Used Games
I wish game developers would stop bitching about used games. “ohhh used games are taking away our profits!! We need to stop used games retailers! We need more and more draconian DRM and ways to keep you from ever buying a used game! Digital only!!!”
Do car makers whine about used car dealers? Do painters demand a cut of any future resale of a painting? Do you see Half-Priced Books getting vilified by authors left and right?
Why are games this unique flower that just can’t have resale of its product because it’s “not faaaaiiiiir”! Seriously, I saw a proposal that used game retailers be required to give game developers a cut.
I bought your product. I now own it. If I want to sell it to someone, I damn well have the right to do that. If I want to buy it off of someone else, I damn well have the right to do that as well.
Whenever I read the news, I think this is a good idea.
(Sorry, @Laughterkey)
Saving for future reference, as I’m sure it will be needed at least 3 times by the end of the year.
Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people.
Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.
The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card.
And it is distributed under a Creative Commons license, meaning it is not only free to play, but remixing, and changing the game are more than just encouraged.The official hard copy has been sold out for a while now, but a PDF of all the cards, and instructions distributed by the creators for making your own deck can be found here.
You’re welcome, and enjoy!
NO NO NO OKAY THIS GAME IS ACTUALLY THE BEST REAL TALK
I love this idea and I want this very badly.
Best game ever. I cannot recommend it enough.
CAH?
FOREVER REBLOG.
WANT. This sounds like how we end up playing Apples To Apples - with the worst/most disturbing/funniest possible answer.
If I see one more trailer for Prometheus I’m going to scream. I don’t need to see the whole film to want to see any film. I remember the trailer for the original Alien was just the fucking egg, the title and the words ”In space no one can hear you scream.” and I was SOLD. These days people want to spoil everything before we even get to the theater.
Okay, rant done.
And get off my lawn.
Co-signed.
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From the Pagoda Archives: What They Don’t Tell You About the 500 — Part II
For those of you attending your first Indy 500, listen here. The majesty of the event shall never be questioned, nor will it be here — the Pagoda has made this quite clear. It’s a stunningly glorious affair, and well worth any burdensome financial expenditures and/or the possibility of Jell-O shot poisoning. However, for your own benefit, there are certain things you need to know heading into it … certain unpleasantries that are rarely — if ever — spoken of when recounting 500’s past. Things like …
“ the urinal trough is NOT for the faint of heart. It is the tightest of tight quarters, and it can mentally shatter you if you let it.”
As a young, elementary school aged kid at the track for Pole Day back in the 80’s, freshly arrived in The Family Truckster and needing to pee NEED TO PEEEEEEE the trough was an intimidating sight…
A Treatment for “Hungry Hungry Hippos: The Movie”
Since I don’t have the right contacts to get my SyFy Movie of The Week “Hungry Hungry Hippos” made into a movie, I will give it away free on the internet. This was first hashed out last Thursday night AT Drinking Liberally:Indianapolis.
You’re welcome, humanity.
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Setting: Near Future, global warming has caused water to be the resource most fought over, especially in sub-Saharan Africa
A warlord in Madeupafricancountry has wrested control of the region’s major (dwindling) water supply. He kidnaps a brilliant (and beautiful) American genetic engineer to weaponize hippos to protect the water. Hippos are already vicious and territorial in protecting their area, and this makes them bigger, meaner and more deadly (poisonous fangs? armor plated hide?). Of course, things go awry, they escape and threaten a nearby resort owned by a powerful American billionaire.
Billionaire hires mercenaries to track down the hippos and the warlord, and save the genetic engineer. Of course he doesn’t want the hippos KILLED but wants to take the research and hippos for his own nefarious plans [sell the tech to the highest bidder? Protect his own resources? He was paying the warlord? something like that]. Also include an Intrepid Reporter [or instead, Hippie Volunteer Saving The Water In Africa], who is also the ex-wife of Third Rate Action Hero Mercenary.
Final Battle/Nod To The Game: A genetic reversal drug needs to be administered to the Hungry Hippos before they can be killed. They are packaged in white round balls that Third Rate Action Hero Mercenary attempts to throw into the gaping maws of the hippos.
Final Shot: A baby hippo climbing out of the carnage of the final battle. They didn’t get them all…
The Star’s Cathy Kightlinger is a fine writer and she is friends with my aunt and I follow her on the Twitter, because she is good people … but that does not make this right. Not at all.
And what is the “this” I speak of?
Oh, just her ruthless and poorly conceived attack on one of…
Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, when asked if he stood by comments he made on Sean Hannity’s radio show saying that President Obama wanted to make the U.S. a “less Christian nation.”
