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Penny Arcade - Comic - A Thousand Scripts
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Penny Arcade - Comic - A Thousand Scripts
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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1) Loki is also the name of god of mischief in Norse mythology
2) the show starts with a scene of Loki in the custody of the Avengers. This is a reference to the first Avengers movie where they defeated Loki.
I feel like this doesn't even count as a joke, you've probably just quoted some actual video.
FTFY
Heck, I want someone to make a career out of this. Every entry is standard assembly line schlock but with increasingly overt clues that something is not right. Make a whole ARG out of it, with a Doki Doki style descent into madness. Perhaps at one point the algorithm begins to gain a sense of self, and maybe even find love.
Pronunciation Book was a youtube channel that sort of pulled this off. For years it was just one of those "how to pronounce argot, "how to pronounce Yves Saint Laurent" channels. After a couple years it started getting weird, like asking "How to ask for help in English" and then eventually started a 77 day countdown, leading to the revelation that
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I would assume that headline is just trying to get as many popular searchable words as possible to get more visits. Kind of like when I see headlines like "Winds of Winter release date solves this problem with Tyrion." But, of course, there is no release date, and possibly never will be.
-Tycho Brahe
My favorite was always
Which I wound up getting as a result when legitimately trying to check out whether there was a "duh" sound at the end or not. I still think of it whenever I see the word.
You can usually tell because it uses the "wrong" word for certain situations. Whenever a weird or confusing word comes up, try and think of another word that means the same thing but would also work better. One example I saw was an article about a member of the band "Ninja Sex Party", though in the article the band was referred to as "Ninja Gender Party" and referred to their other "musical rings" which took me a little longer to understand the article meant "musical BANDS". The rest of the article has more examples of this and is even inconsistent, using the words Band and Ring at different points.