Alien Hominid HD

Posted by Derek Yu Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:21:00 GMT

Alien Hominid

Alien Hominid is hitting Xbox Live Arcade this weekend for 800 Live Arcade Points. That’s $10 US dollars! But THAT’S NOT ALL. The Behemoth is also planning on giving away some real life pseudo-metallic trophies to people who climb their leaderboards every week and every month.

And since I’ve still got a lot of vertical copy to fill, here’s a haiku:

“Beady little eyes

(Oh) Alien Hominid

You are so yellow”



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  1. Shih Tzu said about 1 hour later:

    This must be the first haiku after the international Leipzig Convention of Poets restandardized the syllable count to 5-6-5. Historic!

  2. Derek said about 1 hour later:

    Er, that’s right! ^_^;

  3. Derek said about 1 hour later:

    Well, since I know that many respected poets, including Walston Galbraith III (may he rest in peace) were very much against the restandardized syllable count, and, in an effort not to alienate 5-7-5 traditionalists, I’ve added a syllable to the second line that you may choose to read or not read.

  4. haowan said about 1 hour later:

    Derek Yu in deepest winter: games poet

  5. haowan said about 16 hours later:

    stupid line breaks. that was a 3-5-3 btw

  6. Echo said 1 day later:

    Oh no Haowan / Line Breaks got you down / My heart aches

  7. Echo said 1 day later:

    Sorry, I intended to sound more sympathetic :(

  8. haowan said 1 day later:

    i kill you

    in your fucking skull

    rat bastard

    ;)

  9. haowan said 1 day later:

    double enter does the trick!

  10. Echo said 1 day later:

    OMG you should try

    six more syllables

    awesome power

  11. Noyb said 1 day later:

    Been waiting some time For good game on live arcade Bought nothing since June

  12. Matt said 1 day later:

    Haiku might be a formalized system of 5-7-5, there are hundreds of Japanese classical haiku that break form. Syllables are dropped when it is clear that what should be there grammatically to emphasize with the gap or even syllables added when the sound carries little meaning other than an emphatic or stress of the other words. As a haiku is spontaneously created in a moment of passion or genius, we can look the other way sometimes.

  13. Matt said 1 day later:

    ホミニッド ですが黄色の エリエンだ I wonder if this will show up properly

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