Suggestions for Stuff To Do At the Gathering
- Salvation122
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Hmm, reminds me of a daily victim I read a while back.He's like a Ninja with that camera of his.
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If I wasn't so busy commanding more than one ship without holding flag rank, I would come down there to New London Towne and show a few people a thing or two about OFFICERship."
--The Commodore
Keep the Funk Alive.
If I wasn't so busy commanding more than one ship without holding flag rank, I would come down there to New London Towne and show a few people a thing or two about OFFICERship."
--The Commodore
Keep the Funk Alive.
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If we really want to sever friendships and ruin lives, Caz and I can bring the eight sets of "old" Illuminati we've got.
And yeah, anyone who has Talisman, please PLEASE bring it. I fuckin' LOVE that game, but I can never find it (of course).
Also, Caz and I will bring Apples to Apples (nice party game), and Blink and Set if I can find my two... sets of it. And all of his goofy Zombie games, like Give me the Brain, and a few other Cheapass games. It'll all be good.
Oh, do I have to remind anyone? If you bring a game, put your name on it somewhere!
And yeah, anyone who has Talisman, please PLEASE bring it. I fuckin' LOVE that game, but I can never find it (of course).
Also, Caz and I will bring Apples to Apples (nice party game), and Blink and Set if I can find my two... sets of it. And all of his goofy Zombie games, like Give me the Brain, and a few other Cheapass games. It'll all be good.
Oh, do I have to remind anyone? If you bring a game, put your name on it somewhere!
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- Salvation122
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- Salvation122
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Hmmm... how to explain Scruples...
Okay. You've got cards with a moral dillema and two possible options on them. One team asks a question and the choices, and usually picks a particular player on the other team to choose a solution. The player either picks the one he's really do, or lies and picks the other. The asking-team then guesses whether the player is telling the truth or lying. Guessing correctly scores you a point.
There is no such thing as a friendly game of Scruples. I have yet to see one that does not involve people yelling at each other or not speaking for periods of time. I had a friend who lost a girlfriend over a game of Scruples. It never, ever ends on a positive note, and I'd rather not see that kind of bullshit happen to the people on this board.
(That said, I've never seen it played by a bunch of drunks.)
Okay. You've got cards with a moral dillema and two possible options on them. One team asks a question and the choices, and usually picks a particular player on the other team to choose a solution. The player either picks the one he's really do, or lies and picks the other. The asking-team then guesses whether the player is telling the truth or lying. Guessing correctly scores you a point.
There is no such thing as a friendly game of Scruples. I have yet to see one that does not involve people yelling at each other or not speaking for periods of time. I had a friend who lost a girlfriend over a game of Scruples. It never, ever ends on a positive note, and I'd rather not see that kind of bullshit happen to the people on this board.
(That said, I've never seen it played by a bunch of drunks.)
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Caz: for some reason, I can bear you watching it. :o)
Sal: my family used to play Scruples quite often and they loved it. I don't think they would've if it caused them to get into fights each and every time. We should try it.
Sal: my family used to play Scruples quite often and they loved it. I don't think they would've if it caused them to get into fights each and every time. We should try it.
One time I built a matter transporter, but things got screwed up (long story, lol) and I ended up turning into a kind of half-human, half-housefly monstrosity.
- Thorn
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I'm sure we could handle Scruples. After all, the point of the game (in part) is to get people to talk about all these Big Bad Issues. Which is interesting and all because in a lot of groups of friends and especially in families, these are exactly the kinds of things people /avoid/ talking about. I sure as heck wouldn't want to discuss... hmm... just about any issue with anyone in my family. It'd get ugly in about four seconds. But with this group? Shit, some days all we DO is talk Issues. I bet it'd be the boringest game of Scruples ever played.
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Sorry to go off-topic again, but I've seen the prelims of Evan's game, and it actually shows a great deal of promise. I can't say more what with NDAs and such, but I second Evan's sentiment of "don't hate Savage Realm just because you hate Evan".Cazmonster wrote: Get a copy of his game, tack it to a dummy with a head about six sizes too large and make with the liter fluid and the zippo.
