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[muji]

Ungh. I get to work earlier than Johns Hopkins releases its delays and closings data. Screw you too, random city university. *sigh*

IN OTHER NEWS:

1. Anyone been getting a lot of spammers lately on pup journals?
2. What canon are people not watching/reading/consuming that they really should be and why?

Comments

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

I do occasionally get spammers friending my journals (main and pup) and one weird situation where I had spammers leaving replies to an old RP thread. But I haven't seen any lately. They tend to come in occasional intense plagues, like locusts.

[innerbrat]

1. Lots of spammers on my mun journal, actually, on a bunch of really old posts. It's exciting, though: I'm getting to read thngs I wrote years ago. What old RP plots are these spammers turning up?

2. Capital Scandal! Also No Ordinary Family.

[camwyn]

Lots of spammers with the subject line 'provides access'. They're usually anonymous and tagging with Engrish drivel about the wonderful blog entry, lots of information. One spamtag in Cyrillic except for a link to some LJ named devil-and-god-inc or something like that.

Some days I wish I could use computer code as an arcane connection, a la hair and fingernails, blood, personal items, what have you. Just to bestow painful but curable diseases on the people who write this crap. If you're going to infect my system, I get to infect yours. It's only fair.

*ahem*

Anyway. Canons. I've played 9/10 of the way through Psychonauts and am of the opinion that we should really have people from this canon in the Bar. And that more people should play it so that they will understand what I mean when I start frothing at the mouth and raving incoherently about the Meat Circus, which would be that last tenth I haven't played. Thank God for Youtube.

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would know what you meant by Meat Circus. Oh God, the Meat Circus...

[camwyn]

There's a reason I play RPGs. It's because I SUCK AT PLATFORMING. There's a reason Gordon's early OOMs involve him clinging to the cliff faces at Black Mesa and being stricken silent with terror. It's because I SUCK AT PLATFORMING AND MY PLATFORMING CHARACTERS TEND TO FALL SCREAMING TO THEIR DEATHS.

So you can imagine my joy at the Meat Circus.

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

It's not just a matter of sucking at platforming. It's because of design flaws. Yahtzee says so. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2-Psychonauts)

[camwyn]

Eh, I don't visit Yahtzee's site. Even if it really is design flaws, I still spent a fair portion of the game before that screaming about not being much good at platforming anyway. Never have been.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

I haven't even played Psychonauts and I know about the Meat Circus. It is absolutely infamous.

(Also I know at least a little bit about everything thanks to my connection to the Troper Hivemind)

[gorgonfondness]

Mmm, Psychonauts. If I can get Ford Cruller to move in here with any sort of permanence, I'll app him.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Ben's been getting spam off and on but none of my others.

Canon that may be missed: Sandman Slim (http://www.amazon.com/Sandman-Slim-Novel-Richard-Kadrey/dp/0061714305) (which might best described as what would happen if John Constantine had become a Hitman) and the Kate Daniels series (http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Bites-Kate-Daniels-Book/dp/0441014895/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2) of books (it's like what White Wolf would have made if they had made Rifts or Shadowrun, i.e. lots of fun! The covers are very cheesy but the books are good).

[walksbyherself]

Seconding the Kate Daniels books so hard. The badness of the covers is inversely proportional to the awesomeness of the books, IMHO, so book five should be AMAZING.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I can't wait. I'm about 2/3s of the way through book 4 and dreading the wait to the next.

As to the covers, it amazes me that the artists can't even get her sword right.

[kd7sov]

A few on my main journal - though all, for some reason, screened. I may have to see if one of my settings changed without my noticing.

Golden Sun No, I know I say that too much to too little effect. Um...

...

Does C.S. Lewis' nonfiction count? I mean, I know it wouldn't be a valid pup-source even if it had actual characters, but I've been rereading some lately and it's just amazingly inspirational.

[sardonicynic]

1) I was inordinately amused when spbathrooms friended Kate Warner's journal after mention of her DIY renovation-in-progress at Bill's house in Wheelsy.

