The Workermonkey

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Waiting IS the hardest part... 

# posted by NoBrainRequired @ 2/28/2012 08:57:00 AM

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Friday, February 24, 2012

the redicu-list. 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/24/2012 11:44:00 PM

it all starts with a single good deed
an odd trip
business drunk
breakfast
crazy car ride
a hint
instant first contact
what would batman do? (batman has now had more influence on my life than superman or Jesus)
from 1 to 10, pick a number (it's 7)
work, date
frustration
(in)appropriate text messages (now with returns!)
that thing that limitless did
new clothes
that one, that's the one
awesome Friday night's
innocent, for now
i really think this is what batman would do
business sweatpants
end part 1

repeat.

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Batman would unzip his fly and yell "the Bruce is Loose".

So, what happened? Sexual harassment lawsuit? Unrequited advances? Did you get a dear Jon text?

By  NoBrainRequired, at Saturday, February 25, 2012 6:06:00 AM  

Need more info about what in the hell you are talking about.

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:33:00 PM  

I think its obvious. He's grown a vagina, stopped eating meat and has gone dress shopping.

By  NoBrainRequired, at Thursday, March 01, 2012 2:33:00 PM  

Also, I'm going to laugh my ass off if this girl turns out to be a raging born again.

By  NoBrainRequired, at Thursday, March 01, 2012 2:35:00 PM  

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Reasonable Hotseat Games 

# posted by NoBrainRequired @ 2/14/2012 02:06:00 PM

Mario Party
Heroes of Might and Magic 5
Heroes of Might and Magic 4
Civ 3
Civ 4
Civ 5
Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri
Civ: Colonization
Chaos Overlords
Emperor of the Fading Suns
Worms (Armegeddon or Reloaded)
Sid Meier's Civil War 2 (2 player only)
Blood Bowl (2 player only)
Panzer General 2 and 3 (2 player only)
Peoples General (2 player only)
Medieval Total War 2 (under investigation)
Master of Orion 2 (under investigation)
Galatic Civilizations 2: Dread Lords (under investigation - not looking good)
Master of Magic (under investigation)

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lame

By  Anonymous, at Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:05:00 PM  

yeah, like you got anything better going on asshole.

By  NoBrainRequired, at Wednesday, February 15, 2012 5:31:00 PM  

Shogun 2 - autoresolve battles

By  Anonymous, at Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:44:00 PM  

I have shogun 2, didnt know it could be hotseated. Thanks for the input.

By  NoBrainRequired, at Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:18:00 PM  

gay

By  Anonymous, at Friday, February 17, 2012 3:25:00 PM  

do we really have trolls now? i'm almost flattered.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, February 18, 2012 2:45:00 PM  

its starting to seem that way but my guess is that its Jesse or Brian.

By  NoBrainRequired, at Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:23:00 PM  

Phagoscytosis

By  Anonymous, at Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:49:00 PM  

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Friday, February 10, 2012

Multi-Gaming 

# posted by NoBrainRequired @ 2/10/2012 04:52:00 PM

I have given strong consideration to our latest drunken idea - Multgaming or playing more than one board game at a time.

So there is some complexity here, so lets start with what we can physically support.
1) I have the bar table, the dinner table and three decent folding tables.
                                  > That w/b 5 potential table top games; we could use the bar or my small tables for support
                                  > Due to space constraints and children, to do all five we would need to split floors
2) I can field a game on the downstairs PC and hook up the laptop to either TV for two hotseat computer games
                                 > If some one brings a laptop and RGB cord, we could do both TVs and the desktop for three hotseat games
                                > Alternatively, I could get two hotseat games on Xbox and use that on the TV's, then between the laptop and the desktop, we could field 4 games not counting any imported laptops.
                                > Stairs could be an issue here too
3) As I see it, there are two kinds of games. The easiest to facilitate would be games that don't require a 'reaction' from other players (ie Carcassone or Pandemic). The challenge would be games that require more than one player to participate on any give players turn (ie Mordheim, WoW, BB or A&A). Some games can be either - think Dominion. That could be setup as interactive with attack cards or "multiplayer solitaire" with no cards that interact. Theoretically, we could setup at least 3 games of Dominion between Jesse, Jo(h)n and myself {matt, how does he spell it?}.

