Castaways

One of the more fun bit of imaginings I have done is posted over at Risusiverse under the Castaways section. I thought it would be fun to come up with characters inspired from Gilligan’s Island (only instead, it was Conrad Mulligan’s Island).  Conrad isn’t much more than a pure Gilligan rip off.  The rest of the cast has some interesting twists:

• Skipper / Captain Bill Howdy - a once great captain whose career fell apart due to a Twisted Sister song.
• Mr Howell / Mr. Rudy Moneybanks - a once rich man who lost it all; actually the one who caused the shipwreck (hoping to kill himself and his wife in the process).
• Mrs. Howell / Mrs. Rudy Moneybanks - charity organizer extraordinaire.
• Ginger / Cinnamon Star - actually believes she can do the things she did in her movies.
• Marry Ann / Annie Marie - secretly a ninja who will kill anyone who finds out.
• Professor / Doc Jones - con man with a meager ability to invent gadgets who is on the run from the law.

I never did get the chance to really use the characters, but they were certainly fun.

A Home for the Lost and Forsaken: Risusiverse Zombies

With the death of Geocities and other free hosting sites, I would like to remind everyone that there are sites like Risusiverse available.  Risusiverse is a wiki devoted to Risus.  It has a WYSIWYG editor and is very simple to use.  There is a lot of great content there already, and it would be awesome to add in the content that you can only find now via the Way Back Machine.

I have put up a page at Risusiverse for the Risus Zombies - if you know of someone who will let you bring their content back from the dead, either outright add it to Risusiverse or add it to the list, and hopefully someone will volunteer their time to add it to Risusiverse.

Wet Paint

If anyone knows someone in charge at WetPaint, please tell them to get their site working with Safari (I kind of miss making updates to Risusiverse - just not enough to use a different browser).

Just wondering…

I’ve been wondering if anyone, anywhere, is using the rules I put together over at Risusiverse for playing Risus online?

Why I’m Not at Risusiverse Much

Here I’m the site admin/owner for Risusiverse, yet I’m hardly ever posting anything there any more.  The short version is that I use Safari as my primary browser.  When WetPaint first launched, they didn’t support it (I had Firefox, so it wasn’t too big of a deal).  Then they did.  Now they don’t again.  I have no real desire to upgrade my old copy of Firefox when Safari works just fine for me (and worked just fine at Risusiverse before).

Yes, I could technically just download the new version of Firefox.  It isn’t really that hard.  However, it is the principle of the thing.  They used to work fine with Safari, now they’ve stopped supporting it (and when I posted something in their support wiki, I was told that they never did support Safari - which is either an outright lie or I’m suffering from hallucinations).

I still keep track of what’s going on at Risusiverse.  I just won’t be contributing a whole lot until they’ve gotten their issues fixed.

Shhh.  We can spy on the comments from Risusiverse right here.  I’ve added a nifty droplet from WetPaint into the sidebar.

I realize I only get a couple of visitors a day here, but I have a question…would you be interested in a pdf “magazine” featuring content from Risusiverse?

I hate spammers.  I had to spend quite some time yesterday removing ads someone placed on about 18 pages over at Risusiverse…why would then even bother joining the wiki just to place ads?

I wonder what people’s favorite thing at Risusiverse is?  According to Google Analytics, the Stock Character Cliches page is most viewed after the homepage.  Is that what people find most useful?