Showing posts with label Let's Play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Let's Play. Show all posts

July 28, 2012

Let's Play Brass Monkey Games




Irma: April, let's go! New technology, get!

April: Yeah, let's do this funky monkey! Got your phone?

Irma: Check.

April: Got your computer?

Irma: Check.

April: Got your game?

Irma: Checkmate!

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Irma: Geez, talk about inflation. Get Ben Bernanke on the case! That reminds me of a cheer I learned in high school. "Let's go quantitative easing! Gimme a Q! Gimmie a U! Gimmie an A! Gimmie an . . . "

April: Are you really going to put me through this entire thing? Gimme a break.



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April: Looks like the cool thing for companies to do is forget where the shift key is.

Irma: "Know your audience!"


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Irma: This must be what they mean when they talk about halcyon days.

April: Lol.

Irma: Did you just say "lol" in real life? Don't ever do that again.

April: Don't you mean "irl"?

Irma: Did you just say "lol" irl?

April: Lol.


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April: You're my only friend. Can I--

Irma: Don't even think about it!


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Irma: We've already seen the death of the instruction manual. Are video manuals the future?

April: I can see it now: got to have those hits for that ad money. You can't have hits without making hits.

Irma: So deep I forgot to drown.


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April: What's your WiFi network name?

Irma: "Bluetooth".

April: Trying to keep the ne'er-do-wells off the scent, I see. What's the password?

Irma: "WiMAX".

April: Shoot me now.

Irma: Not when you get home?


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Irma: It feels like . . . the future.

April: Call me when the self-driving cars become popular.

Irma: From my phone or my controller

April: From your self-driving car.


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April: Is this a metaphor for copulation?

Irma: No, it's a Binary clone with a gravity mechanic added.

April: Did they get rid of the spiders?

Irma: Yes.

April: Good. I hate spiders.

Irma: What's that over there?

April: Where?!

Irma: Never mind.

April: You did that on purpose!


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Irma: You have to hold the phone in landscape, smart girl.

April: You mean sideways?

Irma: You did that on purpose.


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April: Time for a new game.



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April: What do we have here, Mrs. Datum?

Irma: It appears to be Angry Bots, Sir.

April: Bridge to Engineering, shame status-report!

Irma: Shame is empty, Captain. Repeat: no shame.

April: As I suspected. Mr. Smasher, full warp. We're out of here.


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April: I'm going to kick your alien butt . . . tail bone . . . whatever . . . with my anti-Scud P.A.T.R.I.O.T. missiles.

Irma: How Schwarzkopfian.

April: Gesundheit.



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Irma: I'm going to cherish this moment: my first win on a new system.

April: I'm going to cherish this moment as well: my first ragequit . . . 





















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March 25, 2012

Let's Play Ziggurat





It was the beginning of times. It was the end of times.


Some called me T.O.M.: the omega man. But I go by Tim. What good's a name, anyway, when there is no one left to call you by it? The only friend I have left is my gun, and she can't talk. Or, rather, the only word she knows is goodbye. Her name is Chain Reaction. But I call her Betty. I always wanted a girl named Betty.


She speaks to them for me. You know, the robots, the androids, the cyborgs, the whatever. The Freaks. The Freaks killed everyone else, and now they're after me.  


We had a plan once. We built the Ziggurats, and there was supposed to be a warrior on top of each. Sometimes, I can feel them. The others. Up in the air with me playing king of the mountain for as long as it took. And when one fell, another would replace him. Shredding up Freaks like a never-ending guitar solo. 


Well, that plan went to shit.


And now it's just me, Betty, and the empty Ziggs in the distance.


This here is your basic Freak, the jumper. The cannon fodder vanguard. He jumps high and slow, and will fire if you let him get close enough. When I charge Betty up, the explosion causes surrounding Freaks to explode as well. 


One charged shot takes out these four Freaks.



This Freak here is the Walker. The dumbest of the bunch. He just walks up the Zigg. As if he would ever get to me. Some folks liked to drop non-charged shots down the Zigg at the Walker. Get him while he's real low. But that don't make no sense. I like to use the Walker as my own personal bomb. I let him get to the top, and then . . . .


Clears the whole side for me. 





Look who decided to show up to the party. The Big Freak himself. 


Betty and I know what to do. 


We've been working together for so long, we just have this amazing friction together. There's no other way to describe it.


She blows a wind in my hair to tell me she loves me. I kill the Freaks to show her I love her. 








There are other Freaks too: the High Jumper, the Buzz Saw, and the Mother Ship. 


None shall pass.


As the Sun sets, the Moon rises. Maybe, just maybe, I take out enough before they get to me. Enough to make sure they are never a threat again. Enough to give some other life form time to prepare.  Enough to make a footnote in their log. 

Enough, enough, enough.

























It was the end of times. It was the beginning of times.