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Title: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: John Shaw on February 05, 2012, 03:56:00 AM
Talk about your current favorite geekout.

Mine is Lego and a return to one of my all time passions, one of which I never discuss here.

THIS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT HERE.

(http://chattypics.com/download.php?file=Friends1_q5gxrvvgot.jpg)



Here he is, beating the fuck out of his shitty American knockoff in about ten seconds.

Godzilla Final Wars Godzilla Vs Zilla (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIcExdpsEcQ#)



A thing that I want -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=es3q4ESnI00# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=es3q4ESnI00#)!

The thing I want the most -

http://www.amazon.com/Godzilla-Giant-Vinyl-Assembly-Required/dp/B0052WTICW (http://www.amazon.com/Godzilla-Giant-Vinyl-Assembly-Required/dp/B0052WTICW)

I kinda got away from collecting plastic crap, but Big G will always have space on the shelves and Lego seems to have re-earned its place.

Get your geek on.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: dalebert on February 05, 2012, 12:55:15 PM
Someone finally started a D&D game in Manchester, NH. I think 10 players showed up (self included) and quite a few more stuck around to watch and seemed to be getting hooked. Now it sounds like more people are already talking about starting up games.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: dalebert on February 05, 2012, 05:47:07 PM
The Death and Return of Superman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlwDbSYicM#ws)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 05, 2012, 08:51:53 PM
The only truly geekworthy thing I regularly return to is Tetris.  It never really gets old.  And even if I do "forget" about it, years later when I pick it back up, it's like an old friend.

I would like to own a real pinball machine.  Full-size, not some half-assed model you can get at Sharper Image.  Addams Family was probably my all-time fav.

Also, an old skool Battlezone machine would be dope.



Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: dalebert on February 05, 2012, 09:04:37 PM
I think calling Tetris geeky should be grounds for eviction from the geek thread.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 05, 2012, 09:22:45 PM
This might be more dork than geek, but it was my favorite show growing up. Funniest part of the show was how this Japanese kid (the robots master, who will only answer to him) got to be the one to control the Giant Robot. The scientist who created him, shows the robot to this CIA type dude and some kid who shouldn't have even been there and says, "The first person to speak into the watch will control the robot forever." So the kid grabs the watch out of the scientists hand and talks into it. The scientist says "Oh, it seems you are the robots master now."

WTF???? Guy spends millions of dollars creating a giant robot and just walks around with a live controller for some kid to easily swipe out of his hand inside his own laboratory?

Anyway, loved this show and got the full series from Amazon on DVD a few weeks ago.


The Saddest Day In Nostalgic History! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmeixYw9m0#noexternalembed)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 05, 2012, 09:32:35 PM
I think calling Tetris geeky should be grounds for eviction from the geek thread.

Tetris IS geeky.  People actually bought computers to play Tetris.  

It's just that it caught on with the mainstream.

Maybe you just don't remember when it first came out.  There was a lot of rabble about people seeing it in their sleep.  Same with PacMan.  

Those are the games that launched home consoles.  If that's not geeky, I donno what is.





Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 05, 2012, 09:42:35 PM
In Manhattan this summer, in a t-shirt shop, I actually got my X to buy this shirt for her BF - rather than a CBGB OMFUG shirt, or a Lennon tee, or any other bullshit.. 

She said he was a geek, so I figured we'll see about that..  Never heard of it again. 

Even without knowing the origin, it's still a super cool logo. 


(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4907/wtfwl.jpg)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: John Shaw on February 05, 2012, 09:54:28 PM
The Saddest Day In Nostalgic History! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmeixYw9m0#noexternalembed)

There's no way in hell I'm clicking that shit because I know with 90% probability that it's when Johnny Sakko's Giant Robot disobeys a command and sacrifices himself to save the world.

Fuck that shit. I cried when I saw it the first time and I've seen that episode three times since and I fuckin' bawl every time.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 05, 2012, 09:57:36 PM
The Saddest Day In Nostalgic History! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmeixYw9m0#noexternalembed)

There's no way in hell I'm clicking that shit because I know with 90% probability that it's when Johnny Sakko's Giant Robot disobeys a command and sacrifices himself to save the world.

Fuck that shit. I cried when I saw it the first time and I've seen that episode three times since and I fuckin' bawl every time.

LOL

Yep, thats the one. I remember when it happened. I went to school and was like a zombie for 2 days. I couldn't believe it.


"Hey Mike, whats a matter?"


