By Alec Meer on November 5th, 2010 at 5:07 pm.
Guy Fawkes: the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions. (As someone said on Twitter earlier, but I’ve already lost who it was. Sorry, that person). Let us celebrate/flagellate the man who tried to take down British government, either by setting fire to things and making sky-flowers, or by creating virtual sky-flowers.
Embedded below is a fireworks simulator for you to dick about with. I found it via typing “fireworks games” into Google, so cannot vouch for its origin, age or truthiness. It’s also more a tech-experiment than a game, as such. I can vouch for it being a surprisingly scientific recreation of creating explosions in the night sky, however.
I don’t care if you tell me off for posting this. Fireworks! Yaaaaays!
Your screenshots. Show them to us.
05/11/2010 at 17:17 Rich says:
“Guy Fawkes: the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions.”
Consider this plagiarised.
05/11/2010 at 18:24 DrazharLn says:
Doubly so.
05/11/2010 at 21:19 DJ Phantoon says:
To be fair, England would’ve been worse off, totalitarian wise, had he succeeded. http://www.cracked.com/article_18606_8-historic-symbols-that-mean-opposite-what-you-think.html
05/11/2010 at 21:20 DJ Phantoon says:
Shit. A night of drinking means I forgot to… not hyperlink that.
05/11/2010 at 17:20 Bascule42 says:
ooohhhh…aaahhhhh…it’s Missile Command
05/11/2010 at 17:22 Unaco says:
Honest intentions he may have had… but let’s not forget what those intentions where: Install a Catholic Theocracy and put an end to Protestant rule.
05/11/2010 at 17:40 Tei says:
Theres only one true church and that is Debian.
05/11/2010 at 17:59 Alaric says:
Unaco, it always bothers me when people forget this part. But they always do. And so I’m always bothered. Damn people!
05/11/2010 at 18:02 LeFishy says:
Right, but he was at least honest about it.
05/11/2010 at 18:20 Rich says:
I guess that’s why we still burn his (crudely made) effigy.
05/11/2010 at 19:03 DrGonzo says:
I think we burned him originally to celebrate his failure actually.
05/11/2010 at 19:57 Lukasz says:
And that’s bad how?
05/11/2010 at 17:39 SquareWheel says:
That quotes been around for years, the person on Twitter ripped it off someone else.
05/11/2010 at 18:21 Rich says:
…and I ripped it off from here. World keeps turning.
05/11/2010 at 17:40 mandrill says:
In other words he was just as guilty of religious bigotry as those he sought to explode, How the world changes… oh wair.
06/11/2010 at 01:57 Haplo says:
Indeed, how the world changes.
Ecumenism.
It is like a yardstick of CHANGE.
05/11/2010 at 18:50 OJ287 says:
Mel Gibson was born to make a film about Guy Fawkes.
05/11/2010 at 19:46 _Nocturnal says:
On the topic of fireworks: In a better world, a world with proper Nintendo DS coverage, more people would have heard of Big Bang Mini.
05/11/2010 at 20:49 Malawi Frontier Guard says:
Posting a fireworks simulator as a news item on a PC gaming website is highly unprofessional. It’s offensive to me. My parents were killed in a freak accident involving both fireworks and a simulator.
And I thought this was decent website.
06/11/2010 at 00:05 Starky says:
My parents were killed because of someone complaining that something was offensive to them – I am there for offended at what you said.
And I’ve now offended myself…
05/11/2010 at 20:55 clive dunn says:
I was at a party a few years ago which culminated in a fireworks display. Throughout the whole thing i felt the need to shout, “woooo, there goes £50 up in smoke, woooo, another £20, wowwww, £100″.
I was told later that the organiser of the party was standing right behind me.
Idiot must of pissed away a few grand that night and i was glad to spoil the whole thing for him.
I know people love fireworks but…
they scare animals
they scare my kids (they are young)
they cost a fortune
I am all for fireworks simulators like this if it keeps these explosives(!) off the streets.
Grumpy old man
(for captcha fans, i got ‘wanX’
05/11/2010 at 21:01 Beerio says:
Wow, you really are a miserable sod aren’t you? If you hate fireworks that much, how about not going to Fireworks parties just to moan about the fireworks.
It’s like me going to Baseball games and spending the whole time moaning about how boring a game it is (note: I do this quite often).
05/11/2010 at 21:30 Alaric says:
Have you, sir, nothing better to do than counting other people’s money? If your little children are afraid of fireworks, perhaps you should entertain the idea of actually doing some parenting and possibly even not taking them to events that feature fireworks.
As to the “keep[ing] these explosives off the streets” part, I cannot help but to feel for you. I certainly wouldn’t want to be in your shoes, living in the deadly streets ripe with grave dangers such as fast food, video games, gay people, and, worst of all, fireworks.
05/11/2010 at 21:43 Theblazeuk says:
There is certainly an idiot in that story.
06/11/2010 at 00:59 D says:
I agree with clive dunn. Fireworks are just another thing we pointlessly waste our lives enjoying. I don’t even look up at them anymore, cause I heard cool guys don’t do that.
06/11/2010 at 01:00 Starky says:
Yeah. enjoying things is so stupid and uncool.
You’re very right that it is totally uncool to look at explosions.
06/11/2010 at 11:29 Napalm Sushi says:
“…it is totally uncool to look at explosions.”
If the heroes and villains of action movies have had one unified message for civilisation, this would be it.
07/11/2010 at 12:09 Bob Bobson says:
While I’m all for both explosions and fire the “keep explosives off the street” line has some validity. I’ve been to places where 10-15 year olds throw lit fireworks at each other for kicks and it’s not awesome. Especially when it happens in daylight so you don;’t get to enjoy the pretty. But fireworks simulators are no replacement for fireworks parties.
05/11/2010 at 22:45 OctaneHugo says:
I turned everything up to 100 (the simulator equivalent of 11) and it crashed my browser. What’s wrong, Fireworks Simulator 2000, too extreme for you?
05/11/2010 at 23:27 Corrupt_Tiki says:
hehe, me too, charge, thrust, explosive force and fuel all the way up, and a big flash and flame effect selected..
And it just shot out of the screen and into orbit [presumably] ICBM anyone?
06/11/2010 at 00:02 dethgar says:
I’m a guilty american that only knows of Fawkes due to V for Vendetta. I much like the idea of V over Fawkes though. Perhaps November 5th can be V-Day across the world, we all join hands, sing songs, and blow shit the fuck up!