Chris: everyone can make fun of you for snake meat

Always meant to read the old comics, but never got around to it. Kind of weird, though, isn’t it? That they made a game based on a 90 year old comic?

And you can always make fun of me for Snake Meat, so I call it even.

I’m aware of the sordid history of the fairy story. But hey, don’t get me wrong; In the off chance that I forget a condom and actually do spawn more little versions of myself, I fully plan on rearing them on a steady diet of Grim’s (Original) Fairy tales, Shel Silverstein, Rahl Dahl’s darker stories and “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” (or at least just showing them the illustrations and going BOO!). That should give em a fifty fifty shot of being as psychologically sturdy as a rock or one of those creepy goth dudes that paints his coke-nail black.

P.S. Playing devil’s advocate for a second: “Camptown Races sing this song, doo-daa. Doo-daa.”

For that matter, a lot of Victorian fantasy—even literature that was intended for children—is very dark. Remember that before we culturally began to encourage imaginative play among tykes, parents were actually instructed to treat their children as “little grown-ups.”

edit: OK, I watched your little “video.” You act like there’s something wrong with including an awesome Mother Brain eXistenZ atom nucleus eyeball battle sequence. As much as I love the gentler NES game, that is awesome. Like, the Nemo sprite looks crazy-like the Nemo from the movie.

I think, as uncomfortable as we grown-ups are with involving kids in violence or macabre surrealism, kids are pretty cool with this sort of thing. I don’t know if you saw the (small) backlash against Coraline, the kids’ book by Neil Gaiman, but a lot of narrative sequences seemed, to some, much too grim for a children’s book. I think adults were more disturbed by those arcs than children were, though; the book itself seemed very true to the way children dream. What we call “weird” or “scary” is pretty par for the way kids think.

Flip the Magic Clown: “Welcome to your Jungian subconscious little boy! If you throw candy at the wild, possibly rabid animals, they’ll let you crawl inside them and give you magical powers!”

Isn’t that the textbook behavior of a serial killer as a child? He goes out into the woods and just fucks with the animals?

And if you’re childhood isn’t sufficiently destroyed yet, try watching the Little Nemo arcade game one of these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related