@Zem: The add before the video was for pizza...you suck!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T13:52:59-05:00
MUHUAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You've fallen right into my trap! My google/illuminati minions have taken over the world!
Dang it, I REALLY want some good pizza today! Specifically how the gas station in my town makes it, so I might really drive all the way out there just to pick up a pizza and cheese sticks and bring it back here today. Not even kidding!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T14:03:05-05:00
Mmmmm good pizza is good! Ever bhad 4th st pizza GM?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-20T14:06:46-05:00
All this pizza talk right before Thanksgiving is making me super hungry. Now I want a deep dish pie from Pizzeria Unos
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T14:11:26-05:00
No! No more pizza talk! *slams laptop shut and rushes off to last class of the week*
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*really wants some pizza*
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-20T14:15:59-05:00
I make better pizza than all the pizza places around here.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-20T14:22:52-05:00
I want a seafood pizza. I had one in September at a hotel and it was so good. I've yet to see it served in any of the other pizza restaurants.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T14:34:56-05:00
*gets back*
I knew the professor and TAs were gone wednesday to some conference, but I had no idea it was today also, so there was no class. Oh well, 20 minutes wasted, 50 for free. Time for lunch. I'll get the pizza tonight and give you all a play-by-play of how good it tastes.
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Geist, I had one somewhere too, I think in New Orleans, and it was surprisingly amazing! I was pleasantly surprised at how nicely seafood went with pizza.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T14:37:19-05:00
LZ, I know you've shared your pizza-making process on here before, but I was hoping it was on the Kitty Chow section of the Litter Box (that sounds really weird if you have no clue) so I could post the link to it. I think I'm the only one who still uses it. *ahemhalloweenahem* I've had it open constantly since it was created.
@Geist: Ketchup is gross on 99.9999~% of things.
@LZ: It's delicious. You can't have just any cheese, you need real cheese curds. And the gravy, well, you can use almost any type of gravy you want really to give it a different flavour. But I prefer a nice beef gravy(like what you would get making it with the drippings from a roast).
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T15:11:38-05:00
I think we need to save America from poutine, they have enough problems... ;) Dammit! Now even though I'm full of delicious pizza, I want a poutine! Waaah!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T15:15:33-05:00
SOMEONE MAKE ME SOME POUTINE PIZZA!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T15:15:57-05:00
@Zem, its a thing! You can actually get that already!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-20T15:40:26-05:00
The second thing I will be eating when I visit Canada is poutine. The first is this maple on a stick thingy that BaKahn mentioned.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T15:46:22-05:00
@Geist, lol! Well good news for you is you can get both of those things in Quebec. The bad news is, maple only in the winter, oh, and of course Quebec... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T15:55:49-05:00
I tell you what Geist, if you come up here, you must come to Calgary, or GM and I will both be sad, and you don't want two pathetic Canadians on your hands, trust me! I will make you a maple glazed, ceder planked salmon. There is no better way to make salmon in the world, trust me on this. Its not maple on a stick, nor poutine (I could probably be convinced to hook you up with one though...) but it is pretty damn amazing!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-20T16:03:40-05:00
lol, you didn't think I'd visit Canada and not see you guys. What other reason would I have to brave the freezing sub tempetures of your area.
(I hope like hell you have a version of the hot toddy that you drink or else my visit will be very brief indeed)
@Geist: I think your visit would be very long...you would be frozen in place. :P
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T16:29:48-05:00
Either that or totally hammered the whole time! lol! ;) I'm sure we can come up with a vertiable plethora of hot alchy bevies!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T16:47:26-05:00
I should go up and see my fellow ice men. I'll go up in winter. Well, I don't want to drive in that, so I'll go up in fall, hibernate until January, and then come see you guys. Then hibernate until spring.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-11-20T16:52:18-05:00
Sauce has landed!
I tasted it and it's delicious.....
