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Yeah...that was fun. ^_^

tess — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:39:36 -0700

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tess — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:32:17 -0700

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tess — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:32:16 -0700

To Doom, or Undoom...

tess — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:09:46 -0700

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The Riffing Game

tess — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:46:35 -0800

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.)

"Puppets? There are no puppets on this show!"

tess — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:44:11 -0800

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...

The election contest from a galaxy long ago and far way...

tess — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:22:35 -0800

And you thought our campaign season was tough.

...for a darker future(tm)

tess — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:17:43 -0800

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.