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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Teh Internets I Need a Hero

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:26 PM

20f7/1238007040-spork.jpg Ways to waste your desk-bound lunch, part 112: The Hero Factory.

You can make your own super-hero from a fairly huge collection of details. (Look out, fellas: There's a lady option, too!) The fellow to the left is The Spork. I'm sure you can do better.

(Thanks to Slog Tipper Brad.)

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Doing better isn't the scene of this imaginary friend.....

Did you get my little tirade a few minutes ago
(well more than a few) at Gas Works Park?

I stood right there on the "veranda" of Gasworks park in front of lake union and challenged Casey Treat to a "fictional" train wreck with my double divinity graduate brother Ralph Kieneker and my electric guitar and Dan Electro reel Echo and the little VOX amp to discuse with Casey Treat and Congregation sound, the black sheep of the families and the heightened awareness of youth and church leaders in TELE-Evangelism.

Dan savage and Company... do you think it would sell?

I think we should make it official and you could invite it there to be or not to be....

Casey, I don't use profanity in church.

Posted by daniel b.kieneker on March 25, 2009 at 12:58 PM

This is all the fun of City of Heroes without the boring game-play.

Posted by Mary Traverse on March 25, 2009 at 1:04 PM

It wouldn't let me name my hero, which sucks. My hero has always been named All Talk And No Action Man.

Though I did appear as Bull Fucking Shit Man once.

Posted by Fnarf on March 25, 2009 at 1:20 PM

What's the deal? You can only get one weapon at a time? No sidekick? And no mental skills? No clever repartee? No tricks?

So I have to use up the first episode getting more weapons, the second getting a sidekick, the third on the backstory showing how I developed my cleverness, the fourth talking back to some demon and crushing him with my words, and the fifth earning my special tricks?

It's an easy-bake oven-level hero factory. I need a better Hero Factory.

Posted by Luisita, PhD on March 25, 2009 at 1:26 PM

@4, I think the mental skills are implied by some of the facial features, like the eyebrows.

Posted by Fnarf on March 25, 2009 at 1:36 PM

I think I'll just stick with reading "No Hero" for now, but thanks anyway.

Posted by COMTE on March 25, 2009 at 1:40 PM

I wish this post were named "We Don't Need Another Hero." Oh, Tina.

Posted by leek on March 25, 2009 at 1:45 PM

You get a lot more options with HeroMachine, though I like the more cartoony art from hero factory better.

Posted by spencer on March 25, 2009 at 2:25 PM

I spent a lot of time on HeroMachine back in the day. One of my favorites was Godboy: Defender of Jesus.

Posted by Greg on March 25, 2009 at 3:14 PM

The name it assigned my hero (With monacle, dress shirt / tie combo and big hammer) was, I kid you not, The Glorious Banging Executive. This makes it a winner in my book. I really wish there was a character named this. Preferably in pre-Crisis DC continuity.

Posted by Billy Nilly on March 25, 2009 at 3:39 PM