Just need to use it with food now
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T16:54:56-05:00
For what its worth, any corps members coming to Canada are more than welcome to stay at my place, just saying... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T16:55:18-05:00
@Doc, HUZZAH! Which flavours did you get?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T17:15:51-05:00
Maybe I should run out to the house when it gets there without telling my family and just run in, grab it, and disappear.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-20T17:26:15-05:00
@Doc: Huzzah! Glad you like it!
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-20T17:27:29-05:00
@Zem: Do it, and then freak out when you show up on Monday evening and it's not there!
@Zem: That would be awesome! Do it! Give in to the peer pressure!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T17:41:16-05:00
So what happens if your peers are pressuring you not to give into peer pressure? Would almost be as bad as dividing by zero... ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T17:42:27-05:00
I would if I knew it were there today and that everyone would be there to see it. Most likely I'd go in, if I'm lucky my brother would be on the computer, but otherwise nobody would be in a place to see me, it wouldn't be there, and I'd just leave.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T17:43:09-05:00
Though I'm almost certainly getting that pizza in an hour or two. I'll have it last all weekend hopefully.
I may end up ordering a pizza tonight, and then end up playing games with a few friends I haven't talked to in a few months.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2015-11-20T18:06:18-05:00
Howdy gang!!
I just got done having pizza. I made a Lotzza Moyzza Lotzza Hotzza pizza.
Topped with sausage, hot Italian sausage(yes, 2 kinds of sausage), roasted red peppers and Jalapeños.
Totes delish!!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T18:11:26-05:00
I'm waiting till I'm kind of hungry. And then I'm driving around half an hour each way just to get pizza from a specific place.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2015-11-20T18:52:54-05:00
We used to drive 45 minutes to the closest Taco Bell. Oh, the countless Bell runs (pun intended :-P) we used make at 10:30 at night.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T19:07:31-05:00
Speaking of which, I'm just stalling. I should go get it.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T20:03:54-05:00
@Trinkets, That pizza sounds great! And, totes, seriously? ;)
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2015-11-20T20:36:11-05:00
It is really tasty.
Yeah, lol. I guess I was channeling my inner 14 y.o. girl,lol.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T20:42:33-05:00
In total, 1 mile walk, 50 mile drive, and 2 hours later, I have a medium meatlover's pizza and medium cheesesticks to keep me company. Who wants a piece?! So good! Not hot, but it was only warm when I picked it up anyways.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-20T20:45:07-05:00
Forgot to mention more than half of all that was in a kind of rain-snow that melts on contact with anything and it's only one degree above freezing so it can become ice occasionally but will definitely freeze on your windshield if you're not careful. Strong wind. And a windshield wiper that sometimes gets dislocated and can't clean properly. Not as bad as it sounds, but it was as bad as it sounds. And worth it in the end!
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-20T21:39:45-05:00
Oh boy. New stuff is coming. A new game may be coming out in the next few months and I got to see the raw art for the first expansion set. It's gonna blow your minds. New capabilities. New ways to play and a new card that Elan says will become the most powerful card in the deck. The expansion will be coming after the new game. It's going to be very cool.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T21:52:29-05:00
@PoT, is the new game kitten related? The Expansion sounds great, will we have an ability to pre-order? Oh, and you sir are a lucky s.o.b. ;) Congrats!
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-20T22:01:48-05:00
The new game is completely unrelated to EK, a whole new concept, play testing should begin soon. Keep an eye on Twitter. When they're ready to start play testing they'll post up a contest of some sort and by passing that you will be entered to become a play tester, I suppose it depends on response whether you'll automatically get to test or there will be some type of raffle situation, we didn't really talk about that too much. I took a local game organizer with me, he and Elan seemed to hit it off. Since he hosts a weekly game night at a local nightclub and has upwards of 200 people on any given night, I'm guessing I knocked myself out of the play testing business. : )
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-20T22:08:33-05:00
And.... Exploding Kittens creative team just won Chicago Toy n Game innovators of the year at the Chicago Toy and Game Fair.
Congratulations Elan Shane and Matt. Well done gentlemen.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T22:08:56-05:00
I doubt that Elan would leave you out at this point PoT! You would make a great addition to any play testing team and you're KC, what else does he need to know! ;) Also you can bribe him with bbq!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-11-20T22:09:48-05:00
Congrats EK team! Whoo Hoo!
