Update: Game’s Over! Look for a transcript tomorrow! But we’re all still chatting, so why not come in and say hi anyway?
It’s been quite a while since we held our last IRC event, but with the equinox drawing the summer days to a wane, it’s time once again to dust off the #boingboing IRC channel and spend a few hours in a rousing community game of an old favorite, Rule 34 Showdown.
Rule 34, as all men know, is the cosmic rule that demands that porn can be found on the Internet to fit any concept. The rules are simple: numerous times over the course of one hour, I will shout out a random Rule 34 Challenge.
“RULE 34: Obama French Kissing Joe Biden!” I might cry. The denizens of #boingboing will go scrambling to find a link that illicitly matches the challenge. The first three people to come up with separate links and images for the same concept will be awarded first, second and third place points of decreasing denominations. At the end of the hour, the person with the most points will be declared the official RULE 34 PORNOGRAPHER OF #BOING BOING! At least for the week. And to make it all timeless fun, we’ll knock up all the links we accrue in the official transcript of the event, with the best images highlighted for fun.
This week’s game will be held tonight at 4PM EDT / 1PM PDT / 9PM GMT. To play, simply come to the official #boingboing IRC channel on Freenode about 15 minutes before the game and /msg Brownlee that you’d like to play. Don’t want to play? Come on by and watch.
If you’ve never used IRC before, you can find instructions on how to get to the channel here, or simply use the Java chat applet.
Update: Sorry! Huge time mess up in the title. It’s at 4PM EDT.
Oh, so we can’t propose challenges ourselves?
I wanna see some geoduck porn.
Uhhhh. 9 pm EDT or 4 pm EDT/9 pm GMT? Both times are shown here.
Last time this happened, it was said the resulting pictures would be collected someplace. Did that ever happen?
Because hearing about how awesome it was last time without being able to see the results is kinda sucky.
No, it didn’t. This time it will, promise.
Nooooo, I’ll be at work!
Hopefully if I get away from work early like I’m planning, I AM SO DOWN WITH THIS!
Can I preemptively suggest http://nakedchicksonpostitnotes.blogspot.com/ which should cover a few Rule 34 challenges
Excellent. Pizza and wine must be purchased so I’m comfy by the start time. Hmmm I wonder if I can second guess Brownlee and get some Rule 35 stuff prepared just in case
Lol. Won’t be awake for this, but anyway: I refuse to believe in rule 34 until someone has found ichigo X grimmjow furry yaoi (cringe)
Rule 34 showdown always happens while I’m at work.
OK, I’m confused. Does this start at 4PM EDT / 1PM PDT / 9PM GMT
or at 9PM EDT?
The title of the post says one thing, and the content says another.
If its at 4pm est I won’t be able to play either. Sucks.
It’s at 4PM EDT. Sorry about the mistake.
…Kids, I’m going to embarass myself and ask someone to clarify the “companion cube” meme. I’ve honestly been in the dark on this one. Is it to masturbation what the Rubik’s Cube was to…well, mental masturbation?
Update: I won’t be participating in this one because I’ve got three appointments regarding my -hopefully soon to be fundeded- fake leg, the last of which is a group therapy session with other amputees that won’t be done until 8pm. I actually wanted to make this one because it sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. Almost as much fun as a pin-the-tape-reel-on-the-Nixon game!
WHY MUST YOU PLAY WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF MADNESS – ON A FRIDAY?
wryyyyyyyyyyyyyy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3w8IRjPqXA
Om, we’ll do a Rule 34 challenge about your fake leg.
#14: It’s a “character” and gameplay mechanic in the game Portal. You carry it through a level or two, and set it on switches to open doors. The Companion Cube has a couple of the best jokes in the game centered around it. Even if you’re not a big gamer, you should grab Portal for $20 and play through it, it’s so worth it.
To add one further time-related correction to the mix, I think you meant to say, “with the equinox drawing the summer days to a wane . . .”
“Om, we’ll do a Rule 34 challenge about your fake leg.”
…Why do I fear that those will involve that leg winding up in places not normally covered by the warranty?
I’m working all day, but here’s a great resource
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list
Ok. WTF is this companion cube meme mentioned twice today?.
It is partially familiar, but do you really expect it to urge us to the search field to find where in the obscure past this has popped up? Ugh, I guess I’ve no choice.
#9: Completely missed your post, but a ichigo X grimmjow furry yaoi made me shudder. Ick.
Seriously? You bash 4chan and then host a challenge featuring one of their memes? Have fun with that.
Damn it, I am still at work and my work IE would not let me connect to FreeNode via Javascript IRC chat.
I have no idea what the fuck Onecooldan is talking about.
Xeni mocked 4chan a little bit in a thread the other day. Apparently its not ok to mock 4chan but still make use of memes that sprung from it and are now ubitquitous. Or something.
Which is all very funny, considering that you will never find more people making fun of 4chan than you will at 4chan itself.
I thought Rule 34 roots were in XKCD?
http://xkcd.com/305/
which spawned
http://www.wetriffs.com/
(nsfw, though with a sfw entry page.)
Rule 34 has been around far longer than that.
Well played, everyone. Good times.
I think Rule 34 may actually predate 4Chan. Not counting the version from Alice in Wonderland.
I was halfway tempted to dig up an IRC client and join in as a rapid-sketch artist, rather than a Googler, but I didn’t see this until I was at work around noon Eastern time, so no dice.
Ah well. I can at least show off my 34 chops with these two pictures of Shodan x GlaDOS.
Goodnight, sweet childhood memories.
Hmmm.
#31 Egypt Urnash seems to have suggested a new form of competition. A rapid sketch rule 35 Contest.
I can’t believe I missed out on the chance to defend my title. Oh well, I suppose the mantle of ultimate perversion had to be passed on at some point.
What number is your post JOHNLAYMAN?
Perhaps I can interest you in the transcript I made?
http://www.slackertalk.com/rule34.php
…Ok, so what results were found for my fake leg? Or dare I ask