"Nothin man..............nothin."
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 06, 2012, 06:12:57 AM
I think calling Tetris geeky should be grounds for eviction from the geek thread.

Tetris IS geeky.  People actually bought computers to play Tetris.  

It's just that it caught on with the mainstream.

Maybe you just don't remember when it first came out.  There was a lot of rabble about people seeing it in their sleep.
Tetris didn't really become popular until it was released on the Game Boy, 5 years after it first came out. Tetris came bundled with the Game Boy.

My wife used to play it on the NES and Gameboy all the time.

I never understood why people liked Tetris. I've probably played it about 4 times in my life. I remember being mad I wasted a quarter on it in the arcade the first time I tried it.

Tetris is still one of the most popular games being sold on phones and shit.

I'm all about Donkey Kong. I have a DK cab.

I  have a Billy Mitchell signed Topps player card.

(http://www.spyhunter007.com/Images/billy_mitchell_signed_topps_player_card.bmp)

(http://www.spyhunter007.com/Images/billy_mitchell_topps_player_card_back_side.jpg)

I just ordered the Steve Wiebe card.

But now Hank Chien (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Chien) holds the DK world record, set at Funspot.

Different strokes for different folks.


Does that mean I did or did not play Tetris on Nintendo when I was fourteen?

I recall several events, maybe you could walk me through them.





Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: dalebert on February 06, 2012, 04:25:33 PM
Sh*t Spider-Man Says (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQybE0uorUE#)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: anarchir on February 06, 2012, 06:04:02 PM
The only truly geekworthy thing I regularly return to is Tetris.  It never really gets old.  And even if I do "forget" about it, years later when I pick it back up, it's like an old friend.

I would like to own a real pinball machine.  Full-size, not some half-assed model you can get at Sharper Image.  Addams Family was probably my all-time fav.

Also, an old skool Battlezone machine would be dope.

Ever played 3D stereogram tetris? If you can handle it, give it a try. So much more fun than regular tetris.

Also, did you guys know that each pacman ghost behaves in its own unique way? Also, there is a secret spot in pacman where you can sit and nobody will get you.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Major Jizz on February 06, 2012, 09:41:00 PM
I love the older IBM keyboards. It's nice having all those function keys separated from the rest of the keys.

(http://kungfuwit.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/ibm-at84top.jpg)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Major Jizz on February 06, 2012, 09:48:43 PM
I am a geek for old machinery from the early 1900's and a bunch of electromechanical stuff.

(http://www.middle-east-pictures.com/middle-east/pictures/Electric-Power.jpg)



Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 07, 2012, 03:00:03 AM
I love the older IBM keyboards. It's nice having all those function keys separated from the rest of the keys.

(http://kungfuwit.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/ibm-at84top.jpg)

I liked the good solid "click" they had.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: dalebert on February 07, 2012, 01:25:35 PM
I liked the good solid "click" they had.

Oh, HELLZ yeah. You KNOW when you typed a letter on those bitches. No going back to fill in my Ts that are consantly getting dropped on this keyboard.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 07, 2012, 01:30:42 PM
I liked the good solid "click" they had.

Oh, HELLZ yeah. You KNOW when you typed a letter on those bitches. No going back to fill in my Ts that are consantly getting dropped on this keyboard.



Yep, and they made good self defense weapons too. They weighed about 90 pounds. Solid steel.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: anarchir on February 07, 2012, 02:07:54 PM
I just remember them getting crazy nasty dirty. And then when XKCD pulled the 'ol "raise your keyboard above your head and shake" trick. Nasty.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: John Shaw on February 07, 2012, 05:29:12 PM
TOWER OF G.

(http://chattypics.com/download.php?file=IMG_4930JPG_o1o7cjed3e.jpg)

IF THERE IS A TOWER OF G, THEN G MUST TOPPLE IT.

This is the 12 inch Final Wars G. He's a pimp. I kinda like my 12 inch 2k version with the purple spikes a tiny bit more but Final Wars G looks more classic. The six boxes up top I just got today. I have way more G flicks, but I haven't yet migrated to DVD on them because they are either too expensive (vs. Smog Monster is around 60 bux), imports with no translations, or haven't been released. (I'm looking at you, G-1985 and vs. Biollante!) Yes, I have a bunch of VHS G movies collecting dust.

