Pixar Parody

Pixar is a personal favorite here, at Solve Unamusement, this will be learned slowly but surely as there is just so much of the randomness to find and offer as amusement that sometimes things are accidentally forgotten.

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Karoshi Suicide Salaryman

A very simple puzzle solving game where the objective is to kill your character.

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Description

"Karoshi" is a Japanese word and means "death by overwork". In this game many things are not what you'd expect and the goal of each level is counter-intuitive: you need to die.

Each stage presents a new challenge. There are several objects you can use to solve puzzles, and in later levels the game will even break it's own rules to surprise you.

50 clever levels and a boss fight at the end. We hope you have fun (killing yourself)!

If you have played the Game Maker version, YES this is an official Flash version!

Controls

Directional arrows move, up jumps and space bar is shoot your weapon.

The game can be found here at Armor Games. There is also a sequal.

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Scrumdiddlyumptious

From the maker of the Alice video and song that was posted some time ago (it is the second in the link blog post) comes a few other interesting ones. One such particular comes from one of Solve Unamusement's favorite movies. No, not books as we can't read over here.

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Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series

The TV show/anime/4kids redo of Yu-Gi-Oh! was rather popular with myself and it wasn't until recently that The Abridged Series was brought to Solve Unmusement's attention. At this time there was already a good solid following but this is typical for amusement posts. Late to the party, and other nonsense of that nature.

A few notes before watching are that the series starts off slow and is most enjoyable if the characters are known. That being if you've seen at least one or two episodes this series is a bit more funny. However such a thing isn't needed and only adds to the humor if you're a fan of having memories mocked and poked at.

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The Only Good Bug Is A Dead Bug

Doing some redirecting and backtracking on when is evil cool? got to a specific post which reminded this writer of something a bit special in the amusement category.

Anyone who's seen the movie probably has a good idea as to what is going to be posted soon enough and for an extra kick, think this will be the first post which the "page break" feature/addition/whatever shall be included in a Solve Unamusement post.

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Smith, Agent Smith.

Last but certainly not least, we speak of the most epic and evil of villains. (Agent) Smith has to be a personal favorite here, at Solve Unamusement, for the simple fact that he has a very systematic and well thought out (usually) manner which he does things. Compared to your average villain, bad guy, etc Smith keeps an almost positive air about himself. Pompous, some might say, but this is not a horrible thing for such a "person".

Smith is/was an Agent of the Matrix System which allowed him many powers beyond the norm. If you've seen the movies I need not explain and if you have not than you do not, rather have not, own(ed) a TV or any form of such entertainment for a few years. He's rather powerful and the most powerful being within the Matrix during the first film.

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The Matrix HISHE

How It Should Have Ended has their version/take on The Matrix trilogies "finale". Have to say, this blogger/writer agrees with everything. Especially the giant robot monkey things to fight flying robots. That just doesn't fully make sense.

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Matrix Slim or Slim Matrix

The Matrix movies (all three of them) have been playing on the television for awhile over the last month or two and while the first is the best and the third ended disappointing, the movies are still rather awesome.

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Some People

Credit to Mumblingidiot @ diviantART

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Look Again (Persona 3)

Yes, this is another post about an old amusement but after taking something of a "hiatus" from the PS2 (and non emulated console games in general) this game has to be the easiest of RPGs to simply drop and come back to.

The story conveniently tells you several times what happened last week or what you're supposed to be doing with just a few "Hello random character" type of comments. Problem is, a majority of characters (unless having an event*) repeat themselves at an irritating level. Some games will have [NPC] characters maybe say three things in total while Persona 3 seems happy with a single one.

But, again, what grabbed me into the game was its music. So much so that its soundtrack was searched for and "found" in order to listen. The game is so full with uniqe and new music that the soundtrack has 26 tracks on it! 26 tracks on a video game soundtrack. The best part is all the music is actually in the game. A lot of soundtracks for video games include "relevant songs" from popular artists, but not this one.

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The Golden Age of Video

Epic movies plus some epic television mixed in with some really good background type music all mixed together to form what was the past century in what it meant in terms of television and movies alike.

The funny thing about this is that I, personally, have seen more than enough of those films to be able to understand what and where without to much direction. Suppose that means the television raised me a bit more then it should have.

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FLASHBACK (PBBGs)

First and foremost comes Solve Unamusements opinion about PBBGs on a very general level. Like everything else they have their pros and cons but after an extended period of time, one of each should be added.

Con: Because they are so simple, a lot of PBBGs can easily be forgotten or bailed on for one reason or another.
Pro: Because they are so simple, it is rare that much is missed if you bail and come back later.

Syrnia was like that, personally, for this writer. Had forgotten the game for a good one hundred and twenty days (exactly) and was then reminded by email that my account may be removed. This was my ticket back to playing (though not as often/much as before) and because of how most PBBGs work nothing was missed from the time off.

So in memory of PBBGs that have been suggested and are either mostly not played or not played at all anymore, a list of all the PBBGs that have been posted via Solve Unamusement. Out of this list, only two are being played (one is because it is yet in closed Alpha.)

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I could take 39, 42 if I Lie.

Created by Oatmeal

Not much else to say other than to thank Ting for finding such a simple yet awesome amusement.

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Pacman Tetris

Pac-Attack!

A game that is 80% Tetris and 20% Pacman is nothing but win. The game doesn't run in odd shapes but more along the lines of Dr. Mario or Magic Jewelry. The shapes are very constant (Short L pieces in the case of Pac-Attack) with typical finish a row across and get points etc. The difference is the ghosts and Pacman.

On the SNES and Sega Genesis (as well as ports to Gamegear and GBC) the game doesn't seem to get that much attention beyond a certain group of puzzle solving manics. Give the game a whirl, if you can.

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The Picard Song/Video

Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG)was something which was grown up on in my own home. That being said, everyone who's seen TNG knows who Captain Jean Luc Picard is. He is the captain of the Enterprise!

History out of the way, this song by online handle name "DarkMateria" (Link to MySpace Music. Out of the three songs listed on site, it isn't much of a wonder why "The Picard Song" has grown the popularity it has.

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