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M. Nico: Email me your address via Spike300 and I’ll give you the high points of my recent shenanigans. It’s not pretty…
Non responses are pretty lame, but a necessary evil sometimes.
Tam: I’ll try to forget that you relied on Nickelback for anything, especially entertainment. Besides, around here I thought the most appropriate musical response was “More, More More”
I haven’t played an RPG in forever. I taught my nephew to play (he is now 30) and he plays with his friends fairly often still. We keep trying to get me to attend a session, but our schedules never match up.
Dave S.: Oh don’t be cagey, post about your shenanigans.
Shenanigans? Oh! I’ll go get my broom!
Dave S.: Post! Post! Post! Post!
HUGS…
john: you oughta try to play. I find playing the game with young’uns (and all the other guys in MY group are under 30) keeps me young myself.
HUGS…
All I’m saying right now is that it may or may not have something to do with my music post from a couple weeks ago…
M. Nico: (kermit) YAAAAAAAAAAYYY! I’ll get my broom too!!!
Polt: Did you just call me old?
Kidding. We’ve been trying to get together. He still plays with the three guys I taught how to play some 15-20 years ago. I’m so out of touch with all the rules, but am willing to learn. It all comes down to time. He also just bought a house, so he has no time right now.
The last game I really got into was Magic The Gathering. I still have all my cards.
Dave S.: Teasing is fine on the stage, in posts, not so much….
Well the modern MMOs dont emphasize RP the way paper and dice games do. With online games, its more about min/maxing and collecting loot. In jr high, I did play D&D and Marvel’s Super Heroes. Oh, and I think I played BattleTech once.
Anyway, everytime I think of D&D I’m reminded of MST3K episode “Dark Dungeons”
http://www.humpin.org/mst3kdd/
“I find playing with young’uns keeps me young myself.”.Huhum. I see. Interesting theory, wicked witch from the north!.
GoKitty: I lost interest about after the third panel of the comic strip. Sorry. I think I have toy poodle flu. Can’t concentrate today. Or I’m just freaking tired. That works. I like vampires. (See? Completely random. sigh)
David: You have a dirty mind. I like you.
Go Kitty, that was awesome! I worked with a woman who handed out Jack Chick pamphlets to kids when we had a Halloween trick or treat even in our office.
Ty, Tam. And don’t give up early on sinfest, his drawings get better over the 8+ years of the strip. The later Sunday big strips are gorgeous. ,
Well, I have to make up for what is the straightest life you ever saw a gay man have. Short uneventful sex life before a 10+ year monogomous relationship (I’m 29). I need to try to organize some orgies to shake things up
John: I played Magic too! You know there’s a slightly buggy online version of the game goin on for some years now, I still play now and then. Heck, I even made some decent money out of it trading, but I stopped as it was consuming way too much time.
GoKitty: That reminded me of this:
http://rubbersuitstudios.com/ptcct.htm
Ohnoes, The Call of Cthulu! Thats one game I’ve never played but I do know that everyone dies or goes insane. I remember reading the Necronomicon as a college freshmen.
David: No I liked Sinfest a lot. It was GoKitty’s RP D&D XYZ LMNOP strip that lost me. I work for the government, we love our acronyms, MINT GUC BPE FTAG HEA but they lost me. Good luck on that orgy thing. Take pics for me huh?
Oh and the Cthulhu Chick Tract? I got lost in the digestive tract of that one. Too much text on each panel, not enough color, bad fashion choices.
Cupcake: Hee hee hee, “Cthulhu fhtagn” always makes me laugh.
David from Brazil: I didn’t know there was an online version of Magic? I may have to do some searching. I still have all of my cards and man do I have a ton of them.
Jesus, I’m just like cartoon critic of the world today aren’t I? Sorry. Blame it on lack of sleep. Or maybe I’m just a bitch. As Craig would say “whatever”.
GoKitty: I remember this sort of stuff from Jr. high, especially after that movie came out, I don’t remember the title but it was similar to that comic.
Ryan with the Cupcake: Oh no! I will have to go and burn my avatar right now!
David from Brazil and John: I played Magic: the Gathering back in college, I still have a bunch of cards somewhere, but I think my brother sold all the good ones
I will have to check out this online game you speak of, can’t have too much Satanic worship through imaginary role play!
Ryan with the Cupcake: that reminded me of this t-shirt
M. Nico: I thought your avatar was the C-man.
John: sorry, you lost me. Who is the C-man? My avatar is Cthulhu, I am currently reading the works of H.P. Lovecraft so I figured it was approriate.
