Popcorn Songs

Overheard at my cubicle...
Co-worker: "I'm a geek."
Me: "No you're not."
Co-worker: "I totally played D&D in high school."
Me: (Showing character sheet just pulled from laptop bag) "I'm playing tonight."


Overheard at Fox & Hound...
Me: "So, this guy started Creep records in his basement..."
Same co-worker: "Wait, you know Creep? And you went to Ursinus? Have you heard of Bernie Bernie Headflap?"
Me: "Uh... I was in Bernie Bernie Headflap. ...Well, the original band. ... That's never happened before."

Labels: bands, games, geeks

Cake gave at least two of us the plague! The plague, I tell you!!

Labels: events, games

Someone made Ensign laugh beer into, but not out of, his nose. Sam had the best soda spit-take ever--right onto Hendricks' Ticket to Ride board. I laughed so hard I nearly passed out. Ensign made some excellent chile that needed more heat in my opinion. Al was sick, but stopped by to drop off my 'Fog of War' DVD, which Ensign borrowed to watch. Julie made nachos.

Lexio - Round 1: Ensign*, Scott, Sam. Round 2: Ensign, Scott, Sam, Cake, Matt*
Ra - Ensign, Scott, Sam, Cake, Matt... who won this, Ensign or Cake?
Ca$h'n Gun$ - Ensign*, Scott, Sam, Cake, Dan, Matt
USA 1910 variant for Ticket to Ride - Ensign*, Scott, Sam, Dan, Matt
Factory Fun - Sam, Dan, Ensign, Matt... There were no winners in this game.
Hey, That's My Fish! - Hendricks, Julie, Dan, Matt*
Leonardo da Vinci -
Hendricks, Ensign*, Dan, Matt

The group is going to have to work to knock Ensign out of the top spot at 2d12!

Labels: events, games

The gamer bunch of new coworkers have decided it's their side-quest to get me back into online games. Today, they talked up the new Warhammer MMO.

Labels: games, mmo, warhammer, work

Guild Wars 2 promises to be a fuller-featured MMO world, with similar gameplay to the first Guild Wars and still with no monthly fee. Life Over, Dude.

Labels: games, mmo

I can't wait until table displays like this become mainstream.

Warcraft III and Google Earth on a Table - Google Video

Labels: computers, games

Product Placement Deal Inked for Young-Adult Book

I think product placement advertising needs to be exploited more. For example, Planned Parenthood (or friends thereof) could sponsor a chapter in the above book where the protagonist explains to her posse that sex ed is actually "super-cool."

Greenpeace could buy little signs in all the disaster remakes that say 'Support Greenpeace and help prevent disasters like these.' Perhaps including the word environmental to indicate their message is not about the movie.

Movie billboards are definitely under-exploited. Billboards in movie scenes can easily be added in post-production and wouldn't be subject to normal regulations. Movie billboard classifieds.

The online gaming industry has already embraced the billboard concept. Hollywood won't be far behind.

Gamespot article
Joystiq blog
Gamasutra article

And two other interesting tidbits, advertising as a non-marketing tool has cropped up in online games.

Second Life MMO controversy
More...

And in case you missed it, Sony's taken the game billboard concept (which can be anywhere, as opposed to a conventional real-world billboard) and applied it to good old reality with their graffiti PSP campaign.

Google images
Gizmodo blog
Joystiq blog

Labels: ads, games

I finally found the blog for those bastards the nice guys from 9th Level at Wizard Needs Food. Badly.

Labels: games, rpg

Go ahead... type in a move... I dare you!

Labels: games