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-20T22:20:26-05:00
Maybe I'll get to help out the guy I introduced to Elan today (his name is Kevin BTW), if that happens I might get rewarded with a play test deck. Who knows?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-21T00:02:32-05:00
Dang it, PoT, you made pizza seem pointless! Who invited you to come and talk about the most awesome thing in months?! Go away and come back with a playtest deck right now!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-21T03:47:10-05:00
What, 3 am too late/early for you?
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-21T07:27:17-05:00
@Zem. Yes. I'm old. What? 6am to early for you?
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-21T07:37:38-05:00
Oh yeah, and they're looking at going to plastic cards. No final decision on that yet, but there have been a lot of complaints about how the paper cards are holding up.
And Russia, according to Elan if you try to import games directly from the US to Russia they are summarily seized and destroyed. FedEx calls that "Delivered" BTW. So for every set that went to Russia, they had to replace the sets, ship them to an unnamed European country, load them on a truck and drive them across the boarder. I have no idea if this happened in the dead of night and/or if cash exchanged hands at the boarder crossing but the whole thing is just weird and, as it turns out exorbitantly expensive. You would not believe what he had to spend per copy to satisfy his obligation to the Russian backers.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2015-11-21T09:34:29-05:00
Yesterday had some talk of poutine.
Today is starting off with Putin.
What's tomorrow, puddin'?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-21T13:50:04-05:00
El Clasico is awesome! 0-4 FCB! Not even over yet!
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-21T17:21:45-05:00
Oh good. The John Hancock center, where I took Elan for lunch yesterday, is on fire. Timing is everything.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-21T17:42:28-05:00
Wow. Great timing with that one! Just barely avoided it!
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2015-11-21T18:06:59-05:00
@PoT, Elan didn't happen to drop an Exploding Kitten card when you left, did he?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-21T20:24:02-05:00
Good grief PoT! Are you serious?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-22T00:31:58-05:00
Trinkets: "Oh, I was wondering where the deck had gone to! I bet a stranger tried to open the top secret experimental deck and the kittens enacted security protocols to ensure confidentiality. Again. I need to fix that and just write a note that says 'Return to Elan at ___.'"
Powers of Tesla 2015-11-22T11:12:46-05:00
Excellent questions regarding the possibility of Exploding felines being left behind. I frankly doubt it though. The fire started (and was mostly restricted to) the 50th floor and the elevators to the 95th floor are dedicated, you can't get off anywhere but the ground floor the restaurant or the bar on the 96th floor. The fire was reported at about 2:15 and reported out at about 3:30, it was primarily restricted to one apartment, or so I have read. 5 People were injured, no fatalities as yet.
I have to tell you guys, I saw the expansion set, all hand drawn Oatmeal original art in full color. I asked my companion if he would hold Elan down after I kicked him in the tenders, grabbed the cards and ran like hell. Unfortunately the answer was no. Damn it. The expansion set of 20 is (literally) a game changer. Actually I think I deserve major props for not trying to do it without his help. I really wanted those cards.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-22T14:12:00-05:00
Props, PoT!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-22T15:04:17-05:00
HOT SAUCE ARRIVED! I'll have it when I go home tomorrow! Both things I've been waiting for on the same day, tomorrow! My brother asked me if he could open it and I said sure, if he wanted hot sauce in his eyes when I got there.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-11-22T22:18:38-05:00
Ok... so tried sauce on some wings for dinner tasted good but makes a poor wing sauce lol not thick enough......also had eggs this morning and put it on there and fucking delicious....... more to follow
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-11-22T22:20:06-05:00
Oh hey and wife thought it was a bit to hot..... I think it's perfect for the less spicy sauce ... I'll have to buy all your sauces this one is so good....
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T09:51:58-05:00
Am I the first up for once? You didn't all go on vacation before me, did you?
