Surfing for Lulz

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Skill ID: 591
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Surfing for Lulz

With your own personal copy of the internet at your fingertips, nothing can stop you from finding all of the worthless but entertaining web sites that you might want: YouCats, LOLFace, MyHoo, Zillion, 5Chung, Web Comics Bazaar, Blog Set Bizarre, Will It Blend, Will It Bend, Will It Explode, Can It Be Used To Carjack People, The Swashbuckler Inlet, ByteDownpour, Knapster, Rapster, Snapster, Zillow, Online Banking, Online Cranking, Online Spanking, Kingdom of Loathing, Galaxy of Fear, Restaurant at the end of Las Vegas, SoulRaver, Urban Legions, Suburban Regions, Turbaned Collegians, the Internet Movie Database, the Internet Mover's Dating Network, the Internet Groover's Dancing Network, the Pet Groomer's Prancing Network, BookSpace, Pigs in Space, Babies in Space, Space in Space, The Space Place Container Depot, the Home Away from Home Depot, the Homegrown Despot, the Gardener's Network, the Networker's Garden, the Handy Octopus's Home Fix-It Channel, and ... well, you get the picture.

Occasional bonus XP at the end of a fight
Increased foe toughness

Effect

Obtained From

Running personal copy of the internet (∞)

Notes

• At the start of combats with non-scaling foes you get:

You know that a fight is about to start, but you've just found this hilarious collection of video clips, and it's hard to pull yourself away. Sure, it's a distraction, but you figure you can fight and watch at the same time. You wouldn't be much of a superhero if you couldn't concentrate on two things at once, right?

• After combats, approximately (8.1% ± 2.5%) of the time you get:

With an electronic computer:

After the fight you catch an especially funny video clip and have a good laugh, earning you an additional 10 XP.

With a positronic computer:

After the fight you catch an especially funny video clip and have a good laugh, earning you an additional 15 XP.

• Foe toughness is increased by 1*level, capped at 20 with an electronic computer and 1.5*level, capped at 30 with a positronic computer.

References

• Many web sites, including:

• YouTube (YouCats, combined with Lolcats)
• Facebook (LOLFace, combined with Lolcats)
• MySpace and Yahoo! (MyHoo)
• google (Zillion)
• 4chan (5Chung)
• Web Comics Bazaar?
• Blog Set Bizarre?
• Will It Blend (also Will It Bend, Will It Explode, Can It Be Used To Carjack People)
• The Pirate Bay (The Swashbuckler Inlet)
• BitTorrent (ByteDownpour)
• napster (Knapster, Rapster, Snapster)
• Zillow
• Online Banking?
• Online Cranking?
• Online Spanking?
• Web based role playing games Kingdom of Loathing, SoulRaver and Urban Legions (which is also referenced by Suburban Regions and Turbaned Collegians).
• The Internet Movie Database (also referenced by The Internet Mover's Dating Network, The Internet Groover's Dancing Network and The Pet Groomer's Prancing Network)
• Facebook and MySpace (BookSpace)
• the Gardener's Network?
• the Networker's Garden?
• the Handy Octopus's Home Fix-It Channel?

• "Galaxy of Fear" might be a reference to John Whitman's Galaxy of Fear series of novels.
• "Restaurant at the end of Las Vegas" is a reference to Douglas Adams' book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
• "Kingdom of Loathing", "Galaxy of Fear" and "Restaurant at the end of Las Vegas" together reference Hunter S. Thompson's novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
• "Pigs in Space" was a recurring skit in The Muppet Show. This probably explain the references to "Babies in Space", "Space in Space" and "The Space Place Container Depot".
• "The Home Away from Home Depot" refers to The Home Depot chain of retail stores. "The Homegrown Despot" is probably a word play on the same.