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The Ultimate Gaming Table
Johnzo writes: "Wow. Dude's built himself a
super-deluxe custom gaming table,
with built-in coasters,
dice pits, a sound system, lamps for each player, glass inlays for handouts,
books and paper storage, an elevated miniatures battlefield, privacy screens for each player,
and (best of all) an under-table tube network using hollow gravity-fed balls to
deliver secret messages to players. The only way this could possibly be cooler is if he used pneumatics to
deliver the messages."
To player: "Sure, I won't attack you."
(Under the table): "Attack on the next turn! Kamchacka won't know what hit them! BWahahahaha..."
Okay, the slashdot effect has incinerated yet another poor innocent server.
Slashdot might consider warning / hosting cached images of pages that arent designed to handle major traffic.
If I built a cool backyard widget and told a few friends, I might be a tad disconcerted when CNN tells a half-million people to check out my house.
I bet Verizon would like to get this guy to design the furniture for their offices to put the $22,000 workstations on!
There's another feature the blurb didn't mention which is sure to be of great benefit to people who would want something like this. It's sized such that it can easily fit in most parent's basements!
'Dude' builds himself a new webserver, as the Slashdot crowd help him melt his after only a few minutes! :)
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
Features not yet mentioned:
:) Now my wife won't let me... :P
1) Makes a perfect girlfriend repellent
2) Eliminates that pesky urge to shower
3) Acts as a cosmic magnet for Trekkies
4) Absorbs excess light to help maintain that lovely shade of "pasty white" you've worked so hard to obtain
The sad part is, ten years ago I would have killed for one
- The auditors said to secure the server... hand me that duct-tape -
Here's the google cache link
Sadly I can see where an under the table pneumatic device probably would have appeal to /.ers
"Good things don't end with eum, they end with mania or teria." - H. Simpson
This table appears to be built for roleplaying games.. and trust me, you DON'T want to be dungeon master to a bunch of 15 drunk fellas whose level 20 characters have just been slaughtered by a couple of lucky kobold assassins.
I've always fantasized about a table that would have a small console with a keyboard and screen for each player where there could be messaging between players/GM. I've also wanted to be able to send images/maps and other important information over the consoles on this, my fantasy gaming table.
Of course, cool holograms ala Star Wars Chess Table would rock for the battle map. The problem... I know the technology exists for all of the above, but the cost is far too prohibitive to make a gaming table this cool.
-Steve
The web page you seek
Has been destroyed by Slashdot
God-damned geek bastards.
Kind thoughts do not change the world
That is originally from an old Dead Alewives sketch.
HTTP/1.1 Server Too Busy
Player: "But, I never actually said I was gonna attack the dragon."
DM: "Uh, no, but you yelled out 'Die scumsucking winged lizard!' and told me you were running towards it with your +5 Holy Avenger drawn."
Player: "Yeah, but how do you know the dragon interpreted that as a hostile act?"
DM: (pushes the under-the-table zapper button, jolting the player with a dose of electricity strong enough to take down a rhino)
Hmm.. wait, am I putting too much of my own history into this little scenario?
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
and (best of all) an under-table tube network using hollow gravity-fed balls to deliver secret messages to players.
Knowing the geeks I knew in high-school, they'd probably put more than their balls in the under-table tube network.