Sure Evan, sure, the whole gaming world is just itching to play your game.
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Me and Ryan may be coming to the gathering. Anyone want us Canadians to bring anything down?
Thorn: "Preoccupied, you leave a restaurant without paying your $5.00 bill for breakfast. You realize this three blocks later. you are not pressed for time. do you return and pay?"Thorn wrote:But with this group? Shit, some days all we DO is talk Issues. I bet it'd be the boringest game of Scruples ever played.
Crazy Elf: "Monkey that! I return and firebomb the monkey restaurant for charging me $5 for that monkey crap they gave me!"
Everyone else: *nods of agreement*
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" What the fuck does it mean? "3278 wrote: That's a compelling and fascinating thing to say. Is there any particular reason you feel that way? I find myself swimming in curiousity, and it tickles.
In a good way though. Not infrequently what you say seems clear cut, yet is open to interpretation in several ways that all make sense in the context. (someone else's) Insight can be like that, I think. FB nailed part of it.
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Thank you, 32. I'd wanted to present just such an example, but could only recall one /actual/ Scruples question which did indeed result in an hour-long near-shouting match with someone who never was a friend anyway, and didn't want to mess with it.
But yes, that's exactly how I see it going.
Deev: "So, everyone figured Thorn would help the abused wife-chick leave her husband?"
Everyone: "Yeees."
Deev: "All right. Everyone take a damn point."
Instant Cash: "Somebody wake me when we finally break the all-group tie."
But yes, that's exactly how I see it going.
Deev: "So, everyone figured Thorn would help the abused wife-chick leave her husband?"
Everyone: "Yeees."
Deev: "All right. Everyone take a damn point."
Instant Cash: "Somebody wake me when we finally break the all-group tie."
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Two cases of XXX, please.Me and Ryan may be coming to the gathering. Anyone want us Canadians to bring anything down?
There is then a need to guard against a temptation to overstate the economic evils of our own age, and to ignore the existence of similar, or worse, evils in earlier ages. Even though some exaggeration may, for the time, stimulate others, as well as ourselves, to a more intense resolve that the present evils should no longer exist, but it is not less wrong and generally it is much more foolish to palter with truth for good than for a selfish cause. The pessimistic descriptions of our own age, combined with the romantic exaggeration of the happiness of past ages must tend to setting aside the methods of progress, the work of which, if slow, is yet solid, and lead to the hasty adoption of others of greater promise, but which resemble the potent medicines of a charlatan, and while quickly effecting a little good sow the seeds of widespread and lasting decay. This impatient insincerity is an evil only less great than the moral torpor which can endure, that we with our modern resources and knowledge should look contentedly at the continued destruction of all that is worth having. There is an evil and an extreme impatience as well as an extreme patience with social ills.
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Ok. A moose in many pieces then.
"You and your Sgt. stop off at a Starbucks on your break and get coffee. You notice that your Sgt gets back $10 too much in change. What do you do?"
Bring the game...It sounds like fun. On an aside note, when I had the oral interview for the San Jose PD, that was similar to one of the questions.3278 wrote:Thorn: "Preoccupied, you leave a restaurant without paying your $5.00 bill for breakfast. You realize this three blocks later. you are not pressed for time. do you return and pay?"Thorn wrote:But with this group? Shit, some days all we DO is talk Issues. I bet it'd be the boringest game of Scruples ever played.
Crazy Elf: "Monkey that! I return and firebomb the monkey restaurant for charging me $5 for that monkey crap they gave me!"
Everyone else: *nods of agreement*
"You and your Sgt. stop off at a Starbucks on your break and get coffee. You notice that your Sgt gets back $10 too much in change. What do you do?"
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It was a hum-dinger and I don't know what "the correct answer" was or if there was one.
