Joke of the Day
Jon: Why was baby Superman the only kid at the playground?
Don: Uh…I dunno.
Jon: The sign said SUPERVISION REQUIRED.
Video Game Quote of the Day
“What is a man? A Miserable little pile of secrets!”
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Uttered by the infamous Dracula, this quote comes as a melodramatic, somewhat corny, and overblown exclamation before Richter fights Dracula in the prologue of this Castlevania title.
Video Game Trivia
Sonic the Hedgehog was almost an armadillo.
The original concept for Sonic was simply to serve as a foil for Sega’s then-biggest competitor, Nintendo, and their plumber poster-boy. However, before settling on the iconic hedgehog, Sega experimented with other species, including the armadillo, porcupine, dog, and an “old guy with a mustache,” which, y’know… All kind of made the franchise still, but only as secondary characters or antagonists. (Lookin’ at you, Eggman.)
Comic Book Trivia
Some Type of Way
Comic Sans is apparently the red-headed stepchild of Microsoft Word fonts, evidenced by jokes like this: “Comic Sans walks into a bar, the bartender says, ‘We don’t serve your type.’”
Designer Vincent Connare was inspired by the font used in the two comics that were in his office, Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. In 1994, Connare was working on creating a new home PC software for Microsoft. Connare opened a test version of “Microsoft Bob” and didn’t like the Times New Roman font, so he elected to create something new. Guess he had never heard the phrase “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
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