Corpse Run 355: A tall drink of crossover
LIVESTREAM UPDATE:
Okie dokie, the next livestream will be this Friday, October 18 at 9pm est! I’m really glad we brought the doodling back in the mix, it was really fun (despite the fact that I was sniffling and coughing and stuff)!
If you missed last week’s stream and wanted to see it, view it here: doodling part, Tales of Symphonia part (second leg of the run, in which I die a million times in the early going)
END LIVESTREAM UPDATE!
Before the regular post stuff, I’d just like to drop a reminder about the Second Annual Corpse Run Halloween Costume Contest! If you’re itching to win a crummy little Shower Bear button, pin… thing… send us a photo of your Halloween costume by Monday, November 4th! We’ll work a little bit of judging magic and pick three winners! Neat!
Submissions can be sent to [email protected] with the subject “Halloween Costume Contest.”
Happy costuming!
So about today’s comic… I get the feeling that this is one of those obscure ones.
Maybe.
Then again, everyone’s seen The Shawshank Redemption, right? It’s a pretty popular (and fantastic) movie, and even if people haven’t seen it, chances are they at least know or have heard the “get busy living, or get busy dying” line. Unless I’ve totally lost my mind, it’s an iconic speech.
Anyways, in Fire Emblem, as characters build relationships the player can view little skits (conversations) between the budding friends. One such skit between Cynthia and Severa starts off with Cynthia testing out a catchphrase to use in battle, which goes like this:
“Get busy dying, or get busy dying MORE!”
As I stated before, I may have lost my mind, but if that’s not a call out to Shawshank, then it’s certainly the coincidence of the century.
One way or another, I figured Cynthia would have a suggestion or two to spice up Andy Dufrense’s speech.
So yeah, totally not an out there strip… makes complete sense.
Maybe.
Something that didn’t make sense this week involves Jackie’s Xbox 360. After years of solid service, it finally red ringed a few days ago.
Bummer.
Since that time, Jackie has used the 360 as a glorified phone charger, using the usb ports, red ring blinking all the while.
Fast forward to Sunday morning. Jackie’s parents stopped by, and while talking to them she mentioned the death of her Xbox.
“See?” she said, hitting the power button to show them the red ring.
Except there was no red ring; it booted up perfectly, as if divinely healed.
There’s only one lesson I get from this: if your system red rings, plug your phone into it for a few days. Chances are it won’t change anything, but hey, can’t hurt, right?
It’s called parental interference. Practically, it’s the same thing as when you can’t find something for hours, you ask your mother to help, who finds it within seconds. Which Jesus is responsible for it, I don’t know…
I kind of had the same thing, except with lost porn tapes.
For some reason my missing copy of “Bikini Babe Bangs 3” would magically turn up whenever mom & pop would visit.
Damnedest thing.
Don’t know if you have Brady yet, but he also shouts out “Get busy dying!” in battle when doing a critical strike or activating a skill.
I had the same thing with my old pc. After a year of errors and crashes, it finally died. Until my friend came over and decided he wanted to see for himself how dead my pc was. It suddenly worked perfectly.
The pc did die a few months later. The same friend tried turning it on, but it didn’t work. He then pushed the on button several times, resulting in a bang and some smoke coming out of the back.
You demand a lot from your readers. 🙂
I remember the line and the movie, but not having played the game I was confused as fuck reading this.
Thankfully you (unlike SOME TF2/DotA related comic artists that will go unmentioned) explain the more subtle referential comics you create in the description.
Some 360s develop interesting habits. A friend’s 360, before it red-ringed, became extremely stubborn and didn’t want to open it’s disc tray without us having to forcibly pry it open.
Cue Red Ring: The Disc tray works like nothing happened
So we do the towel trick. The Disc Tray goes back to DO NOT WANT TO OPEN
Random
I don’t understand a reference made by my own daughter…? I’M A FAILURE OF A PARENT!