"I look like an otter! A sexy otter!"

[kingandy]

Check this shit out. If you pay them the princely sum of eighty pounds, they will let you walk away with a Game Cube console. However, if you agree to take a copy of WWE Wrestlemania X8 off their hands at the same time, not only will they not charge you extra for the privilege, but they will reward you by throwing in an "Essentials Pack" - extra controller and 4MB memory card (chicken feed, but probably worth it for the trouble of throwing WWE Wrestlemania in the bin).

That must be one fucked-up game, yo.

In other news: Just watched an episode of My Hero with one of the worst time-travel efforts ever. I know it's only a sit-com, but I'm very tired of the idea that if you travel to a point in time you've visited before you replace the previous iteration of yourself. Besides, surely there's some mileage in the idea of actually having to prevent your past self doing something, rather than just going back in time and not doing it? Sea Lab 2021 showed us that much...

ETA: Found roaming the Adult Swim site - ever wonder what happened to Ren & Stimpy creator John K? He's still working!

Comments

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

I can see Nintendo have already made a deal for your soul. You look upon their hardware with lust that cannot be dissuaded. Don't say I didn't warn you....

[kingandy]

I only note the pricing structure, Holmes. No purchases have yet been made...

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

However my keen observation of your behaviour is that you mention the GameCube more often than the other systems. The marketdroids have placed the thought in your mind and it won't be excised until you hand over your money....

Or it could be you just want a system that matches your !boyfriend

[kingandy]

sssssshhhhhhh

we're not a couple

Actually, the main reason I want a purple game cube is here... also it's a dying format so may come down in price, and (even more importantly) has a Zelda game.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Hmm. It's a time travel model, I guess. It doesn't take into account the (ahem) Sliding Doors concept of chaos - that the slightest change can wildly alter all outcomes across the world.

However, I'm not really in a position to comment as my favourite time-travel model is either alternative pasts, or "oh my god! You squished a butterfuly, you Fool! Now we is all Nazis. Boo hoo" one. jfs no doubt knows more.

[kingandy]

It didn't make any sense! They travelled through time by flying into space and through a "time tunnel" (apparently naturally-occurring), so the "replacing of past self" thing would mean that the past self spontaneously disappeared. They could do this with such precision that they could at at any point in time. And then they used that method - physically travelling into the past, and then standing there and not doing something - to avoid one of the travellers getting a vasectomy (earlier in the episode).

On the plus side, they were using the "Butterfly Effect" unpredictable consequences model - every time they changed something they made the present worse. Not always in obvious ways.

[renniek.livejournal.com]

I find My Hero generally disappointing

[kingandy]

There were actually a couple of laugh-out-loud moments (it may have just appealed to my sensibilities - they travelled 7 years into the future and didn't bother to change the set at all, and somebody said "It's been seven years, you haven't even redecorated?" And one of the Present Perfects had a previously nasty character being really nice, which is only funny if you watch the series a lot). It's just the time travel thing that really annoyed me...