Washington Post story (which was, in fact, quite a bit more sarcastic than Lum) are a lot more favorable about the obviousness of the awesomeness of Second Life and the cluelessness of anyone who would dare question the necessity of this hearing. And I cannot help but think it’s because it’s more fun to lecture than to listen.

    People know that if they took their utopianism here, they’d have to engage in conversations involving folks who know and build virtual worlds and can see through the exaggerations. They wouldn’t be able to lecture morons who don’t understand the concept (pfft). It kind of sucks having to admit that there are other people, who don’t love your perfect game not out of ignorance, but because they know something you don’t.

    But mostly, I’ve learned that conversations about virtual worlds with people who know nothing but Second Life are just so damn boring. It’s like trying to talk about pen-and-paper RPG design with a kid who’s never played anything but red box D&D. It’s their character did this and their character did that and they got this and that magic item and there was a rust monster over and over until you just can’t help but walk away.

  20. d_w
    April 11th, 2008 at 13:41 | #20
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