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You could always take them down to the pub and use the Dartboard Method of grading.

4442

You mean, something like the Republican Academy of The Hollywoods?

By the way, the 21st Century called, wanted you to know the millenium happened.

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Fun Gaming Quotes!

These are quotes from us players, not the game itself.

While playing Batman: Arkham Asylum:

Me: “I’m not sure you’re supposed to break it.”
Matt: “Actually, I think I’m supposed to break everything.”

Me: in Harley Quinn voice “You want I should get you some pants?”

Me: “Batman can survive a 60-foot fall, did you know?”
Matt: “Well, at least he had the decency to sound annoyed!”

Madden 2011:

Matt: “Nnamdi! Bless you, child.”

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I feel left behind in the world.

Hearing the news earlier, one guy dies from planking and another one was arrested for planking on a police vehicle. And I’m left scratching my head thinking “what the fuck is planking?”

Oh, I know now. Has my sense of humour atrophied, or is the world filled with more morons than I originally thought. Could be both.

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FWIW as the youngest non banned member on the board I also think planking is fucking stupid so it’s not because you’re getting old.

4446

That’s the same thing I was thinking. For some reason I assumed it had something to do with skateboarding.

4447

Welp, planking isn’t at all what I thought it was (I didn’t have a specific idea, but figured it had to do with walking the plank, so to speak). I don’t think there are more morons in the world, but they’re all finding twitter.

4448

Is Network Solutions the official sponsor of the forum index page, or something? 9 times out of 10, it’s one of their banner ads at the top.

4449

I actually made that choice very specifically, since I don’t think that we have enough critical distance to judge the long term cultural significance of anything that’s happened in the 21st century yet.




Jackass. ;)

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I don’t know why it annoys me when people going to a Ren Faire – if they dress in costume – don’t even TRY to wear something even CLOSE to the Renaissance. Yesterday I saw two or three anime characters, a girl in an original series star trek uniform, and one wearing a halo mask, a halo sweatshirt and a katana (they were each alone, BTW, maybe forever alone). Seriously people, you couldn’t even try for something even loosely fitting the period? I did see a Jedi too, but that could also fit into some sort of monk motif, so it KIND OF works.

4451

Not to mention that most fairegoers either think that the Renaissance means a) Robin Hood, or b) poofy-shirted court royalty out in the middle of a wooded field. Pick one and stick with it, tardballs.

4452

Star Trek works though, as long as they role play being part of an away team


4453

Considering most Ren Faires are less Renaissance and more Medieval Times minus the meal I’m not sure Naruto and Master Chief are all that out of place.

For a while the Kansas City Renaissance Festival tried to bill itself as being an Elizabethan Festival, but that didn’t fly because no one knew what that meant, but everyone knows that the renaissance means knights in armor, King Arthur, bawdy ladies, ye olde cheeze stix, glassblowers, Robin Hood, paying $4 to throw ninja stars, the king presiding over joustin, ye olde turkey legge and storytelling.

True story: when I was a kid my mom made me dress up like a jester, complete with bright tights and a hat with bells on. Little did I realize that at any time I could have sued for emancipation. The only other time I would dress up for the ren faire would be years later when a friend and I went as lepers, resulting in a brief but fierce argument with a guy dressed as a faun that lepers were anachronistic. Fauns aren’t even real, asshole!

Maybe I’ll go to King Richard’s Faire this year. mmalloy loves dressing up as a princess and in the tradition of Assassin’s Creed II, I shall dress up as a bard that runs up to people and starts singing terribly whenever they look like they’re in a hurry.

4454

It may be clichĂ© to say “This explains everything”, but well, this explains everything.

4455

We have two phantom pages now? Seriously?

jason, girl didn’t seem to RP’ing anything, just walking around as usual.

Bahimiron, maybe, but I think it’s the half-assedness of it that bugs me. “Hey, it’a ren fair, throw any ol’ costume on.” Noooooooooooooooooo


4456

“But I wrote it for you!”

I’ve always been tempted to go to a Renaissance Faire, but have yet to actually do so. I would not be dressing up.

4457

I thought the whole point of going to Renaissance Faires was the crazy sex going on 24/7 around every corner. Who cares about how a few people are dressing? It’s all about undressing.

4458

There’s a ton of innuendo, but the actual sexing apparently happens after the fair closes at the hotels where the actors stay at.

And I care because it takes one out of it. Seeing people not dressed up at all, fine. Seeing people dressed up in period garb, awesome. Seeing some lazy asshat in a Halo helmet? WTF?

4459

I think kerzain was trying to offer you a cloved orange, Brian.

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