One reason why my sister is the best possible sister on this planet

[TheLeen]

She gave me a Pacman board gane for my birthday.

Apparently, she and her fiance spent months cutting, sawing, printing and gluing stuff… including a wooden board, ruleset, box, all sorts of pellets and fruits, special dice, and no less than 300 quiz cards with carefully researched geeky questions and answers.

I’m smitten!

I’ll take pictures some time this week and playtest it, too, as soon as possible ;)

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[Baz]

Wacca wacca wacca….

I imagine you have to make your own sound effects.

*googles*

Ah, apparently not.

[TheLeen]

Sound effects not included ;p

Out of curiousity, what’s google telling you about my sister’s hand-made Pacman game? *g*

[Baz]

Just piles of sites with soundfiles for the original game sound effects. Thought there might be one of those little sound machine keyrings (there’s a mario one) but apparently not.

[Phil]

I still fucking love Pac Man.

[Seb Patrick]

Pokemon, it’s pronounced *Pokemon*.

[James]

So how do you say Hoots-mon?

[Danny Stephenson]

Pok?mon, it?s pronounced *Pok?mon*.

ISWYDT. Awesome.

[Smeg4Brains]

Your sister must really really love you…and her fiance must be pussy whipped enough to do what she tells him to.

[Seb Patrick]

Or alternatively, he’s not a dick.

[Phil]

>I?ll take pictures some time this week

I just want to make absolutely certain you remember to do this.

[TheLeen]

> Your sister must really really love you?and her fiance must be pussy whipped enough to do what she tells him to.

> Or alternatively, he?s not a dick.

I think there is truth in both statements there!
No, really, he’s a sweetheart. :)

> I just want to make absolutely certain you remember to do this.

I’ll do it tonight, after work.

[Tanya Jones]

Your sister sounds like an angel. Is there *anything* she does wrong?

[TheLeen]

Can’t think of anything! :D

[Dave]

She’s just nipped off to teach Kryten how to play the piano.

[pfm]

Is she hot? Surely that’s the only relevant thing.

[mick]

Does she have an ample but perky chest area?

The people need to know.

[James]

Your going to look good if shes 12.

Got a brother, all I got from him was lip.

[Seb Patrick]

>Your going to look good if shes 12.

So’s her fiance.

[Ian Symes]

Your going to look good if shes 12.

Don’t say things like that – Gannon might turn up.

[TheLeen]

Yes, she’s smokin’ hot. But I’m very protective of her. Careful now!

Okay, now here’s the photos from the game, then:

All the game’s components.

The gaming board consists of four wooden panels.

The players’ gaming pieces (pacmans with differently coloured mouths) and blinkies which you can turn around and thus make angsty.

Pellets, power-pellets, and little half-golden blinky stones that have something to do with rules and such.

And these are the dice: regular D4, D6, D10 and a custom D6 that is used to determine where blinky goes when hitting a junction.

Pacman eats healthy, here’s the fruit basket. The grapes and cherries are custom made.

The 300 (or so) quiz cards.

Quiz cards close-up. In multiple choice ones, the blinky/pacman indicates which answer’s the right one. If there’s a fruit logo in the corner, fruit is placed onto the board or withdrawn. Use dice in order to find out where to place fruit.
The one with its back to the scanner says: “How many percent of damages to photocopiers are attributed to people trying to copy their bums?”

I thought about scanning the two-pages ruleset, too, but they’re in German and I can’t be bothered to translate them right now, so I’ll just keep any talk about that aspect for later when I’ve actually played the game.

A game in progress could be looking like this (I totally faked this):

I’ll know more, soon! Will be playing this with Vince tomorrow, with workmates on Tuesday and with my best friend the weekend after next.

[Phil]

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[Seb Patrick]

That’s just… fucking incredible. Did they come up with the rules and everything? That looks like a professional game!

It beats my dice football game into a cocked hat, I’ll tell you that much.

[TheLeen]

It also beats my Magestorm version of risk by miles :x

Yeah, she’s like that, totally, totally awesome.

Now I have to get Milton Bradley’s Pacman boardgame and compare the two versions…

[ChrisM]

Very impressive.

>Careful now!

This reminds me of the placard/cinema scene in an episode of Father Ted.

[TheLeen]

Coincidence? Unlikely ;)

[Danny Stephenson]

That is absolutely amazing! It looks so professional, and I’m seriously loving the game board.

[TheLeen]

My sister has asked me to state again that her man is not a pussy and declares you all a bunch of fat internet virgins. No wait, that was Iain Lee.

No, seriously, her fiance is probably just as awesome as she is, although I prefer her to be my sister.

[Jonathan Capps]

> My sister has asked me to state again that her man is not a pussy and declares you all a bunch of fat internet virgins. No wait, that was Iain Lee.

Smeg4Brains is giving us all a bad name.

[hummingbird]

Wow, that’a amazing!
And such a thoughtful pressie too.

>and her fiance must be pussy whipped enough to do what she tells him to.

No, he’s just a nice bloke.

