Scribblenauts is awesome

[alias_sqbr]

So penchaft mentioning ceiling cat on my last post made me feel like experimenting some more.

I tried "finangler" but got financier instead.
I made some money, and he looked at it with a happy expression.
I then made a piano, and a musician to play it.
Once done playing the piano, the musician picked up the money, at which point the finacier chased him into a corner and strated to beat him up.
I made a "police" to stop the violence. He did nothing! And soon the musician was dead.
So I made a terrorist. He set fire to the piano, and then was shot by the policeman.
Then I made an anarchist, who seemed identical to the terrorist and set fire to a tree.
I made a communist, a nice looking young man in a suit.
The anarchist started a fight with him at which point the policeman got involved and shot them both.

A metaphor for our times, really. (and that's not even getting into the fact they were all white and afaict male)

Comments

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

I dunno, a terrorist being white and male sounds pretty atypical of these times. :P

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Hm. I just looked at that and realised how badly that could be misintepreted.

What I mean is not that I'm a racist prick (or at least not in this case), but was trying to refer to the constant media portrayal and assumption that terrorists are from the middle east and have funny sounding names.

Or are greenies I guess.

Anyway I have no idea if that was clear or not so I thought I better clarify (I may be overreacting, but with my latest post, I figured it was better safe then sorry).

[mpfl.livejournal.com]

That is awesome.

Really, really awesome.

So awesome, in fact, that I swear you're making the whole lot up.

[cdave]

The more I hear about this, the more I want it.

Although I suspect I just drop anvils on everything.

[lizbyrd.livejournal.com]

You can summon a policewoman, but it does seem to default to male. Bleh.

I got officially scared in the game when I summoned a cop in the jailbreak level, and he pulled out his gun and shot all the prisoners plus the prison guards.

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

So, you think these cops are summoned from NYC, or LA?

Also: *manyhugs!*

How's Canadia treat you and the husband? Post, woman! ;)

[lizbyrd.livejournal.com]

Hah, yeah, I should do that, huh. Canada is good! Although we spent last weekend in the US.

I'll try to get myself organised to do an annotated photo post or something soon.

[thanners.livejournal.com]

The police in this game really are a scarily trigger-happy, aren't they?

Just for fun I summoned up a policeman to see if he'd do anything when I was trying to deal with a bully (I didn't actually expect it to work, but I just wondered if I'd get any interaction at all), but no.. gun comes out blazing as soon as his feet hit the ground.

[lizbyrd.livejournal.com]

If I recall correctly that was the level I summoned the policewoman on. She pulled out her gun and shot the bully and I was... somewhat taken aback.

[alias_sqbr]

ZOMG RACIST

It's cool, I get what you mean. And yes, if all the good characters are going to be white it's better to have the bad ones be white than not.

[alias_sqbr]

You wound me sir.

[alias_sqbr]

I tried that. They don't do anything, they just land on the head and slide off. Remarkably unsatisfying.

Fireballs and black holes, on the other hand, can be fun.

[alias_sqbr]

This morning I inadvertently got a policewoman to shoot all the developers the the super-secret teleporter level, it is a bit disturbing :)