Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Coming to a blog near you … the first stop of the evil Carnival of Gamers will be at buttonmashing.com on Thursday, May 26, 2005.

The Carnival will be a recurring showcase of the best and brightest in game blog posts as submitted by their authors, with the Carnival picking up stakes and moving to a different host each time.

An evil carnival can’t stay in any one town for too long or the townsfolk will get wise to their diabolical plot to consume everyone’s souls. That’s why the carnies never have time to shower or shave … or brush their teeth. (Just one of the MANY reasons why it’s such an appealing lifestyle.)

Submission guidelines from buttonmashing:

So, if you are interested in submitting a blog post to be included in the Carnival, please email them to me at buttonmashing@gmail.com. There aren’t any real guidelines. They certainly should be about video games in one way or another but that’s about all the guidance I have. I’m all about free speech and creativity, but let’s try to avoid the obscene, profane, racist, sexist, you get the picture. Let’s just have some fun and see where this can go.

Ya, I see it. Big problem for AFK Gamer posts right there … profanity. Not to fear, I can self-censor my way out of that, and remember kids, you can always get the full-flavored version of AFK Gamer right here in all its profane glory.

Commence au carnivale!

11 thoughts on “Something Wicked This Way Comes”

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  2. To the above spammer… Ahem.

    “Mach es dir selber, du verdammter Arschficker.”

    That concludes my prepared remarks.

  3. Hey, I’m all for the “tasteful” use of colorful language. Swearing is inextricably connected to video games, as many a hurled controller (or mouse) will attest to. I guess I should have clarified it by saying “overly” profane. I’ll add that as an update this evening.

    Let’s be honest, some of that stuff can be funny. Just because I don’t use it doesn’t mean I don’t find it funny.

  4. This is a good use of profanity…(thank you /.)

    “Iwata said the new console is aimed at customers who hate clutter and find current games and the controllers used to play them to be confusing and difficult.”

    [edit]But then I thought about some of the ‘fun’ I’ve had playing San Andreas lately. Hitting the correct shoulder button is an exercise in “Dammit!”. I keep hitting the L3 button by accident whenever I make a sharp turn. (Oh, brilliant design there, Sony. Put a button where I can accidently hit it a LOT.) Then I played that damn dancing level where the button shapes would fly by and I had to hit the right one. Yeah Sony, thanks for using heiroglyphics for your button labels.

  7. Allowing artistic use of profanity doesn’t mean you fuckers should take advantage of that. If we have to return to mocking others with “fag” and “retard”, would be dark times for all of us in the nonexistent gaming blog-o-sphere.

    I’ll pitch in $2 for a “Buy Krones’ Artistic Freedom” fund.

  8. I am hereby adding in my $2 (in expired Pizza Hut coupons or collectible Mourning cd-roms) to the “Krones’ Artistic Freedom is for Sale” fund. Can I use Station Exchange to pay?

  9. Swearing is inextricably connected to video games, as many a hurled controller (or mouse) will attest to.

    Yep. That’s why the PS3 controller was designed to come back to you when you throw it.

  10. I’ve updated the guidelines to include the colorful (and tasteful) use of profanity. I wouldn’t want to discourage anyone from participating in our freak show.

  11. I’ll take the collectible mourning cds, I need too finish off my collection. I miss the 30 esrp cd, 3rd week edition and rumor has it if I don’t get it soon egomancer will sue my ass for all the pizza hut coupons in nevada, which is a lot, more than 50 transactions worth you get from using Station Exchange.

    And speaking of freeman, I need a gameboy in the shape of the ps3 controller that will also take flight when I try and smash it with a sledge hammer.

    Bawdy potty-mouth humor is accepted as long as it’s tasteful, haha tasteful sounds like more of a grey area, excellent. Good chance I may be joining the festivities as a full-fledged carny.

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