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FrozenVent posted:There was an A/T thread about real life quidditch a few weeks back. It's not as lame as you'd think. Ain't that the truth. I found the Wikipedia article with accompanying picture: 
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Christian Knudsen posted:Ain't that the truth. I found the Wikipedia article with accompanying picture: DITCH THE BROOMS. THE BROOMS. LOSE THEM! SERIOUSLY! If you lost the brooms and actually let people use their hands like regular human beings, the bloody game might make some kind of sense. I mean it wouldn't really, because the rules are deliberately stupid, but you might be able to force it into the shape of something resembling a kind of handball type thing with too many balls. With the brooms, it's basically cosplay. That or as I said, replace them with 100cc motorbikes, or tiny horses. Quidditch-polo could be sorta awesome.
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Oct 14, 2013 10:35
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Christian Knudsen posted:Ain't that the truth. I found the Wikipedia article with accompanying picture:
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Oct 14, 2013 12:39
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TetsuoTW posted:I was going to say running around with a broomstick rubbing and banging on your junk for however long can't be good for it, but looking at that photo, I don't think anything of value is being lost. One of them's an Aggie. He's probably lost all feeling down there years ago. 
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Oct 14, 2013 12:44
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I know I posted this in the Kickstarter thread in Games last night, but it deserves to be in this thread too. This is an actual promotional picture used in an update for the delusional, goon-run, all-volunteer City of Heroes ripoff MMO City of Titans: On one hand, I loved city of heroes and would love to see a sequel/successor. On the other hand, I have no confidence these people can do it.
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Oct 14, 2013 13:46
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TetsuoTW posted:I was going to say running around with a broomstick rubbing and banging on your junk for however long can't be good for it, but looking at that photo, I don't think anything of value is being lost. I'll bet they wear cups. If not, like you said no big loss. Maybe we can
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Oct 14, 2013 14:00
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Little kids are stupid, and will watch any animated garbage as long as it features brightly colored talking animals. At least, that's what the people behind 'Pink Tail Tip Animated Story' believe. I hope they're wrong. Because abominations like these:    should not exist. Zybourne Clock has a new favorite as of 14:41 on Oct 14, 2013 |
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Oct 14, 2013 14:06
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Zybourne Clock posted:Little kids are stupid, and will watch any animated garbage as long as it features brightly colored talking images. At least, that's what the people behind 'Pink Tail Tip Animated Story' believe. Everything about this is great:   
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Oct 14, 2013 14:23
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I think I would scream forever if I saw this as a child. Also, a bunch of the reward tiers are 'Name [Insert Character Here].' Too bad there are guidelines, or that could be a lot of fun.
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Oct 14, 2013 14:27
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MrAptronym posted:Everything about this is great: The aristocrats.
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Oct 14, 2013 14:30
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Machai posted:I'll bet they wear cups. If not, like you said no big loss. Or maybe a broom holder, so you can use both hands while you run around with a broom attached between your legs. The potential for mayhem would make this an excellent spectator sport. Plus you could decorate the brooms...
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Oct 14, 2013 15:07
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Zybourne Clock posted:Little kids are stupid, and will watch any animated garbage as long as it features brightly colored talking animals. At least, that's what the people behind 'Pink Tail Tip Animated Story' believe. "The animation part of this project is complete" Lies! All lies! Foodfight! had better animation than this.
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Oct 14, 2013 15:11
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Everything about Pink Tail is amazing but drat the music is something else. Where did they get the idea to just throw in random dog and cat cries? Obviously nothing else screams cute kid cartoon like shrill animal noises.
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Oct 14, 2013 15:33
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Christian Knudsen posted:Ain't that the truth. I found the Wikipedia article with accompanying picture: I once worked a con where one of my breaks happened to coincide with the exhibitional quidditch match, and I can tell you that this picture is definitely making it seem more exciting than it is.
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Oct 14, 2013 16:34
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QwertyAsher posted:I once worked a con where one of my breaks happened to coincide with the exhibitional quidditch match, and I can tell you that this picture is definitely making it seem more exciting than it is. So how DO the account for the fact that everyone is basically playing one handed? Do they just allow it to make the game even more crappy?
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Oct 14, 2013 16:39
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Fatkraken posted:So how DO the account for the fact that everyone is basically playing one handed? Do they just allow it to make the game even more crappy? Here's an introductory video. It's all you ever dreamed of and less!
