It is now, and that's all that matters.

Holy Shit is right. I think I first saw this in like 2002 or something. Still makes me laugh.

What do you think freebase is?

It's that skiing game on the PC.

I am 99% sure they didn't get permission or rights to do this before they did it

No that was definitely the real pacman. You can tell.

No it's not. The real PacMan does not have arms or legs.

http://tinyurl.com/therealpacman

Counterpoint:

http://tinyurl.com/7hkoxdt

That's just a cartoon show.

Besides that new 4-player one, I believe Pac Man has been represented with arms and legs (and sometimes a hat) more than he has not. The cabinet art for the original Ms Pac Man arcade showed her with arms and legs too; even though she was still leg and armless in the game itself, she's had them ever since.

Yeah, yeah, but that's all just *art*. That's an *artist's interpretation of PacMan*. The real PacMan, and the real Ms PacMan too for that matter, is limbless.

I think he's had arms and legs in games ever since Pac Land. Mario had a brown shirt underneath red suspenders in the first SMB, but after that he always had a red shirt underneath blue suspenders.

Pac Land was non-canonical and also terrible. As for Mario, you're talking about his clothes. Mario has more than one pair of clothes, you know. He hasn't just been wearing the same shirt every day for the last thirty years.

You can buy new shirts, but you can't magically grow extra limbs.

Good point. Did they ever bother to explain that? Pac Land was actually the first Pac Man game I ever played. The "sequel" to Pac Man, Pac Man 2 on the other hand was canonical, depending on your definition of "canon" and he had arms and legs and this continued throughout the 3D ones with the exception of that isometric one, the pinball machine and the new one.

I would not consider those PacMen to be canon. That was more of a retcon/ reboot, a "new" PacMan who existed independently of the original universe and never really caught on. Sort of like how the real Lara Croft is 26 and has DDD-cups, while the fake liar feminist Lara Croft is 16 and only has Ds.

This, of course, contrasts with something like Mortal Kombat, where the characters of the original series and the reboot series are shown to exist within the same multiverse, albeit within separate timelines.

They were just being polite. Pac Man may be awesome in many ways, but no matter how high he gets he'll never get on that couch without help from his friends. Pac Man rises above that sort of condescension.

I like the nearly empty bookshelf. It must've been moving day and they got bored and made this. Unless that's actually the bloodhound gang.. I don't know anymore.

This is not that original video; I don't know where the hell this one is from, but isn't that DJ Jared?

I was heading to New Zealand for a tour with the orchestra I was in back in 1999, and forgot to buy batteries for my Walkman, so my friend let me listen to his discman. And Hooray for Boobies was the only album he brought with him. I must've listened to it 100 times on the flight. I think I still have it memorized. I'm not necessarily proud of this.

My Friend-Who-Was-Really-Into-the-Bloodhound-Gang had a scraggly chinstrap, smelled of armpits, and ran his own backyard wrestling team. I think he's a Mormon now.

I also had a Girlfriend-Who-Was-Really-Into-the-Bloodhound-Gang. She liked them because Jimmy Pop had an college degree. Last I spoke with her, she was living in the jungles of Costa Rica with a reiki healing cult.

Sounds about like my friend, but replace "wrestling" with paintball. I think I still have a few scars. He was also an incredible musician and he and I became friends because we'd get high and show up for the school's "orchestra," which was a joke (budget cuts,) and fuck around pissing off the teacher, then don tuxedos and play with the local youth philharmonic and the symphony on the weekends. I miss that guy.