Everyone must be having a busy day today. Fairly quiet in here.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T14:28:42-05:00
FREEDOM!-ish. One last thing to do and then packing, but first, lunch. I should be ready by early next tuesday. Tell my family not to send out a search party, I have my sherpa and machete and am fighting my way to Mount Doom.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-23T14:36:55-05:00
@Trinkets: It's the kind of day that I'm having.
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-23T14:42:05-05:00
@Doc: glad to hear it!
Lord Zombitten 2015-11-23T14:42:45-05:00
Suuuper busy today. I have a paragraph of things I need to address in a meeting tomorrow
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2015-11-23T14:56:16-05:00
Yup. Busy here too.
Turn your MEH upside down and have a H3W day.
Ok, not sure what that means, but it sounds funny.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-23T15:25:57-05:00
lol@Trinkets. Why do I think the raspberry sound is funny to you?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-11-23T15:26:31-05:00
I just want the holiday to happen. I got lots of organizing to do.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T16:01:51-05:00
Who wants to race to Thanksgiving vacation?! 3...2...1... Go!
@Zem: You're a little over a month too slow to win that one.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T16:05:01-05:00
And if yours was a month ago, it doesn't count. We're racing to the next coming thanksgiving. Good luck Canadians.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T16:05:59-05:00
Oh, didn't see you'd commented on that. Sucks to suck, Canada! Gonna have to take a hell of a vacation to beat me on this one. I'll win as soon as I stop avoiding it and do an hour's worth of work or so.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T16:43:45-05:00
Yes! The artifact is here!!! Now once I get home to the hot sauce, it'll be like an early christmas!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T16:44:43-05:00
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T16:45:08-05:00
*as the sauce
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T16:53:40-05:00
AAaaaand solved it by cheating. I put torsion on the lever and jiggled with the knobs until it slid over and then lifted it. Now to try and figure it out on my own as what the key really is.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2015-11-23T17:38:14-05:00
Geist, it's nice to hear somebody else who is all ready for the holiday season to begin.
Usually there's too many people who are bummed durring this time of year.
@Trinkets: I don't mind the holiday season, minus the commercialization of it all. The real idea of it, spending time with friends/family, that is what I enjoy.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-11-23T18:16:08-05:00
I think that's the main reason some people hate it, is because they have to see their families. My family is really close and friendly, so I love the holidays and likely will more and more the more we move apart.
My dad's side of the family, fairly close. My mom's side...not so much. Last time I saw/heard from the majority of them was at my grandma's funeral, a little over a year ago.
Last time I heard from my dad's side, couple weeks ago when we were moving stuff out of my grandma's house to her assisted living home. And going to see some of them probably Saturday at the family dinner.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-11-23T18:30:58-05:00
Ok so I'm going to try some sauce on a burger tomorrow .... well I'm going to make a burger for the sauce. ..cook it in the onions and maby try to make a hot mayo with it....
BaKhan, https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@Zem, I'll have to check that later, no YouTube at work... T_T
It's just "Food Glorious Food".
@Zem: The add before the video was for pizza...you suck!
MUHUAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You've fallen right into my trap! My google/illuminati minions have taken over the world!
Dang it, I REALLY want some good pizza today! Specifically how the gas station in my town makes it, so I might really drive all the way out there just to pick up a pizza and cheese sticks and bring it back here today. Not even kidding!
Mmmmm good pizza is good! Ever bhad 4th st pizza GM?
All this pizza talk right before Thanksgiving is making me super hungry. Now I want a deep dish pie from Pizzeria Unos
No! No more pizza talk! *slams laptop shut and rushes off to last class of the week*
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*really wants some pizza*
I make better pizza than all the pizza places around here.
I want a seafood pizza. I had one in September at a hotel and it was so good. I've yet to see it served in any of the other pizza restaurants.
*gets back*
I knew the professor and TAs were gone wednesday to some conference, but I had no idea it was today also, so there was no class. Oh well, 20 minutes wasted, 50 for free. Time for lunch. I'll get the pizza tonight and give you all a play-by-play of how good it tastes.
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Geist, I had one somewhere too, I think in New Orleans, and it was surprisingly amazing! I was pleasantly surprised at how nicely seafood went with pizza.
