xkcd

I was gonna review Secret of Mana cause I was really close to beating that, but every time Adam came over we'd just play magic the gathering until it was late and he needed to go. So that should be coming soon but I don't know exactly when.

I probably should have done another game in it's place and I would have, but I'm finding myself getting bored just reviewing games with this blog. I always turn to the blog late at night and it takes me a while to write a full game review so I think I need something else.

As you might know I like a decent number of web comics out there and I recently went and read through xkcd and added it to my list of webcomics I read. It's actually sort of a love/hate relationship really. Sometimes he(Randall Munroe) has funny stuff, sometimes he has cool stuff, and sometimes it just sorta feels like he's using the comic as a platform to boast about a bunch of obscure math and programming knowledge he has. Sometimes it's a combination of this. Apparently the guy has a huge boner for talking about the following:

*Firefly
*Perl
*DRM
*Summer Glau
*Python
*Love
*Math Formulas
*Word Play
*Geohashing

So if you like a decent number of those things or math/programming/literary/language jokes xkcd is for you. There are about 600 or 700 comics in the archive, thought the first 50-100 are kinda... eh. A lot of the early stuff is just sorta a place where he put random sketches he made that aren't supposed to be funny. It's kinda funny to say this about a stick figure comic but the art actually has improved from the really early stuff, the early characters sometimes look a little squiggly or smudged.

I had been linked to it a couple times but never read more then the specific comic I was being shown until a topic on Luelinks pointed to a xkcd comic about Ski-Free and how you apparently CAN out run the yeti monster by pressing "f" to go faster contrary to childhood wisdom. For some reason that mindfuck caused me to start reading the archive (backwards as I didn't really intend to read the whole thing until I had read 50 or so and then said hell with it and kept going).

It seems to update daily (that I've seen) so maybe give it a shot if you like feeling smart by occasionally getting an obscure reference. He also mentions "Geohashing" a bit, a system the author invented for meeting people near where you live (http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page).

Well, it was sorta nice to review something in a laid back manner, might do again when I feel like taking a break.