The fourth wall of Dungeons and Dragons

The latest in breaking the barriers of reality: Inception, and this.

Existential D&D comedy: when characters realize they are trapped in adolescents' imagination:

"Carlton Mellick, III, the king of Bizarro fiction, has a new one out... The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2 is "an absurd comedy about a group of adventurers (elf, halfling, bard, dwarf, assassin, thief) going through an existential crisis after having discovered that they are really just pre-rolled characters living inside of a classic AD&D role playing game. While exploring the ruins of Tardis Keep, these 6 characters must deal with their inept Dungeon Master's retarded imagination and resist their horny teenaged players' commands to have sex with everything in sight. '"

Via Boingboing

NOTE: you get a great deal on this with Amazon if you also buy Apeshit and the Cannibals of Candyland

God Hates Jedi (?)

San Diego Comic-Con going on as we speak. Love the concept of this absurd counter-protest-- sure to bewilder the crazy right-wing religious nuts who are themselves masters of the art of offensive picket-sign slogans.

SHERLOCK!

starting this sunday, the new sherlock holmes show created by steven moffat & mark gattis looks potentially pretty freaking awesome.

exhaustive coverage here.

Flipboard

This makes me uncomfortable. Shall we discuss?

Scott Pilgrim Video Game

Music by Ananmanaguchi. Art by Paul Robertson. Pretty neat looking! And a pretty straightforward Double Dragon Clone (with 4-player co-op, hopefully on one console). But then there was this,



which challenges me to forget everything I know about save points, co-op, power ups, and video games (among other things); which is odd, because both trailers actually reinforce everything I know about that stuff. Intriguing!

another lightsaber battle

but I kinda like this one. Complete with kinda blah blooper reel at the end. Opening credits take about 57 seconds so the good stuff starts after about a minute.

Childhood cartoons

I promised Galspanic, Fugu and Pony a long time ago that I'd post a clip of Sally-chan, a cartoon I watched in kindergarten. Sally's family was from space somewhere and she had magical powers, but she lived on Earth and went to school among regular human girls and boys. She would travel back and forth to her parents, who lived in space, on her broom. It was great! I think all the girls in my kindergarten watched this! I don't think the boys got into it too much though. Probably because it probably didn't have any explosions or transformer robots.

The Real Life Super Hero Project

You know, I'm really not entirely clear what's going on here. Something's going on, though. I know this is of interest. I know a lot of us want to do good. I know a lot of us have costumes.


More information (kind of) here.