User:Johnny Jupiter
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Antisexy has at least fifteen bucks in his wallet right now. Bet that's more than you, poor person.
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A Few Things About Me
My real name is Paul McCoy, but I want to change to Johnny Jupiter someday when I have an extra $200 just lying around. Antisexy is one of my old preferred screen names, and I really don't like it anymore. One of these days, one of the Bureaucrats will see my username change request, and grant thereof. But until then, Antisexy it is.
I also have an unhealthy obsession with Fooly Cooly
Homestar Runner
The first thing on homestarrunner.com I ever saw was the Everybody to the Limit video at a friends house, and I hated it. It wasn't until like a year or so later that I wandered back on to the site and saw english paper (which was the new sbemail at the time). I loved it, but I didn't realize right away it was the same site I saw Everybody to the Limit on. It wasn't until I'd already watched a bunch more sbemails and got hooked that I made my way to the rest of the toons and made the connection. I think that I was initially turned off by PBTC-style being my first experience with the site, but now that I understand PBTC is supposed to look poorly slapped together, I can totally dig the #1 summer jam. The live version of the song on Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits is freakin' awesome. (I wish I could have been at that concert.)
What I love about homestarrunner.com
- Compy-era- As far as I'm concerned, the peak of Strong Bad emails was the middle of the Compy-era. Maybe this is just because it's the era I jumped in on, but it just seems like they had a more spontaneous, "makin' crap up" style of humor back then. I still think the newer ones are funny, but they just seem more structured and planned out. That takes away from the Homestar charm. My favorite sbemail of all time is virus, but I also love the process, dragon (Taster's Choice), different town (TMBG!!!), there's so many...
- Homsar- Do I really need to elaborate?
- Strong Sad's Lament- I'm not really big on blogs and livejournals and myspaces and all that, but I really wish this and Marzipan's Answering Machine were updated more often and had a degree user interactivity like Strong Bad Emails, just because it can't always be about Strong Bad. The way that Strong Sad's Lament is hidden so obscurely and very rarely referenced ever so vaguely, yet is still updated somewhat regularly, gives Strong Sad, and really the whole site, more depth. It makes it almost seem like Strong Sad is a real person.
- Stinkoman 20X6- Any day now, I'ma get to play level 10.
- TMBG & Zelda- These are a few of my favorite things, occasionally making appearances in Free Country, USA. I also just about hurt myself laughing when I first saw the Akira refrence in 3 Times Halloween Funjob.
What I hate about homestarrunner.com
- Bad sbemails- The following sbemails just flat out aren't funny: your funeral, the chair, retirement, disconnected, lady fan, highschool, portrait, bedtime story, geddup noise, secret recipes, your friends, the ending of record book, and most of the tandy-era sbemails.
H*R Wiki
I first came across H*R Wiki completely on accident through a really weird stroke of dumb luck. I wanted to find a fansite or archive site where I could find more info on homestarrunner.com. I think I was specifically wondering about how the sbemail menu screen used to have a link on it for "older emails" that didn't really do anything, but other than that, I just wanted a place where I could look up random fun facts on the site. This was all back before I'd ever heard of Wikipedia at all. But when I was at my computer on Google ready to look it up, it was really late, and I was really tired and worn out, and I wasn't completely paying attention to what I was doing. So instead of typing "Homestar Runner" or "Strong Bad Email" or something like that, without even realizing it, I typed "jibblie jibblie" and hit enter. I didn't really even connect in my mind that jibblie was something Strong Bad said; those just happened to be the first random words that came to my fingers. But sure enough, the first link that came up was the H*R Wiki page on your friends. I was shocked. Exactly what I was looking for. So anyway, I discovered H*R Wiki, and shortly afterwards discovered Wikipedia, and I've been unable to live without either ever since.
What I love about H*R Wiki
- Fun Facts- There so many references and connections and little quirks about the site that I learned from Fun Facts sections that I never would have caught otherwise. It's awesome that so many types of people watch the toons and contribute to the articles. (Although sometimes I think it goes too far.)
- Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough- I love video games, but I'm typically not good at them. Last time I fired up one of my old Segatapes, it made me a waffle.
What I hate about H*R Wiki
- "Admin Clique"- Like many people, I was an anonymous user for quite a while before I decided to register. During my time an anony, I frequently got the opinion ruled by a hierarchy of sorts, and if you weren't a sysop or a seasoned user that the sysops liked, then your opinions didn't really matter. Now that I've been around the block a few times as a full fledged user, I can see that it's not quite as vicious as I thought it was. But I still hold to my "admin clique" theory, at least somewhat. I don't think it's being done on purpose, though. I've been monitoring Recent Changes lately, and it seems like anytime an anonymous or inexperienced user makes an edit, 9 times out of 10 it's reverted within 10 minutes, regardless of what it was. Now I'm fully aware that there's a lot of dumb edits made by anonies, and I've actually reverted a few myself. But I think the users that have been doing this a long time are so used to reverting anonymous edits, that sometimes their objectivity is a little compromised. I've seen a lot of legitimate points that were certainly worthy of at least a discussion on the talk page deleted before anyone even knew they were there.
- Strictly Encyclopedic- Of course, I also seem to have a broader view of legitimate points. The admin clique sometimes seems to forget that most people who come here are just average run-of-the-mill Homestar dorks, and not super mega uber nerds like themselves. Most people come here for fun tidbits to enhance the humor of the toons, not to research the set-in-stone facts and scientific explanations. The admin clique puts the utmost emphasis on keeping this site encyclopedic, neat and clean, based on proven facts, scientific, clear cut, and speculation-free. All this is fine and expected for standard Wikipedia pages, but the H*R Wiki is based solely on a single "talking animal" type cartoon series. One that thrives on non-sequitur humor. It can't be based on proven facts because it's all fiction. It can't be clear cut and scientific, because so many of the jokes intentionally don't make sense (Homestar's "arms", Strong Bad typing with boxing gloves, The Cheat's and Pom Pom's "languages"), and it can't be speculation-free, because The Brothers Chaps are the only ones who ever know for sure what they mean (and sometimes even they probably don't). It's rare that they explain themselves, so anytime an article explains any meaning in a cartoon, by default, it's speculation. And I think that all these rules hurt the Homestar Runner spirit. It's supposed to be whimsical and light hearted and funny. Since we can't ever truly know what TBC have in mind, we shouldn't try to limit ourselves to only what TBC have in mind. Our only limit should be to the whimsical, light-hearted, and funny. If there's no way of knowing if a similarity was an intentional refrence, but it's still something W,LH,&F, it should be included. If it wasn't an intentional refrence, then including it will indeed enhance the humor of the toon for people who come here. Don't forget that TBC themselves come here. Wouldn't it be awesome to impress THEM with a connection they hadn't thought about?
