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UPebsite Review
By Kelly Preiser
www.homestarRunner.com
Entertainment
(Grade: A)
A procrastinator’s heaven —
this is HomestarRunner.com.
HomestarRunner.com is an
interactive Website for anyone
who still feels like a kid at
heart. With cartoon characters
and cartoon-like music to greet
the user when the site opens,
any fun-loving visitor will be
hooked.
HomestarRunner.com fea
tures characters that any true
procrastinator will spend lots of
time getting to know and grow
ing to love. Homestar is the
main character and the way he
talks will have users giggling like
a child.
The site has several links
with a broad range of activities
including full-length cartoons
that are funny and interesting
to watch. The animation on the
site and of the cartoon graph
ics are professional looking
and run very smoothly. They
are also extremely quick; the
site user will never have to wait
long for it to load.
Another link where visitors will
likely spend most of their time is
the link to games. This is where
the real time-wasting comes in.
First, there is the game
"Marzipan’s answering
machine.’’ Marzipan is the love
interest of Homestar who closely
resembles a feather duster.
Visitors can listen to the prank
calls from other characters and
nervous phone calls from
Homestar.
A favorite game on
HomestarRunner.com is
“Dancing Bub.” This is much
more of an interactive game
than the answering machine.
There is a silly, monster-looking
cartoon man on a black screen
and the user can control his
movements 'and make him
dance by pressing the buttons
on the screen. The user also can
pick the place at which he will
dance (like a bar versus a grave
yard) and what music plays in
the background. This game can
easily provide hours of laughs
and entertainment, as there are
thousands of combinations for
making Bub move, plus, the
movements look very realistic
even though Bub is a cartoon.
Second to “Dancing Bub” is
the game, "Strong Libs." Most
students have played around
with Mad Libs sometime in their
life. This is when there is a para
graph with words missing and
someone is asked to fill in the
blanks with different parts of
speech, like a verb or plural
noun or with a person’s name,
and when the final story is read
aloud, it is usually very silly and
funny. Well, this is what "Strong
Libs” are. Participants are asked
for different parts of speech and
names of males, females and
movie stars and the results are
hilarious.
Other games include
Homestar Talker where users
can make Homestar or other
characters say any combination
of a given set of words, Spin 'n
Say, Hairstyle Runner, Fortune
Cookies, Bronco Trolley and
audition with Marzipan. All the
games are interactive and can
keep a person busy for hours.
Beyond the cartoons and games,
links on the site include charac
ters, where a visitor can read a
biography on each main character
and downloads, where users can
get things like desktop themes and
wallpapers from a download
engine that looks extremely similar
to the former Napster site. There is
also a store where Homestar fans
can buy things like T-shirts, stick
ers or pins and there is a link for
users to be added to the
HomestarRunner.com mailing list.
Other features that make the
HomestarRunner.com Website
worth visiting and saving is the
fact that users can choose what
they want the page to look like
while they are visiting the site.
There are 12 different themes,
each with different graphics and
animation.
HomestarRunner.com is
extremely entertaining and if
students have nothing better to
do, or something important to
do for that matter, spending
hours getting to know this site
will be a great way use their
time.
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