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Thursday, 2:52 pm in Memes & Quizzes

More useless memes ganked from psuedoskribe.  I swear I had a ‘real’ post but I got bored with it, so have this instead!

1 - Comment and ask to be tagged!
2 - I will pick THREE of your icons and THREE of your keywords (interests) I find odd or nifty!
3 - You post, explaining in detail about the three I chose!
4 - People comment on your post!

#1. Bitrot

Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if â??nothing has changedâ??. The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive. As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in a program will become increasingly garbled.

Quoted From: The New Hacker's Dictionary

Yet another remnant of my formative days at grep, there was a time when I was absolutely fascinated by the New Hacker’s Dictionary.  I guess it was a bit like an Encyclopaedia Dramatica for a more intellectual age; filled with memes and counter-culture titbits.  The notion of ‘bit rot’ was one that stuck in my head the most.  I later used it as part of Et tu, Angelus?.  James Maher was the incarnation of the angel Orphiel.  James was an android, and I’m not sure if the series was ever clear whether he was an angel inhabiting a computer that had taken a human host, or a human host that had grafted itself onto a computer.  Either way, the ‘ambulatory’ part of James was a kind of peripheral to his main processor, which was a massive abandoned apartment block filled with Geigeresque twisting wires and flesh-metal.  James originally turns up in the EtA? version of Pandemonium City, and is stricken with bitrot after decay caused by the entropy emitted from the bound Travis Lain (Michael/Lucifer).  He is found and repaired by Dee and Wayne (though I have the feeling Dee might have been called Carol in those days, but it was the same character), before eventually meeting up with the rest of the Tetramorph and freeing Lain, eventually causing Armageddon and the rise of the Et tu, Assiah? universe (you know, this one).

#2. Illidan

Illidan Stormrage, the baddest badass from the WoWniverse.  Illidan is a Night Elf and the brother of all-round do-gooder druid Malfurion.  Unlike most NElves, he never renounced arcane magic after that whole disastrous incident with the Well of Eternity, and after sabotaging the attempt to rid Azeroth of the arcane (and therefore the Burning Legion) forever, he was sealed in a tomb for 10,000 years with a wolf named Loki (seriously, play the level).  When the Burning Legion shows up again in Kalimdor in WCIII, Tyrande (lover of Malfurion whom Illidan has a long-standing crush on) frees him in order to hunt down the demons.  Illidan’s methods for going about this are somewhat shonky, and he ends up consuming the Skull of Gul’dan; a powerful artefact which gives him the whole horns-and-wings look.  More stuff happens, and he eventually ends up working for the Burning Legion in their attempt to destroy Arthas and prevent him becoming the Lich King.  Illidan fails.  Currently, he is holed up in Outland with his naga and Prince Kael’s rogue Blood Elves, draining all the water out of Zangamarsh and generally giving the Broken a hard time.  He was only physically added to the game recently, and is a boss in one of the endgame raids.  I’m not sure anyone has yet gotten up to him, however Blizzard has stated that you don’t actually kill Illidan so much as just “get in his way” a bit.

Blizz loves Illi so much that they made a life-sized statue of the guy for last year’s Blizzcon.

Along with Hellboy and Loki, Illidan (and in fact all demonically corrupted WoW elves) are the source of my love for dudes with wings and hooves.  In the shipping wars, I vote Illidan/Kael.

#3. World Domination
Not much to say about this one, really; it’s mostly just there to be smartass.  I mean, who doesn’t love world domination, right?

One of the first LJ icons I made after getting my webcam.  The picture is photoshopped to up the contrast, but the blue shade in the hair is ‘natural’ (I’d only just had it dyed).  I’m always slightly amused that you can still see the large, weeping blackhead on my forehead.  The animation is just a simple noise filter in PhotoShop, which I used to use all over the place and now for the life of me can’t remember how to make.

I’ve probably gotten more friends requests from using this icon than any other, though I don’t pull it out much any more.

A headshot of my IMVU avatar.  IMVU is a 3D chat client, kinda a bit like Second Life I guess but with less pretensions to being a ‘world’ and vaguely better graphics.  I was originally going to use IMVU to teach myself meshing/skinning, but somehow never quite got around to it.

The lyrics come from a Genitorturers song.

It’s Ulfrun, my WoW character!  This comes from a mini-comic strip I did once and probably can’t find a copy of based on an incident in the Eastern Plaguelands.  We were standing around in Caer Darrow, all drunk because we’d just been to the witchdoctor in Sen’Jin trying to get him to curse us so we could buy recipes off the ghosts without having to do the stupid Scholomance quests.  We were waiting around for someone who needed a summon from the witchdoctor, when Steph – playing her then boyfriend’s Warlock – started taking off all her (his) clothes.  The last thing a drunk troll girl wants to see is a narked male orc warlock, hence the comic.

You probably had to be there.

• Tags » bitrot, icons, imvu, interests, livejournal, meme, world of warcraft
• Comments By » Vickie