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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Mr. Gundam on August 08, 2007, 05:42:05 PM

Title: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 08, 2007, 05:42:05 PM: Since MAF had a bummer of a day buying stuff yesterday, I felt I'd shake things up a bit with an awesome day today of American Consumerism.

(http://www.blu-ray.com/images/movies/covers/338_medium.jpg)
(http://www.blu-ray.com/images/movies/covers/442_medium.jpg)
(http://www.toysnjoys.com/psx2/gundamseed.jpg)
(http://www.toysnjoys.com/psx2/bloodplusonenightkiss.jpg)

Also bought tickets to next Wednesday's Mariners game, a bunch of Mango Hi-Chews, and Taco Bell for lunch.
:punch :punch :punch :punch :punch :punch :punch :punch :punch
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 08, 2007, 05:50:48 PM: I bought a couple choose your own adventure books lol
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: demi on August 08, 2007, 06:00:46 PM: Awesome day for buying stuff for Sony(tm)
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 08, 2007, 06:04:56 PM: Quote from: MrAngryFace on August 08, 2007, 05:50:48 PM
I bought a couple choose your own adventure books lol

FUCK HATERS those books are fun, and have kept me on the toilet for untold hours. Although I sure hate random deaths.

"Jenna wants to drive you to the haunted house. If yes, turn to pg69, if no turn to pg75"
LOL WOMEN DRIVING MY ASS
"You take the wheel but there's an explosive in the driver's seat. You die. Turn to pg4"
WTF
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 08, 2007, 06:07:48 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on August 08, 2007, 06:04:56 PM
Quote from: MrAngryFace on August 08, 2007, 05:50:48 PM
I bought a couple choose your own adventure books lol

FUCK HATERS those books are fun, and have kept me on the toilet for untold hours. Although I sure hate random deaths.

"Jenna wants to drive you to the haunted house. If yes, turn to pg69, if no turn to pg75"
LOL WOMEN DRIVING MY ASS
"You take the wheel but there's an explosive in the driver's seat. You die. Turn to pg4"
WTF

remember fokes, PD wants to become a lawyer some day

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Everyone knows starwars choose your own adventure books are the best
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Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 08, 2007, 06:13:11 PM: Quote from: demi on August 08, 2007, 06:00:46 PM
Awesome day for buying stuff for Sony(tm)

My purchase of Mariners tickets helped Nintendo(tm), actually. :lol
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 08, 2007, 06:27:25 PM: how does it take hours to get through these books, theyre like 80 pages of story parts and pictures and 30 pages of different endings.
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 08, 2007, 06:31:32 PM: It takes hours when you have 5 of them in the book bin of your bathroom. I like to go thru every scenerio possible.
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 08, 2007, 06:36:25 PM: You know normally I don't like when I imagine other EBers on the toilet, but some how the picture of you surrounded by stacks of choose your own adventure books, lost in choice, is quit funny.
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 08, 2007, 06:56:20 PM: I dunno, the books are pretty basic, im pretty sure one scenario is enough.
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Smooth Groove on August 08, 2007, 07:03:46 PM: Quote from: MrAngryFace on August 08, 2007, 06:27:25 PM
how does it take hours to get through these books, theyre like 80 pages of story parts and pictures and 30 pages of different endings.

Why're you buying them now if you didn't read them as a kid? I loved those books as a kid but I wouldn't want to read them now. The writing style is too juvenile. There are some "choose your adventures"-like books for adults that are written by British authors. My friend showed me some and they're pretty cool. Some even require dice because they are basically RPG books. The story ends when you lose a fight. But I guess you could cheat since it's a book.
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: TVC15 on August 08, 2007, 07:06:27 PM: Quote from: Smooth Groove on August 08, 2007, 07:03:46 PM
Quote from: MrAngryFace on August 08, 2007, 06:27:25 PM
how does it take hours to get through these books, theyre like 80 pages of story parts and pictures and 30 pages of different endings.

