<![CDATA[Kotaku: haiku]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: haiku]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/haiku http://kotaku.com/tag/haiku <![CDATA[ More Haikus on Video Game Love ]]> findlove.jpgResignedGamer's back at it again with a series of odes to Leisure Suit Larry and San Andreas' Carl Johnson, bravely touting them "the last true romantics." Rejection again is the theme, at least for Larry — which was a game more about getting shot down than it ever was getting hooked up. An example:

infinite fetch quests
chocolate, roses, and rings
won't make her love you

So true.

Haiku for the Last of the True Romantics [Resigned Gamer]

]]> Kotaku-384468 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:00:00 MDT ogood http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=384468&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ The Pain and Confusion of Video Game Love, in Haiku ]]> mappy.gifSir Cucumber at The Resigned Gamer has penned four haiku (haikus? Is this like "deer" or something ...) on the essence of video game love, prefaced with a rather creepy comparison to ... uh, butter. Nnnhkay. The chuckles include Disaster Report, Bully (the obligatory dude-on-dude kissing) Mappy-Land (at left) and Wall Street Kid. Enjoy.

Naturally, I want to take a shot at this. The results ... eh. Using Super Mario Bros., I tried to capture the creeping dread of being stood up, and the loser's instinct to cling to any good news in the aftermath. The major literary magazines only pay, like, $5 a line for the best poetry. Tell me if you get your $15 worth here:

Passive aggression!
She's in ANOTHER castle?!
Still, her friend thanked me.

Meditation on Games Past: Haiku for life's little lubricants [The Resigned Gamer]

]]> Kotaku-379089 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:00:00 MDT ogood http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=379089&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Gaymer Haiku Contest Results in Homoerotic Eckhardt Immortalization ]]>

Over at GayGamer.net, they are handing out 5 copies of the DS game Magnetica for those who can write the fruitiest fairy haiku. Contests at other sites are not news. But imagine my delight when GayGamer's editor Fruit Brute wrote, informing me that one of their submissions was a haiku about me:

Florian Eckhardt: though you've won three gaymer's hearts, I'm not that easy.

Honestly, when gay gamers start ejaculating spools of 5-7-5 poetry in your honor, you know you've hit the big time. Oddly enough, though, it got me thinking... Kotaku's constabulary of editors all have names very appropriate to the ancient Japanese art of the haiku. Consider...

BRI-AN CRE-CEN-TE
MI-CHAEL MC-WHER-TOR
E-LI-ZA GAU-GER
GAY BRI-AN ASH-CRAFT

They all work! Why not go over and submit some gay-themed Kotaku editor haikus to GayGamer today? Flor-i-an Eck-hardt

Magnetica Giveaway [Gay Gamer]

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