Let's Talk About Ms Paint Adventures
Way back in December of 2009, a dear friend of mine known as LehvakLah on these forums (but by other monikers offline) shared with me a link. It was to a quasi-interactive comic with charmingly simplistic art and a creatively curious interface. It was called MS Paint Adventures. As I recall, she shared also with me a link to Beyond the Canopy that evening. I skimmed both lightly and was marginally delighted by my cursory perusal. As I trusted her judgement and was already amused by what little I had read, I promised Llah that I would read both when I had the time to catch up with their archives. Problematically, you see, I was incredibly busy, and had little time to start reading new things.
Much time passed, and my business never subsided, but I retained every intention of reading these comics, particularly the MS Paint Adventures. My desire was exacerbated by discovering that other dear friends, including those known as Black Six, Tufi Piyufi, and InnerRayg on this board, also enjoyed said comic. But still I had not the agency to delve into the archives.
Still more time passed. At some point during the year 2010, references to MS Paint Adventures exploded all over BZPower, almost to irksome levels. This was actually discouraging, given that BZPower ('Where Memes Go to Die') seems to often take interest in things that are no longer funny (I'm being tongue-and-cheek here, folks ). You see, I've been accused of being a hipster. I do not deny these inclinations within me. But I'm a rational person, and even though I have the countercultural inclination to disapprove of that which is popular, I understand that these are patently absurd and rarely indulge except in jocularity. If close friends whose tastes and judgments I trust recommend something to me, I will endeavor to experience it.
Such was the case with MS Paint Adventures. But, in jest, I began cracking jokes in self-deprecation of my 'hipster' tendencies, primarily with Tufi and another good friend known here as Aho-Chan. I jokingly derided MSPA as 'mainstream' and uncool, 'not worth my time.' Eventually these facetious declarations spread to public media, like BZPower. I think Aho's blog was definitely the epicenter of most of these. But the real joke, of course, was that a link to MS Paint Adventures sat on my bookmarks toolbar all this time, hovering above thee contrary things I was writing. This is so ironic, only highly adept satirical ninjas can appreciate stuff like this.
Fast-forward to a couple week ago. This semester (my final semester of university, hurrah), my workload has lessened considerably. Finally I could read the comic - but unfortunately I had quite a lot of catching up to do! Regardless, I wanted to share the good news with my friend-fans, so I added another subtle strata of irony utterly undetectable to the untrained eye by joking that I was making an ironic statement by hopping on the bandwagon late. Basically in this case, the joke is the joke, and that degree of irony itself is ALSO the joke, and so on. And I kept this pretending-to-only-be-reading-as-a-joke as I was plowing through the archives.
Now I'm relatively caught up and I feel I may as well just come out and confess the truth behind all the jokes: that all this time I've been trash-talking MS Paint Adventures, I actually enjoyed the comic and had a link right there in the middle of my bookmarks toolbar.
I guess you could say...
...you all got TROLLED
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