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My favorite online comics:

Penny Arcade:
-My favorite strip: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16
-Also good: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/29
-Explanation: mostly discussion of video game industry and popular entertainment culture. Sometimes violent or overly ironic.

V. G. Cats: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/
-My favorite strip: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=150
-Also good: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=186
-Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Arcade_%28webcomic%29
-Explanation: mostly discussion of video game industry and popular entertainment culture. Very good at mocking films.

Dinosaur Comics:
-My favorite strip: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=619
-Also good: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=881
-Also good: or http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=29
-Also good: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=10
-Also good: or http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=883
-Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Comics
-Explanation: uses the same panels with different dialogue every week. Focuses on philosophy and culture commentary, as well as language jokes.
-NOTE: if you hold your cursor over the comic, a bonus joke pops up in the little yellow tool-tip thing

Head Trip Comics: http://headtripcomics.livejournal.com/
-My favorite strip: http://headtripcomics.livejournal.com/1431.html
-Explanation: mostly discussion of popular entertainment culture, but with female protagonists' views. Not updated regularly anymore.


Video Joke Sites:

Ask A Ninja: http://askaninja.com/
-My favorite episode: http://askaninja.com/episodes?page=1 "Ninternships"

Ask A Republican: http://www.askarepublican.com/Welcome.html


Recommended by my cousin:
-PVP Online: http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20020401
-Perry Bible Fellowship: http://pbfcomics.com/

There's a short blurb about anime on the G4 network where one of the people who run the Anime News Network website is being interviewed beside a cosplayer (woman, decent constume but bad wig) and a screenwriter (for what, I don't know.) The link has a video clip, which I watched. I wanted to smack the interviewer; he was incredibly patronizing. I mean, I've seen some people roll their eyes at the idea of anime conventions or whatever, but this guy went into the interview with some very negative preconceived notions and then basically accused the ANN guy and the cosplayer of being these false stereotypes, while at the same time mocking them. It seemed unnecessarily negative from the start. The ANN guy and the cosplayer had to keep defending anime fans as being "mostly normal." When the point of the G4 show's feature segment is to discuss how popular and mainstream anime is getting, it's pretty stupid to try to say that all anime fans are obsessive and crazy.


The whole attitude kind of baffles me, because it's not like this host jerk hasn't probably ever heard of sci fi conventions or Trekkies, or hasn't met a costuming sports fanatic. Cosplay isn't new to the US-- it's just appearing in a slightly new way with anime fans.

The host also seemed to really want to paint anime fans as being the "anime can do no wrong" bubble or something. I found this a ridiculous argument when applied to any group larger than a dozen people. (40,000+ people at Anime Expo this year! Of cours they must ALL be existing in a bubble of non-reality, no problem with that theory) So did the ANN interviewee. The host even asked him if he "would pick anime over any other type of animation any day, right?" And the ANN guy looks at him like he's an idiot and says he loves Pixar movies and Disney too and there's no reason to "pick" anime over other stuff.


Anyway, I don't think the interviewer was very fair or even very good (he interrupted a lot), and he seemed to have this arrogance about being superior to anime fans. Comming from the host of an obscure cable show devoted to video games... that's pretty ridiculus to have any notion of superiority at all. I also found it offensive because when I go to the manga aisle of the Barnes & Noble, it's not like I'm going to a secret geek meeting in the dark of night. I'm going to the bookstore to by manga or DVDs, and right beside me are a slew of other people who watch anime for fun and don't go to meetings at the dark of night. It's not that big of a deal.

Of course, if there were meetings at the dark of night in bookstores I'd go. But they don't have to even be about anime. Just the words "midnight" "meeting" and "bookstore" would get me there.



Apropos of nothing, did y'all know there was a community out there called dwliterotica? How come I did not know that?

Giles is a pain in my slayer neck.

He hobbles about and I have to waste 4 continues trying to keep him from getting killed.

Anyway, I'm on level 5 now, wandering the FE's version of Alternate!Sunnydale looking for my Scoobies.

Is it just me, or does VideoGame!Buffy stand just a little too close to VideoGame!Ethan Rayne?

AAAAAAAACK! My VideoGame!Buffy has sexual chemistry with the enemy!

....Alright, so it is Buffy we're talking about here and that kind of chemistry is to be expected I suppose. But Ethen? Ick. Clearly fewer pixels on the tv means fewer standards for this heroine's love life. Flirt with Spike, dammit! He's like right next to you! Which button is "flirt" on Playstation controllers?

Best get her back to DVD soon where she's attracted to properly sexy villains.

On other comments... I get a kick out of VideoGame!Willow and VideoGame!Tara together. And the character designs for all the characters are pretty good, I think. In most respects they have made an effort to make them looke like the characters. Willow's eyes are particularly well done.

The Bad News: I'm on level five and I still haven't figured out how to throw the holy water or hellfire bottles.

Also, the game pamphlet says I can kill things with the axe, but so far, not the case. I can damage them with axes, but I have to stake them for them to die.