Please, forgive me?

Lars And The Real Cube [YTMND]

Warning: You might want to turn down the volume before clicking through, lest your eardrums wind up in spirit form in the nearest graveyard. Michael McWhertor

WOW JUST WOW [YTMND]

Wow, that Peach sure does get around. Just a few months back we get an invitation to her wedding to Bowser and now she's marrying Link? But then I think we all know about Peach's questionable morals.

It really reminds me of the illustrations in the Little Golden Books I had as a kid. Some of my favorite parts of this image are Link's tie and the silhouettes of Pikachu, Megaman and Fox McCloud in the background. I also question exactly what Luigi is looking at as he wipes his tears away... Flynn De Marco

Nintendo Plot Twist [YTMND]
[via GayGamer]

The Sonic entry that Sega finds so contentious contains a still from the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon which appears to have Tails mounting Amy from behind while Sonic looks on bewildered. One look at the URL here should give you an idea of the type of content Sega is unhappy with.

You know Sega, if you really cared about the Sonic property that much you wouldn't have released the latest Sonic the Hedgehog game at all. The same goes for Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Shuffle, Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis, Sonic Riders... you get the idea.

You can read the complaint below. Michael McWhertor

Please feel free to move about the cabin, and come up with new acronyms. Joystiq is live at the scene of the crime:

As we opened up this month's Wired magazine and flipped through the various pages, something interesting suddenly popped up and caught our eye. It wasn't some new gadget, but instead an ad for Dell's gaming PC lineup. Hijacking the 1337 speak of gamers everywhere, Dell has adopted "FTW" (For the win) to push their PC gaming rigs.

And while we're cleaning house, please shut up about: snakes, bases, chuck norris, and especially any negative connotations stemming from homosexuality. In case you're out of the loop, George Takei just made gaybashing obsolete.

Optimum catchphrase ripeness occurs when about 40-60% of the audience is in on the joke. After that it becomes stale, and before that you just get a lot of blank looks.

I proffer that it's still okay to say "owned" and various derivations thereof, because Leo LaPorte says it on every TWiT. And it's adorable. How old is he? In his fifties, yeah?

Catchphrases that haven't quite hit the mainstream yet and still could use a little exploitin': NEDM (not even doom music), TWAJS (that was a joke, son), and the term "old meme", which seems to have had its heyday on Jameth's LiveJournal without really making the rounds elsewhere.

"Series of tubes" riffs are okay only as long as they show some creativity. I mean, just look at how much mileage we got out of ROFL and LOL. The best I've seen so far is "AROFLYPSE LMAO", but Bashy and Crecente are still chugging along with plain old "lol" in place of quotation marks, commas, semicolons and full stops. Me, I never touch the stuff.

"Internets" is encouraged as long as Dubya is in office.

I would like to see a return of the Fifty Hitler Post.

"POOLS CLOSED DUE TO AIDS" needs a few minutes in the sun.

But back to the gaybashing thing for a sec. My second-favorite webcomic, Jerkcity, has a vast lexicon of nearly untapped, dong-related material that, like NEDM, has seen little use outside of its home territories (namely IRC). I would like to see HUAGALHGUAH, T (name of addressee), and a good deal more dick jokes start making the rounds. You can start in the comments. Ready? Go. Eliza Gauger

Dell Goes FTW [Joystiq]

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