7 posts tagged “meme”

Taken from mojojessjo@LJ:

Go to IMDB.com and look up 10 of your favorite TV shows.  Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks.  Have your friends guess the show names.

1. Small Town, Kansas, Nuclear Attack
2. Wizard, Magic, Private Investigator
3. Stop Motion, Adult Humor, Sketch Comedy
4. Stupidity, Saskatchewan, Actor Shares First Name With Character
5. Awkward, Pennsylvania, Based On British TV Series
6. Man With No Name, Gadget, Eccentricity
7. Memory Loss, Sibling Incest Subtext, Cheerleader
8. Cliffhanger, Surreal, Scientific Experiment
9. Mansion, Rabbit, Teenage Girl
10. Shakespeare, Manhattan, Illuminati

Some of these are really obvious, others are obvious if you know me.

Via Official Shrub.com Blog, a game covers meme.

The original challenge, from Yudhishthira’s Dice, was geared towards women gamers:

Ladies, what RPG covers (or interiors) have you seen that involve a woman in the art that make you say, “I want to play that” or, just as good “I want to play her.” Or that make you feel like it is a game you could like, or be included in by a group of guys you’d never met and whose maturity you didn’t neccisarily know?

Meme Rules:

1. Copy the text of the original challenge from Yudhishthira’s Dice and give a proper link attribution.
2. Copy these rules exactly.
3. Find images of game covers (interiors are okay, too) that make you want to play the game. Any kind of game — video game, card game, tabletop RPG, etc — is fine. Post them and include a short (or long) explanation on why the image makes/made you want to play the game.
4. The original challenge is about finding out what women think about how game art is marketed and therefore it is targeted at women. I’d like to keep it that way, please.
5. You can tag as many or as few people as you want. You do not need to be tagged to participate in the meme.
6. When you make your post, please post the link on this thread so we can all see what others have said.

I'm kind of violating rule 4 here by talking about the covers when I wasn't part of the original challenge, but I'll try not to co-opt things.

Might and Magic

Might and Magic 1.  At a time when CRPG artwork meant bad fantasy-novel covers (I'm looking at you, Dragon Wars), Might and Magic's cover was simply part of the game map - but it was an interesting map, with a lot more detail than the other games of the time.  And it was in a spiral-bound notebook rather than a game box, which gave it more of a pen-and-paper feel.

Wasteland, Neuromancer and Starflight.  I'm cheating a bit here, because part of what hooked me on these boxes was the fact that they were Electronic Arts/Interplay "square boxes."  But Wasteland had its postapocalyptic Western showdown, Neuromancer its pixellated cyberpunk head, and Starflight its spaceship boldly going forth, back when all of these genres were relatively unexplored in computer gaming.

Archon

Archon.  I didn't discover Archon through its cover; a friend had a copy.  But it's the most emblematic cover I've ever seen with its almost Escheresque symmetry and contrast.

• The games I've picked, from memory, are much older.  These days, I don't really go on cover art because I have the Internet to keep me informed on what's out there.  At best, I'll spot a game - usually because the art signifies a genre I like, like RPGs - and look it up later.
• I don't much care for representations of people in my cover art.  The only face is in AMFV (maybe Neuromancer too) and that's more because of the background images.  Contrast this with Tekanji's picks, which tend to feature women that she'd like to play as.  I think that, because I'm in the "target" demographic, I don't look for this - very few games are going to directly alienate me.  That said, I do get turned off by exploitative art, like the cover of Dragon Wars, or more recently the ubiquitous MMORPG ads featuring half-naked elf women.  I want to be able to show games to my friends and not have to apologize for the covers.
• I also don't care for art that attempts to suggest the visual style of the game.  In part, I'm always skeptical of it - there's no guarantee that the game will match the art.  I make a bit of an exception for games in which the visual style is unique and a key element, like Okami.

Taken from mylittleredgirl:

The story: A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Golden Girls has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently freed the TV fairy from a televised hell in which she was made to watch endless reruns of Are You Hot?, and as fairies tend to be when freed, she is very grateful and wants to grant you magic wishes.

Now, the fairy has only TV-related powerz, and so she offers you the chance to go back in time and retroactively CHANGE the history of your favorite TV shows with 3.5 wishes!

You can go back in time and erase from the fabric of TV history THREE individual episodes of any TV show you want! The rest of the series(es) will not be altered. What do you choose?

Angel, "A Hole in the World" - even if the rest of the series can't be altered, this was a giant plot contrivance and blatant manipulation of the Wes/Fred shippers.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Seeing Red" - the scene with the attempted rape was just atrociously handled, and spawned endless wankery.

Lost, "Stranger In a Strange Land" - it may just be recency effect, but this was an awful episode that served no purpose.

You can go back in time and revive ONE unfairly cancelled television show and return it to the annals of TV history!* *CHOOSE WISELY, because if you attempt to revive more than one show, the wish will backfire and you'll instead be treated to a whole bunch of crappy made-for-TV "reunion" movies full of replacement actors.

Firefly.  A cliche choice, but I'd pick it over John Doe and Century City.

To balance out the historical TV viewing schedule, you now have the power to retroactively CANCEL, at any point during the series, any one show! Alternately, you can weild your destructive might and DELETE one whole entire series from ever having been made.

I'd cancel Sliders after season four, before they replace Jerry O'Connell.  What is it about sci-fi shows in the 90s and godawful final seasons?

LIFE AND DEATH! You can now bring ONE character back from the dead... and, to restore the balance, you must also kill off a character! They don't have to be from the same fandom.

Resurrect:  John Winchester, Supernatural
Kill off:  Lana Lang, Smallville

Bonus tradeoff: you can delete a single scene, relationship pairing or plot arc from any series that gave you hives... AND you can plug in any one [scene, pairing, plot arc] that you never got to see!

Removed plot arc:  The "Circle of the Black Thorn" plot arc at the end of Angel.
Plug in:  A decent resolution to either John Doe or Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Send the fairy to some other DVRs:
Anyone that does fandom stuff - not sure who does and who doesn't.

Meme ganked from a bunch of places.

1. I won the Orange County Spelling Bee in fifth grade; my winning word was "bivouac."  For this feat I received a savings bond and a copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.  In sixth grade, I didn't make it past the school-wide competition, because I confused "propellent" and "propellant."  In seventh grade, I missed out on a trip to Disneyland with the honor society, of whom my then-crush was president, because I used the British "diphthong" instead of the American "dipthong."
2. The first day of my first job, I knocked over an entire pallet of computer monitors in front of my supervisor's boss.  Somehow, I didn't get fired.
3. I have a triangular scar on my right index finger from when I was running to catch a bus and tried to grab a signpost to change direction.  It was one of those metal posts with holes, like a giant erector set, and my finger got sliced by the edge.  I caught the bus, but my hand was a bloody mess the entire ride.  I also have a small scar on the knuckle of that hand from a childhood skateboarding accident.
4. A small hypertext piece I wrote back in 1996 was a bit of a one-hit-wonder in academia; it was quoted in the next edition of my professor's book and appeared on the syllabus of courses at at least three different universities.
   
5. Although I have a valid driver's license, I have not driven an automobile in almost ten years.
   

Taken from redbeard@lj (apologies for the length of the post - get a cut tag, Vox!)

Go to Google, and image search the following questions. Post your favorite picture [within the first page's results] that comes up!

[Your age on your next birthday]

[The last meal you ate]

[Your middle name]

[Your bad habit]

[Your favorite fruit or vegetable]

[Your favorite animal]

[The town/city that you live in]

[The name of your pet -- or your ideal pet name]

[Your first name]

[Your last name]