This definitely trumps having breakfast and getting dressed, oh yes.

Details about the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People, Homestar Ruiner, have been released. Also a video of what would appear to be the start of the game. After watching it, I just wanted to start sabotaging Homestar's chances in the race to the end of the race.

With this, and the Australian release of Brawl being pushed back further, June's going to be the best month ever. Provided either Nintendo doesn't stagger the release dates in different countries for no reason, like everything else they've released ever, or the PC version is available at the same time as the Wii version. Why, Nintendo? Why?

Also, the winners to the tagline contest were chosen at random, apparently

I wake up every morning feeling awesome
Even though I slept on the remote again last night, ow
Time to tear up another day
The Strong Bad freaking way
Like an imploding star
Like a burning car
My style shines so bright

Please stop trying to handle my style
'Cause you can't
No you can't
Uh!
Handle my style
Seriously, quit trying to handle my style
Unless you're a lady
Then you're cordially invited to have a giant slice of my style!

Hey, guess what? I found another Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People gameplay video! This one's not good quality, but you can tell what's going on, and it shows the outside of his house! :D

At this rate I'll spoil myself for the entire episode, and possibly the entire season. At least I know why Strong Bad imitated Homestar while prank calling himself now.

I'm legally obligated to post every time there's an update on Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People. It's in my fan contract or something. There's an interview with the Brothers Chaps, and a whole bunch of gameplay videos. It gives a pretty good idea of what the game's going to be like, I think. I just hope it didn't just give away all the good bits.

Okay, I definitely need some breakfast now.

The attitude that there shouldn't be a Homestar Runner Wii game because Homestar Runner isn't megapopular anymore really irritates me. Probably I shouldn't googled '"Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People" "five years"' in that case, but I only did that once. Anyway, of course it's not megapopular anymore. Nothing can stay that popular for that long, The Public has a very short attention span. Just because these particular people got bored with it and haven't thought about it in years doesn't mean that the site doesn't exist anymore. That's a very self-centred view. And stupid.

Homestar Runner is still popular, because the wiki is up-to-date, the creators can still live off merchandise sales, and someone keeps going around adding new examples to the TV Tropes Wiki every time a new cartoon comes out. And most of the time it's not me. People don't link to it anymore because everyone's supposed to have heard of it by now. But it's five years on and not everybody has.

On a related note, I really enjoyed the start of the Homestar Runner crossover fic chakramchucker put up on her journal. I also really enjoyed the beginning to a Homestar Runner fic recently put up on fanfiction.net and think it has a lot of promise. I can barely remember the last time I read a Homestar Runner fic for the first time and really enjoyed it. Is Homestar Runner fanfiction having a renaissance? Am I just lightening up? Am I overreacting? It's probably that last one. Still, it's heartening.

I wish there was a good Homestar Runner forum around. I've developed a theory about what's happened in the various hrwiki communities. The forum tends to reject anyone who's not something of a jerk and jaded like a lot of the members. At the very least, they reject people who are new to the Internet. Not knowing of anywhere else to go, the newbies, who at times border on n00bs, go to either the knowledge base or the fanstuff wiki. The knowledge base is full of intelligent people who don't bite the newcomers to their faces, but it also requires effort and for the majority of edits to be related to the project, so people who don't enjoy picking apart an internet cartoon so much go to the fanstuff wiki, which doesn't require so much effort. Essentially, they're just there because they want to socialise with other Homestar Runner fans and the forum doesn't want them. They're not there to make fanstuff, something I figured out a long time ago anyway. But they feel obligated to make it anyway, and see it as the best route to becoming popular. So they do, and it usually turns out not very good. And then they get bored and threaten to leave until the friends they've made convince them not to, but that's common behaviour for twelve-year-olds on the Internet. I know I did it a couple of times when I was twelve.

So the forum is stuck in a rut of being jerks to or ignoring or just plain not attracting people who are different, and then complaining about how low the forum has sunk. I've only been there since September 2006, so I wouldn't know, but at the moment I'm reading a post by The Noid saying that the reason he liked the forum in the past was the friendliness, so that sounds like sinking to me. The fanstuff is stuck in a rut of being so full of kids that nobody else will touch it. The knowledge base is flourishing as far as I know, but has to restrict non-wiki discussion to their IRC channel, which doesn't seem to perpetuate itself as well as a forum. Plus I'm not good at real time chat. The people who don't fit into any of the majorities of the three communities, which constitute some of the best people in the fandom in my probably biased opinion, seem to hang around here and around deviantART.

But all this is useful for making personifications of the hrwiki communities and the loosely defined fourth community. Not that many other people other than me would think of that. But I did, and the interaction between Fanstuff and The Weird One (Couldn't think of a better name, sorry) was funny and I want them to be friends.

( What happened in what I came up for them, because I'll probably never actually write it. )

What was I talking about before... Oh yeah. I kind of want to create my own forum that lets everyone in equally, but with the hrwiki as popular is it, and with my organisational and promoting skills as bad as they are, it'd most likely crash and burn. I guess it might make a pretty pattern on the way down, though.

Well that post was all over the place.

Another SBCG4AP video!

This one's an interview, and I really like the line "I'm not a crybaby! I'm tormented!" It just makes me want to play this game even more, if that's possible.

In an attempt to stop myself from thinking only about the Homestar Runner point and click Wii game, the first episode of which will be released in June, I'm going to put up some more Neverhood screenshots b/w comments. I mean, with comments.

Hopefully then I'll be able to respond to the non-Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People related comments that I've received. That would be nice.

OMG A POINT AND CLICK HOMESTAR RUNNER GAME FEATURING THE MAIN CHARACTERS COMING OUT FOR WII IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS! (HYPERVENTILATES)

Sorry. I'll get started with the screenshots now.

( Meet Bil )

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Aww, it deliciously didn't work. I'm still too excited about the new Homestar Runner game that won't even be out for a while. Except now I'm also excited about the Neverhood movie all over again. Progress?