LZ, I know you've shared your pizza-making process on here before, but I was hoping it was on the Kitty Chow section of the Litter Box (that sounds really weird if you have no clue) so I could post the link to it. I think I'm the only one who still uses it. *ahemhalloweenahem* I've had it open constantly since it was created.
@BaKhan: I don't think I have.
I ended up going to A&W and getting a teen burger...with a poutine...for lunch. Was damned good...but I'm still hungry.
I've never had poutine. I feel like I'm missing out.
Ketchup on fries. The end.
@Geist: Ketchup is gross on 99.9999~% of things.
@LZ: It's delicious. You can't have just any cheese, you need real cheese curds. And the gravy, well, you can use almost any type of gravy you want really to give it a different flavour. But I prefer a nice beef gravy(like what you would get making it with the drippings from a roast).
I think we need to save America from poutine, they have enough problems... ;) Dammit! Now even though I'm full of delicious pizza, I want a poutine! Waaah!
SOMEONE MAKE ME SOME POUTINE PIZZA!
@Zem, its a thing! You can actually get that already!
This one from the states! http://www.foodbeast.com/news/craving-poutine-pizza/
https://i.imgur.com/NUyttbnh.jpg
The second thing I will be eating when I visit Canada is poutine. The first is this maple on a stick thingy that BaKahn mentioned.
@Geist, lol! Well good news for you is you can get both of those things in Quebec. The bad news is, maple only in the winter, oh, and of course Quebec... ;)
I tell you what Geist, if you come up here, you must come to Calgary, or GM and I will both be sad, and you don't want two pathetic Canadians on your hands, trust me! I will make you a maple glazed, ceder planked salmon. There is no better way to make salmon in the world, trust me on this. Its not maple on a stick, nor poutine (I could probably be convinced to hook you up with one though...) but it is pretty damn amazing!
lol, you didn't think I'd visit Canada and not see you guys. What other reason would I have to brave the freezing sub tempetures of your area.
(I hope like hell you have a version of the hot toddy that you drink or else my visit will be very brief indeed)
@Geist: I think your visit would be very long...you would be frozen in place. :P
Either that or totally hammered the whole time! lol! ;) I'm sure we can come up with a vertiable plethora of hot alchy bevies!
I should go up and see my fellow ice men. I'll go up in winter. Well, I don't want to drive in that, so I'll go up in fall, hibernate until January, and then come see you guys. Then hibernate until spring.
Sauce has landed!
I tasted it and it's delicious.....
Just need to use it with food now
For what its worth, any corps members coming to Canada are more than welcome to stay at my place, just saying... ;)
@Doc, HUZZAH! Which flavours did you get?
Maybe I should run out to the house when it gets there without telling my family and just run in, grab it, and disappear.
@Doc: Huzzah! Glad you like it!
@Zem: Do it, and then freak out when you show up on Monday evening and it's not there!
@Zem: That would be awesome! Do it! Give in to the peer pressure!
So what happens if your peers are pressuring you not to give into peer pressure? Would almost be as bad as dividing by zero... ;)
I would if I knew it were there today and that everyone would be there to see it. Most likely I'd go in, if I'm lucky my brother would be on the computer, but otherwise nobody would be in a place to see me, it wouldn't be there, and I'd just leave.
Though I'm almost certainly getting that pizza in an hour or two. I'll have it last all weekend hopefully.
I may end up ordering a pizza tonight, and then end up playing games with a few friends I haven't talked to in a few months.
Howdy gang!!
I just got done having pizza. I made a Lotzza Moyzza Lotzza Hotzza pizza.
Topped with sausage, hot Italian sausage(yes, 2 kinds of sausage), roasted red peppers and Jalapeños.
Totes delish!!
I'm waiting till I'm kind of hungry. And then I'm driving around half an hour each way just to get pizza from a specific place.
We used to drive 45 minutes to the closest Taco Bell. Oh, the countless Bell runs (pun intended :-P) we used make at 10:30 at night.
Speaking of which, I'm just stalling. I should go get it.