SOoooooooo

Here is what I envision for the test run (mind you, this require some level of sobriety between say, a little and and not totally)

Game 1: Hot seat Civ 4 downstairs PC
Game 2: Hotseat Civ 5 upstairs TV
Game 3: Carcassone - dinner table
Game 4: Pandemic - bar table
Game 5: Multiplayer Solitaire Dominion - ancillary table downstairs
Game 6: Axis and Allies, upstairs ancillary table (its teams, so a fellow team mate could handle your defensive rolls)

Mo envisions a smaller, drunker, test run
Game 1: Dominion or Peuro Rico on bar table
Game 2: Hot seat Civ 4 on desktop

There is merit to her suggestion in that
a) We have difficulty staying sober
b) noise is contained to the basement
c) Hot seat Civ is much longer than typical boardgame, thus allowing multible board games in succession
d) no stairs

So, to me, the next logical step is to start cataloging our total game invotories (I'll open up one the blog sites I'm camping in for that, prbably Blog-nomic). From there we can seperate games by reaction and non-reaction and hotseat.

Welcome to the Dorkside....

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we only need one Civ going at a time. replace 5 with chaos overlords. i'm still pissed about 5 sucking.

(Jon)

we might want to try a more passive version of this first. i think we might be able to find like 5 browser games that we can all play at once and switch between quickly. one of the things we'd have to cut out is movement time in order to finish them all. it would be a lot of movement to go from game to game if they are spread out around the house.

i have to admit, Mo knows us pretty well. stairs were my first concern also. sobriety will be an issue.

i'm excited by the though of us going more professional with our gaming. this is new ground for us.

we must be able to set up a video game as well, i'm sure there is something i'm just not thinking of. perhaps a Mario party game, those used to be fun. FF tactics? advanced wars? street fighter/mortal kombat as tie breaker?

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:26:00 AM  

Mario Party is definitly an option.
The problem with Chaos Overlords is that it is unstable - think of how often it crashes or gets messed up.
Moving around isnt that bad - keeps people awake.
Time is a managable issue. Some games will finish before others, so we just need to pick games appropiate to our time frame.
Civ5 is a much longer hotseat than Civ4, but I have a many more options than just CO to replace it. Some are longer than others, so again, time appropiate games.
If we had an all day saturday marathon, I could have everything setup the night before and we could even spill outside in daylight for beer pong (it is a turn based game...)

By  NoBrainRequired, at Saturday, February 11, 2012 8:18:00 AM  

I can't believe Whitney Houstan died, what a tragedy.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, February 11, 2012 8:35:00 PM  

where the fuck did that come from? i'm surprised she lived this long. not my comment above.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:57:00 PM  

don't worry, no one actually thought you posted a sympathetic comment

By  josh, at Sunday, February 12, 2012 9:42:00 PM  

Seriously, human emotion? Empathy? Compassion? Mis-Spelling a name? Definitely not the Overlord.

When are we doing this?

By  NoBrainRequired, at Monday, February 13, 2012 7:07:00 PM  

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Friday, February 03, 2012

Concept trophies 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 2/03/2012 09:34:00 AM

Excerpt from email conversation with Ron earlier in the week:

Ron: I met up with Joe and Matt for beers last night and we decided that there should be a trophy for the FF league. Something so obnoxious that the wives g/f's hate it.

I asked Kim to do some concept sketches. Here they are. And the last one was intended to be a footballvagina.

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As anyone who has previously placed in the top 3 knows, I have been trying to incorporate Jesus into the award certificate. I was hoping to carry that forward to the trophy. Perhaps Jesus could be delivering a monkey baby through a footballvagina??

By  bb, at Friday, February 03, 2012 9:44:00 AM  

How about baby jesus through a monkey vagine carrying a football?

By  NoBrainRequired, at Friday, February 03, 2012 2:50:00 PM  

I actually really like the first sketch - maybe you could swap out the football for a flying jesus holding a football?

By  NoBrainRequired, at Friday, February 03, 2012 2:54:00 PM  

i'm also a fan of the first one. Jesus should be behind the chick waving an american flag and wearing a cowboy hat. perhaps some fireworks would be appropriate as well. give it some flames on the sides too and a can of busch.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, February 04, 2012 2:32:00 PM  

i also like the first one

By  josh, at Sunday, February 05, 2012 11:54:00 AM  

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