Don't take me tongue tied, don't wave no goodbye

[thorne_scratch]

The Olympics are over, but I have a ton of links and pictures and a Word document that is thirty eight pages of various gmail-chat conversations with various people that covered the entire span. Which might or might not get posted, because it all depends on how funny I think it sounds out of context, but whatever, I find it useful for tracking what

Comments

[flidgetjerome]

Relevant to your interests;

Paralympics: Should technology push athletes beyond their limits?

[thorne_scratch]

This is indeed relevant to my interests.

It's an interesting thing to ponder. Basically, Futurama sort of did an episode about it already, BUT I THINK THEY SHOULD DO ANOTHER ONE.

[alhazred]

Photos of Abandoned Olympic Sites. These make me kinda sad. I mean, I know it happens to most of the sites. But still. HOWEVER, it also made me think that the next Silent Hill game should be set at an abandoned Olympic website and star Tom Daley. I told Flidget all about this; it is in the g-chat document. THERE WOULD BE CREEPY MERMAIDS. (I like Michael too much to drop him in Silent Hill, by the way. He would only get to cameo.)

I WOULD PLAY THIS SO HARD.

Or read it. I guess we can put this on the list of "things Al says Thorne should write."

...you know, I've always been more outright scared by Resident Evil and Dead Space then Silent Hill (because I'm a big girl's blouse and jump-scares work way too well on me) but Silent Hill really is great as a... frame of reference? I mean, if I see pictures of Pripyat I don't think "that looks like a town abandoned after an accident at a nuclear power plant" anymore, I think "whoa Silent Hill moved to Ukraine." This makes playing the STALKER games awkward.

[thorne_scratch]

I know, right? Forget all these convicts and soldiers and weird guilt-tripped dudes and former cult targets. OLYMPIC ATHLETES IS WHERE IT'S AT FIR THE NEXT SILENT HILL PROTAGONIST INSTALLMENTS! I dunno if writing it would be the most self indulgent thing ever or... well, I can't think of another option. I'll hold onto the idea for a rainy day.

I think Silent Hill is at least smarter and... well, if we're talking about 2, more believable than the RE and DS games. The thing about Silent Hill is that you're never sure or not if it's all in your head. (Spoiler: it is usually all in your head. But you die messily anyway.) I don't worry that I'm going to end up in space or like the folks in RE. The thing about SH is that it targets normal, ordinary, fuck-up people... like me! Like, if you were asking me which of the three games I could see myself accidentally stumbling into, SH wins hands down.

[alhazred]

Yeah, it's pretty hard to beat Silent Hill 2 for sheer psychological fuckery. Amnesia holds up well next to it, and of course Penumbra before it, but neither have that "I could accidentally wander into that place" quality.

...hmmm, maybe I'll do a Silent Hill/The Line crossover for NanoWrimo this year. Now that was some psychological fuckery with bonus fourth-wall breaking.

[thorne_scratch]

I'm very bad at playing video games any way, so I don't actually play a lot of them; I tnd to be the person who sits next to the player and watches and occasionally shrieks, "WHAT! WHAT! WHAT IS THAT!" in terror. I was never even in the same state as some of my friends playing Rule of Rose and I got the whole traumatizing experience.

You should! That would be nifty!

[atouchofyou]

Suddenly, I feel reassured about how I still can't use the defroster/fogger on my car, either.

By the way, this is the_kelpsinator; I changed my handle

[thorne_scratch]

I'VE READ THE MANUAL AND EVERYTHING AND I STILL FUCK IT UP EVERY TIME. I've just concluded maybe I'm meant to die in a car accident. God, I hope not.

Ah! I had wondered. Thanks, otherwise I totally would have puzzled over that.

[twigcollins]

the next Silent Hill game should be set at an abandoned Olympic website and star Tom Daley.

For a second there I read Tom DeLay and that got weird.

which… as someone who will remain unnamed pointed out to me, "If you have to ask, it's probably bad."

what's funny is i can't even narrow down a list of all the people you know who have reason to say this.

[thorne_scratch]

For a second there I read Tom DeLay and that got weird.

Oh. Oh wow. I am having a hard time picturing that. My brain just froze up.

Speaking of Republicans. I just watched Clint Eastwood be a hot, hot mess at the RNC. It was horrifying and amazing. I expected it to end with him screaming at kids to get off his lawn. Has his brain turned to oatmeal, or something?

...I would rather sell my house, take all my money, invest it in stem cell research, grow myself a dick, and then slam that dick in a car door than vote Romney.

Anyway. I think what's funnier is that if I had asked YOU, you totally would have probably said "You're fine."

[twigcollins]

...I would rather sell my house, take all my money, invest it in stem cell research, grow myself a dick, and then slam that dick in a car door than vote Romney.

ILU. See, I can see Clint Eastwood as a Republican but I honestly can't see him spending five minutes with Romney and Ryan without piledriving one of them into the other.

Anyway. I think what's funnier is that if I had asked YOU, you totally would have probably said "You're fine."

I would have asked if it was your wanking hand first.

[thorne_scratch]

but I honestly can't see him spending five minutes with Romney and Ryan without piledriving one of them into the other.

Yeah, I kinda... I am left wondering if he thought he was actually invited to be on Saturday Night Live or something. I'm at sea. Either way, I'm pointing and laughing. (And then hastily ducking, to escape the barrage of shots he will then no doubt fire from the gun tucked into his hiked-high waistband.)

I would have asked if it was your wanking hand first.

You always ask the important things. This is why you are best.

(It was.)

[chickpea]

"He and the Phelps family have become close in recent years and it is expected that Thorpe will continue to be a source of advice for the swimmer as he moves into a new phase of his life."

Basically, HA HA HA HA MY FANFIC ABOUT IAN THORPE DATING MICHAEL PHELPS'S MOM IS COMING TRUE.

AHHAHAHAHAHAA, it's like that thing, where you write it and it comes true! I should think up more things I want to see written, and then you could write it, and then IT WOULD HAPPEN.

Relatedly, exactly what HAS Thorpe been doing for these many years? (Bloating up like a big bloaty man is only 1 thing.)

[thorne_scratch]

HEE. I'd be happy to. Apparently, I ruined Tom Daley's life inadvertently the same way.

Actually, he's not bloated any more; he tried to make a comeback. He didn't make the Olympic trials-- I mean, he only started his comeback in the last year and a half. But he looks better, from the pictures I saw of him. More intriguingly-- HE HAS A TELL ALL BIOGRAPHY COMING OUT ABOUT HIS BATTLES WITH ALCOHOL AND DEPRESSION!

Heh. I am very much looking forward to it. (Not that I want him feeling bad. I assumed he has triumphed over his issues. If not, I wish him the best in his fight. I am still very fond of him, when he's not doing hideous things to his hair or passive-aggressively taunting Michael.)