Blame David Cross. There are two kinds of "don't feel like writing" days. The first kind is where I'm just out of words, burned out, tired, whatever. And then sometimes, there's the second kind, where all I want to do is to soak up a little of somebody else's funny.
Today's the second kind. At Wired, David Cross reports on his trip to the Generic Game Expo to search for the "hottest and newest" games. To wit:
Are you in the market for a hot new videogame? Then preorder Hipster Bash, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that lets you team up - online, in your apartment - with other lonely hipsters across the country. Armed with a magical sneer and a bottle of absinthe, you journey from Los Angeles' Silverlake district to Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, stopping briefly in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. Along the way, you battle other hipster clans à la The Warriors and collect as many Hater pills as possible. Special cheats hidden under your longboard include faux hawks that quickly turn into regular mussed-up hair, the ability to secrete noxious oils from your unwashed skin, and the Hipper-Than-Thou Ray, which blasts opponents with obscure musical references and condescension until they're reduced to a quivering mass of egoless flesh. The group that arrives in Brooklyn with the most disaffected mannerisms wins. Extra feature: Trade in your heroin addiction for cash from your parents!
The funny thing about this is that I posted this link to Jenny's blog a couple of days ago. Okay, that's not really the funny thing about this--it's the slightly ironic, coincidental thing about this. Cross has got the funny, me the serendipity. Happy Sunday.
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