(http://chattypics.com/download.php?file=IMG_4931JPG_5ji7f8qq8t.jpg)


And for the record, Big G is a liberty lover. You heard it here first.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Coconut on February 07, 2012, 05:41:29 PM
Also, did you guys know that each pacman ghost behaves in its own unique way? Also, there is a secret spot in pacman where you can sit and nobody will get you.

http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html (http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 09, 2012, 10:12:51 PM
The only truly geekworthy thing I regularly return to is Tetris.  It never really gets old.  And even if I do "forget" about it, years later when I pick it back up, it's like an old friend.

I would like to own a real pinball machine.  Full-size, not some half-assed model you can get at Sharper Image.  Addams Family was probably my all-time fav.

Also, an old skool Battlezone machine would be dope.

Ever played 3D stereogram tetris? If you can handle it, give it a try. So much more fun than regular tetris.

Also, did you guys know that each pacman ghost behaves in its own unique way? Also, there is a secret spot in pacman where you can sit and nobody will get you.

No, never did 3D Tetris.  My mental image is sorta like Tetris-Jenga, in a tower.  Sounds cool, but I'd flunk out.  I know my limitations.

Yes, did know PacMan had a hiding spot. 

I remember attending the 1982 Worlds Fair in Knoxville, TN, about a year after Pacman came out.  PacMan Fever was fully in its craze.  I was 9yo.  They had a tent roughly the size of the Superdome full of PacMan machines, it was jam packed with throngs of PacManiacs, mylar balloons, plush toys, everything.  It was nuts.  The noise was deafening, it sounded like a PacMan casino. 

Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: John Shaw on February 09, 2012, 10:15:06 PM
No, never did 3D Tetris.  My mental image is sorta like Tetris-Jenga, in a tower.  Sounds cool, but I'd flunk out.  I know my limitations.

It was a bit of a bummer.

(http://sensi.org/~svo/scalar/media/s/tet3d2.png)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 09, 2012, 10:16:32 PM
One geek thing I enjoyed immensely was Tyco track racers, with the little pin in the bottom of the car that kept it on its track.  

One of my first enthusiast hobbies.  I had a bunch of those little cars.  Some were faster than others, the wheels were replacable with stickier performance wheels, and if I recall, you could get snap-in performance motors.  

You could build the snap-together tracks in all sorts of elaborate shapes.  

Those were neat.

Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 09, 2012, 10:17:17 PM
No, never did 3D Tetris.  My mental image is sorta like Tetris-Jenga, in a tower.  Sounds cool, but I'd flunk out.  I know my limitations.

It was a bit of a bummer.

(http://sensi.org/~svo/scalar/media/s/tet3d2.png)

Eww, no.  Ugly.

Do not want.

Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 09, 2012, 10:48:51 PM
Kinda reminds me of a generic version of this game I used to play at the arcade called Tempest.

I remember winning a T-shirt for 3rd place in a Tempest tournament at Stardust bowling alley out of like 40 something people.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 09, 2012, 10:59:15 PM
Tempest.

I remember the name, but don't recall ever playing it. 

I would assume I was hooked on something else of the same period. 

I recall watching people go insane playing Centipede with the trackball built right into the console.  I hated that game, but it was fun to watch baked.

Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 09, 2012, 11:09:56 PM
Does this conjure up anything? It was a knob that spun around and a fire button, thats it.

(http://www.thocp.net/software/games/pictures/Tempest_large.jpg)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: John Shaw on February 10, 2012, 12:19:59 AM
OH SHIT YOU HIT A SHAWGEEK BUTTON

Jeff Minter did a remake called Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar. Also, another dude did a remake of Tempest 2000 which you can get for free. Here's a vid -

Typhoon 2001 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FytrLbKhlk#)

Minter took Tempest and added psychedelic colors and crazy explosions and all sorts of extra awesome.

Again, you can get it for free and it's one of my creative meditation games. I play it at least once a week for 20 to an hour.

I imagine playing it stoned would be fucking amazing.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 10, 2012, 12:35:53 AM
Cool.

Imma download that one. Sure beats the vector graphics of the orig. If I piled up every quarter I put in the Tempest game when I was a kid, I'd have enough to buy the damn machine.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 10, 2012, 12:46:15 AM
Speaking of vector games, you remember this shit? I already had the ColecoVision that came out before this, so it was a no-go since I didn't have my own cash for it. Bummer.



(http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/07/vectrex.jpg)


Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 10, 2012, 01:04:14 AM
Oh duuuude, riiiight. 

Tempest.  It was like all, pshwaaahhh.  (makes telescopic hand forms around face, extending outward and inward with psychedelic 3D noises)


Didn't dig it.  It reminded me of spiders.




Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: anarchir on February 10, 2012, 02:51:01 AM
No, never did 3D Tetris.  My mental image is sorta like Tetris-Jenga, in a tower.  Sounds cool, but I'd flunk out.  I know my limitations.

It was a bit of a bummer.

(http://sensi.org/~svo/scalar/media/s/tet3d2.png)

Thats not what I was referring to. This:  http://3dimka.deviantart.com/art/3D-Stereogram-Tetris-36795242 (http://3dimka.deviantart.com/art/3D-Stereogram-Tetris-36795242)

And while everyone else I knew had sega's, gamecubes, nintendos, etc. I had computers and grew up on Centipede, Asteroids (1&2) which someone put a picture of on here, Tempest, some 3D tank game I cant remember the name of, missile command, etc.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: anarchir on February 10, 2012, 03:05:22 AM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Atari_BattleZone_Screenshot.png)
Battlezone. I loved the shit out of battlezone.

Also this a bit:
(http://i1-linux.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Missile-Command_3.gif)


I spent HOURS playing 3D Dinosaur Adventure, which wasnt even a real game as there was nothing to challenge you in it at all. It was just pure awesome is all. They should do an updated version.

But what I REALLY played a lot was Baldurs Gate. Man I loved that game. I so want to buy it again. I played the sequel for awhile until my asshole of a father took disk 3 from me and put it in "time out" when he was mad once. Then he "lost it" and I never got it back. The bastard. I still never found out how the damn thing ended.  Edit: I was thinking, what other game allows you to import your old character exactly as it was into the sequel? I mean that is one hellufa feature. You could go crazy awesome on the character in ways you only could in the first game, then play the next one and keep that power.
Title: Re: Fuckin' Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 10, 2012, 04:52:44 AM
I called up the Beasty Boys.

I said: "Hello, Beasty Boys?"

They said "Yes" into their telephone.

I said "Put up a dope thing, for my bruh JohnShaw!"

And they said "Okay, if he puts on headphones".

I said I can't promise that, but I'm sure he will...


Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g#)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Ben on February 10, 2012, 05:23:02 AM
In Manhattan this summer, in a t-shirt shop, I actually got my X to buy this shirt for her BF - rather than a CBGB OMFUG shirt, or a Lennon tee, or any other bullshit.. 

She said he was a geek, so I figured we'll see about that..  Never heard of it again. 

Even without knowing the origin, it's still a super cool logo. 


(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4907/wtfwl.jpg)

Thundercats rule. Especially the 2011 version. I only stumbled across it a couple of weeks ago.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 10, 2012, 09:58:57 AM
I'll give ya 100 bucks for it if you still have it.

Seriously.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: dalebert on February 11, 2012, 12:49:04 PM
Taking suggestions for a material component and a better name. Not thrilled with this one. It was inspired by a scene from The Fog, the more recent version.

Death Mouth
Necromancy [Evil]
Level: Sor/Wiz 2,
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Effect: Dead body conveys a message
Duration: Permanent until discharged*
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell is much like a magic mouth but it requires a corpse or skeleton. The corpse will become animated as a skeleton or zombie, depending on the state of the corpse, and speak to deliver a message with the same limitations of Magic Mouth to the intended recipient(s) in the immediate area. The corpse will walk up to 30 ft if needed to deliver the message up close and personal but will not attack. Once the message has been delivered, the corpse collapses dead on the spot.

*Or until the body decays beyond the point of being possible to animate.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: anarchir on February 11, 2012, 12:55:40 PM
Taking suggestions for a material component and a better name. Not thrilled with this one. It was inspired by a scene from The Fog, the more recent version.

Death Mouth
Necromancy [Evil]
Level: Sor/Wiz 2,
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Effect: Dead body conveys a message
Duration: Permanent until discharged*
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell is much like a magic mouth but it requires a corpse or skeleton. The corpse will become animated as a skeleton or zombie, depending on the state of the corpse, and speak to deliver a message with the same limitations of Magic Mouth to the intended recipient(s) in the immediate area. The corpse will walk up to 30 ft if needed to deliver the message up close and personal but will not attack. Once the message has been delivered, the corpse collapses dead on the spot.

*Or until the body decays beyond the point of being possible to animate.