@Trinkets, That pizza sounds great! And, totes, seriously? ;)
It is really tasty.
Yeah, lol. I guess I was channeling my inner 14 y.o. girl,lol.
In total, 1 mile walk, 50 mile drive, and 2 hours later, I have a medium meatlover's pizza and medium cheesesticks to keep me company. Who wants a piece?! So good! Not hot, but it was only warm when I picked it up anyways.
Forgot to mention more than half of all that was in a kind of rain-snow that melts on contact with anything and it's only one degree above freezing so it can become ice occasionally but will definitely freeze on your windshield if you're not careful. Strong wind. And a windshield wiper that sometimes gets dislocated and can't clean properly. Not as bad as it sounds, but it was as bad as it sounds. And worth it in the end!
Oh boy. New stuff is coming. A new game may be coming out in the next few months and I got to see the raw art for the first expansion set. It's gonna blow your minds. New capabilities. New ways to play and a new card that Elan says will become the most powerful card in the deck. The expansion will be coming after the new game. It's going to be very cool.
@PoT, is the new game kitten related? The Expansion sounds great, will we have an ability to pre-order? Oh, and you sir are a lucky s.o.b. ;) Congrats!
The new game is completely unrelated to EK, a whole new concept, play testing should begin soon. Keep an eye on Twitter. When they're ready to start play testing they'll post up a contest of some sort and by passing that you will be entered to become a play tester, I suppose it depends on response whether you'll automatically get to test or there will be some type of raffle situation, we didn't really talk about that too much. I took a local game organizer with me, he and Elan seemed to hit it off. Since he hosts a weekly game night at a local nightclub and has upwards of 200 people on any given night, I'm guessing I knocked myself out of the play testing business. : )
And.... Exploding Kittens creative team just won Chicago Toy n Game innovators of the year at the Chicago Toy and Game Fair.
Congratulations Elan Shane and Matt. Well done gentlemen.
I doubt that Elan would leave you out at this point PoT! You would make a great addition to any play testing team and you're KC, what else does he need to know! ;) Also you can bribe him with bbq!
Congrats EK team! Whoo Hoo!
Maybe I'll get to help out the guy I introduced to Elan today (his name is Kevin BTW), if that happens I might get rewarded with a play test deck. Who knows?
Dang it, PoT, you made pizza seem pointless! Who invited you to come and talk about the most awesome thing in months?! Go away and come back with a playtest deck right now!
What, 3 am too late/early for you?
@Zem. Yes. I'm old. What? 6am to early for you?
Oh yeah, and they're looking at going to plastic cards. No final decision on that yet, but there have been a lot of complaints about how the paper cards are holding up.
And Russia, according to Elan if you try to import games directly from the US to Russia they are summarily seized and destroyed. FedEx calls that "Delivered" BTW. So for every set that went to Russia, they had to replace the sets, ship them to an unnamed European country, load them on a truck and drive them across the boarder. I have no idea if this happened in the dead of night and/or if cash exchanged hands at the boarder crossing but the whole thing is just weird and, as it turns out exorbitantly expensive. You would not believe what he had to spend per copy to satisfy his obligation to the Russian backers.
Yesterday had some talk of poutine.
Today is starting off with Putin.
What's tomorrow, puddin'?
El Clasico is awesome! 0-4 FCB! Not even over yet!
Oh good. The John Hancock center, where I took Elan for lunch yesterday, is on fire. Timing is everything.
Wow. Great timing with that one! Just barely avoided it!
@PoT, Elan didn't happen to drop an Exploding Kitten card when you left, did he?
Good grief PoT! Are you serious?
Trinkets: "Oh, I was wondering where the deck had gone to! I bet a stranger tried to open the top secret experimental deck and the kittens enacted security protocols to ensure confidentiality. Again. I need to fix that and just write a note that says 'Return to Elan at ___.'"
