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Where Are They Now: Q*Bert
An anonymous reader writes "Two guys who worked on SNL and the Conan show cover the drug-addled history of Atari's classic blobish-looking character, Q*Bert."
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the 5 seconds it took to skim that site and decide it was a total waste of time was total worth having to look at that bloody ad that popped up for /. referrers. thanks!
Was this article supposed to be funny? Seems more like it was written by junior high school students.
This may sound somewhat unorthodox, but I prefer humour that makes me laugh, or at least smile.
Forget Q*bert, whatever happened to dig dug??
"Two guys who worked on SNL and the Conan show ..." .. as what, janitors? I'm sorry, but this just wasn't funny. Not even a little. If it really took two people to write this, then it's a sad, sad day for geek humor.
Now THIS is funny. Well, sort of. More worthy of front page then this trash, though!
SNL nowadays is barely funny on TV, and in text isnt worth the reading the two pages this one took. What happened to /. editing?
--enter the sig--
--Idiots, Every single one of YOU, A flaming mass of conglomerated morons, hey wait a second, isnt that how RAID works?
You do know that there's a ton of rereleases of classic titles, Konami's Greatest Hits, Namco Museum, Activision Anthology, Midways Arcade Classics.
I know both BurgerTime and Dig Dug are available.
MAME really is no different from warez for what most people use it for.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I rather liked Q*Bert, and I've been trying to find a freeware clone for the PC (win32, in this case), but I just haven't found any (and, no PC Bert isn't really applicable since it's just DOS game). Any suggestions?
Along those same lines, I'm also a big fan of arkanoid. Any recommendations on PC clones there? I've already discovered the excellent DX-Ball 2 but I've beaten all the included levels (and extra levels aren't free).
Alex Bischoff
HTML/CSS coder for hire
"Two guys who worked on SNL and Conan" - possible translation - two guys who fielded phonecalls for SNL and fetched coffee on Conan... I know people who've WRITTEN for both shows, and there's a huge number of hangers-on who work there just for the resume credit.
"InsideJoke.TV" is, in my experience, one of a number of groups who spam the standup comedy newsgroup (and others) with pointless drivel a few times a week. I dunno how they got on Slashdot... I don't know from Slushfactory.com, perhaps they have some decent stuff elsewhere on the site, but like several previous posters, I don't have the time to go look for it.
If you have to TELL people how funny you are, you aren't.
Perfectly Normal Industries
Now *that* was funny. You know that /. is getting bad when the stupid troll posts are a more entertaining read than the /. article.
This piece of shit should never be reproduced anyway. How obscenely unfunny.
Well, technically "." by itself requires something to be there, so if you want nothing your out of luck. Also if you want multiple things your screwed. ".*" is a better anything you want.
Though in formal languages the kleene star means ".*"
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it