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I need further public evidence that I don't have enough keeping me busy.
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Bij. If I'm enough of a trek fan, do I post enough about it?
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Sep 15, 2020 05:13
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YOU. THE ONE WHO IS MOVING NOW. RESPOND.
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Sep 15, 2020 05:17
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SuvwI', acknowledge! A leader must be tested... experience bIj! >>=D LOW LEVEL MALFUNCTION Bah! Duj veQDuj!
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Sep 15, 2020 05:29
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Grand Fromage posted:I, the one who is posting now, would like to experience bij. Answer!
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Sep 15, 2020 06:11
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Powered Descent posted:Whereas the engines on the Equinox are all "AaaaaAAAAAAAGGGHHH, OHGODITHURTS, NRRRRRRGHHHH, AAAAAAAAAAA!" "Hey Commander, is it true that your brother went crazy in the Delta Quadrant and started shoveling aliens into his warp core like an ancient steam locomotive?" <voice breaking> "...Rudy was a good man in an impossible situation. <sniff> Why can't you little bastards just leave him alone?!??? Marshal Radisic fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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Sep 15, 2020 06:23
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Grand Fromage posted:I, the one who is posting now, would like to experience bij.  I'd also like to express my fondness for that particular bij.
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Sep 15, 2020 07:20
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Bij me up, Esperterra!
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Sep 15, 2020 07:22
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Bij please.
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Sep 15, 2020 08:45
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Catching up on 15 pages of this thread gave me bij. but i'm always down for more.
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Sep 15, 2020 09:00
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We've all been experiencing bij every day now for the past like four years, might as well make it official. Bij me.
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Sep 15, 2020 09:03
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My entire posting history is bij, so sign me up
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Sep 15, 2020 09:43
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Despite popular culture memes, Kirk never once said the words "Bij me up Scotty" in the 60s Sci-fi series Star Trek. Unlike Kirk, I would like to experience Bij.
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Sep 15, 2020 10:05
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Oh and just to make sure, I too would like to EXPERIENCE BIJ.
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Sep 15, 2020 10:11
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Bij me with them painsticks as long if it doesn't remove my beloved Zaurg & Sumo tags.
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Sep 15, 2020 12:10
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Bij me up, espy
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Sep 15, 2020 12:12
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I'll prob do what I did in the GBS FFVII thread and have anyone who wants a tag respond to me when it's been uploaded. Depending on how many tags you have something might have to go. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it!
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Sep 15, 2020 12:22
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It looks like you, the one who is posting now, is trying to EXPERIENCE BIJ! Did I get that right? /  (I would also like to EXPERIENCE BIJ if two tags are ok)
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Sep 15, 2020 12:56
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I played that VHS game a comically large amount of times growing up, can I also be Bij'd please? ive always wanted a gang tag for the best word in klingon tbh
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Sep 15, 2020 13:15
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Grand Fromage posted:I, the one who is posting now, would like to experience bij. I, too, with the BIJ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agy7tFNt_A8
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Sep 15, 2020 14:27
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I'll have a Bij and a pancake please.
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Sep 15, 2020 15:05
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It's a good day to live, not a good day to experience bij yet q'apla!
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Sep 15, 2020 15:20
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Experience Q'doBa!
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Sep 15, 2020 15:39
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Fun fact: Robert O'Reilly plays Aakar, Gowron's DSC-era ancestor in House Divided, the new STO episode. He actually turns to the camera in one cutscene and says "Experience bIj."
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Sep 15, 2020 15:42
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Arglebargle III posted:Experience Q'doBa! lol pretty good tbh
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Sep 15, 2020 15:49
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Statutory Ape posted:I played that VHS game a comically large amount of times growing up, can I also be Bij'd please? I've always wondered how that game worked, if you want to 
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Sep 15, 2020 16:02
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Grand Fromage posted:I've always wondered how that game worked, if you want to The way I understand it, you just play a board game as normal, except every once in a while a character pops up on screen (in this case and angry Klingon) and assigns an arbitrary task or punishment to a player that happens to meet some criteria (whoever's turn it is, whoever's on a certain square, etc.) You have until the end of the tape to finish the game, otherwise you lose (or start the tape over again, in the case of the Star Trek game).
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Sep 15, 2020 16:06
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The VHS was uploaded to YouTube of you want a feel for what the video is like. https://youtu.be/3_739DxrMOs
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Sep 15, 2020 16:35
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I've watched parts of it but there was nothing really to indicate how the game worked. That it was just a random event generator running in the background makes sense I guess.
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Sep 15, 2020 16:43
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As the person who brought this whole thing back from when it died like ten+ years ago, I feel like I have to get the tag if we do it! Is there a way to see our old avatars? I'd love to show off my old Kavok one.
