“People are suckers for fonts.”

I cannot express how epic a win this is.

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20 Responses to ““People are suckers for fonts.””

  1. Jeremy Dalberg Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 9:46 am

    LOVE

  2. pharniel Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 10:36 am

    wow. southpark callback for second life mockery.

    to quote Gir: “I love this show.”

  3. kalain Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 10:50 am

    So. Wonderful.

  4. Blackblade Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 11:25 am

    That was so awesome….

  5. chabuhi Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    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. hellfire Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    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 Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    The virtual war on terror is serious business!

  8. Kayn Gliteractica Cookie 4 Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    “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. D-0ne Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    /snicker

  10. tannenburg Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 3:38 pm

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

  11. gawain the blind Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    You realize what this means, right?

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

  12. DJ Larkin Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 5:07 pm

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

  13. Anticorium Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    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 Says:
    April 8, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    Needs more flying peni.

  15. Wagner James Au Says:
    April 9, 2008 at 1:17 am

    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 Says:
    April 9, 2008 at 10:27 am

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

    Que?

  17. Baroo Says:
    April 9, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    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 Says:
    April 9, 2008 at 6:09 pm

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

  19. Anticorium Says:
    April 11, 2008 at 7:54 am

    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 Says:
    April 11, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    For anyone like Stormwaltz try

    http://www.spike.com/episode/26738/st/2969746?cmpnid=716&pt=sr&refsite=7103

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