More on the "geek humor" thing.

[prog]

OK, look:

Your Super Mario ringtone is stupid because it's you waving your default cultural nerdier-than-thou penis around for everyone to admire.

My monster-encounter-music-from-Dragon-Warrior ringtone is way better not just because it is significantly more obscure, but it actually makes sense in the context of an incoming phone call. It is a reasonable attempt at cleverness that makes me smile once in a while, versus me standing up and shouting HEY GUYS I LIKE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS AND PAC-MAN every time someone calls me. Which yours is.

Maybe what I really have a problem with is the overuse of empty tribal markers with no attempt to get under them. Mm.

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[misuba.livejournal.com]

I must now confess to having investigated sources of MP3s from the video game Strider for ringtone purposes. I don't even remember the music from Strider, I just remember thinking it was good. The Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion music is completely burned into my cochlea, but there are depths of referential twee to which I shall not sink.