Baby Drop

December 6, 2002 7:43 AM

Be a hero!That big bad Michael enjoys dropping his kids off balconies, and it's up to you to stop him... just don't get hit by falling vinyl!
posted by adamms222 (11 comments total)

Pretty fun. Especially since I found a way to cheat. If you catch the baby up higher towards the balcony, then drag the basket down after the baby turns into a star, you can catch it two or three more times.
posted by Ron at 7:48 AM on December 6, 2002

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posted by corpse at 7:51 AM on December 6, 2002

but then your hair catches fire.
posted by quonsar at 8:01 AM on December 6, 2002

C'mon. Enough of this already. It's not even good flash.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:24 AM on December 6, 2002

The original news post was deleted (each of the three or four times it was posted). I know it's Friday, and there's something of a Flash tradition around here, but wouldn't we be better off deleting this too? It's not a particularly interesting story, and monju is right: as Flash it plain sucks.
posted by UnReality at 8:27 AM on December 6, 2002

Snarkyness aside, here's an alternative featuring Janet, Tito, and Marlon Jackson as well. (via davezilla).
posted by Ufez Jones at 8:46 AM on December 6, 2002

"Ah, tell her to go to hell," Jackson replied.
posted by thomcatspike at 9:00 AM on December 6, 2002

hey monju_bosatsu and UnReality, can anybody say "party pooper" ?
posted by adamms222 at 11:37 AM on December 6, 2002

hey monju_bosatsu and UnReality, can anybody say "party pooper" ?

i'm inclined to agree with them. metafilter should not be a list of links destined to be crappy forwards.

(which i still get. what the hell people? sending someone something that's been forwarded a million times does not make me feel special. just write me an email! man, i'm so bitter.)
posted by fishfucker at 12:07 PM on December 6, 2002

Well, Goats has a nice sick, twisted and possibly NSFW strip about Michael's motivations.
posted by elwoodwiles at 12:26 PM on December 6, 2002

"A good post to MetaFilter is something that meets the following criteria: most people haven't seen it before, there is something interesting about the content on the page, and it might warrant discussion from others."

It's debatable whether it meets any of those criteria, but I'm more than happy to leave that decision up to Matt. Personally, I thought it was some crudely cobbled-together Flash based on a not-particularly-interesting story that made for a not-particularly-entertaining game. To each his or her own. I just don't think we should use "aw, don't be a party pooper" or "sure it's crap, but it's Friday" as an excuse for bad posts.

Of course, if it were up to me, there'd be a moratorium on Michael Jackson posts altogether.
posted by UnReality at 12:55 PM on December 6, 2002