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Thinking Outside the Box

by Tom Bampton · 11/18/2006 (10:44 am) · 11 comments

The Problem

www.tinyirc.net/box/theBox.jpg
This is the box. Within the box are all your preconceived ideas. Unfortunately, the box is also used by dog owners to clean up after their dogs. Since it has infinite storage capacity, nobody ever empties it. That's why dog owners use it ... nobody likes emptying boxes full of crap, and since it's infinite nobody has to.

The Bomb

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I don't like boxes full of preconceived ideas and dog crap. The only thing they are good for is containing infinite amounts of dog crap and useless ideas. Some people have trouble thinking outside of the box. They are forever stuck in there, doomed to churn out crap ideas that smell of the box's contents.

The Solution

www.tinyirc.net/box/blowingUpTheBox.jpg
I lied. There is one other thing the box is good for. Blowing up.

The Stragglers

www.tinyirc.net/box/oops.jpg
If you stay in the box, this is you. Sure, you might get something done. You may even ship it. But it will smell of the contents of the box.

If you have read this far, you may be wondering what the point of this blog is. You're not the only one, I don't know either.

#1
11/18/2006 (10:56 am)
I think I just snorted soda out my nose. Ow!
#2
11/18/2006 (10:57 am)
Mwahaha - You area silly but funny man. ;)
#3
11/18/2006 (11:34 am)
And absolutely correct, especially for indie devs. Let the big players produce expensive boxes of crap and fool the public into buying them through the strength of their graphics. We can't do that...
#4
11/18/2006 (1:16 pm)
hahahah! thats great
#5
11/18/2006 (2:30 pm)
Best metaphor ever ;-)
#6
11/18/2006 (2:50 pm)
I have to agree with "all the above". :-D
That's great.
#7
11/18/2006 (4:09 pm)
Judging by the screenshots, I see you've kept the beard but gained some weight since !IGC. Too many Jaffa cakes?
#8
11/19/2006 (12:47 am)
Holy awesome! =)
#9
11/19/2006 (7:21 pm)
Nice...

Insert my random anti SOE mmog / vanguard / wow rant...
#10
11/21/2006 (11:09 am)
I love the new Tom Bampton avatar! Did everyone notice how close he was to the box? It was his +10 Shield of Anti-Conformity Hookah Haze that saved him, I'm sure!
#11
12/28/2006 (12:40 pm)
This is my kind of .plan

I love A&T, especially the use of phallic shaped levels...

Remote Det x3 trap in the left side of the sack for the win.