Material component is the body. Its a pretty cool sounding effect, but why would you want a corpse to move 30 feet to speak for you? To trick someone into thinking it was speaking from the grave (as its former body resident)?
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: John Shaw on February 11, 2012, 02:02:01 PM
The corpse, a chicken leg bone wrapped in a leather strap, and a letter with the message written in the casters blood stuffed into the mouth of the corpse.

I played the same necromancer character for 12 years, twice a week for about six hours. (Doing math) 7488 hours give or take (Most likely give as we did a few Christmas holiday four and five day sleepover orgies of gaming) of playing good ole' Hexus.

Holy shit that's 312+ days.

Anyway I wrote hundreds of spells for him. All Necromancy/Alteration if you want any. They'd need some conversion because we were playing First Edition + Unearthed Arcana and Second edition but many of them are fucking pimp and none were rules rapey. (We played a really conservative campaign and retired our characters on or around level 24 after 12 years of playing.)

Many of them are high level, but hey, that's what villains are for, right? Springing spells no one has seen before.

Example spell -

Quote
Hexus's Improved Wall of Boney Bones
Necromancy/Conjuration
Components: V,S,M
Duration: Special
Casting Time: 1 round
Level: 8

Creates a wall of bone that erupts from any open, natural surface (Earth, sand, stone, etc) Volume created is 10x10x2 feet per level of the caster and can be configured in any shape the caster wishes, (Square, hollow cube, dome, stairs, you name it so long as the volume is sorta correct.) The wall is a permanent construct and each 10x10x2 segment can withstand 60 hit points of damage before collapsing.

On the round after casting, for every 10x10x2 segment of wall created, one six hit die skeleton will step out of the solidified assembly of bones in service of the caster. They will follow verbal commands with up to five simple variables at a time. (Example - "Climb that ladder, enter the door up there, kill anyone in the room, pick up any books you see, then return to me.) The Skeletons speak and have comedic personalities in strict accordance to the rule of funny. They move quickly enough to roll initiative rather than to automatically act last in the round like other skeletons. They are otherwise identical to a standard animated skeleton and will continue to serve their master until destroyed. They carry femur bones that act as a club, doing 1d6 damage.

Note - These skeletons make a lot of racket and constantly make puns about bones, sex, and sex with bones. They are not conducive to the achievement of stealth. They also each refer to each other by a unique name.

Material components are a vial of the caster's blood, a ruby worth 1000gp, any bone from the hand of a cleric or priest, and the seed or nut of a tree.

Hexus's Improved Wall of Boney Bones can be used in combination with Hexus's Bones of Steel to create sturdier permanent structures and buildings.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: freeAgent on February 13, 2012, 12:23:53 AM
Apparently components are a joke (http://www.dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Dungeonomicon_%283.5e_Sourcebook%29/Maginomicon#Material_Components%3a_A_Joke_Gone_Way_Out_of_Hand).  You could go with a dead pigeon, string, ink, and parchment or something to that effect.

And to add to the list of geekiness, I'm currently GMing a Pathfinder (D&D "3.75") game with a group of friends.  Everyone is having a blast :)
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: John Shaw on February 13, 2012, 12:27:19 AM
Apparently components are a joke (http://www.dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Dungeonomicon_%283.5e_Sourcebook%29/Maginomicon#Material_Components%3a_A_Joke_Gone_Way_Out_of_Hand).  You could go with a dead pigeon, string, ink, and parchment or something to that effect.

Depends on how your GM treats it I suppose. But yeah, a lot of them are puns.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 13, 2012, 01:53:57 AM
My friend and I used to sling-shot golf balls across a river.

He had this mega-awesome sling-shot (probably still does), made of surgical tubing.  That yellow tube stuff, real fucking thick.  About as big around as your pinkie finger.

It required three guys. 

Two would hold the sides of the sling-shot.  It had pieces of garden hose to cause "handles" in the stretched tubes. 

It looked like this, if you were holding the golf ball, and pulling backwards on it, about nine ft.   ><



Then, you'd let the fucker sing.  Threw a golf ball easily 300 yards.

You could throw water balloons, too.  Or rocks.




Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Turd Ferguson on February 13, 2012, 01:57:52 AM
We had one of those. Took it to the beach and would shoot handfuls of rocks out of it into Lake Michigan pissing off the seaguls.

I think they called it a Winger........... not to be confused with the super-gay 80's hair band fronted by Kip Winger.
Title: Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
Post by: Bill Brasky on February 13, 2012, 02:04:38 AM
I think he called his a "Sling Shot".  But he spoke it with the words capitalized, as to not confuse it with the word "sling shot".