we get signal

2006-05-05

Title points back to title, post points back to post

(tags comment, structure, programming, bonkers)

This post begins with the canonical title, "tags", and post body format. This sentence does a little thing to segue to the next sentence where there is a point to the post: the whole point of the first couple of sentences is to eloquently situate the following sentence which was wholeheartedly ganked (yes stolen, but hey I link to it like a good blogger) from the linked post's main self-referential assertion:
"This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself"
This is the sentence asserting the supreme validity of the previous quote: "Preach it". I agree. I agree with a little more flourish. However, this sentence tries to eloquently say in so many misused and inappropriate wording how I agree with self-referencing posts and articles just being soo much cat's buttered-side floating meow, like the greatest thing since sliced cheese and spilt milk boiling in a sauce pan ala frog jumping from the pond; did you think of haiku just right now? That's the Japanese connection there because I'm typing this in Japan, as this sentence tries to bundle some kind of self-reference here, yeah like that.

Perhaps, this post would benefit from a better review, as in "This Review" or a link to "This Is the Title of This Story,Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself". Was that last sentence linking the same link from the blockquote above or something different? This sentence worries that the thesis isn't adequately developed in this sentence, let alone this whole post.

Nevertheless, this blog is about the games, not the self-referencing. Or games with self-referencing. Naw this post needs more self-posted letters, that's right gotta reference how I finally got that monkey off my back that is Tom Nook in Animal Crossing Wild Work, paid him off 999,999 bells in one furikomi (electronic transfer), yes sir, but still I keep going back to his shop to get a letter, and mail one letter only one because that's all the Nintendo DS can handle to myself, excuse me, my "future self", call it a temporally delayed self-referentialism. (Can we fit a Star Trek reference here? "It's dead, Jim")

That's what they teach in Computer Science, adding one more reference improves the understanding of the underlying problem, heck it may even solve the problem outright, because you've just abstracted the problem, "distancing yourself from the problem" heh heh I made a funny. Let's not limit the referencing to just "this sentence" but this sentence "in space" and "in time". Let us ponder if the gravity of the reference propagates at the speed of light. But what happens when you add another reference, like to this sentence and you find yourself back where you started? Now that's what I call curved space-time.

This sentence tries to end the post with some semblance of a take-home message, something like, self-referential posts are the bomb but they're just like "you had to be there" joke material, but, however, admittedly, ultimately, albeit the flavor is gone, the joke is dead, the stage is set, the horse is out of the barn, the VCR is still blinking 12:00, you forgot to spring your clocks forward, fall/fell your clocks back, the frog is already sitting in the saucepan waiting for the light, light it light it light it LIGHT IT LIGHT IT, ehm this is just a showdown for run-aground sentences and how many times am I going to spell "sentences" with 3 "s"s but I surreptitiously replaced the middle "s" with a "c" (I was just thinking of Foldger's Crystals right now) because it annoys me to no end. Finally I used a period in the last sentence whoa that "c" took some effort to bust out the first time which reminds me I need to bust out that Dreamcast game Typing of the Date (wallpapers here) yes that's not a typo, playing the House of the Dead III in the arcade recently reminded me about how I need to build my arm muscles and how this game crossed over to the keyboard controller and how I like dating-sim games so why not combine the 3? 3, what 3? Build your arms using a shaft-cocking keyboard to get to the last "heroine" boss?

"Look at my junk, its glorious!" Oops, that's the wrong kind of self-reference, isn't it?

Ah weren't we trying to end this self-referential word-play and get back to more lucid posting? Hah haha, "lucid", as in "Lucida Sans Typewriter". Ah I feel the miasma coming on, but before it takes full effect, there's only one way to end this post, just like ending this sentence: abruptly.