29th Sep2011

Flashback Thursday Presents: DEAR XV: I Am A Goddamned Mess. Please Help.

by Alex

I know more than you.

This has been covered innumerable times. I know more than you, because you’re a sniveling pack of heathenous fuckwits who are barely worth the time it takes to defecate in your shoes and I am a glorious, golden God on earth, a magnificent specimen of virility and all-encompassing knowledge. Let’s review a few of my many accomplishments, shall we?

Kinda like me, only I’m much better hung. Also, more flexible.

 

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26th Sep2011

AIM Comic #53 – (I Didn’t Really Cut)

by Amanda

I know our Depression Theme is dead and buried, and I know you might be thinking at first that this comic deals with the dark facts of self-harm, but don’t worry.  It’s okay.  I wasn’t ACTUALLY sad in this conversation, so it is a humorous interaction through and through!  It also features a nearly-very-unfortunate typoing from me here, which is always cause for cheer.  Oh, oh also I have to confess that Crystal’s hair is apparently not accurate here.  My journalistic integrity is on the line.  But when she told me that her hair is purple now, I had already decided on the panels being purple so it was TOUGH LUCK.  No dice, kids.    There’s always next time.  Her hair has been this color before, at least. (more…)

21st Sep2011

Humpday Gaming: RC Pro-Am (NES)

by Jeremy

Being a ten year-old with a newly acquired NES was probably one of the highlights of my life (fuck you, it was). I was on cloud nine with my new NES, and the two games I was able to purchase for it. And while those two games served me well (Yes, even you, Top Gun), it eventually got to the point where I was bored with them. But being a ten year-old, I usually had just enough money on me to buy a bag of Big League Chew, and that was on a good day. Simply put, the idea of buying a fifty dollar game was on the same level as me having the money to purchase an aircraft carrier. It just wasn’t gonna happen. Occasionally though, my step Mom’s Mother would find a used NES game somewhere, and buy it for me. And while she may have been responsible for some of the worst games I ever played (Ghostbusters damn near killed me), she would get it right every now and again. And this one time, she hit gold. (more…)

19th Sep2011

AIM Comic #52 – Valid Concerns

by Amanda

You may wonder why Adam is holding a tortoise throughout this comic that has nothing to do with a tortoise.  Well, it is because he actually has a pet tortoise.  I have seen video footage of her and she is just the cutest thing and I am her biggest fan.  Now you can appreciate her too!  Hooray!   (more…)

14th Sep2011

Humpday Gaming: Destruction Derby (PSX)

by Jeremy

The launch lineup of the original PSX here in America was generally thought of as a wasteland of awful games that looked really, really good. Toshinden, NFL Gameday, that shitty ESPN extreme games game, they all looked amazing. But besides the erection-inducing graphics, the gameplay was generally absent. I’m pretty sure most dogs could play Toshinden at an expert level. It didn’t much matter though, as no one had ever seen graphics this damn good on a home console. Shit, most arcade games didn’t look this good. So none of us much cared if you could beat the games by rubbing your ass on the controller. At least they looked amazing while we were doing so. I wish I could say today’s game was different. But it was just another case of eye-melting graphics over gameplay that wasn’t much more advanced than a Tiger Electronics game. (more…)

12th Sep2011

Guide To Fall Festivals

by Jeremy

fall festival 2007 015It’s that time of the year again for all of those fun and dangerously mysterious fall festivals that seem to appear out of a separate dimension on random weekends. These festivals can be both incredibly boring, and quite a chore to walk around. But with today’s guide, we’re hoping we can narrow that down to just being incredibly boring, since there’s not a thing on Earth that would ever make a festival exciting that I know of. With our help, we hope to take the confusion out of festivals, so that you can concentrate on wandering around acre upon acre of land, all filled with people trying to sell you crafts you’d never want, food that would kill a large elephant, and enough good old fashioned fun to make you want to start taking hostages. (more…)

12th Sep2011

AIM Comics #51 and #51B – Learning a Foreign Language plus bonus comic!

by Amanda

Guys, NickW doesn’t normally talk like this.  That’s why it is so humorous whenever it does happen, and also probably one of the reasons that I don’t want to kill him because let’s be honest here, nonstop slang of this nature would probably allow some sort of justifiable homicide in your average court of law.  Anyway, after I made this comic, I found another, smaller instance of ridiculous talk, so I thought I might as well tag another, smaller comic at the end of this one.  We will refer to it as AIM Comic #51B from now on.  A snappy number, I know.  But I didn’t want to make it its own update some day, lest my friend get some sort of undeserved reputation.  Lest I myself get a reputation that I am a sucker for absurd foreign slang.  That would be undeserved, also.   (more…)

07th Sep2011

Humpday Gaming: Steven Seagal Is The Final Option

by Billy

I have always had a soft spot for vaporware. For some reason, I am so intrigued by games that were in the planning stages but just fell through for whatever reason. Maybe money ran out, or the technology didn’t quite allow for the game to be made the way the developers had planned, or maybe the folks behind the game realized they were slowly squeezing out a gigantic turd that the world would be better off without. I imagine the latter was the case with the game I am going to speak of briefly:

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05th Sep2011

AIM Comic #50 – Ol’ Boozy Holiday

by Amanda

Okay, so it seems that both Billy and Jeremy have taken to drinking more frequently than they used to.  Don’t worry, it isn’t a Problem.. I think.  But one night Billy Holiday stumbled onto AIM and angrily insulted Jeremy, who was probably asleep at home, blissfully unaware.  So, heads up, Jeremy.  This is how you are talked about when you aren’t around.  Enjoy!   (more…)

01st Sep2011

NEWS UPDATE: Gentle Words from the Other Side

by Jeremy

So depression month is officially over. I am actively hoping a good chunk of our readers (and writers) have not sought the sweet escape because of it. It was a divisive thing to do, as me and Jeremy P. are not quite the depressive husks that Amanda and Billy are these days.  This is strange, I know. I guess it was done as an experiment to see if we could even accomplish it, and to show that a good majority of people that you consider “funny” are actually quite depressed for the most part. They use laughter as a means to escape from that wall of depression as much as they can. Thus “laugh to forget” has always been this site’s slogan and intention. Personally, I have never been in the business of wanting to depress an audience. But sometimes you’ve just got to put the shit up the ass to push forward. (more…)