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Oct 14, 2013 16:51
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I'm sorry but this is all I can think of now when I look at this pic. Notice he is cupping the ball, I think he might be a master at this.
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Oct 14, 2013 16:58
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here's an introductory video. WHAT ARE THE BROOMS FOR?!?!??!? Seriously! It's not the "silliest" part in any kind of cute way, it's the dumbest, most counterproductive, un-funnest thing ever. One handed ball games, hurrah. Without the broom it could be a kinda fun mix of dodgeball and handball. With them, it's just loving idiotic.
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Oct 14, 2013 16:59
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Fatkraken posted:WHAT ARE THE BROOMS FOR?!?!??!? Because us muggles can only ever be content with this sad approximation of actual Quid ditch. Seriously though? Probably because the only people who play the game are HP fans and without broomsticks.
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Oct 14, 2013 17:21
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Fatkraken posted:WHAT ARE THE BROOMS FOR?!?!??!? My High School had a Muggle Quidditch team and in all the matches I saw (one), the only people who had brooms were the people who actually chased the Snitch, which kind of makes sense because the Snitch is a dude in a yellow shirt not a tiny magical orb and if the players chasing the Snitch weren't hampered by brooms it would be way too easy for them to catch the Snitch. That did make the match a little more interesting and fast-pased, if not any less silly or confusing to watch. My High School Quidditch team was probably the best case scenario, though, because my school was 95% nerds so there was a lot of overlap between the Quidditch team and the Track team and the Snitch was played by the track coach. 
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Oct 14, 2013 17:44
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Christian Knudsen posted:J.K. Rowling is rolling in her I want her to meet these people in real life. I like to think she would react like Alec Guinness when confronted with that kid who'd seen Star Wars 100 times.
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dijon du jour posted:...because my school was 95% nerds... 
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Zybourne Clock posted:Naturally he wants a slice of that marketing pie, so he's decided to start an advertising firm of his own with a couple of friends. Internet friends. The company isn't located anywhere in the world and only exists online. The campaign goal is a cool half million dollars, and all of his reward tiers are gift cards. I've met so many people like this guy. "I just found out that X industry exists. It's pretty easy. I should get some of that. The only reason that every other human on Earth hasn't gotten into X is because they aren't as smart as me." The reward tiers are hilarious because this guy is so dumb that he is actually accidentally trying to run a Ponzi scheme. Of all things to attempt to animate when one has no skill, they go for a hedgehog? The hubris. The Human Crouton has a new favorite as of 18:14 on Oct 14, 2013 |
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Machai posted:I'm sorry but this is all I can think of now when I look at this pic. Notice he is cupping the ball, I think he might be a master at this.  If you've invented a revolutionary product that's going to redefine a market, but can't legally show to general public, then starting a crowdfunding campaign might not be the best method of acquiring funds. He needs 20,000 dollars, and provides a very rough breakdown of the costs of his company. The problem is, he limited the number of backer rewards to just 200, at fifty bucks a piece. And that's the only reward tier. Basic mathematics tell us he's going to fall 10,000 dollars short of his goal even if he sells all of his products. Not that this will interest him much, it's a flex funding campaign anyway. Forty years ago Ernest Hemple devised a method for teaching cats how to use the toilet. His idea got copied by many other people over the years, so now he wants to start a business of his own to cash in on his own invention. Rather than starting out small with a simple idea, he fully expects to employ thousands of people over the next couple of years. And if you pay him $125,000, he'll invent a new product for your company. I used to watch a lot of Ray Mears programs about survivalism, because it's a very interesting subject. In every episode he'd have something interesting to say about bushcraft, wildlife, the local indigenous people of whatever part of the world he happened to be in, or the sixty different ways of starting a fire. Whenever 'survivalism' is mentioned on the internet I cringe a little, because it's most often associated with whackjob doomsday cults who believe the world can fall into disarray at any given moment. Full Spectrum Survival is no different. It's OK, and probably advisable, to know what to do in an emergency. But when your pitch video features a fully armed man patrolling the wilderness, an improvised firearm trap for home defense, and your project page contains a blurb similar to this: quote:You'll learn how to deal with mobs and roving gangs of looters. How to remain hidden in plain sight, and what to do when confronted with a citywide disaster. I'm starting to wonder if maybe, just maybe, you're actually wishing for society to end. It's not even a very good survival guide, because it's provided to you burned on a DVD. Which suffer from bit rot. And requires electricity to function.
