Feb 19
Donkey Face commented on Morning News: Diamond Heists, Scheming China, and 3-D Yodas.
My wife makes reborns. She doesn't throw them showers or anything, but she does spend a lot of time talking about how cute they are.
Feb 1
Donkey Face commented on Is My Landlord Being Honest Here?.
There weren't comments enabled on your original piece, so I want to type here that it brought back a lot of fond memories of my time spent at the Prince of Wales- despite the sad context. Some of the people you quoted were still there then and were people who I enjoyed interacting with on a daily basis. It was no shock that Katherine was by far the most quoted in the piece. She's a quotable lady (and she has a lot to say.) Back then (it wasn't so long ago), my rent was $560 for a studio and that included a fancy-pants Thanksgiving dinner and occasional gifts left on my door (coats, kaleidoscopes, that sort of thing). The place was something of a community center, from what I recall. Both for the crack fans who'd make use of its cavernous stoop and the community clean-up organization (MADCAP) that would give free coffee in exchange for some litter removal (they even provided extendo-claws for non-back-straining conveniece!) once a month. The place seemed too good to be true, so I left before what seemed to be an impending hike hit. I'll have lots of pleasant memories. I'm sad those folk will be disbursed. Thanks for your reporting.
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Jan 25
Donkey Face commented on TONIGHT! The Return of Slog Nerd Happy Hour!!.
@12 (and other numbers): Is Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre your own design? Sounds intense! I love games too, but I don't love every game. Games like Dungeon! could really turn folks off if it is one of their first exposures, which would be sad.
Jan 25
Donkey Face commented on TONIGHT! The Return of Slog Nerd Happy Hour!!.
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Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't trying to make a big deal, but I thought, based on your coverage in other areas, Dungeon! didn't seem like a game y'all would be into- perhaps you just hadn't been exposed to that many games?
Although I don't have any games to give away, I can give some recommendations (and if you want to partner up with a local business, there was a nice game shop on Pike or Pine last time I was in Capitol Hill- I bet the proprietor could help facilitate, he seemed to have good taste.) If you're looking for an older game designed for children that is actually a lot of fun for adults (drunk or otherwise), check out Family Pastime's Princess. If you're looking for a game that would appeal to your readership and is not Princess, give Gorilla Games' Lifeboat a shot. They might send you a promotional copy.
Lords of Waterdeep is mechanically interesting. It is pop music. It says nothing and there is no emotion to it. Way better than Dungeon!, however. Wizards of the Coast makes fairly trite games. That can be fine if all you want to do is dance.
Thanks for testing!
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Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't trying to make a big deal, but I thought, based on your coverage in other areas, Dungeon! didn't seem like a game y'all would be into- perhaps you just hadn't been exposed to that many games?
Although I don't have any games to give away, I can give some recommendations (and if you want to partner up with a local business, there was a nice game shop on Pike or Pine last time I was in Capitol Hill- I bet the proprietor could help facilitate, he seemed to have good taste.) If you're looking for an older game designed for children that is actually a lot of fun for adults (drunk or otherwise), check out Family Pastime's Princess. If you're looking for a game that would appeal to your readership and is not Princess, give Gorilla Games' Lifeboat a shot. They might send you a promotional copy.
Lords of Waterdeep is mechanically interesting. It is pop music. It says nothing and there is no emotion to it. Way better than Dungeon!, however. Wizards of the Coast makes fairly trite games. That can be fine if all you want to do is dance.
Thanks for testing!
Jan 25
Donkey Face commented on TONIGHT! The Return of Slog Nerd Happy Hour!!.
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Dungeon! was released as a children's game in 1975. I presume y'all were able to play it last month, yes?
I can understand where you're coming from. Perhaps if your Book reviewers only got one book in the mail to review they'd probably talk about it more. Analog gaming is a smaller medium than the other areas you cover- fewer people engage with it consciously than do so with music or television, for example.
The Stranger seems, in general, forward thinking and willing to explore in a lot of areas. I guess I'm not familiar enough with other mediums to speak to the quality of what you cover. I get the sense that regular slog coverage isn't promotional activity except for the paper itself. The ads are on the margins.
Dungeon! was released as a children's game in 1975. I presume y'all were able to play it last month, yes?
I can understand where you're coming from. Perhaps if your Book reviewers only got one book in the mail to review they'd probably talk about it more. Analog gaming is a smaller medium than the other areas you cover- fewer people engage with it consciously than do so with music or television, for example.
The Stranger seems, in general, forward thinking and willing to explore in a lot of areas. I guess I'm not familiar enough with other mediums to speak to the quality of what you cover. I get the sense that regular slog coverage isn't promotional activity except for the paper itself. The ads are on the margins.
Jan 25
Donkey Face commented on TONIGHT! The Return of Slog Nerd Happy Hour!!.
Although it's nice of them to give you free copies of Dungeon! in exchange for some publicity, it's really not a good game. If your music department was given free CDs of the slow thumping of a wooden spoon on a card-board box for 80 minutes, I don't think they'd be so enthusiastic (probably wouldn't mention it?) If you're going to cover analog games, I hope you begin to do so as the art-form that they are (more similarly to how you cover video games) instead of just featuring whatever you're given for free.
Jan 16
Donkey Face commented on Well, Kroll Show Looks Like It's Not Going to Be FUCKING HILARIOUS.
You got up and had pot for the first time in awhile. Then you typed about Nick Kroll Show. It made sense.
Dec 8, 2012
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Dec 8, 2012
Donkey Face commented on Nerdy Slog Happy Hour TONIGHT, at the Raygun Lounge, 5p to 9p.
A video about Dungeon!:
http://youtu.be/n7tGUwg5JZc
http://youtu.be/n7tGUwg5JZc
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