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."

Comments

Slashdot effect / bad neighbor?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Slashdot effect / bad neighbor?

[Anonymous Coward]

• Actually IIS is smart enough to throttle and reject connections above the set amount with a "Server too busy" message, rather than letting it suck up bandwidth to the beat of the band.

"IIS" and "smart" in the same sentence. I sense a disturbance in the force.

Re:Slashdot effect / bad neighbor?

[aardvarkjoe]

Right. Like Slashdot's news is always on the bleeding edge. Waiting a few hours to make this post would have made it completely irrelevant.

I'm convinced that the reason why Taco doesn't bother to cache these pages is that he enjoys the notoriety of the "Slashdot Effect." The excuses in the FAQ are really lame.

Beautiful furniture

[hugesmile]

I bet Verizon would like to get this guy to design the furniture for their offices to put the $22,000 workstations on!

Additional Features

[gleam_mn]

Features not yet mentioned:

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 :) Now my wife won't let me... :P

Re:Additional Features

[unicron]

"WHERE ARE THE CHEETOS?!"

"Their over there, quit yelling!"

"WHERE'S THE MOUNTAIN DEW?!"

"In the fridge. DUH!"

"I'M GETTING A MOUNTAIN DEW, ANYONE ELSE WANT ONE?"

"NO!"

"I cast Magic Missle!"

"Why are you attacking, their's nothing to attack here."

"I uh, I uh..I attack the darkness."

"Their's an ogre standing in front of you"

"How could there be an ogre in front of me, I had mordiky's magical watchdog cast"

"Actually, you didn't. You never actually bought the components so now their's ogres, deal with it"

"OGRES! I HAVE AN OGRE SLAYING KNIVE +3!"

"Fool, you aren't even in the cave, you're back in town."

"COOL! ROLL TO SEE IF I'M GETTING DRUNK!"

"Yeah, you are."

"ARE THEIR ANY GIRLS THERE?"

"YES!"

"IF THEIR'S ANY GIRLS THERE I WANNA DO EM!"

There you have it. Satan's game. But hey, it's not their fault. It's their gym teachers, for making them feel like crap because they couldn't do one lousy pullup.

Link..

[gatekeep]

Here's the google cache link

Pnuematic

[rbgaynor]

...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.

Sadly I can see where an under the table pneumatic device probably would have appeal to /.ers

Re:Pnuematic

[Ooblek]

What would happen if the pneumatics malfunction? How many MPH can it make a secret message ball eject out of the tube that is probably at about the same level as the family jewels? Talk about a d20 damage roll.....

haiku

[3ryon]

The web page you seek
Has been destroyed by Slashdot
God-damned geek bastards.

Credit where credit is due

[jimmcq]

That is originally from an old Dead Alewives sketch.

Copy of website text in case of Slashdotting

[ALoverOfPeace]

HTTP/1.1 Server Too Busy