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I'm Riff. I'm a writer for a popular online game called Kingdom of Loathing. This is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

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Cyanide and Happiness
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Overcompensating
Achewood
Starslip Crisis
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Dinosaur Comics
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Wigu
Wonderella
FreakAngels
Lucid TV
A. Charles Christopher
MS Paint Adventures

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The Comics Curmudgeon
Warren Ellis
Slumbering Lungfish
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Jay Is Games
Ectoplasmosis
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Tue Mar 9
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Wow, hey! This was unexpected. Gorillaz’ new album, Plastic Beach is out! This is the first music video, for “Stylo”.

Haven’t bought the album yet, but I’m kind of excited.

The Gorillaz youtube channel has a variety of little teaser trailers and idents and stuff, too.

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Tue Mar 2

OK Go’s new video. Best Rube Goldberg contraption I’ve ever seen, and let me tell you, I’ve seen a few. And yes, according to the creators, it was filmed in a single take (though I doubt it was the first take).

Update: an interview with the creators.

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Tue Feb 23
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Tue Feb 9
So it turns out that AMC has posted all of The Prisoner on their website. This is kind of an amazing thing. If you like spy stories and/or psychological thrillers (read: mindfucks) and haven’t ever watched The Prisoner, well, here’s your chance to repair a seriously deep hole in your life experience.
If you read and liked Grant Morrison’s “The Invisibles”, you need to watch this right goddamn now.

So it turns out that AMC has posted all of The Prisoner on their website. This is kind of an amazing thing. If you like spy stories and/or psychological thrillers (read: mindfucks) and haven’t ever watched The Prisoner, well, here’s your chance to repair a seriously deep hole in your life experience.

If you read and liked Grant Morrison’s “The Invisibles”, you need to watch this right goddamn now.

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Fri Feb 5
(via mybloglovesme)
(Clickthru for the artist’s flickr, which has a ton of other great things.)

(via mybloglovesme)

(Clickthru for the artist’s flickr, which has a ton of other great things.)

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Squeeeeeeeeeee

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Sat Jan 23
Back of the box. I couldn’t decide which sound-effect to use, so I just used them all.

My graphic design teachers would be so proud.

Back of the box. I couldn’t decide which sound-effect to use, so I just used them all.

My graphic design teachers would be so proud.

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So the Lego Design By Me thing is a little pricy — you pay an extra $15-20 over the base parts cost, and that parts cost seems to be the Pick-a-Brick prices, which are already above the average.

But, you get to design your own custom-printed box! That’s pretty cool. You get a custom-printed instruction manual, too.

So the Lego Design By Me thing is a little pricy — you pay an extra $15-20 over the base parts cost, and that parts cost seems to be the Pick-a-Brick prices, which are already above the average.

But, you get to design your own custom-printed box! That’s pretty cool. You get a custom-printed instruction manual, too.

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Sun Jan 17
A little flash platform game called “Life Is Hard”. It’s pretty funny. Click through.

A little flash platform game called “Life Is Hard”. It’s pretty funny. Click through.

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Fri Jan 15

Quotes from the /dev channel

  • 12: 43:48 Thisguy: Heh. There should be a monster that instead of you defeating it in combat, you defeat it in a boardgame.
  • 12: 44:13 Thisguy: There's the combat redesign we all were looking for.
  • 12: 44:31 Thisguy: Different classes get to play different pieces and make different maneuvers.
  • 12: 44:55 Armak: Blind people will love it!
  • 12: 45:13 Gemelli: I'd play Battleship in the Pirate's Cove.
  • 12: 45:54 Armak: I'd play Sorry with the Goth Giants
  • 12: 53:43 Jarkkolives: I'd fight Ghandi.
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Thu Jan 14
Click through for Avatar: The Metacontextual Edition.


RIPLEY: This place is an extremely hostile jungle environment.
JUGHEAD: But if we can find the huge ape and bring it back to New York, we can call it the eighth wonder of the world and make a fortune on tickets.RIPLEY: What?JUGHEAD: Sorry, I got confused, because I have a feeling the next little while is going to be about wandering around a jungle being chased by one ridiculously hostile creature after another. Is there anything in this movie that isn’t derived from other movies?RED-SHIRT: I keep it straight by remembering that the animals here are way more colourful.RIPLEY: Who the fuck are you again?

Click through for Avatar: The Metacontextual Edition.

RIPLEY: This place is an extremely hostile jungle environment.

JUGHEAD: But if we can find the huge ape and bring it back to New York, we can call it the eighth wonder of the world and make a fortune on tickets.

RIPLEY: What?

JUGHEAD: Sorry, I got confused, because I have a feeling the next little while is going to be about wandering around a jungle being chased by one ridiculously hostile creature after another. Is there anything in this movie that isn’t derived from other movies?

RED-SHIRT: I keep it straight by remembering that the animals here are way more colourful.

RIPLEY: Who the fuck are you again?

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You can’t really tell what’s going on here, because I was trying to take a picture of this guy without looking like I was taking a picture of this guy, while at the same time pulling out into traffic.
This is one of those guys you may have seen, standing on the street corner spinning an arrow-shaped sign around. Except, this particular guy is dressed as the Statue of Liberty.
No matter how stupid you think your job is, it doesn’t beat this guy’s job. This guy has the stupidest job in the world.

You can’t really tell what’s going on here, because I was trying to take a picture of this guy without looking like I was taking a picture of this guy, while at the same time pulling out into traffic.

This is one of those guys you may have seen, standing on the street corner spinning an arrow-shaped sign around. Except, this particular guy is dressed as the Statue of Liberty.

No matter how stupid you think your job is, it doesn’t beat this guy’s job. This guy has the stupidest job in the world.

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[S] Enter.
That’s right, it’s the video for the end of MS Paint Adventures: Homestuck: Act III. And it’s even more awesome than the one for the end of Act II, if you can believe it.
I hope to god you’ve been reading this comic, because there’s no way I can manage a recap this time. Far too much has happened. Maybe read my recap for Act II, and then read all of Act III? C’mon, it won’t take that long, and it’s totally worth it.
Or I guess you can click this link, and get your summary there, such as it is, crust-dry wiki style and all. But what fun is that? Come on. Read the comic.

[S] Enter.

That’s right, it’s the video for the end of MS Paint Adventures: Homestuck: Act III. And it’s even more awesome than the one for the end of Act II, if you can believe it.

I hope to god you’ve been reading this comic, because there’s no way I can manage a recap this time. Far too much has happened. Maybe read my recap for Act II, and then read all of Act III? C’mon, it won’t take that long, and it’s totally worth it.

Or I guess you can click this link, and get your summary there, such as it is, crust-dry wiki style and all. But what fun is that? Come on. Read the comic.

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Wed Jan 13
From, unsurprisingly, XKCD. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy self-reference?

From, unsurprisingly, XKCD. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy self-reference?

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