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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Robo on January 25, 2008, 02:31:20 PM

Title: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Robo on January 25, 2008, 02:31:20 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YQQ6CTBEL.jpg)

A TVC recommendation.  :bow :bow


(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/610J0DTTXTL._SS500_.jpg)

I picked this up for a friend of mine from the "do's and don'ts" baby thread.  Apparently all of those images are from this book.


And I bought a couple of sucky Threadless shirts.  I typically hate a majority of the designs they print, but I saw this one and had to have it:

(http://media.threadless.com//product/1102/zoom.gif)


Oh, and I bought a RAMBO ticket last night.  :rock
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 25, 2008, 02:39:03 PM
soon

soon
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on January 25, 2008, 02:53:09 PM
I bought...nothing :(
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: demi on January 25, 2008, 02:54:38 PM
I got my pay too and they did the math wrong... sadface
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Tauntaun on January 25, 2008, 03:00:30 PM
Oh, and I bought a RAMBO ticket last night.  :rock

YEAAAAHHH!!  :rock  :gun  :punch

(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k36/SlinkyT82/ramobheadexplode.gif)


I'm going to the movies tonight with my boy and we're going to see Cloverfield because we've been trying to get together all week and it hasn't happened, then tomorrow I'm gonna watch Stallone kills lots of bad guys.  :)
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on January 25, 2008, 03:02:24 PM
Cohen's post is made of WIN

:bow SHURE :bow
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Tauntaun on January 25, 2008, 03:04:49 PM
I've been using headphones I got free with a razor ever since my other pair died.   :'(

White man complaint # 203095324
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on January 25, 2008, 03:49:27 PM
I've been using headphones I got free with a razor ever since my other pair died.   :'(

White man complaint # 203095324

"Ugh, the headphones that came with my iPod have really poor bass response."
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 25, 2008, 03:54:11 PM
How bout a "It's the week of the 28th, What did you buy?"
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: abrader on January 25, 2008, 03:58:18 PM
There is so much buying at the bore - ev ery day needs a new thread.

Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Robo on January 25, 2008, 04:00:07 PM
How bout a "It's the week of the 28th, What did you buy?"

no mega threads, pls
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: INTUNEevolution on January 25, 2008, 04:12:00 PM
Lewis Black:  "All we are doing is breeding a whole new generation of buyers and sellers.  Buyers and Sellers!  Pimps and whores.  Pimps and Whores!"
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Vizzys on January 25, 2008, 04:59:57 PM
Cohen's post is made of WIN

:bow SHURE :bow

shure :bow
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: CajoleJuice on January 25, 2008, 05:01:11 PM
I should get some shure headphones.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 25, 2008, 05:01:39 PM
I've been using headphones I got free with a razor ever since my other pair died.   :'(

White man complaint # 203095324

"Ugh, the headphones that came with my iPod have really poor bass response."

not valid

white people don't complain about not enough bass
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Robo on January 25, 2008, 07:44:06 PM
I have a pair of Sony nudes (which are generally highly regarded, I guess) and I don't think the bass response is very good in those either.  I've been satisfied with surrendering to the idea that ear buds just can't do bass well.  If the Shures are THAT much better, I will pick them up.  So tell me.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 25, 2008, 08:07:47 PM
I've been using headphones I got free with a razor ever since my other pair died.   :'(

White man complaint # 203095324

"Ugh, the headphones that came with my iPod have really poor bass response."

not valid

white people don't complain about not enough bass

"Jewel's voice sounds so tinny through the headphones that came with my Nano."
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 25, 2008, 08:32:13 PM
i WAS going to go to the nerd store and buy a boardgame

instead i got lost, got frustrated and bought the 50s Boxed Set of Playboy.

absolutely awesome.  Lots of neat stuff in here like Decamaron translations, i'm currently reading milton caniff's Lacey which was an Army newspaper strip about a pin up girl.

there's also some ambrose bierce stuff in here.

great set

$25 at Barnes and Nobel.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: abrader on January 25, 2008, 08:49:55 PM
Sadly my buying spree was canceled today because I got tied up with last minute work shyt till 7.

Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: TVC15 on January 25, 2008, 08:57:58 PM
i WAS going to go to the nerd store and buy a boardgame

instead i got lost, got frustrated and bought the 50s Boxed Set of Playboy.

absolutely awesome.  Lots of neat stuff in here like Decamaron translations, i'm currently reading milton caniff's Lacey which was an Army newspaper strip about a pin up girl.

there's also some ambrose bierce stuff in here.

great set

$25 at Barnes and Nobel.

Could you link to that on Amazon?  I can't find it because so much shit has playboy in the title.  That sounds legitimately interesting.  And you are a board game nerd, too <3  I don't know any other board game nerds in real life so I am out of that :(
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: The Sceneman on January 25, 2008, 09:33:23 PM
I love my freaking big ass Sennheisers, really good for Ouendan
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on January 25, 2008, 09:39:31 PM
And you are a board game nerd, too <3  I don't know any other board game nerds in real life so I am out of that :(

My group of friends are all board games nerds. We play Settlers of Catan at least once a weekend. We've even made Settlers of Washingcatan, which is an octagon-based map of Washington state that uses the play mechanics of Catan. We put in St. Helens, and it can even errupt and totally fuck with your placement if you settled around it. My one friend who was the lead game designer on Pirates of the Burning Sea is also working on redoing the board game Starfire (we now call it Star Fuego Con Queso), and we're also creating this game called Battle for Seattle.

