Adventure Time and The Myth of Sisyphus

One of the better articles about Adventure Time, by Kay Albasi at Medium.

The Cake Looks Like Malus

The Cake looks like Malus, the sixteenth colossus in Shadow of the Colossus.

Patience St. Pim in the Adventure Time Finale Intro

My youngest son noticed this and I don't think anyone else online has mentioned it yet. Take a look at the opening shot from the finale intro. On the right, there's a multi-faceted icy sphere.

Adjust the levels a little bit and it becomes very familiar:

Clearly this is the self-containing time capsule of Patience St. Pim, last seen in the episode Skyhooks 2, suggesting she'll return in a thousand years (which adds up to the setting of the finale intro)!

Adventure Time Finale Celebration

The kids and I watched Adventure Time from the first trailer until the end last night. We marked the finale all weekend, to the point where I'm out sick with a backache and sleep loss! :) That's how you do it man.

Saturday we got the ingredients for a Time Sandwich (a.k.a. Jake Sandwich or the Greatest Sandwich Ever Made). All weekend we re-watched key episodes and went outside to craft homemade spears, bows, and arrows to use against some (quick-and-dirty) pink foam cutouts of the Lich and other villains.

An oozing mutant took the first hit directly in his mouth!

A Gnome Fairy got what was coming to him for blowing up old ladies.

The Lich, post-battle but before a spear broke him in two.

AMO before he was busted up.

We learned that you really really need to use a decent amount of bacon if you want to taste it in a pancake. I went cheap with crumbles. Live and learn. Basically they tasted like pancakes. But we had a blast making my mistake. Next time I'm going big.

I took some bacon and I put it in a pancake.

Gluten-free Finn cakes my daughter helped me make.

Jake's Ultimate Sandwich. Not bad at all. 

Double Screencaps

Nothing fancy -- screen captures joined together for dual screen wallpaper. 3840x1080.

Custom Munchkin Board

My kids and I cannot play this game often enough. Munchkin gets my highest endorsement, and the Adventure Time set (and its addon) are kid-friendly.

The bottom row is for cards and discards. Level 1 is the room in the middle row on the far right (with the torch and altar); progression goes to the left and into the top row, then to the right. The mountain is level 9 and of course at level 10 the game is over. I design but don't paint a lot, and those rooms are tiny (about 3" across)! Still, it ought to suit us.