The Gamer's Quarter

dessgeega · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: oh, i think i get it now!

the bumblebee mafia! like you're making a none-too-subtle threat to a bumblebee. "you don't need wings where you're going, buster!"
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Have you been thinking about this the whole time?
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:17 pm Post subject:

it just hit me in a eureka moment. i was playing star soldier and thinking that the caesar didn't really need to have wings to fly in space.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I found a dying bumblebee crawling around on the path today, and some other weird roachy thing. Neither reacted to my prodding them. D:

It's sad, because bumblebees are dying. You'll have to forgive me if this is an unfashionably late entry on a subject that's been pulverized into memepulp by the Kotakusphere, but hey. <-- I'm going to prefix everything I write with that from now on.

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I posted this elsewhere, but:

I was invited to the launch party for Star Soldier R, a couple of days ago, in an informal capacity. It was pretty great, actually. I sat and chatted with the new president of Hudson USA, whose name escapes me, for quite a while. And the game is pretty good, for what it is -- which is a sort of score attack thing, not unlike Pac-Man CE. I asked, in all fatuousness, if it came with one of those Takahashi Meijin tap-timing controllers -- and... it sort of does, in that there's a special game mode for that.

Eventually there was a competition for the highest score in 2-minute mode -- and I came in second place! That's out of the few-dozen people there. Maybe thirty, forty, fifty people? The guy ahead of me chose, as his prize, a six-month supply of beef. Which I'm sure he will enjoy! I chose six months of coffee, and the third-place winner (whom I sort of know) was left with a supply of barbecue sauce.

It's a good thing that I recently began to drink coffee -- if irregularly.

As we left, everyone was expected to take a gift bag; as many did not, I found an extra one ceremoniously shoved into my hand, meaning that I also wound up with an extensive cache of wine, cookies, and chocolate.

All in all, a profitable evening.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Why were you invited? You'll have to forgive me if this is an unfashionably late entry on a subject that's been pulverized into memepulp by the Kotakusphere, but hey.

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Because I am me?
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 2:00 am Post subject:

someone heard about the bumble mafia quip, and thought, "here is a kind of guy we can party with."
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

And do you know where the Hudson anecdote fits into this conversation?
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah

UP YOUR POOP CHUTE

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

BZZZT!
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