Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and...Satan?

[matt1993]

So, as you may recall, if you don't count LiveJournal's welcome post, then the entry where I linked to the maze I made in The World's Biggest Pac-Man is my 666th LJ entry.

Well, now I went to play it, and happened to glance at the maze stats:



:O

Get the Pacxorcist

Comments

[glowing-dragon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess so! (you're giving me memories of reading that Tim LaHaye series, hahaha)

Why is midnight so scary?

[matt1993]

(you're giving me memories of reading that Tim LaHaye series, hahaha)

What is that like?

Why is midnight so scary?

Normally, it isn't (well, nowadays it normally isn't, but...). Midnight coupled with reading a LJ comment with a 666 image in it, though... :O

[glowing-dragon.livejournal.com]

http://www.leftbehind.com (I stopped after #5 for some reason, which had The Mark of The Beast in it)

Oh, heh. I guess if you're extremely religious, that might freak you out. Midnight doesn't freak me out, usually - nor 666. Have you ever had to pay $6.66 for something? Or had change totaling $6.66? What do you do then?

[matt1993]

I don't consider myself extremely religious like those customers. I've never had to play $6.66 for anything, but if I did, I'd probably simply add or remove an item - I wouldn't scream, “I don’t want it! The devil’s already marching through the stores.” or “Your cashier is touched by Lucifer himself! She needs to be baptized in the holy waters.” or anything like that.

In fact, as I was making the first frame of this userpic, I noticed that the area I was about to select to crop was almost 666 pixels wide or tall, so since it fit, I went ahead and selected 666x666 areas for all of the frames (then scaled them down to 100x100) and even put the numbers 663-666 instead of 1-4 in the filenames, so if I ever have to pay $6.66, I might not even end up adding or removing anything. Or I might. It all depends on how many of these ominous signs I've been seeing recently :P

[glowing-dragon.livejournal.com]

Hahaha... good to know that you'd be rational about it. I don't remember having to pay that amount for something, or receiving that amount in change, but I do a bunch of shopping - probably not memorable enough.

HAHAHAHAHA. I guess so!

[matt1993]

:)

[glowing-dragon.livejournal.com]

:)

[matt1993]

The "pay $6.66 for something" link no longer goes to the article it used to go to (judging by the fact that it now goes to an article from 2016 despite this thread being from 2011), so for posterity, I'll link to this archive.org page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110520062829/http://notalwaysright.com/the-devil-to-pay/3391

The original article doesn't seem to have anything to do with 666, though... I know it has to have been this one, though, because the bobblehead Jesus sounds familiar. :)


The article that shows up now is pretty funny too, though! I saved it in archive.org for posterity too:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180324211736/https://notalwaysright.com/the-devil-to-pay/55882/

[matt1993]

Can't edit the above comment, so pretend "but..." is a link to the DW version of that entry instead.