Songfight Trivia!

[JonPorobil]

Dumbrella.

fluffy gets another cookie!

Dumbrella is a webcomic collective that hosts or used to host a number of popular high-traffic webcomics, such as Scary-Go-Round, Wigu, and the now-syndicated Diesel Sweeties. They also hosted Explodingdog, whose concept was similar to Narbonic's original gimmick: you supply the title, Sam Brown draws a picture to it. In this manner did we get some of our early cover art:
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Next Question (sort of a follow-up):
Which Songfighter appeared as a character in one of these comics?

[fluffy]

Probably drew or Narbotic. I found Dumbrella because drew linked to explodingdog (from his old corrupt.net blog thing) and from there I found Narbotic and Song Fight.

Also don't forget that Red Robot and 1000 Robots were both tie-ins with explodingdog.

[jack]

tonetripper?

nope.

[Eric Y.]

Blue suffered some kind of accident that left him temporarily deaf ...
was that the fight where, for each entry, he donated $10 towards John|m's new drumkit?

Cookie for Jon. That was the john|m donation run, although I think it was $5/entry.

It was supposed to have been $10 per entry. And the money (I think it ended up near $100 altogether) was to have gone towards new drum heads for Dr. Worm (John M), because Blue complained that the ones he was using sounded like he was hitting "bed sheets". I don't know if John ever got the money.

[Rabid Garfunkel]

who are "the bloody hams", and why did they come to exist in the first place?

Song Fight! super group. The members may have included... Jack? Leaf? Puce?
Might have been formed for a live show, I'm really fuzzy on the details. Anybody else want to have a go?

I vaguely remember Glennnn & Bolio being up on stage with y'all at 2005's Octothorpe and Friends show in Seattle. Or Jim of Seattle had slipped something into my drink and I was hallucinating, heh.

Was it really 2005? That's, like, forever ago.

[JonPorobil]

Probably drew or Narbotic. I found Dumbrella because drew linked to explodingdog (from his old corrupt.net blog thing) and from there I found Narbotic and Song Fight.

Also don't forget that Red Robot and 1000 Robots were both tie-ins with explodingdog.

Yep, it's Narbotic! AKA Colin, Clango's tech support guy. Have a cookie!

Blue suffered some kind of accident that left him temporarily deaf ...
was that the fight where, for each entry, he donated $10 towards John|m's new drumkit?

Cookie for Jon. That was the john|m donation run, although I think it was $5/entry.

It was supposed to have been $10 per entry. And the money (I think it ended up near $100 altogether) was to have gone towards new drum heads for Dr. Worm (John M), because Blue complained that the ones he was using sounded like he was hitting "bed sheets". I don't know if John ever got the money.

I assume he did. Blue did numerous sidefights involving prizes, and he came through each other time, so I don't see why he'd flake out on this one.

Speaking of which...
What was the prize in Blue's first sidefight?

[fluffy]

Oh, I thought you meant explodingdog, not dumbrella in general. Hasn't mc Frontalot shown up in diesel sweeties too?

[JonPorobil]

Maybe after I stopped reading it.

[jack]

who are "the bloody hams", and why did they come to exist in the first place?

Song Fight! super group. The members may have included... Jack? Leaf? Puce?
Might have been formed for a live show, I'm really fuzzy on the details. Anybody else want to have a go?

I vaguely remember Glennnn & Bolio being up on stage with y'all at 2005's Octothorpe and Friends show in Seattle. Or Jim of Seattle had slipped something into my drink and I was hallucinating, heh.

Was it really 2005? That's, like, forever ago.

awww d00d, you are SO close. bolio is right. rhymes with glenn. but not glenn. but he was there. think more emo.

yeah, that was the show you brought the rock. literally.

ok...followup.....why did rabid tote that boulder around with him from the octobarn to the show in seattle?

[jack]

oh, and blue's first sidefight giveaway, i think was for a DAW/8 track thing. i think dr. worm won that too.

[JonPorobil]

oh, and blue's first sidefight giveaway, i think was for a DAW/8 track thing. i think dr. worm won that too.

Can you provide an approximate date for that? Because it's not the answer I was thinking of.

[Eric Y.]

bolio is right. rhymes with glenn. but not glenn. but he was there. think more emo.

Last night it suddenly came to me that it was Bolio, I was hoping nobody else had gotten there yet this morning.
Yes I'm a dork.

I guess the final member must have been... Ken?

