Been there, done that, and yet...

SpindleyQ's picture

I just realized this morning that I desperately want a Shakespeare Shakespeare Revolution t-shirt.

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kirkjerk's picture

YEESSSSSS! THOU ART RHYMIN'

YEESSSSSS!

THOU ART RHYMIN' NOW VERILY!

zum's picture

I want to make this happen,

I want to make this happen, somehow.

SpindleyQ's picture

I'm seriously going to buy a

I'm seriously going to buy a screenprinting kit like this weekend. Ever since I got my 256th-level-of-Pacman shirt I have been seriously jonesing for more good-looking gaming-snob shirts.

kirkjerk's picture

did i mention i would buy

did i mention i would buy this 'cause i would

my friend had reasonable results from mysoti as of late http://www.mysoti.com/mysoti/home

SpindleyQ's picture

Kirk, what size t-shirt do

Kirk, what size t-shirt do you wear?

I already bought a screenprinting kit, some glow-in-the-dark ink, and a handful of t-shirt blanks, but thanks for the link! It looks really awesome and I may just use it for designs that don't require me to include copyrighted clipart licensed under a "don't sell me" agreement.

kirkjerk's picture

XL generally is right

XL generally is right enough.

I should consider getting that Pac-Man shirt .... "this is the way the world ends this is the way the world ends."

Just today I had a fun conversation about my Adventures of Alfredo T-shirt

SpindleyQ's picture

I can tell you that if you

I can tell you that if you want to strike up awkward conversations with the cashier in the Toys R Us videogame department, that shirt is your ticket.

I didn't know what Adventures of Alfredo was until I looked it up, but now I hunger for a torrent or something with every Big Blue Disk on it. John Romero did an interactive one that doesn't appear to be anywhere on the internet!

kirkjerk's picture

Big Blue Disk was

Big Blue Disk was interesting.
To be honest I was a bit more into Loadstar for the C=64.

(Actually what i was really into were the disk versions of Compute's Gazette, which if nothing else gave the world Crossroads and me the idea of Heat Seeker

SpindleyQ's picture

You can buy the complete

You can buy the complete Loadstar run for $25 (cheap!), and the complete run of Softdisk (Apple II) and Softdisk GS for $90 (not cheap!), but I haven't dug up a source, legal or otherwise, for Big Blue Disk yet.

Looks kind of like all of Compute's Gazette software, type-in and disk-based, is online, though.

I have some kind of software collector's disease, I think.

kirkjerk's picture

I was recently musing if I

I was recently musing if I have some kind of hoarder's syndrome for information, esp. URLs. I just hate the idea of missing something interesting. I don't think this is a sustainably healthy stance.

SpindleyQ's picture

I used to have a

I used to have a del.icio.us, but I never used it because typing in tags and shit was just too high-friction; the reason I was bookmarking something was because I didn't have time to think about it! But then I got Read It Later and now I have all kinds of shit that's fascinating that I'll never get to.

I'm seriously considering building tools to help me filter and sort through collections of software. At the very least, emulators need an "I Feel Lucky" button. I feel like I need to write software to help me decide which videogames I should play.

kirkjerk's picture

What's sad for me is what to

What's sad for me is what to do with some of these old archives of links I archived away for future enjoyment, like the bottom part of http://alienbill.com/home/ , which was a convenient little mechanism I made up. That I no longer use because it too full of stuff I might never get to.

It's like I turn to technology to make up for weaknesses in my memory, but I'm fundamentally reluctant to let go, I think I have an ingrained unrealistic view of my capacity for noting the interesting bits of the universe.

kirkjerk's picture

Oh and so I got the

Oh and so I got the Loadstar. I've paid 25 for worse I'm sure!

remember-shift 2 is "!

i also got the shirt since i love awkward conversations at toys r uses

dang, splindly, yer making me dig into my reserve paypal acct!

SpindleyQ's picture

Also, FOUR WORDS:

GLOW IN THE DARK

dessgeega's picture

SO HEY, WASN'T THERE TALK OF

SO HEY, WASN'T THERE TALK OF A NEW 100-IN-1 PIRATE KART ??

SpindleyQ's picture

It was connected with talk

It was connected with talk of a new TIGSource B-Game Competition!

Also, don't you think we could get up to 200 this time?

dessgeega's picture

WHY, YES.

WHY, YES.

Strong's picture

i will totally take part

i will totally take part this time so yeah

qrleon's picture

If you do another pirate

If you do another pirate kart, count me in!

kirkjerk's picture

o god me too i'm kind of

o god me too

i'm kind of jonesing for it now

the camaraderie on the irc channel was just so fantastic and some of the games that came out were just...
man

doing it again would be like reliving highschool romance

Pizza Time's picture

Doing it again would be like

Doing it again would be like hooking up with a highschool romance just so you can get with her more attractive sister. Or brother if you are so inclined.

kirkjerk's picture

So, like, a double win

So, like, a double win you're saying?

kirkjerk's picture

BTW how much talk are we

BTW how much talk are we talking? Any kind of date estimate?

SpindleyQ's picture

According to this TIGSource

According to this TIGSource thread, the second B-Games competition is happening this summer. We don't technically have to coordinate the Pirate Kart with the B-Game competition, but I would hate for us to NOT have an entry in the B-Game competition, and a Pirate Kart Meltdown is still the best way I know of to make that happen.

I should probably get cracking on a menu interface beforehand, though, because the current one is awful, and I have a surprising amount of need for a good hackable menu interface.

sergiocornaga's picture

Sounds like a good theme for

Sounds like a good theme for 200 trainwrecks to me, but maybe it's too restrictive...

dessgeega's picture

let's just do pirate kart 2,

let's just do pirate kart 2, with the possible loose suggestion of an adult / educational theme for creators who need inspiration. we've built up a lot of momentum and brought on a lot more people since the first pirate kart and there's no reason we need to do what is emphatically a glorious trainwrecks event in tandem with some external competition. this is our own thing now, and the fact that our little community has grown is exactly why it's time we do another one.

snapman's picture

200 in 1

Go for doubles.

Also, I have a Glorious Trainwrecks "event" I'm either going to start here in either a few days, or next month. If there's support enough for this first, I'll hold off and launch it after Pirate Kart II.

Pizza Time's picture

Let's do a Jesus Kart where

Let's do a Jesus Kart where all the games are based on Chick Tracts.

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