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Sun Dec 6
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07/23/09
But yes, I don't think any childhood years back was complete without trying to make up your own games, most of them failures due to confusing rules or rules that changed as the game went along. Now I am going to sit all day and pine for the times that a stick could be a sword and a box could entertain you for hours.
07/27/09
07/20/09
My little brother in-laws did something similar to this after hanging out and playing Mario Kart Wii one afternoon at my house. They always get so upset when they have to leave, to the point of major tears and tantrums. I told them it makes me think they didn't have fun when they act like that and if they want to come over again and play they needed to act a little more grown up and show us they had fun by acting like it.
Well, that evening they ended up getting their chalk out and drawing a Mario Kart track on their side walk, complete with banana peals, question blocks, turtle shells, and lanes. It was pretty cool.
They didn't really have any rules, but they had fun riding up and down the side walk pretending to be Mario, Diddy Kong, and Toad.
07/20/09
These games are too complicated. Simple rules create the most fun games. The rules must be intuitive and straightfoward. Imagine children trying to explain mario or space invaders to someone that doesn't know the rules.
And some of the rules beg to be broken, like in the metal gear one, and stuff like that always ends up in arguments.
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story at eleven
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Each player must memorize a lengthy passage from their game of choice, and every ten minutes, all the action stops and players take turns reciting their passage.
If one of Snake's friends shows up late, this player takes the role of the ninja. The ninja can slaughter two guard players, but if he does, he and the Snake player must engage in a fist fight.
Any guard who catches Snake 2 times gets promoted to Revolver Ocelot and may steal the secret document before Snake gets to it. In the event that this occurs, Snake must sneak up behind the Ocelot player and choke him out. (If the ninja is in play, Ocelot may only use one hand.)
If some a-hole player shows up in roller blades, he is promoted to Fat Man. This player cannot catch Snake, but instead places bricks on the ground that indicate C4. In order to cross their path, Snake must crawl over them.
07/20/09
Next on the summer fun list, how about some arts and crafts?
Some Shadow of the Colossus paper mache? Or how about World of Goo with pipe cleaners? Or maybe some Dig Dug balloon animals?
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If so, I love this story even more.
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07/20/09
"NA...NANANANANANANANANANA"
"wakawakawakawakawakawaka"
"Todays tom sawyer, He gets high on you..."
Sounds like a blast
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07/20/09
But I can has vroom vroom?
07/20/09
i had c00ki33s fj0r a11 of j00
but i eated it
hewes j00 hawt wheeh back
{hands you all back your hot wheels
...after I just spent the last hour spinning them upside down on their roofs}
07/20/09
i sad, they mint conditions nao
07/20/09
This was around '98.
07/20/09
Besides, being in my dark room playing Call of Duty WaW on Live beats outside any day.
07/20/09
i'm seriously going to try to convince them!