Excellent questions regarding the possibility of Exploding felines being left behind. I frankly doubt it though. The fire started (and was mostly restricted to) the 50th floor and the elevators to the 95th floor are dedicated, you can't get off anywhere but the ground floor the restaurant or the bar on the 96th floor. The fire was reported at about 2:15 and reported out at about 3:30, it was primarily restricted to one apartment, or so I have read. 5 People were injured, no fatalities as yet.
I have to tell you guys, I saw the expansion set, all hand drawn Oatmeal original art in full color. I asked my companion if he would hold Elan down after I kicked him in the tenders, grabbed the cards and ran like hell. Unfortunately the answer was no. Damn it. The expansion set of 20 is (literally) a game changer. Actually I think I deserve major props for not trying to do it without his help. I really wanted those cards.
Props, PoT!
HOT SAUCE ARRIVED! I'll have it when I go home tomorrow! Both things I've been waiting for on the same day, tomorrow! My brother asked me if he could open it and I said sure, if he wanted hot sauce in his eyes when I got there.
Ok... so tried sauce on some wings for dinner tasted good but makes a poor wing sauce lol not thick enough......also had eggs this morning and put it on there and fucking delicious....... more to follow
Oh hey and wife thought it was a bit to hot..... I think it's perfect for the less spicy sauce ... I'll have to buy all your sauces this one is so good....
Am I the first up for once? You didn't all go on vacation before me, did you?
I'm at work
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@Doc: Me too...and so far nothing major happened over the weekend.
Meh
before-vacation sucks. Only 3 hours, 1 thing to finish, and packing to go! Knowing me, I'll be done around midnight.
Wow...it's already November 23rd...time sure flies when you're going crazy.
Meh? What's up with that, Geist?
I think Geist's vodka reserves are running low. She may need to refuel.
GM, that makes sense
Everyone must be having a busy day today. Fairly quiet in here.
FREEDOM!-ish. One last thing to do and then packing, but first, lunch. I should be ready by early next tuesday. Tell my family not to send out a search party, I have my sherpa and machete and am fighting my way to Mount Doom.
@Trinkets: It's the kind of day that I'm having.
@Doc: glad to hear it!
Suuuper busy today. I have a paragraph of things I need to address in a meeting tomorrow
Yup. Busy here too.
Turn your MEH upside down and have a H3W day.
Ok, not sure what that means, but it sounds funny.
lol@Trinkets. Why do I think the raspberry sound is funny to you?
I just want the holiday to happen. I got lots of organizing to do.
Who wants to race to Thanksgiving vacation?! 3...2...1... Go!
@Zem: You're a little over a month too slow to win that one.
And if yours was a month ago, it doesn't count. We're racing to the next coming thanksgiving. Good luck Canadians.
Oh, didn't see you'd commented on that. Sucks to suck, Canada! Gonna have to take a hell of a vacation to beat me on this one. I'll win as soon as I stop avoiding it and do an hour's worth of work or so.
Yes! The artifact is here!!! Now once I get home to the hot sauce, it'll be like an early christmas!
http://www.scamstuff.com/products/the-arcana-artifact
This is the only thing I was about as excited about getting than hot sauce.
*as the sauce
AAaaaand solved it by cheating. I put torsion on the lever and jiggled with the knobs until it slid over and then lifted it. Now to try and figure it out on my own as what the key really is.
Geist, it's nice to hear somebody else who is all ready for the holiday season to begin.
Usually there's too many people who are bummed durring this time of year.
I for one, love it.
@Trinkets: I don't mind the holiday season, minus the commercialization of it all. The real idea of it, spending time with friends/family, that is what I enjoy.
I think that's the main reason some people hate it, is because they have to see their families. My family is really close and friendly, so I love the holidays and likely will more and more the more we move apart.
My dad's side of the family, fairly close. My mom's side...not so much. Last time I saw/heard from the majority of them was at my grandma's funeral, a little over a year ago.
Last time I heard from my dad's side, couple weeks ago when we were moving stuff out of my grandma's house to her assisted living home. And going to see some of them probably Saturday at the family dinner.
Ok so I'm going to try some sauce on a burger tomorrow .... well I'm going to make a burger for the sauce. ..cook it in the onions and maby try to make a hot mayo with it....