Vincent Macropod in “Winners Don’t Always Use Drugs”
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Takin’ a few days off work, here. And you know what that means: self-enrichment. And you know what that means: “Marvel vs. Capcom 2? for Xbox. I can’t make heads or tails of the controls of the damn game, nor of the fact that one of the characters appears to be an animate and rotund cactus of some sort. (That said cactus wears a sombrero, I needn’t even mention.) And THAT is to say nothing of the character who appears to be a little girl with a shape-shifting back-hoe. When you’re going to the man wearing spandex head-to-toe, who has the proportionate strength and agility of a spider, in order to get a sense of quiet normalcy, you know you’ve taken a wrong turn.
But I’m willing to put up with all of this nonsense, because “Marvel vs. Capcom 2? is the only video game of which I am aware in which one is permitted to play Doctor Doom, the monarch of Latveria. And that is good enough for me. Let this attitude explain why I will never become a proper hardcore video-gamer.
Would you like a cartoon, then? Huh? Would you? And would you like some annotations found below to go with it?
- The wife and I, we were watching the winter Olympic figure skating, and one of the commentators said something about how, when the man throws the woman, he has to be careful not to throw her too hard. This cartoon is what I presume he was getting at.
- The precise manifestation of the Jekyll / Hyde transformation here is based on my memory of a ‘Muppet Show’ episode wherein Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, I think, came up with a Jekyll / Hyde potion, and it ran amok through the cast. Been like fifteen years since I saw that episode, though. Where the hell are the Muppet Show DVDs?!?
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