Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Norris wrote:I won a grand on a scratch ticket once in the mid aughts.

tragabigzanda wrote:did you spend it on pearl jam?

Norris wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:did you spend it on pearl jam?

straight up my nose

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I am playing poker right now. On the internet.

doug rr wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I am playing poker right now. On the internet.

shirtless?

doug rr wrote:my crib game has gone to shi*t...my wife has skunked me 4 out of the last 6 games

tragabigzanda wrote:So my wife and I got a chess clock app, so we can play timed games. It's a whole new dimension of chess! Where before my chess matches had always been long, languid affairs, having a fixed amount of time to get through a match makes everything move faster, feel more urgent, and we actually get some laughs out of what has always been a very stoic game. Of course I'd seen people play with timers before, but didn't understand how it worked until now: We have our matches currently set for seven minutes, which means we each get a seven minute allotment of time to make as many moves as we want/need -- the time carries over from one move to the next. So if you run out of time while your opponent still has some left, you lose.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:Anyone play Uno? Looking to get into this but not sure where to start.

Simple Torture wrote:Does anyone on RM collect or play Magic The Gathering? If yes, can you tell me if there’s any way to affordably get into it?

I’m specifically interested in the Lord of the Ring set that came out earlier this year and the Fallout series coming next year. I used to collect Star Wars CCG in middle school (still upset that I sold them all about 10 years ago), and I loved buying a few boosters every couple of weeks and adding to my collection that way, and then adding a collector’s box maybe once or twice a year. But I can’t seem to find the LOTR stuff anywhere locally (although TBF I haven’t gone to any gaming stores, which is probably the answer) and everything online appears to be $100+ boxes). Ideas?

tragabigzanda wrote:Anyone play Uno? Looking to get into this but not sure where to start.

tragabigzanda wrote:Anyone play Uno? Looking to get into this but not sure where to start.