I'm interested to see the answer about the rock thing, because I wasn't aware there was actually more to the story than what you already said ("bring the rock").

[Eric Y.]

Blue did numerous sidefights involving prizes, and he came through each other time, so I don't see why he'd flake out on this one.

The "Song Fight! Survivor" gearfight had a $5 entry fee which was to have gone to the winner. The $20 was won by Sober. I know he complained for many, many months that he didn't get it. One can only assume that he eventually did?

Q: From the original four competitors (Sober Irishman, Frontalittle Squad, Diathetic Obfuscation, and C Hack), the Song Fight! Survivor fight had an immunity challenge for each of the first two eliminations, followed by a vote to determine the winner between the final two. Name either of the two immunity challenges. Hint: Jon Eric figured prominently in both.

[JonPorobil]

I remember them both, but I'll refrain for the time being.

Bonus follow-up, though: Why me?

[Teplin]

Who was the first person to win a fight that also featured their cover art?

[JonPorobil]

Who was the first person to win a fight that also featured their cover art?

Great question!

It was Johnny Cashpoint, in "Scissor Kick."

[HeuristicsInc]

Q: From the original four competitors (Sober Irishman, Frontalittle Squad, Diathetic Obfuscation, and C Hack), the Song Fight! Survivor fight had an immunity challenge for each of the first two eliminations, followed by a vote to determine the winner between the final two. Name either of the two immunity challenges. Hint: Jon Eric figured prominently in both.

one of them was to repeat the words "jon eric" for 20 minutes or something ridiculous like that... sober posted the mp3. it was very boring. i considered putting a drumbeat to it but that idea got left alone.
-bill

[JonPorobil]

Q: From the original four competitors (Sober Irishman, Frontalittle Squad, Diathetic Obfuscation, and C Hack), the Song Fight! Survivor fight had an immunity challenge for each of the first two eliminations, followed by a vote to determine the winner between the final two. Name either of the two immunity challenges. Hint: Jon Eric figured prominently in both.

one of them was to repeat the words "jon eric" for 20 minutes or something ridiculous like that... sober posted the mp3. it was very boring. i considered putting a drumbeat to it but that idea got left alone.
-bill

It's been a day and a half, so I'll go ahead and tell the rest.

Challenge #1 was to submit a picture of Jon Eric as the last brick in a civilization, or something like that. There were a couple of pictures of my face photoshopped into the strangest places.

Challenge #2 was to submit an mp3 of yourself chanting "Jon Eric" continuously for longer than any of the others. Sober, I guess, overestimated his competition, and turned in an mp3 of himself saying my name for something like an hour. He won the immunity handily; no one else even tried. He did so as he wandered around his room, made himself lunch, etc. I listened to the whole thing and laughed my butt off, but I can see how it would be boring if it wasn't your name.

The reason blue did all that was because I had, a couple of weeks prior, picked a fight with him. I accused him of going soft, and being too nice. This put blue is a weird situation, because either he would say something horribly mean (as he was wont to do back then), thereby giving in to what I wanted of him, or he would have to admit to becoming an old softie.

These challenges were a pretty genius way of getting around it, if you ask me. I bet he had other ones in mind, but there were only four entries, so we only got to see the two challenges.

[Niveous]

Challenge #1 was to submit a picture of Jon Eric as the last brick in a civilization, or something like that. There were a couple of pictures of my face photoshopped into the strangest places.

A brick in an empire of bricks. It was a reference to the Silent E song "So Kind Stacey" which Blue was not a fan of.

[Eric Y.]

"The last brick in an empire... of bricks" was the challenge. "Another brick to build the empire" was the referenced lyric.

Also, I believe part of the second challenge included counting (aloud) the number of "Jon Eric"s, to prove that none of it was looped (i.e. "Jon Eric One, Jon Eric Two, Jon Eric Three").

Bill, Jon Eric, and Ernie get to divide a cookie amongst themselves. Enjoy.

[JonPorobil]

oh, and blue's first sidefight giveaway, i think was for a DAW/8 track thing. i think dr. worm won that too.

Can you provide an approximate date for that? Because it's not the answer I was thinking of.

I'm reasonably certain that Jack's answer is wrong, unless blue was giving stuff away before I got here. He issued a challenge while I was a regular, and I was under the impression that it was the first of its kind, and that 8-track was not the prize.

So what was?

[fluffy]

I recall the first gearfight being for an 8-track Mackie mixer or something.