Alien Hominid HD

By: Derek Yu

On: February 26th, 2007

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"

Posted in Platformers, Xbox 360 | Tags: TheBehemoth

Shih Tzu

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

Er, that’s right! ^_^;
Derek

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.
haowan

Derek Yu
in deepest winter:
games poet
haowan

stupid line breaks. that was a 3-5-3 btw
http://www.distractionware.com Echo

Oh no Haowan / Line Breaks got you down / My heart aches
http://www.distractionware.com Echo

Sorry, I intended to sound more sympathetic :(
haowan

i kill you

in your fucking skull

rat bastard

;)
haowan

double enter does the trick!
http://www.distractionware.com Echo

OMG you should try

six more syllables

awesome power
Noyb

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

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.
Matt

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I wonder if this will show up properly