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Old 04-13-2007, 09:17 AM
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Hey Nate, do you remember the Strange Candy reference I once made at this site?

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The Impossible Quiz: be prepared to waste several hours. Whoever originally gave me this link must die.
Not before you die for passing it on. Fortunately, the MegaMan Battle Network games have given me good practice with quizzes that pointlessly force you to start over again and again.

Seriously, while it's very annoying, it's also just the kind of humour I like. It reminds me of the classic adventure games like Space Quest. (In fact, the same method of solution is applicable: you can eventually win by trying every possible click.)

Mathematicians and geeks in general love this sort of trickery, so I've been making good speed through the questions. Do you know how many there are? I'm calling it quits for tonight at 63 or so.

(Two points for anyone else trying the quiz. One, a little knowledge of 4chan running jokes will serve you well. Two, don't try to cheat with Tab. The game boots you if you do, sorta like how adventure games would punish you for swearing into the interpreter or using information your character doesn't have yet.)
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Old 04-13-2007, 09:42 AM
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Only 63? Quitter!
Oh, and there is 110. I know this because I cheated, and looked it up. By the way, DON'T USE ANY SKIPS! You need them all to pass the last question.

Merely trying trial and error won't work forever, either. This I know from experience (stupid horseshoes).
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Old 04-13-2007, 10:21 AM
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Bob the Angry Flower does Star Control

Bob the Angry Flower does... The Internet

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*stares blankly*

Um, yeah...

*backs away slowly*
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http://www.stupid.com/index.html

I particularly like their candy sushi. Pity they only ship in the USA.
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That is hilarious. I love Star Control. I'm glad Bob the Angry Flower does too.

I don't know if this has ever been pointed out here, but there's a guy who essentially does five-minute video parodies of Yu-gi-oh that he calls Yu-gi-oh the Abridged Series. I've never read or watched or whatevered Yugioh, but I've found these to be hilarious.
http://jentsproductions.com/littlekuriboh/
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Has anyone else seen the (various) 404 page(s) for livejournal? They're quite good for wasting about 2 minutes...

The Surrealist I found after the dungeon fad on LJ. It's good for wasting time.

I particularly like This

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Old 04-13-2007, 03:50 PM
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I concur on Yu-gi-oh: The Abridged Series. Thanks for the download link, as well, I thought they were just on Youtube. Oh, and I HAVE seen Yu-gi-oh (boy, have I ever...), and I've played the card game (ditto), and they are even funnier when you get the references.

Z, for all I know you made a reference and I tracked down the link. Or whatever. When you're online everything starts to blur together. That doesn't dispute the fact that it's a great webcomic.

Is the goat-people thing from Strange Candy? I did searches on Yahoo and Google, and basically when you enter "turns into goat people," it spits back all of the signatures from this forum and nothing else.
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Has anyone else seen the (various) 404 page(s) for livejournal? They're quite good for wasting about 2 minutes...
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http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/errors/404.html
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Ceave Gaming strikes again.


This time he tackles seemingly impossible Mario Maker levels by exploiting little-known mechanics.



I don't consider tricks like this fair. Far too many Mario Maker levels rely on graduate-school levels of knowledge in Mario physics. This stuff should be exclusive to speedruns, not quirky fanlevels.
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Channel Awesome presents an idea for Back to the Future IV.


I'm not sure of how much I like it, but it's at least interesting to consider.
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Norman Lloyd (Professor Galen) died at age 106.


Going through his IMDB I was surprised to see that he was also on another show that I really liked: Seven Days. I never made the connection.
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The Desk of Death Battle tackles the question of whether "James Bond" is actually one guy or simply an alias that goes along with the 007 title.


To me everyone Pre-Craig is the same guy. Tracy married the Lazenby Bond, but it was clearly implied that Moore and Dalton's Bonds were married to the same woman. The references in regard to the Brosnan Bond were more oblique but still there.
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I don't know if this has ever been pointed out here, but there's a guy who essentially does five-minute video parodies of Yu-gi-oh that he calls Yu-gi-oh the Abridged Series. I've never read or watched or whatevered Yugioh, but I've found these to be hilarious.
http://jentsproductions.com/littlekuriboh/
I wasted more than an hour just sitting and watching those. I think the line that cracked me up the most was "It's like something out of H.P. Lovecraft, only gay!"

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