MetaFilter posts tagged with square

Vintage Game Club plays Chrono Trigger

grobstein — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:53:20 -0800

Good morning, Crono! (Cf.) Starting this Friday, the Vintage Game Club will play through the RPG classic Chrono Trigger, a game beloved and praised but perhaps not well understood. The discussion is beginning here (little substance so far). (Chrono Trigger was published for SNES and Playstation, and is available in a new Nintendo DS port.) The Vintage Game Club is an online discussion group dedicated to playing through and understanding true classics of video games. It is a project of Professor Michael Abbott (great glossy-style profile) and Metafilter's own danb (and some other dudes). Chrono Trigger is the VGC's fifth game. You can find archived discussions for the first four on the forums:

Beyond Good and Evil (warning game has deceptive title)
Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey
Deus Ex (these discussions are really interesting; see e.g.)
Grim Fandango

An except from a new book, American Nerd: The Story of My People.

fixedgear — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:25:41 -0800

The Cool Nerds. It's hip to be square, or something.

How To Speak Hip

Del Far — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:24:17 -0800

How To Speak Hip with Del Close and John Brent

How to sell wolf tickets.

Bookhouse — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:50:55 -0800

A guide to prison slang. Texas prison guards' guide to prison slang. Jim Goad's guide to prison slang.(He should know). More prison slang. Yet another guide to prison slang. Gang slang collected by police. Even more prison slang. Barely readable tripod page with more.

R.I. P. Mr. Butch

extrabox — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:03:35 -0800

Mr. Butch, The King of Kenmore Square, was killed in a scooter accident yesterday. An excellent film portrait of the man and icon can be found here. His rich and well-lived life was the embodiement of the only recipe for anarchy I ever saw that worked: Total Freedom + Total Heart.

Far from the Madding Crowd

four panels — Sat, 05 May 2007 17:59:00 -0800

"Just because you went to Princeton doesn’t mean you’re a jerk." The rich and Ivied find a place in SoHo.

Aaaaargh!

XQUZYPHYR — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:42:13 -0800

Click and hold the red square.

Look up more

xmod2 — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:11:49 -0800

Look up more - Improv Everywhere has been mentioned before but this latest mission is the largest yet. After reading about it here, I wonder how many people signed up for the NYC list? Were there any other MeFites there? I was window 39...

ry — Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:39:45 -0800

Japan corners the market on square fruit. I suppose this is the ultimate example of form over function. Finally a solution for the widespread refrigerator overcrowding problems.