Why're you buying them now if you didn't read them as a kid? I loved those books as a kid but I wouldn't want to read them now. The writing style is too juvenile. There are some "choose your adventures"-like books for adults that are written by British authors. My friend showed me some and they're pretty cool. Some even require dice because they are basically RPG books. The story ends when you lose a fight. But I guess you could cheat since it's a book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_%28gamebooks%29

Prole and I were reminiscing about them.
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 08, 2007, 07:17:14 PM: My wife just informed me that there's a Jane Austen "Choose Your Own Adventure" type book.

(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Sf6n0VmlL._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 08, 2007, 07:25:13 PM: Smooth: Cause theyre awful. The title alone is enough to get me to spend 3.33. It has something to do with the same reason I paid 11 dollars for a giant rubber frog that now sits in my office at work.
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: TVC15 on August 08, 2007, 07:26:26 PM: Quote from: distantmantra on August 08, 2007, 07:17:14 PM
My wife just informed me that there's a Jane Austen "Choose Your Own Adventure" type book.

(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Sf6n0VmlL._SS500_.jpg)

Sweet fancy Moses
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Smooth Groove on August 08, 2007, 07:45:06 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on August 08, 2007, 07:06:27 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_%28gamebooks%29

Prole and I were reminiscing about them.

Looks like good stuff. It's kinda weird sometimes how other posters can randomly share the same obscure interests.

Way of the Tiger is the series that my friend loved. It only had 6 books though. Look at the awesome art.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Wayofthetiger_book1.jpg)

Apparently you can download them now online ( http://www.the-underdogs.info/showbook.php?id=16 ). Not sure how that would work on a monitor.

Quote from: MrAngryFace on August 08, 2007, 07:25:13 PM
Smooth: Cause theyre awful. The title alone is enough to get me to spend 3.33. It has something to do with the same reason I paid 11 dollars for a giant rubber frog that now sits in my office at work.

Have you ever been surprised by the stuff that you've bought, after sobering up?
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Ichirou on August 13, 2007, 05:17:58 AM: I read some of the Lone Wolf books, they were great, probably the best Choose Your Own Adventure type books I ever read. There were actually a series of straight-up regular novels based on the series, which were pretty decent (I only read the first two or three, and this was at least fifteen years ago, so take my opinion with a grain of salt).
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 13, 2007, 08:35:23 PM: My family ruled this year for my birthday! Between my parents, grandparents and aunts and uncles, I walked away with $140 cash, some CDs, and fully paid preorders for Ratchet and Clank Future (PS3), Uncharted (PS3), Folklore (PS3), and Royal Space: Wings of Honneamise (Blu Ray).

I typically get really weird crap from my grandparents and aunts and uncles, like Hollywood Video giftcards, coffee, and Gallileo thermometers...
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 13, 2007, 09:07:08 PM: all the lone wolf novels, online and for free: http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: hyp on August 13, 2007, 09:09:13 PM: Quote from: distantmantra on August 13, 2007, 08:35:23 PM
My family ruled this year for my birthday! Between my parents, grandparents and aunts and uncles, I walked away with $140 cash, some CDs, and fully paid preorders for Ratchet and Clank Future (PS3), Uncharted (PS3), Folklore (PS3), and Royal Space: Wings of Honneamise (Blu Ray).

I typically get really weird crap from my grandparents and aunts and uncles, like Hollywood Video giftcards, coffee, and Gallileo thermometers...

i wish i still got gifts on my birthday. this year i TREATED my family to pizza and got a bunch of 'thank yous' in return. :lol sucks to be old.
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 13, 2007, 09:35:49 PM: I want that Jane Austen CYA so bad, it's like Cute Knight x literary pretention

I hope it has fake, non-Austenian endings written in her style. like if you choose to sleep with the guy before marriage
Title: Re: Awesome day for buying stuff!! Yeah!!
Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 13, 2007, 09:45:45 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on August 13, 2007, 09:35:49 PM
I want that Jane Austen CYA so bad, it's like Cute Knight x literary pretention

I hope it has fake, non-Austenian endings written in her style. like if you choose to sleep with the guy before marriage

My wife just ordered it tonight from Amazon UK, we'll let you know what it's like when it's released in October.