[Smeg4Brains]

Hey it was just a joke…there’s nothing wrong with being pussy whipped anyway, i am on a regular basis.

And the game looks really professional…love it.

[Seb Patrick]

>there?s nothing wrong with being pussy whipped anyway

… except, perhaps, for using phrases like “pussy whipped”.

[Smeg4Brains]

>? except, perhaps, for using phrases like ?pussy whipped?.

Whats wrong with ?pussy whipped??

[Seb Patrick]

It’s a horrible phrase with no application other than an entirely sexist one?

[Smeg4Brains]

> It?s a horrible phrase with no application other than an entirely sexist one?

It isn’t in the least bit sexist.

[Seb Patrick]

Explain how.

[Smeg4Brains]

Because it’s used to describe a guy who’ll do whatever his girlfriend/wife/bit on the side says because he knows that she’s the one who can ultimately deny him sex.

Explain how that is sexist.

[Jonathan Capps]

She’s so hot she’s making me sexist… bitch.

[Seb Patrick]

Because it?s used to describe a guy who?ll do whatever his girlfriend/wife/bit on the side says because he knows that she?s the one who can ultimately deny him sex.

Explain how that is sexist.

Because it suggests that blokes would be free to do whatever they wanted if it weren’t for those stupid women “withholding sex”; it also suggests that the only means a woman has of getting a man to do something for her is to use sex, also suggesting that sex is the only thing a woman has to offer a man. It’s demeaning, it’s nasty in both its implication and its wording, it’s juvenile (it strikes me as coming from a similar sort of vernacular as the likes of “bros before hos”)… and it’s sexist. Not in an aggressive, misogynist, all-women-are-whores kind of way; but in that casual, unthinking way that, despite what many would like to believe, still pervades society. I’m not suggesting that you’re a deliberately sexist person, but in a way, that’s kind of a part of the problem – people not even realising what it is they’re saying. I mean, your explanation actually did a pretty effective job of summing up why it’s sexist, but you didn’t even realise.

[Smeg4Brains]

Political. Correctness. Gone. Mad.

You know, I’m fed up of having to watch everything I say because there could be a slight chance it may possibly offend somebody.
I’ve got black friends I call packi, I’ve got female friends I call bitch and I’ve got gay friends I call puff…as long as it’s not meant in an offensive way (like my comment wasn’t and I thought the readers of this forum would be able to see that) then I don’t see a problem in it. The problem occurs when people start purposefully trying to offend people.

P.S. thanks seb….I love a good debate.

[TheLeen]

We’ve just played the game for the first time! It was fun! I’ll type up our thoughts tomorrow! I’m a bit drunk!

Also, Seb you’re of course very very right about everything you said there. But isn’t it a bit awkward to discuss the casually sexist nature of a term like “pussy whipped” in a forum wherin everyone calls each other a cunt on a daily basis?

I love you all! Back tomorrow with report.

[Tanya Jones]

Yeah, well done you for engaging with Seb’s points. I mean, why should you think about what you type? I’m actually sure you didn’t mean to be sexist, and Seb says that too, but there’s no real way round that particular phrase, like there can be with the other ones you’ve quoted, and to be honest, you haven’t really built enough of a relationship here for others to always get what you mean. The other phrases you mention have gone through a sort of ‘reclaiming’ phase, so using them doesn’t have the impact it once did, but ‘pussy-whipped’ hasn’t, and, for the reasons Seb describes, probably never will.

And if someone else uses the ‘political correctness gone mad’ argument again when their unthinking use of offensive language is questioned, I will track them down and kill them. If they’re going to defend themselves, they can start by being a bit more fucking imaginative.

[Tanya Jones]

Oh, and I apologise to Marleen for the interruption to her thread.

[Phil]

THIS FORUM IS A POWDER KEG

[Smeg4Brains]

Well I have no desire to start an argument as I’m sure neither does Seb (or anybody else) so I suppose we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Just to set the record straight I didn’t mean any offence and I’m sure Marleen’s sister’s fience is a nice guy and not in any way “pussy whipped”.

[Ian Symes]

Political. Correctness. Gone. Mad.

You know, I?m fed up of having to watch everything I say because there could be a slight chance it may possibly offend somebody.
I?ve got black friends I call packi, I?ve got female friends I call bitch and I?ve got gay friends I call puff?as long as it?s not meant in an offensive way (like my comment wasn?t and I thought the readers of this forum would be able to see that) then I don?t see a problem in it. The problem occurs when people start purposefully trying to offend people.

P.S. thanks seb?.I love a good debate.

*sounds the “Cunt” alarm*

[Andrew]

> isn?t it a bit awkward to discuss the casually sexist nature of a term like ?pussy whipped? in a forum wherin everyone calls each other a cunt on a daily basis?

What Marleen said.

[Jonathan Capps]

> What Marleen said.

What Tanya said.

[Phil]

What tonguetied said.

[mick]

>*sounds the ?Cunt? alarm*

Stolen my chat up technique there Symes.

[pfm]

Anyway, back to religion…

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