There were a few good questions. The other one that I remember was "You pull over a person for speeding. He accuses you of pulling him over because he was black and that he wasn't doing anything wrong. How do you handle the situation and what do you do?"
There were a few good questions. The other one that I remember was "You pull over a person for speeding. He accuses you of pulling him over because he was black and that he wasn't doing anything wrong. How do you handle the situation and what do you do?"
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Shoot anyone with a camera. Then drag him out of his car and beat the living Shit out of him for questioning his betters. Then, later that night, get the old hood and cloak out of the closet and take a lynch mob to his house and hang him for back talking to a good white man!! YEAH!!The other one that I remember was "You pull over a person for speeding. He accuses you of pulling him over because he was black and that he wasn't doing anything wrong. How do you handle the situation and what do you do?"
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I have found two new games, and we will play them at the Gathering.
Fluxx
Its organized chaos, the goal to win is always changing, as well as the rules and you hand, and any number of things. And they sell blank decks for me to be making a more Bulldrek-ish selection of cards.
Pit
Its Spoons on crack. Each commodity has 9 cards, and you put in one commodity per player (Sugar, barley, corn, oranges). When everyone's ready you start yelling for trades, 1-4 cards of the same commodity, and everyone trades until someone has all nine cards of a commodity and rings the bell. Its hilarous. "2!, 2!, 3!, 1!, different 2!"
Fluxx
Its organized chaos, the goal to win is always changing, as well as the rules and you hand, and any number of things. And they sell blank decks for me to be making a more Bulldrek-ish selection of cards.
Pit
Its Spoons on crack. Each commodity has 9 cards, and you put in one commodity per player (Sugar, barley, corn, oranges). When everyone's ready you start yelling for trades, 1-4 cards of the same commodity, and everyone trades until someone has all nine cards of a commodity and rings the bell. Its hilarous. "2!, 2!, 3!, 1!, different 2!"
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MooCow wrote:Shoot anyone with a camera. Then drag him out of his car and beat the living Shit out of him for questioning his betters. Then, later that night, get the old hood and cloak out of the closet and take a lynch mob to his house and hang him for back talking to a good white man!! YEAH!!The other one that I remember was "You pull over a person for speeding. He accuses you of pulling him over because he was black and that he wasn't doing anything wrong. How do you handle the situation and what do you do?"
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Right, I have to sooooo get Outburst (see here for those heathens who don't know what Outburst is). One of the questions in it is "What body parts come in pairs?"
Another game that might be fun is pictionary. Imagine what a bunch of drunken drekkers would come up with in that game. ;
And for those of us who like cook/bake, what about going on a baking spree?
Another game that might be fun is pictionary. Imagine what a bunch of drunken drekkers would come up with in that game. ;
And for those of us who like cook/bake, what about going on a baking spree?
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I've thought about that too. I'm not sure how feasible it would be, or if we'd wind up just bringing a bunch of ingredients we never got around to doing anything with, but... could be fun. I mean, let's face it, "Gee, it's 3 a.m. and I'm hungry. Let's make cookies!" Not a damn thing wrong with that. (And I'm sure one fellow Bulldrekkers wouldn't /dream/ of complaining if someone decided to start baking up a storm.)And for those of us who like cook/bake, what about going on a baking spree?
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But you haven't even seen our daily pool dance yet, where we gather everyone around and do stupid dances to the sounds of the Lambada.DV8 wrote: How come this year's Gathering is slowly turning into one of those Activity Holidays?
One time I built a matter transporter, but things got screwed up (long story, lol) and I ended up turning into a kind of half-human, half-housefly monstrosity.
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Rock. Of course, as I say, they don't rent speedboats. However, that doesn't stop us from...obtaining one. Or riding around on the over-powered pontoon boat with about 10 litres of LIIT.DV8 wrote:How come this year's Gathering is slowly turning into one of those Activity Holidays? Is it just okay if Earl and I get a speedboat while you guys bake, and do glass-painting and shit?