Oh YouTube, how I love you…

Would you say I’m a bad person if I said that I always preferred the All-Stars version of SMB1? (And, for that matter, the “upgraded” ports of 2, 3 and World?) I know, YAY 8-BIT LOLZ but for some reason this one just looked better and it’s not like it got that much of a difficulty tweak, if at all (also the addition of World’s sound effects helped!). It made me sad that this version never got released as part of the GBA ports.

Also this needs to not make me imagine a Ragnarok TWILIGHT-themed send-up of the whole freaking Mario franchise. Hell Legion Black Dragons would make convincing Koopa Troopas… (Seriously, we have ‘em in the same colors.) Naturally this would also involve Yoshi wearing a goofy padded Yoshi suit and bitching about how she’s soooo NOT transportation. :P

Today’s Undercooked Ramen brought to you by playing way too much Disgaea.

…of course, if there are Prinnies involved, this could be a BIT problematic.

Concurrently, things like the above are why this feature is called Undercooked Ramen. :P The glory of half-baked ideas~

If you would indulge me a “crazy fangirl” moment here…

I was checking Twitter earlier and find one of my favorite VAs live-tweeting from Medieval Times*… and mentions of mead and iPhones led to this Undercooked Ramen piece:

…which, of course, I tweeted just for the hell of it. But when I came back upstairs, I find this sitting in the buffer:

“@ayarane and that’s exactly what I looked like!”

….XDDDD

I know. It’s extremely trivial and I swear I’m trying not to read too much into it but…. at the same time, there are no WORDS to describe the level of amusement. It’s greater than ROFLCOPTER. I was only half-thinking when I scrawled that Undercooked piece (only ehough to address “dude, did I get his hair right?”) and yet… oh wow.

Neo is TOTALLY going to throw the envy satellite at me in the morning XD

* Dude, one of my few remaining memories of elementary school entailed all of the first graders going to Medieval Times for a field trip. I can STILL remember the teachers telling everyone to stfu and stop chanting “Black and White!” but nobody listened. XD I recall getting a black and white paper crown, too.

(LJ version: this SO gets Kitestamped. XD)

I had this dream yesterday in which I’m looking at Slashdot and I see a book review for e-peen: Nerd Rage and the Internet’s Phallic Fixation. I don’t remember much of the details but I just remember a lot of the thread being solely “lol” or similar /b/-tardery.

Because the author was a female.

Now, as much as I find it ludicrous how the collective internet consciousness has this bizarre fixation with phallic imagery… would I be a freak to say that I actually wish such a book really exists? Concurrently, if there’s anything remotely resembling it out there, please, point it out to me. I don’t know whether to file this under “morbid curiosity” or “seriously, I want to know what is so fascinating about… that.”

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Other highlights of Yoshi Dreamland included:

- a bizarro-FF4 in which Zeromus was actually a bulldog
- Cooking with Pigeon… who for some reason is wearing Cal’s final equipment, including JINT cowboy hat
- something involving wandering around on a cruise ship (this is actually very common and is probably a big hint that I really need to take a trip somewhere)
- twisted scenes of everyday RL, but with MMO HUDs (like, my CoH friends list and global channel windows, also very common)

the rest is just… blotches of color and weird noises. Probably me snoring. :P

Wandering on YouTube at midnight is hardly a good use of time that should be spent drawing. But, there was a song on the 80′s station of the XM radio in mother’s car that she had told me to look up, and against my better judgement I DID.

Putting aside the rush of returning memories… there was something even worse in the back of my mind that hit me like a sledgehammer.

You thought DenRoll was one of those “so facepalmingly bad it’s awesome” things? Imagine Denlan starring in Yoshi-drawn reconstructions of the cheesiiest, hokiest 80′s pop music videos EVER. I’m talking stuff that would make people question your sanity/sexuality/taste in ANYTHING. If you are that compelled to ask what, specifically? Do so at your own risk. >_>;

(Why do I get the feeling that Touji and Entropy are going to be the first in line to do just that?)

But, yes. Someone please smack me if I ever do something as absurd as draw anything resembling the above. Damn you, Yoshi’s Imagination, these shenanigans have gone far enough and it will end NOW before some poor onlooker is traumatized forever, cookie couch be damned. XD;

On the flipside, I feel much, MUCH less bashful about telling people “I collect cheesy disaster movies and I love EVERY minute of them.”
*needs to decide if she’s going to either go buy the actual DVDs of her disaster flick collection to replace either the white-case rips or the ones that were lost when her old DVR crashed, or step up and get the Blu-Ray versions*

The Sheena icon for the LJ edition of this post is so fitting it HURTS. XD