| Skate, feat. Garry's Mod

Didn't know it was available!


... and I am LMFAO watching it!

| LOLOL Skate Video

| Punch Quest

This is the best new iOs game! It's free too, dig it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/punch-quest/id554223561?ls=1&mt=8

| FTL related

Finally got the Stealth Cruiser... if you can survive the first sector with no shields it's pretty groovy. I'm working on the Type B because it comes with the Glaive Beam standard! Weeeee

| FTL > Artemis

I liked Artemis, I liked the social aspect of the game, I liked sitting in one room together goofing around and playing Star Trek house.  But the piece that was missing from the game to make it more like Star Trek was EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENS NOT ON THE BRIDGE.

Without there being a story aspect to Artemis, it's just not much more that a clunky (and social) version of FTL, but without the RPG elements.  Even if Artemis had some minor text driven missions and 'pause' screens where the players interact with a choose your own adventure-like story component it would make Artemis that much cooler.

I feel like I'm selling Artemis short because we didn't really take it seriously enough or gave it enough attention to get a good feel for what it had to offer, but I suspect it's not THAT MUCH more that we played through.

PS I feel sad for Kickstarter projects that fail miserably.

That's such a weird kickstarter. Those t-shirts make me sad for some reason! Do you guys think Artemis "worked" for us that weekend? I think the technical difficulties we had setting it up sucked a LOT of the fun out of it for me. I'm sure when I was younger I had a much higher endurance for lan-party setup, but now I just want to raaaage. I think the game has a lot of potential though.

Oh hai everyone

Maybe we should fund this for the next ManCon?

Saw Looper. That shit was awesome.

That Discogs site is cool. Man, those 7 inches I bought back in the day are, no surprise, worth barely more than I paid for them. I need to see what I actually still have left and go through them. There might be SOME gem in there, but I kinda doubt it. 

Voodoo Glow Skulls - Rasta Mi Huevos only worth $3.98 :( 

The Offspring cover for Ignition was HORRIBLE! Insert fireplace clip art.

Propagandhi ‎– Where Quality Is Job #1 for $20! (dO I EVEN HAVE THIS?)

hate how copy/paste goes nuts sometimes.

| Argo

Went to see Argo this past week. Pretty good movie! I still haven't seen Good Will Hunting, but I did see The Town, and I'd put it at that level of goodness for me. Not the best movie I've ever seen, but entertaining and well made.

| FTL Related

FINALLY got the Mantis Cruiser unlocked. Not bad. I think the real ass kicker is going to be the alternate layout with the 4-person teleporter. Lack of any real weaponry is a big problem, but that's faily easy to address. Makes drones a total bitch though.

| :(

What's our minimum for "go"?

| ManCon V: Failboat

I'm leaning towards failboat on this attempt.  Only 3 confirmed and a fair number of partials, some maybes and some just say noes.

I'm looking at you, 2013.

| Rekkids

Funny you mention 7"'s because (no dick jokes) I just brought out my (no dick jokes) record player and stereo and set it up - I wanna rock out to some old school punk rekkids!  33 rpm works just fine, but 45 rpm is just a little bit slow, enough that it ruins the jam.  Its like looking at modern Homer but hearing Tracy Ulman Homer.  I tried to tweak the speed of the motor, but even where I _think_ it's as fast as I can tweak it, it's still slow - I think I need a new motor and/or player.  Me sad.

I still have delusions that Wy will look through all my crap and get excited, or think his dad was cool, so I can't sell all my old records.  But if I did, looking over that link, all my money would come from goddamn Blink CD singles and 7"'s, to the tune of like $80 bucks a pop for the Australian tour single (that I blacked out the '182' with a sharpie, d'oh) and the Dick Lips CD single!

| iEbay

So I started selling a lot of my 7" records on iEbay to various degrees of success.  I decided that since I don't have a record player anymore, and they are really taking up space, why not try and get some cash for them while I am at it?  I used to go to record stores at UCI or go down to Scooter's Records, formerly Alternative Groove and buy 7" that I thought were cool.  I never thought I would make money on the deal.

It actually started because I wanted to get rid of these three Simpsons figures that I have been carting around forever.  Again, they were taking up space.  Well, I was able to sell one of them, but I am still working on two others.  Anyway, this is what I sole so far:

• NoFx - "F*@% the Kids"7" (Went for $117.50!) - Apparently, there were only 500 versions of this on green vinyl, and I inexplicably had one.  That was shocking!

• NoFx - "So What If We're on Mystic" 7" (Went for $50!) - This record was only limited to 500 with the same cover I had, and I inexplicably had one as well.  Pretty surprised by that too!

• NoFx - "Louise and Liza" 7" (NOT Liza and Louise, went for $16!) - This was limited to 10,029 copies on purple vinyl.  Didn't really even remember I had this. 

• Fugazi - "Live in Holland" 7" (Went for $8.50) - This was some bootleg that I never listened to, but it had the song "Repeater" on it.

• The White Stripes - "The Big Three Killed My Baby" 7" (Went for $10) - I don't even LIKE the White Stripes.  I can't imagine why I got this.

• Star Wars Micro Machine Battle Pack #18 (Went for $10) - I remember getting this on one of iEric's and my many treks to Target to look at toys, when it was creepy that two adult males were hanging out in the toy asile.  I think I got back what I paid for it.

• Simpsons World of Springfield Interactive Toy - Groundskeeper Willy (Went for $8) - I got back what I paid for it.

If you are interested to see what some of your records or CDs are worth, a cool website I found was discogs.com.  It will at least give you a vague idea of what someone would pay for what you have.  It's pretty fun!  I have 10 more things listed.  Hopefully they sell!

| Newest Count

So, we're pretty much all over the place at this point.  Can anyone provide more information as to their intent to attend or not to attend?  Can anyone reach out to Blackheart and Dave Defeat?

IN: EH, AK, RM

Probably IN: AN

Maybe IN: Las Vegas Ryan

IN Partial: DT, MA

Probably Out: JL, JP

OUT: RW

Unknown: PR, DK