Wait… Cthulhu, C-man, duh… sorry, it’s getting close to the end of the day and my brain just shifted into .
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Okay – I’ve never played any of these games. I topped out at Parcheesi.
As for the quote, I’m not sure if I agree or disagree. I’ll have to think about it.
It reminds me of the quote, ” The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates.
Now, “Shove me in the shallow water before I get too deep.” – Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Daves, thanks for the clarification way back this morning. I haven’t had the same experience (or haven’t seen it the same way), possibly because I spent most of my real-life time with college students and parents, most of whom have had at least some beliefs recently challenged. [And I haven't seen the difference with the Asian culture, but there my experience is much more limited.]
But we moved on to games in the meantime. Yeah, I don’t know anything about Magic. Or Parcheesi. But I can play Spit (the card game) and Backgammon!
Spit and Backgammon are me and Robin’s two favorite games ever!
Never got into Magic The Gathering, but I have played a version of Cthlulu and let me tell you, that shit freaked even ME out.
Tam:”I got lost in the digestive tract of that one.” I think that is the most awesome thing I have heard ALL day!
And leave it up to Michelle M. to give us, I believe, our first Edie Brickell quotation.
HUGS…
Craig, this is the first time I’ve ever heard of someone outside my family playing Spit!
It’s only the best card game ever invented! Do you use one hand or two? Slap at the end? Or first out gets their choice?
We do one hand and slapping.
Craig – that sounds dirty.
One hand and I can’t remember about the slap at the end. [I haven't actually played it in a while, but it was THE game to play growing up.]
What a great post! I enjoy the occasional philosophical musing. I think the Poincare quote is a bit of an over simplification of what it means to doubt. For me doubt is about having questions. Before I can conceive the questions I have to ponder what I am doubting. Questions also naturally seek answers. If I have a question, I have an urge to discover the answer in an effort to further my understanding and perhaps even disarm my doubt. I believe that the purest faith is honest reasonable doubt. It constantly challenges me to better understand my world.
I don’t think Western Civilization has a monopoly on ignorance or intellectual laziness. I think the cultural dominance of Traditional Mass Media in our society tends to project and amplify the lowest common denominators of thought in an effort to seek broad appeal to various oversimplified core groups of the population. I suspect that we may see a shift as the New Mass Media (electronic self publishing) takes over dominance in the coming years.
I developed a simple illustration of the value of objective critical thinking about ideas different from our own, using an analogy with visual perspective. I want to write a story about it, and maybe even make a short video one day.
http://perspectologist.com/blog/point-of-perspective/
Chris that is very interesting and also makes my head hurt.
Spittin’ and slappin’? Suddenly visions of “Hee Haw” come to mind…
I was out running errands this afternoon, and listening to AM radio in the car. Scanning around, getting the usual talk radio stuff… a host who introduces a topic, then gets random calls from listeners with their own axes to grind…. Kept scanning… scanning… and realized I was trying to hook into the daily Puntabulous comment thread.
Now, I’ve never heard Craig’s voice. Is it a radio voice? Could that be his next career?
TwoPi: http://www.youtube.com/user/Puntabulous
Definitely a good radio voice.
Ryan and Tam: Yes indeed, a fine voice.
I had forgotten all about this post, which was my introduction to Craig’s voice. I’ll blame whatever sleep-deprivation-induced-psychosis has been causing me to surf the web on AM radio during the daytime.
TwoPi: His “Jess a lil bit TIPsy” voice is quick entertaining. Had me laughing the whole conversation, i must admit. Not sure how well it would be on the radio, though.
HUGS…
Getting toasted on-air is probably an FCC no-no.
I’m compelled to push this thread to 100.
Two-Pi: That would be cool if Puntabulous was on the radio. Everyone’s voices speaking their posts. The future of the internet.
Chris: Interesting post. Its easy to forget to look at the other perspectives sometimes but good to be reminded. You don’t always have to agree with it, but understanding it can’t hurt.
I’m kid-free for 3 more days. She’s in Toronto Polt but I doubt they are going to Zelda’s. LOL Dragging 65 teenagers to a kitchy gay bar/restaurant may not work. Today was the zoo and the mall and a traffic jam. A real Toronto experience.
Baby spinach, feta cheese, raspberries, walnuts, and raspberry walnut vinaigrette make a delicious salad.
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One Hundred! Tam, I hope this helps with the compulsion.
M. Nico: I just finished the Dunwich Horror. Creeeeepy.