Tomorrow, I'm getting together with a bunch of guys to play Attack!, Civilization, Axis and Allies before finishing up with some 8-player Halo 2 rocketball.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Ichirou on January 25, 2008, 09:42:52 PM
I love Monopoly and Clue!

Do those count?
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on January 25, 2008, 09:44:57 PM
I love Monopoly and Clue!

Do those count?

Monopoly is no longer allowed in my group. We played one game from 10pm to 3am... one friend threatened us with death if we kept going. She has now outlawed Monopoly at all our gatherings.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: TVC15 on January 25, 2008, 09:48:11 PM
And you are a board game nerd, too <3  I don't know any other board game nerds in real life so I am out of that :(

My group of friends are all board games nerds. We play Settlers of Catan at least once a weekend. We've even made Settlers of Washingcatan, which is an octagon-based map of Washington state that uses the play mechanics of Catan. We put in St. Helens, and it can even errupt and totally fuck with your placement if you settled around it. My one friend who was the lead game designer on Pirates of the Burning Sea is also working on redoing the board game Starfire (we now call it Star Fuego Con Queso), and we're also creating this game called Battle for Seattle.

Tomorrow, I'm getting together with a bunch of guys to play Attack!, Civilization, Axis and Allies before finishing up with some 8-player Halo 2 rocketball.

I am jealous of your gaming social life.  Tomorrow, weather permitting, I am going duck hunting in Discovery Park.  That's all my plans for the weekend.  And watching Spartacus and maybe Breathless.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on January 25, 2008, 09:51:15 PM
And you are a board game nerd, too <3  I don't know any other board game nerds in real life so I am out of that :(

My group of friends are all board games nerds. We play Settlers of Catan at least once a weekend. We've even made Settlers of Washingcatan, which is an octagon-based map of Washington state that uses the play mechanics of Catan. We put in St. Helens, and it can even errupt and totally fuck with your placement if you settled around it. My one friend who was the lead game designer on Pirates of the Burning Sea is also working on redoing the board game Starfire (we now call it Star Fuego Con Queso), and we're also creating this game called Battle for Seattle.

Tomorrow, I'm getting together with a bunch of guys to play Attack!, Civilization, Axis and Allies before finishing up with some 8-player Halo 2 rocketball.

I am jealous of your gaming social life.  Tomorrow, weather permitting, I am going duck hunting in Discovery Park.  That's all my plans for the weekend.  And watching Spartacus and maybe Breathless.

Move back to Seattle! We'll indoctrinate you into The Family (we call ourselves The Family).
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 25, 2008, 09:53:30 PM
http://www.twilightcreationsinc.com/zombies/

This is a great tile-based board game for a friendly drinkin' party

lots of expansions

you can even buy glow-in-the-dark zombie pieces
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: MrAngryFace on January 25, 2008, 09:53:39 PM
Aqua Teens were 15 each!

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514M9DDJCXL._AA240_.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VKMG878JL._AA240_.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Gt%2BfGZRDL._AA240_.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515X2DA0BAL._AA240_.jpg)
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: TVC15 on January 25, 2008, 09:55:08 PM
And you are a board game nerd, too <3  I don't know any other board game nerds in real life so I am out of that :(

My group of friends are all board games nerds. We play Settlers of Catan at least once a weekend. We've even made Settlers of Washingcatan, which is an octagon-based map of Washington state that uses the play mechanics of Catan. We put in St. Helens, and it can even errupt and totally fuck with your placement if you settled around it. My one friend who was the lead game designer on Pirates of the Burning Sea is also working on redoing the board game Starfire (we now call it Star Fuego Con Queso), and we're also creating this game called Battle for Seattle.

Tomorrow, I'm getting together with a bunch of guys to play Attack!, Civilization, Axis and Allies before finishing up with some 8-player Halo 2 rocketball.

I am jealous of your gaming social life.  Tomorrow, weather permitting, I am going duck hunting in Discovery Park.  That's all my plans for the weekend.  And watching Spartacus and maybe Breathless.

Move back to Seattle! We'll indoctrinate you into The Family (we call ourselves The Family).

I'm working on it, I am working on it.  That is plan B for the weekend.  I guess plan A, since the weather is looking to be a bit crap tomorrow.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on January 25, 2008, 09:56:54 PM
Zombies is so awesome, I can imagine it could lead to fistfights though.

