The Xenophobe Files

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:09 pm

10,350.

(On one quarter. It doesn't save high scores, so I had to start from scratch.)

(This is a miserable "high" score. Steps will be taken. Pictures on Dayna's new camera will be taken.)

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:15 pm

Progress at getting a new single-quarter high score: none!

Progress at re-painting the thing with some glossy black paint: complete!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue May 02, 2006 11:37 pm

When I lock the cats out of the bedroom, they both attempt to open the coin door and get inside.

Now, keeping in mind that it's been six months and I still haven't fixed my Crystal Castles game. Should I allow these cats into Xenophobe where they could possibly rip apart a wire? Because I obviously failed at fixing my other one (I am going to make One Last Attempt, Swear To God This Weekend on CC) I don't think I should let them anywhere near the working one.

Oh, and regarding Bill Simmons's "How Much Would You Pay Game" -- I would pay $500 for someone motivated enough to solve Xenophobe to visit my apartment. Just saying. That's how much I would pay. I feel like I have a copy of the world's biggest fucking side scroller, the world's largest NES cart in my living room and I desperately need someone to "win" it with.

Win it with me.

However you end that.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed May 28, 2008 4:55 pm

Er, anyway, someone is coming to look at it and hopefully purchase it this weekend. This may very well conclude the "Xenophobe Files." Thank you for your support.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu May 29, 2008 7:47 pm

Xenophobe has been sold!

I will miss it, of course. Even though I had gone as far with it as I could go, it was still an amazing, somewhat rare piece to the gameroom. (Rare meaning I don't see many of them around, not rare as in numbers made or anything, of which I am not certain.) It was also the only game I've ever had that has given me zero problems whatsoever. It was polite, is what I am saying.

I will treasure our times together. Here's one last pic for old time's sake.

ChainGangGuy · Post by **ChainGangGuy** » Fri May 30, 2008 11:54 am

Did you allow the cats one last trip into the coin door?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri May 30, 2008 12:20 pm

Yes! They all went in there and kicked shit around one last time.

It was "OK" for them to go into Xenophobe because the monitor was not accessible to them. If the anode on a monitor were to get dislodged, there is the remote possibility that thousands of volts could go through them.

This possibility does exist on a few other games which don't have locks. I'm going to get locks for them, sure, but in the meantime they could possibly stand learning a lesson or two, don't you think?

ChainGangGuy · Post by **ChainGangGuy** » Fri May 30, 2008 12:38 pm

It's just like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, except it's all cats and coin doors. Oh, and presumably less heavy-handed Christian symbolism.

Electronics Nerd · Post by **Electronics Nerd** » Fri May 30, 2008 3:54 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: It was "OK" for them to go into Xenophobe because the monitor was not accessible to them. If the anode on a monitor were to get dislodged, there is the remote possibility that thousands of volts could go through them.

Thousands of volts could go across them. You measure current through a component, voltage between two points.

Electronics Nerd

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri May 30, 2008 3:57 pm

Hey Electronics Nerd!

Suck. My. Balls.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri May 30, 2008 6:58 pm

how many volts does it take to get to the center of a modern American housecat?

the world may never know.

THE
I SMELL BURNING FUR
AARDVARK

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:30 am

pinback wrote:Hey Electronics Nerd!

Suck. My. Balls.

Pinback, I note you've become fond of one of my tag lines.

Would you like a (forwarding-only, I'm afraid) email address in the "suckmyballs.us" domain? Of the funny names, I'm afraid that "kindly", "please", and "wouldyou" are already taken.

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:58 pm

Electronics Nerd wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: It was "OK" for them to go into Xenophobe because the monitor was not accessible to them. If the anode on a monitor were to get dislodged, there is the remote possibility that thousands of volts could go through them.
Thousands of volts could go across them. You measure current through a component, voltage between two points.

Electronics Nerd

I read up on this! What I read is that voltage is like speed.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:00 pm

ChainGangGuy wrote:It's just like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, except it's all cats and coin doors. Oh, and presumably less heavy-handed Christian symbolism.

This was really funny, by the way.

At the end of one of the books, it is revealed that a bunch of those Lion and Witch kids died in a train accident, because they presumably didn't believe. I am trying to tell the cats this, but all I really get are a bunch of blank stares and questions about whether or not the Lord of the Rings was a Christian allegory as well.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:11 pm

I don't think you remember what i told you about that ending very well. I read it when I was 10 years old, and *I* remember it better than that.

But thanks for becoming SPOILER GUY now that they're making them all into movies. I still don't know if I want to subject myself to Prince Caspian or not.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:06 pm

As far as I know, the end of Lion the Witch and Wardrobe has all the kids dying in a massive train explosion, caused by the fact that they weren't Christian enough.

If that's "wrong" or something, then so be it.

I also recall that J.R.R. Tolkein was pretty adamant that LOTR was to be taken pretty much directly from the Bible. He hated when fanboys tried to say otherwise. It was when his son, George R. R. Tolkein got involved, that revisionist history started.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:23 pm

'cASPIAN' IS A dISNEY MOVIE. NOBODY DIES

WTF is with my caps lock!!!!

'cASPIAN IS A dISNEY MOVIE

i go sleep now

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