Quote from: SoBe Clock;1966035I wasn't even really referring to his usefulness, he's just the best character.

Oh. Then no. Magus all day, err day.

He's a sword wielding frog named Frog.

Way better than some weeaboo emopants with a scythe.

Quote from: SoBe Clock;1966039Way better than some weeaboo emopants with a scythe.

You mean a scythe-wielding mage who uses the powers of the universe at his will, employs an alien cross-dresser with a rock star complex, and has a hot sister? I'll take that guy over some crybaby frog who lives in a hole.

Losper, I know you're a big RPG backstory guy, buy you have to read between the lines. Mallow wasn't actually a frog. He was a cloudpeople.

Quote from: PhantomCatClock;1966041Losper, I know you're a big RPG backstory guy, buy you have to read between the lines. Mallow wasn't actually a frog. He was a cloudpeople.

Is that a book? I haven't read it but it sounds pretty interesting. How did they determine he was of the same bloodline as Janus? The Masamune? Seems logical enough.

Quote from: SoBe Clock;1966035I wasn't even really referring to his usefulness, he's just the best character.

I'm gonna go listen to his theme song right now

edit: Also didn't they take away his Elizabethan accent for the DS version? That would ruin him a bit imo

Quote from: Losperman;1966043Is that a book? I haven't read it but it sounds pretty interesting. How did they determine he was of the same bloodline as Janus? The Masamune? Seems logical enough.

Nah, his parents recognize him when Mario takes him to the cloud city just before the volcano level

did somebody say mario rpg

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Quote from: Slurpee;1962040yyyyes, but it's kind of hard to describe

memes weren't, like, a thing back then. they didn't have a name, other than "fad" or "web phenomenon" (or "macro" which had a much more specific meaning that now is also just "meme"), and they were kind of just... permeating?

like
ok, you know how the way Japanese people respond to Ronald McDonald is not a meme, per se, but it's a thing that pops up every so often? like, we've seen the big ones- the ytp's, and the sexy female Ronald, and some specific horror parodies, and reposting those specific things is old hat, but Ronald himself is still fair game, and when he showed up on salty bet and handed Thanos his ass it was just hilarious. everything used to be like that. everything used to be Ronald McDonald. the AYB video was old, but as a nebulous sort of funny thing that exists, its permutations were everywhere. (dwarfinator's face is CATS.)

am I making sense?
things weren't delineated back then. nowadays every thing is a thing and has a shelf life of three days before it's old and just pisses people off. we're all hyper aware of the timeliness of our comments and content (WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY). the internet used to be just kind of a swampy morass of derpery, and ayb was a part of it. as a result we (the clock crew) were much more willing to embrace memes, until, like... I guess Portal is probably the breaking point, because it was just so clearly and visibly A Thing. the Portal memery was just really in your face with all the ways that memes are terrible and basically an awful way to humor each other on the web. Portal and 300. and Chuck Norris. thereabouts.

Quote from: Slurpee;1962041we used to make our own memes. we had forums wide Matrix: Reloaded and Star Wars fads, complete with signatures, flash movies, avatars, name changes, and jokey role-playing. I guess that one Phoenix Wright thread was the same sort of thing, but it was on a different scale, and that and the StarmanClock vampire slayers are the only ones that I can think of in the last, like, 7 years. now role playing is for weirdos who role play, and popular movies are a kind of low culture that aren't to be emulated too closely. we're a lot more stodgy about this shit than we readily admit. where's our Inception parody? where's our Game of Thrones? our Attack on Titan? I think we kind of like to think of ourselves as persisting in something resembling a constant state, but 2004 Clock Crew would have been ALL OVER that shit, and who even knows what 2001 clock crew would have done with it?

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, because there are reasons we moved away from that approach, but I think those reasons are partially due to the way the web has begun to solidify in the years since, like, MySpace, and I do think it's curious how we've found ourselves outside of that

While I was searching for the autoplay code I came across this post and felt like quoting it. It's interesting to think about.

the Eric Bauman's have inherited the web

It's also weird how shit from the turn of the century 2000, like AYB, is totally non-existent to my peers.


a friend of mine showed me, of all things, a tumblr post which was a gif of an anime girl dancing with a shitty music loop, and i said something to him about YTMND, and he looked at me like a deer at oncoming headlights. I know I was a child when things like that were the craze, but this fucker boasts about how he played WoW on launch day and has been on the web as long as he can remember and that kinda shit. So i ask him if he has any idea what im talking about and he says no, so I show him a YTMND page that was essentially the exact same thing and he just scoffed as if THIS* was somehow more idiotic than THIS because ytmnd is entirely the thing he was laughing at instead of also being a social network he doesnt use??

the internet is at the point where it depress me more and more with each passing day. or i could just be an angsty teenager that's likely too

*which i just made right now and is the exact thing in the tumblr post

i was expecting the original version of 'tipsy' not the 'anime voice actress for underage female characters' version

i think i'd have preferred being rickrolled

i did say 'shitty music loop'

Quote from: FloundermanClock;1966046did somebody say mario rpg

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fuck the clock crew

Quote from: MiracleFruitClock;1966065fuck the clock crew

rude

fuck u

Whaaaaat, why didn't anyone warn me about the upcoming Miyazaki Simpsons episode?