I'm intrigued by the Zombies game. I think it would go over very well with my friends, and would lead to a lot of horribly-inappropriate-yet-awesome comments.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 25, 2008, 09:58:52 PM
(http://www.moddersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/8800-gt-pvt88pyde4-both-500.jpg)
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: BlueTsunami on January 25, 2008, 10:02:58 PM
(http://www.moddersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/8800-gt-pvt88pyde4-both-500.jpg)

:bow

and I bought some Chocolates with Vanilla bean puree in the center and a Liter of water and bag of Gummi worms and Gummi Bears. Its gonna be a fucken celebration at work tonight.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: TVC15 on January 25, 2008, 10:13:00 PM
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Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: T234 on January 25, 2008, 10:16:56 PM
I tracked down the real image and now I am confused.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: TVC15 on January 25, 2008, 10:19:32 PM
Fixed.  Fuckin germans.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Vizzys on January 25, 2008, 10:27:16 PM
ITS ALIVE
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: BlueTsunami on January 25, 2008, 10:42:07 PM
Oh, and I bought this...

(http://www.imageox.com/image/167301-0553381709.jpg) (http://www.imageox.com/share/167301-0553381709.jpg)

:-*
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 25, 2008, 11:42:36 PM
Could you link to that on Amazon?  I can't find it because so much shit has playboy in the title.  That sounds legitimately interesting.  And you are a board game nerd, too <3  I don't know any other board game nerds in real life so I am out of that :(

amazon link for $44
http://www.amazon.com/Playboy-Cover-50s-Searchable-Archive-Every/dp/0979526116/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201318445&sr=8-3

b&n for $25 (22.48 if you're a member)
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780641890963&itm=1

i love boardgames

i used to steal my dad's wargames and play against myself.

avalon hill type shit.  hardcore

i used to buy cooperative games like warhammer quest and play them me against the board.  solo.

Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 25, 2008, 11:45:22 PM
http://www.twilightcreationsinc.com/zombies/

This is a great tile-based board game for a friendly drinkin' party

lots of expansions

you can even buy glow-in-the-dark zombie pieces

this game gets unwieldy as it goes on with too many expansions

there's a set variation called Last Night On Earth which addresses the pacing problems

but let me tell you, we used to play zombies with the sole intent of fucking one player in the ass throughout the whole game.  you didn't know who it would be, but the first person to show weakness was destroyed systematically for the rest of the game

great fun.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: TVC15 on January 25, 2008, 11:48:33 PM
I might go pick that up tomorrow.  Playboy of the 50s would be when most of the interesting writing was, and also it sounds like the mag attracted more movie starlet types back then, and that was when movie chicks were still awesome.

Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 26, 2008, 12:02:07 AM
well there was a knock off that genre fiction themed in the 60s known as Rogue.  Departments by Alfred Bester and Robert Bloch.  I keep hoping to find a lot of those on the cheap, but it's hard to find at reasonable prices (like trying to find old issues of mondo 2000)

Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: TVC15 on January 26, 2008, 12:03:32 AM
And I am assuming that whoever owns the rights to it in this day and age doesn't particularly care to do anything with them.  If they even still have access to the original material anymore. 
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 26, 2008, 12:08:37 AM
i'm guessing.  which is odd because Knopf brought back all of his novels and some of his short fiction back into print in good editions in the mid90s.  I guess it didn't sell well enough to try to bring into print his other stuff like his non-fiction and the like

which is kind of upsetting when you see the same publisher will print any old shit that PKD wrote on a napkin
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: TVC15 on January 26, 2008, 12:18:48 AM
Hey now, leave PKD out of this!  It took time for his cult to grow!
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 26, 2008, 12:22:14 AM
i love PKD.  two summers ago i read something like a dozen of his novels back to back (which was a mistake because they all blend and i became very paranoid), but with yet ANOTHER long lost novel being published 6 months after the last one?

I'm just not buying it.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: TVC15 on January 26, 2008, 12:26:05 AM
i love PKD.  two summers ago i read something like a dozen of his novels back to back (which was a mistake because they all blend and i became very paranoid), but with yet ANOTHER long lost novel being published 6 months after the last one?

I'm just not buying it.

He had like 5 novels in development when he died.  I think they just pay someone to finish one off every couple of years.  Or it might be Gene Roddenberry syndrome where his name is getting attached to things that he had an extremely tenuous connection to.
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 26, 2008, 12:31:54 AM
He had like 5 novels in development when he died.  I think they just pay someone to finish one off every couple of years.  Or it might be Gene Roddenberry syndrome where his name is getting attached to things that he had an extremely tenuous connection to.

nah, then it would be Kevin J Anderson working from an outline by Philip K Dick
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Eric P on January 26, 2008, 12:39:12 AM
ha.  neat.  Playboy first published Fahrenheit 451 in 3 parts.  they predicted it would become a science fiction classic.

man, playboy was fucking awesome.  it's a shame it wasn't this good when i was masturbating to it in the 90s
Title: Re: TGIF AND I CAN BUY STUFF WITH MY NEW PAYCHECK! SAY, WHAT DID YOU BUY?
Post by: Tauntaun on January 26, 2008, 12:57:31 AM
Saw Cloverfield tonight and got some TGI Friday's.  Loved Cloverfield.  :-*

Spoilers:

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CEPT THAT THOSE BITCHES DIDN'T ASK FOR A WEAPON FROM THE ARMY!  HAVEN'T THEY EVER PLAYED A FPS?!?!?
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