Critical Miss: #20

[coldfrog]

Thanks for reminding me that I need to go look up Miegakure again! When the heck is it going to get officially released?

Also, nice strip.

 

[Dfskelleton]

You get an achievement for eating the universe? I should already have about five of those.

 

[Actual]

Made me laugh, very bizarre.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

But... But... Mario is a Nintendo game... You can't get an achievement for eating the universe if you eat it with Nintendo power-ups!
Maybe if you use a chainsaw/gun combination to cut it into small pieces though?

EDIT: Also, woo! 1200th post!

 

[Kajin]

That needs to be an actual achievement.

 

[Shadeovblack]

That. Was awesome.

 

[The Wooster]

I swear to God this made some actual sense when I was writing it. Originally this strip was supposed to be making fun of Miegakure and this hilariously overblown article on it. [http://kotaku.com/5585099/the-man-who-will-bring-us-to-the-fourth-dimension] It begins by implying that Marc Ten Bosch is the game designing equivalent of Dr Manhattan from Watchmen before going on to tell us the game will pretty much change the world as we know it. The video that follows is, to low brow, rock biters such as ourselves, completely underwhelming. The game looks clunky and unpleasant and while Bosch claims the game is an accurate 3d model of a 4d universe, as Cory pointed out when we talked about it, he could be just making shit up. How could we tell?

Anyway eventually we found poking fun at a game because we don't understand it and because articles reporting on it are throwing around technical jargon with gleeful abandon was kind of obnoxious. Which is when our famed synergy kicked in.

?Dude. Know what was awesome??
?What??
?The giant sand-tiger head from Aladdin. We should put that in there.?
?Fuck yeah.?

And no sense was made.

 

[ucciolord1]

So, so great.

 

[The Wooster]

The caption has no relevance to the comic.


Then again, the comic makes no sense anyway. Still funny lol

Yeah one of the other escapist peons writes those. I like to think whoever it was just kind of stared at the strip for a long moment, tilted their head, then just went; "fuck it" and wrote whatever. I do not blame them.

 

[commasplice]

Snip.

Don't worry, your comic still made more sense than the actual article you were riffing off of. I got up to the part about Mario and slices before I said, "You know what? Fuck this. This article is spending more time trying to explain the concept of the 4th dimension to me than the actual game they're supposed to be talking about." When you think about it, that's even more ridiculous, since the whole point of Miegakure is that it's supposed to be helping people understand the 4th dimension, right?

 

[jericu]

Isn't the fourth dimension time?

 

[commasplice]

Isn't the fourth dimension time?

Not anymore, apparently.
"The fourth dimension in this space was sometimes interpreted as time, but this is no longer done in modern physics. In the last century spacetime was developed, which unifies space and time but with a different metric so the time dimension is treated differently from the three spatial dimensions. The resulting space is a Minkowski space which has different properties from this space."
I have no idea what the fuck any of that means.

 

[LewsTherin]

Does this mean gamerscore has some transdimensional value; or does it simply come from a source not bound by reality? Does it spring from some empyrean realm from beyond time, or was it left behind by some unknowable being, discovered in some eldritch ruin off the edge of the map?

You may be on to something here, my good doctor, and I fear its roots stretch far past our imagining.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Ok, I'm not gonna say "lulwut". Which I demonstrate now by not saying it.

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Hmmm....Lolwut-SHIT!

EDIT: Wow. Just....wow. I read the article. The comic makes so much more sense to me now. That was just.....wow......

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

In the video in the article, the little dude walking about is extremely similar to Claus from Mother 3.

Apart from that... well, it looked lame.

Also, I would totally destroy the universe for 10G. Jus' saying.

 

[Urgh76]

Man, I am so loving this comic

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I ate the Universe once. Tasted like Chicken.

 

[capt.fodder]

what? oh wait, i get it-BOOM HEAD EXPLODE.

"Heads Explode" was indeed on the same album as "Silver Future". That or I'm over-reaching and listen to way too much Monster Magnet.