While haphazardly looking for a restaurant this evening a friend and I hit upon an idea for a movie riffing game. All you need is any movie from your collection, your friends, and the game cards. Here's how he describes it:
"The game is called "Pause!" and its a party game meant for 3 or more
people.
The basic premise is to make a game from your own dvd collection. Put
in a dvd and hand the remote to one of the players, and when they see
something interesting on screen (or whenever they feel like it) they
say "Pause!" and pause the film. Next draw from a deck of cards and the
other players do whatever the card says - such as come up with a
caption for what is on screen or name main character of the film. Then
the player with the remote decides a winner(s) and points are awarded
and hands the remote to another player and game continues. The game
ends when either the movie is over or a certain ..."
Originally posted on Bakacafe.
One idea I've had is to include action cards that allow you to go forward, reverse, go to a specific scene in the film, or to change movies entirely. This removes a restriction requiring you to play through the whole movie. The base game, I think, should also be generic. Specific genres (action, romance, even MST) or specific movies can be their own expansion that can be added to the game.
Anyone else have ideas?
(No? Here's something to get you started.)
Things I never expected to happen in my life that somehow did, #8946:
Seeing Joel Hodgson, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein in the same room, on the same stage, doing standup comedy.
Even more unexpected is the fact that I was 20ft away from them at the time...
This was an idea of a co-worker. One afternoon he mentioned he'd really like to see a bumper sticker of "Palpatine / Vader...for a darker future." I only threw together the image. A print resolution image is attached below.
It seems a wikipedia meme is going through LiveJournal. While I could use the online encyclopedia, I took an idea from someone on my friends-list and chose a different Wiki. In this case, The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Wikia:
Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.
Band: The Legend of the Dinosaurs
Album: The Projected Man
Being a slow, doomy metal band, we only have 5 songs on Projected Man:
And the finale...
Thank you, good night, we love you all. *waves*
Best Mirror, Mirror parody, ever.
Occasionally, I have odd thoughts in the morning while I'm in the shower. I suspect it's because my groggy brain tends to free-associate completely unrelated thoughts.
For whatever reason, I came upon the following question: Assuming the Klingon women mensurate -- Memory Alpha doesn't say -- how does their warrior culture interpret this?
Back in college, I noticed that the cultural anthropologists I read about seemed to make a big deal of one's Monthly. While it is largely a taboo subject in the West outside of women's-only support spaces, this isn't always the case in other cultures. In Japan women are allowed to take days off simply for the fact they are having their period. Some Tribal cultures sequester women into a special hut for the duration of their period.
When I discussed the Klingon women with a friend later this morning, she suggested they may gain a temporary gain in rank.
To which I replied, "We bleed the blood of the slain victims of unborn warriors?"