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Sep 15, 2020 16:45
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Grand Fromage posted:I've watched parts of it but there was nothing really to indicate how the game worked. That it was just a random event generator running in the background makes sense I guess. You know some nerds definitely memorized the order of the "random" events before they played
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Sep 15, 2020 16:45
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Grand Fromage posted:I've always wondered how that game worked, if you want to Kavok has hijacked the Enterprise while it's empty and in Starbase for servicing, and is racing with it back to Klingon space. Because he's a dumb Klingon he doesn't know that there's a problem with the Warp Core that will cause it to explode in 60 minutes if he keeps pushing warp 9. The players are starfleet officers who happened to still be on board. They need to move around the ship going to various rooms to pick up (5?) isolinear chips to fix the computer and a phaser to stun Kavok. Once a player has those things then they need to get to the bridge and win. There might be some other resource they need to gather to bypass security. Moving is basically Cluedo - the saucer is a big circle and I think there was an engineering section and you roll dice to move squares and go in buildings. Some cards would let you beam from room to room as a shortcut. Kavok knows you are on board and thinks it's great sport that you are trying to stop him, so rather than beam you into space he occasionally calls up the player who's turn it is to either give them a reward or punish them in some irritating way (beaming them randomly around the ship, putting up a forcefield that makes them skip their turn, stealing their ships etc). Because the Enterprise computer is malfunctioning sometimes when he tries to punish you something good ends up happening. It's an okay game, it's limited in that notionally the players want someone to win so you don't all die, but there isn't really any reason to cooperate so it's really fully competitive. Also once you've played a couple of times you know exactly when Kavok is going to appear on screen and if it's a good or bad event, so there's a little bit of constructive fast or slow play. e: oh I checked the Wiki. The warp core isn't a problem, the problem is that Kavoc is launching a false flag attack on Qo'noS to start a war and you'll get blown up by the Klingon fleet if you don't retake the Enterprise. Kavoc is chill with you being onboard because he thinks it's hilarious that you will die in honourable combat with him. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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Sep 15, 2020 16:51
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A lot of the old VHS games were those sort of "race the clock" games, where the tape would play in the background while the players were trying to carry out tasks, and every once in a while, the tape would give the active player special instructions. If nobody won by the time the tape was over, everyone would lose.
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Sep 15, 2020 17:07
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The Bloop posted:You know some nerds definitely memorized the order of the "random" events before they played it is the order of things
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Sep 15, 2020 17:14
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VCR board games are an odd little historical artifact. They almost never actually use the video part for anything (it's just there so you can see the announcer/host/whatever), so the concept could easily have been done radio-show style and invented at any point since the invention of the LP phonograph record. But in our timeline they didn't appear until the 90s, as VHS tapes. Some of the games were actually quite good -- Atmosfear was an absolute blast if you had a full load of six players. Other games, not so much. I once played a Star Wars one that everyone agreed stunk on ice. Googling around now, I see there have been a few attempts to revive the genre, replacing the tape with an app, which would allow a lot more randomness and variety and (theoretically) replay value. We'll see if it catches on, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Epicurius posted:A lot of the old VHS games were those sort of "race the clock" games, where the tape would play in the background while the players were trying to carry out tasks, and every once in a while, the tape would give the active player special instructions. If nobody won by the time the tape was over, everyone would lose. I watched one of those old horror ones on YouTube a while ago, and it was kind of neat in that as the game continued, the video guy got progressively creepier looking and the lighting on him got darker and more contrasty. Other than that, it seemed boring as hell.
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Powered Descent posted:VCR board games are an odd little historical artifact. They almost never actually use the video part for anything (it's just there so you can see the announcer/host/whatever), so the concept could easily have been done radio-show style and invented at any point since the invention of the LP phonograph record. But in our timeline they didn't appear until the 90s, as VHS tapes. Some of the games were actually quite good -- Atmosfear was an absolute blast if you had a full load of six players. Other games, not so much. I once played a Star Wars one that everyone agreed stunk on ice. For an even briefer time there was the DVD board game, which could be much better than VHS thanks to branching and menus. I remember seeing atmosfear advertised when I was a kid and really wanting to try it, it just looked cool. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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Sep 15, 2020 17:27
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The VCR game was neat. IIRC it was a race against time feeling and the tape added some nice ambiance to it kind of a fun gimmick but we did actually play it quite a few times which is funny i was not even 10 when we got it probably 
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Phylodox posted:I watched one of those old horror ones on YouTube a while ago, and it was kind of neat in that as the game continued, the video guy got progressively creepier looking and the lighting on him got darker and more contrasty. Other than that, it seemed boring as hell. Well of course it was boring, you were watching a game clock with no actual game going on.
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The VCR board game episode of Community is great, especially the end tag where the game actor (Vince Gilligan!)’s wife convinces him to leave his job at Apple, since it’s 1993 and VCR games are obviously going to be the new money maker.
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