Field Week: Morning Cup of Mob Day Two

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Magandang umaga, Mobbers!

Today is the second day of Field Week - the brain child of Alex R. Cronk-Young and Cody Winn - and also the second day of Morning Cup of Mob -- something I plan on doing all of Field Week!

What better way to start the second day of Field Week then with another Cup of Mob? There isn't one, so let's go!


"I got worms." Lloyd Christmas


Day Two of Field Week

Confession time: I never played Secret of Monkey Island. But I'm making amends with the recent release of the updated version, and I'm learning what all the fuss was/is about.

It's funny, and point-and-click adventures just have a charm lacking in most modern titles. I'm having a difficult time reprogramming my brain to think properly in the game, but that hasn't stopped me from progressing a good bit. Right now, I'm learning to sword fight using my wit.

"You make me want to puke," a mad, mean pirate said to me. "You make me think somebody already did," I reply, giving me ample time to knock his sword from his slimy, no good hands. Victory!

I also used a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle to slide across a rope, and I even spotted George Lucas.

Like I said: charming!


The Cup of Mob Challenge

Yesterday was easy, but today is no monkey business!

Ever hear of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest? Ever of Bulwer-Lytton?

"It was a dark and stormy night..." was a phrase made famous by Bulwer-Lytton. Unfortunately, he wasn't too great of a writer. Every year, there's a contest in his (dis)honor for the world to write the absolute worst, atrocious, pig-headed, unnecessarily long beginning sentence to the worst novel of all time.

The winners are so bad they're good.

I recommend clicking this link to see the winners page -- winners -- that way you can get an idea of what you need to do for this contest.

Ready? Okay.

You need to write one (1) terrible sentence for the beginning of the next Grand Theft Auto installment.

Example:

The alley was dark, like nighttime -- it reminded Eric von Hammerlick of the one time he visited Grandma Joe, and she excused herself to the bathroom to grab a gun and try to shoot him, but instead shot herself in the big toe, resulting in a trip to the hospital and the loss of most of von Hammerlick's inheritance, a black day indeed -- so Eric passed right by the alley and jacked a car, only to blow up half a mile down the road.

Easy, right?

And...go!

 

 

 
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Comments (13)
Andrewh
May 11, 2010

Vice City, the city of vices, if you will, calls to me across this modern wasteland of America, telling me that there is a world of nefarious activity just over the next horizon, specifically in the direction of said city, while simultaneously whispering "Crime does pay."

Alexemmy
May 11, 2010

Sometimes, you could say the city doesn't sleep, and why should it when so much crime is going on -- real serious crime, like murder and car theft, but curiously, never rape, and children seem non-existant -- crime that the cops seem unable to stop even though they violently drive into the offending criminals with wonton disregard for any innocent civilians that may, or may not, happen to be in the way of the previously mentioned police officers.

Franksmall
May 11, 2010

Dat wuz de day of dizgust- A day dat Bernie wood neva foget, a day dat he wud woo in infamy fo de res of hiz life and it wuz all becaz of dis city.

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May 11, 2010

In this city, survival of the fittest is the most important way to think or you'll be left out to dry by the gangstas and thugs that want what little money you have and the raggedy clothes off your back so they can sell it to some unsuspecting passerby who will inevitably get ripped off and robbed of more money by getting his ass kicked by that gangsta.

Default_picture
May 11, 2010

It began like many other nights begin in this city of vices where things occur and people get hurt; hurt so bad that they no longer remember the reason why they got hurt in the first place or what they were doing the night before.

Redeye
May 11, 2010

I made this bed and now I was going to sleep in it, for I am the gang banger prince of Mafia town who is doomed to fight the great war for the turf for drug trafficing against the mexicanos gang who hates me due to my killing of that one hot chick in their group that I slept with.

Lance_darnell
May 11, 2010

The Wankers were out in full force - their intentions black and full of malice. The city was their playground, their brothel, their punching bag. Only Bonky McConky, from the northern isles of Scotland, can break the Wankers' hold on the city. Using his Scottish charm, and the power that only a man wearing a kilt can posses, Bonkey will achieve the Scottish dream. And this time, he's not wearing any underwear!!!

Here is the music for the trailer: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rUB8TcNKX0

There184
May 11, 2010

Los Santos, City of Saints, has changed in the last decade -- not in the way it crimes, but in the way it smells; Gs walk the streets same as ever, cappin' fools, pimpin', hustlin', but there seems to have been a consensus amongst the soldiers of Grove Street that personal hygiene is important -- now the air in Grove Street shimmers with a haze of weed smoke, sweat, cheap perfume from the whores, and Axe body spray from the green-clad street-cats -- a heady mix, but not as heady as the mix I'm here to pick up.

That's pretty terrible right?

Default_picture
May 11, 2010

In a world where criminals and politicians decide the fate of the people, where the law has no meaning, where prostitution and murder are among the few viable ways to survive, where the American dream is all but dead, basically where a lot of bad things happen and rather often; one man will rise to the top- a man named Grant Theftauto.

Oh, and Grant has a goatee. 'Cause he's real, man.

Default_picture
May 11, 2010

It was dark, not as dark as it could have been but dark none the less as Ato T Grantz, named after his mother's aunt's brother, stared out to the crime ridden, laden, filled, and overflowing streets, while he looked in to himself and taking note of the similarities between himself and the street (no, they weren't both made of cement but they had both been touched, some would say molested, maybe even corrupted, what priest would call possessed, chefs would call untasteful, dancers would call it ungraceful, cats would call it too dog like, dogs would call it too cat like, by crime) he realized why it was that his girlfriend, Petunia - who surprisingly did not enjoy flowers of any sort what so ever (no, not even petunias (not even the prettiest of them)) had been so drawn to him: she had loved to frequent these streets, and as it was mentioned before, he and these streets were alike (rampant with crime (although now they also had a girl in common (meaning that him and the street were now even more closely and tightly related to each other (because of Petunia's association (even though there didn't seem to be any reason why she would have associated herself with either the street or Ato (except, that is, for the fact that she was obviously attracted, drawn, pulled in by, enticed with, entranced by, lulled to sleep by, caressed by, tickled pink by, held by, cared for, and hopelessly in love with danger)))))) even though both her association with him and the dirty, filthy, unclean, smelly, rotten streets of this city and its drug driven economy which led to her being taken captive by the biggest drug lord (not big as in fat but big as in he held power over the majority of the city) and that is why Ato was about to debark on the most epic and dangerously noble adventure in order to rescue his sweet Petunia.

There184
May 11, 2010

Jazz, that sentence started so horribly I can't bring myself to read it right now. Bravo.

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May 11, 2010

@Jazz Five layers of parenthesis? *starts a slow clap*

Alexemmy
May 12, 2010

*joins in the slow clap, increasing speed just slightly*

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