2) I cannot say enough incredible things about Amy Greene's Bloodroot or Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists; both feature sharp, visceral writing, and characters so faceted and flawed they're real. Gold stars all around, for serious.

[ashen_key]

Speaking of renovations, Crys, we should do the whole bathroom with Trudy helping thing one day. :D?

[thebattycakes]

*approves of ths so hard*

YISS!

[ashen_key]

\O/

[sardonicynic]

AHAHA, get out of my brain, woman.

For serious, e-mailing you about that very scenario has been on my mind for the past week! We have Bat's blessing (and Bill's, unbeknownst to him, bwah!); once I'm home and not sitting in traffic, typing on my phone? Muahaha, expect SHENANIGANS in your inbox. :D!

[ashen_key]

YAY, SHENANIGANS.

[ceitfianna]

I'm going to use some of my holiday money to buy Bloodroot and many other books. It was also so lovely to thread with you. *snugs*

[sardonicynic]

It was just released in paperback. :D

And you, m'dear! I, uh, had forgotten what it's like to EP; it's amazing to have in-bar threads again, bwah.

[ceitfianna]

I know, that was what made me go, ooh, that works. Also Borders always sends me coupons and I have holiday money so that means time to buy books.

[bcgphoenix]

Ugh, yeah. I've only gotten a few spam comments on my mun journal, but one community I follow -- which isn't even a super-huge community! It's baffling! -- has been getting near-daily Cyrillic spam posts for the past couple of weeks. (Including a porn advertisement once. Always fun. *dry*) I don't know what's up, but I'd like it to stop, please.

...also, my cat seems convinced that since it's nearly two hours past when I normally leave for work and I'm still puttering around the apartment, that means MORE PLAY TIME YAY. Kitten, that is not how two-hour delays work. I'm sorry. *pats her*

[minkhollow]

Got a few anon spam comments on my mun journal (shut that up by turning off anon commenting for now), but nothing on my RP journals or on any of my communities. (But like Pho said, one of the comms I watch is getting the RANDOM CYRILLIC SPAM FUNTIMES. Very annoying.)
As for canons, we need some Five Fists of Science characters. Because one-shot comic about Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla saving the world through science? YES PLS.
(And as ever I think more people should check out Warehouse 13.)

[ladyiapetus]

In the past I've gotten a few on Malu's journal (God, I need to play her again), though recently the spam comments have been creeping up on the pup journals I have for Theatrical Muse.

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

I keep getting incoherent Harry Potter-related spam, for some reason. Go figure.

As far as canons go, anyone who's a horror fan needs to check out the indie computer game Amnesia: the Dark Descent. I have briefly considered making a journal for the player character, but I'm afraid actually roleplaying him would cause my brain to try to escape through my left ear.

[ceitfianna]

Yes. I have, they're annoying things.

I'm such a fan of Kij Johnson's books and recommend her stuff, its fantasy set in medieval Japan. She writes about shapeshifters and is just amazing. The books I've read are Fudoki and I recently started The Fox Woman.

Also I started the Otori Chronicles and the Attolia series and they're both wonderful.

[gorgonfondness]

Not much spam but there was a little a few years ago for one of mine. Don't really remember much about it.

The canon I'm the most obsessed with right now is the new-to-me manga Liar Game. I ran into it randomly on TV Tropes, started reading it, and got hooked deep. If you're anything like me and love learning about game theory and watching battles of wits, you'll enjoy reading Liar Game.

My dad recently got me into Ugly Americans by gifting me with the first season for Christmas. I'm only sad that I don't have DVDs of the next season yet but what're you gonna do? Besides tell others they should watch it and that someone should really app Leonard, that is?

Dad has also reminded me of how much I love Futurama (and in relation to that, how much I love Dr. Zoidberg) by gifting me with seasons 3 and 4.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, I have gotten a couple of spammers friending my LJ. So odd.

As for New Canons YAY! I can't recommend "The Hunger Games" and Pratchett's Discworld enough. (I'm just finishing up: "I shall wear midnight" at the moment.)

[cupenny.livejournal.com]

I tend to get random spam posts on Atticus' old LJ, oddly enough. None of my other pups.