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The Xenophobe Files

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:09 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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.)

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:15 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Progress at getting a new single-quarter high score: none!

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

Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:37 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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.

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:55 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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.

Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 7:47 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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.

Image

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:54 am
by ChainGangGuy
Did you allow the cats one last trip into the coin door?

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:20 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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?

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:38 pm
by ChainGangGuy
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.

Jane you ignorant slut

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:54 pm
by Electronics Nerd
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

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:57 pm
by pinback
Hey Electronics Nerd!

Suck. My. Balls.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:58 pm
by AArdvark
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

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:30 am
by bruce
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

Re: Jane you ignorant slut

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:58 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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.

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:00 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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.

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:11 pm
by Vitriola
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.

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:06 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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.

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:23 pm
by AArdvark
'cASPIAN' IS A dISNEY MOVIE. NOBODY DIES




WTF is with my caps lock!!!!



'cASPIAN IS A dISNEY MOVIE



i go sleep now