Patching Things Up

Posted by Bob on March 10, 2006: So, it occurs to me that today's comic just so happens to be our first comic of year number five of Think Tank. (Technically, it's the last comic of year four. -Steve) Crazy, huh? It doesn't seem like a year since I wrote about our last anniversary comic. Four years down, and still not one missed update. I think that's what I'm most proud of. Yeah, we may only be a once a week comic, but I've seen lots of other once a week comics that can't manage to keep that up, so I'm pretty happy with that. If you're looking for some sort of self satisfying "we rule" comic to celebrate this, then you've come to the wrong place, however. Until...Wednesday, Steve and I weren't even aware that this was the beginning of year five. Yeah, we're real on top of things here at TT HQ.

Onto the links. How about a look at the first Microsoft web page? It's from 1994...Not too bad, no? Although, who am I to talk? My first website was atrocious, and the original layout of this site wasn't the best. It's just the way it works. First web sites are always embarrassing.

Ever read the book "Letters From a Nut?" It was a pretty funny book...The official author is listed as "Ted L Nancy," but it was written either by Jerry Seinfeld or Larry David. Anyway, the author would just write these ridiculously insane letters to companies just to see what their response would be. In that vein, there is the Thirty Nine Dollar Experiment. Basically, this guy wrote to one hundred companies just to see who would give him free stuff.

So, when I saw the link entitled "A $2500 demo. You have to love videogame collectors." Is it wrong that I immediately clicked the link expecting to see Jason's name listed?

Here's a fun game called Tribal Jumper. I obviously love these kinds of games, as I link to them as soon as I can find them.

I don't know if we've got any Eminem fans here, but in case you are, I did stumble across this video of him during a rap battle in 1997. I dunno, he doesn't do anything for me, but as we all know, I'm a giver.

Looks like it's a bad day to be someone who paid for a porn site. That's gotta hurt.

Ah, here we go. Time to watch my boy at work!

Oh yeah! I'm sure you've seen it by now, but I totally forgot about the X-Men 3 trailer. Looks pretty good. I just hope we get to see a monster fight between Juggernaut and Colossus. That to me would be worth the price of admission alone.

And with that, I will call it a day. We'll be back in a week, and hopefully I'll have a year new picture for Year Four on the archives page. Maybe a new one for the forthcoming year five too, but seeing as we don't know the future, it'll probably just be an updated silhouette. Anyway. Back in a week.

Posted by Steve on March 10, 2006: We had a hell of a time with this comic trying to figure out how to handle the whole "talking PS2" thing. We weren't sure if two talking machines were one two many. We were going to just make it a dream, but we've already done that. Up until the last minute we had it set up so that Steve was imagining the whole thing, but we decided that this way looked better. I was worried about not explaining why Steve's PS2 is talking to him, but as Bob put it "we had one character break another out of court with smoke bombs. Metroid raped GTA. I think we're past reality at this point." So anyway, if talking PS2's bother you, pretend the whole thing is going on in Steve's head. If you're really curious, you can check out the alternate version here.

This comic completes Year Four of the archives. I didn't even realize it until Bob pointed it out. I can't believe we've made four years worth of these things.

That's all for now. See you next week.