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Quidditch would be really easy to make into a real sport. There were a few positions right? You got the dudes that just gently caress poo poo up right? Okay they're on dirtbikes with paintball guns - only rule is they can't stop to shoot. You get paintballed, you go to the penalty box for 1 minute. Then you've got the sort of forwards, those guys are on dirtbikes but they don't get paintball guns, they get hockey sticks, and there are three hockey pucks out at any given time. The goalie is self explanatory and yeah the dudes who chase the gold ball, they get no dirtbikes, have to keep one hand on a broom, and the golden ball is an RC helicopter covered in razor blades to make it interesting. The helicopter is randomly programmed to fly in a random pattern. Also unlike quidditch, catching the golden ball doesn't automatically end the game because that's the loving stupidest rule in the history of sports jesus christ. You catch the golden ball, either you get someone out of a penalty box or put someone from the other team in a penalty box. Or gently caress it, you just laugh at the rear end in a top hat whose hands are bleeding like hell now. This would ruin a grass field, so put this poo poo on a concrete slab and you're good to go.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Quidditch would be really easy to make into a real sport. There were a few positions right? So because there's no way I'm going to click that link about Quidditch, it's kind of like hockey, except at the same time there's another game of "catch the thing" laid over the basic hockey game? Does the hockey part of the game interact with the "catch the snitch" part, or do they just happen at the same time? In regard to razor sharp helicopters, instead the snitch could be like that brain-driller orb in the movie "Prophesy". So you have to catch and incapacitate it, or get your brains sucked out.
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JDM3 posted:So because there's no way I'm going to click that link about Quidditch, it's kind of like hockey, except at the same time there's another game of "catch the thing" laid over the basic hockey game? In the video I linked earlier the person playing the snitch actually wanders off the field into a different part of the campus and only comes back if the snitch catchers don't find him before the end of the match.
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pathetic little tramp posted:the golden ball is an RC helicopter covered in razor blades to make it interesting. The helicopter is randomly programmed to fly in a random pattern. Also unlike quidditch, catching the golden ball doesn't automatically end the game because that's the loving stupidest rule in the history of sports jesus christ. You catch the golden ball, either you get someone out of a penalty box or put someone from the other team in a penalty box. Or gently caress it, you just laugh at the rear end in a top hat whose hands are bleeding like hell now. The golden ball should be a pigeon. A live pigeon. The arena has a mesh roof about 8 feet up so the pigeon can't escape. If you kill the pigeon you lose the game Or, ditch the pigeon, ditch the roof and use a live feral cat. (yes the Snitch is like the stupidest thing ever, and only exists so Harry Potter doesn't have to just be another regular member of the football team but gets to be speshul)
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Fatkraken posted:The golden ball should be a pigeon. A live pigeon. The arena has a mesh roof about 8 feet up so the pigeon can't escape. Pigeon, gently caress why not a greased up pig? You gotta expand demographics son
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Oct 14, 2013 20:01
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How did you guys NOT post this picture from Pink Tail Tip?
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OrganizedInsanity posted:Pigeon, gently caress why not a greased up pig? You gotta expand demographics son 
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TheJoker138 posted:How did you guys NOT post this picture from Pink Tail Tip? How did you not tag it NWS?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:In the video I linked earlier the person playing the snitch actually wanders off the field into a different part of the campus and only comes back if the snitch catchers don't find him before the end of the match. wait so they literally play competitive hide and seek College students do this. Adults.
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Hey now, hide and seek is fun. But you gotta own it and just play straight up hide and seek. Also, tag. Quidditch is still some dumb stuff though.
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Oct 14, 2013 21:46
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College students do dumb nerd poo poo. In other news, water still wet.
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Bad Munki posted:Hey now, hide and seek is fun. But you gotta own it and just play straight up hide and seek. Also, tag. Hell, Humans vs. Zombies totally owns up to the description of "tag with nerf guns" and is completely straight up about it.
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theflyingorc posted:wait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGqs2przXlg
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Xelkelvos posted:Hell, Humans vs. Zombies totally owns up to the description of "tag with nerf guns" and is completely straight up about it. I once failed a presentation in college (we did weekly presentations about material we had covered during the previous week) because my partner spent the whole week playing HvZ and did no work.
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Leninboarrir posted:I once failed a presentation in college (we did weekly presentations about material we had covered during the previous week) because my partner spent the whole week playing HvZ and did no work. I once failed a presentation because I got high for a week and totally spaced it off. Yet I feel superior to your partner. 
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