I remember some years ago reading a site, which is no longer around, that had questions answered by popular cartoon and game characters. CATS, Thundercleese, Master Onion, etc. Hell, I think it was made by a QT3er.
I wanted to relive the funny with the internet archive or something, but I can’t for the life of me remember the site name or URL.
Help, QT3 hive mind!
That was me.
http://www.truemeaningoflife.com/archive.html
Do me a favor and skip the first couple months.
That’s it! Thanks, Matt.
You know, a person could resurrect that with some nice modern software like Movable Type or whatever, throw in some google ads, and make a pretty nice sum of money.
What with reddit and digg and the gaming blogs eager to lap up whatever the latest meme is and stuff.
I know I would visit every day.
Fun fact: TMOL is the first hit on a google search for “cock hardening situation”.
It seems like a moral gray area to me-- using other people’s characters to make money. It may (or may not) qualify as fair use, but I was doing it mostly because I enjoyed Forum 2000 and the Conversatron so much and thought it would be fun. It was! For a while.
Besides, while it seemed to be very attractive to a very niche audience, most people didn’t care for it. I got linked on Penny Arcade on two separate occasions, and both times it was pretty much a one-day spike in traffic. Which didn’t even crash my cheapo vhost plan.
Forum2000 was waaaaaay better!
The Gurus Respond:
Wasn’t there a third one too?
The Hateatron.
Conversatron? Amazingly, there is actually a whole wikipedia article on these types of websites.
FFS, I was going to go to sleep by qt4, and this discovery that TMOL has an archive is going to keep me up for at least another hour. I always loved reading this site, and plan to show it to my children, so keep that archive up for another 20 years or Matt, thanks.
Man, I loved me some conversatron.
http://truemeaningoflife.com/oldwisdom.php?topid=48495&responses=2
How the Hell did you snag Angie? You are a blessed man.
YES, BUT NOT FOR THE REASON YOU THINK.
The Gurus Respond:
It’s freshman year all over again. I blame TMOL directly for my first semester GPA.