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[bryant]

My current favorite piece of gaming slang is “lasersharking.”

“Hey, you know, that game concept would be better if the sharks had lasers on their head.” Lasersharking. Leave the poor concept alone; not all concepts need lasers to reach their full potential.

Rifts is all lasersharking, all the way to the bottom turtle.

Comments

[thebitterguy]

A distant planet, home to automatic factories. Hyperevolved monkeys have taken to the high seas to seize plunder, and schools of cybernetic sharks destroy and consume wayward cargo ships.

The only defense for the settlers are the (insert fancy name for Ninja Robots HERE).

Coming this fall, on ABC.

[eddyfate.livejournal.com]

The only defense for the settlers are the original robotic security units developed by the Japanese - the Mechinja!

[thebitterguy]

But would it look good on a Burger King glass?

[eddyfate.livejournal.com]

Dude, how could it not? MECHINJA in red faux Chinese characters, and a scene with a robot ninja fighting an evil pirate monkey.

Marketing gold, baby.

[thebitterguy]

How about MechaNinja? The extra vowel does good things to my brainstem. Plus Inja just works nto at all as a suffix to Mech.

[eddyfate.livejournal.com]

I've spoken with the creative committee, and they accept your proposal. MechaNinja it is.

[chadu.livejournal.com]

You'll be hearing from my lawyers, you realize.

Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga, & McCormick.

CU

[eddyfate.livejournal.com]

Bah! It's COMPLETELY different! You only had a monkey, a ninja, a robot, and a pirate. We've done the INNOVATION of combining them!

So NER!

However, since I am generous, I will give you 50% of all royalties. Since we project an exact royalty scheme of $0.00, that should be fair.

[chadu.livejournal.com]

Check the book. You can play a Monkey Ninja, a Pirate Robot, a Ninja Pirate, a Monkey Pirate Robot, etc.

Hah!

All your (zero) profits belong to us!

CU