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The Alien Killing Video Game That Makes You Long for the 80s
San Francisco, 3:57 AM
Sun Dec 6
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11/26/08
Excellent.
11/26/08
I still can't decide if it is the perfect homage to an era or the gods' smug dismissal of my entire youth. Or both.
(At the time, I must admit, we all just wanted her autograph. You know, because she would totally dig us if she only knew us, even though she was 17 or 18 and we were like 11 or 12. Because we were so badass.
We could only get Zach's.)
11/26/08
(I was totally one of those surly (pre-)teenagers. With my spiky hair and rat tail and my t-shirt vaguely torn up to look like it was the result of some bad-ass skateboard accident, which it wasn't, and my arm sporting a piece of jerky that totally was the result of a bad-ass skateboard accident, and Airwalk's with skulls all over them. And my buddy stealing cigarettes from 7-11 and napkin dispensers from McDonald's which we thought was even more bad-ass although we were totally way too chicken to actually do it ourselves. And the game was at the movie theater where they showed Rocky Horror, which we thought made us even more bad-ass still because everybody was older than we were, and it wasn't until much later that we realized that all of these qualities could either signify badassary or geekdom and because we could get girls we thought it was badassary, but it turned out it was totally geekdom we just didn't realize it for another couple of years.)
11/26/08
11/26/08
"You do not want to fuck with me, but you do want to fuck with me."
Well, that's certainly what we thought we were saying.
11/26/08
looks like an awesome game though.
11/26/08
11/26/08
My buddy picked up Choplifter, Dragon's Lair, and some Sony hologram game that sucked, but looked cool.
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