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Games That Travel Well
hipernoico writes "Wired has a summary of good portable RPG games for the end of this year. 'What better way to travel than in the company of a dragon-slaying knight? ' " I've travelled thousands of miles playing various Game Boy Pokemon titles. Although lately WarioWare Touched and Meteos have taken the place of my usual RPG travel companions. What games will you be playing while dreading arriving at your parents house?
What games will you be playing while dreading arriving at your parents house?
This is Slashdot, I live at my parent's house!
I don't know if I have enough time to play a game walking up the stairs from the basement.
Just kidding, I don't live in my parents' basement... I live in the attic.
Hangman...tic tack toe...crossword puzzles...no sound is great for driving:)
Nethack isn't an RPG... whatever gave you that idea? It's a simulation. Just like some people call first-person shooters "murder simulators", Nethack is a suicide simulator.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
The lady and I play this fun game on our drives. It basically starts with me saying something insightful or interesting or funny, and then she thinks about what I said and she replies with something contextual to what I said.
Imagine it is like slashdot, but without moderation and only between two or 3 people. I had a feeling it would supplement and even replace gaming and web forums, but I don't think it will catch on.
If you try it some time, remember that is might be trademarked or patented, so be cautious who you do it around.
Obviously, Need for Speed Underground 2 .
No, not on a game console. I mean fighting my way through holiday interstate and city traffic.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
As always my saving strategy is to drink heavily, hopefully inconspicously, while waiting for the Good Mother, the Saintly Daughter and the Rigtheous Father to fall asleep and allow me to spark up a phat doobie on the deck and watch the ocean rock the Christmas lights strung on the masts of the sail boats.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Don't knock it.
Um. Pretty much everyone, circa 1999... I never did quite catch 'em all.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Golbez is Cecil's brother, Rosa and Cecil get married and rule Baron, Edge and Rydia hook up and rule Edge's Kingdom, Edward becaomes a King, FuSoYa and Golbez go back to the moon, and the Palom and Porom go back to Mysidia, as the Mysidian Elder was able to remove their petrification.
You could have got her a DS, they play GBA games too ;)
But well done, that really is a gift that keeps on giving. I just hope she doesn't read Slashdot, specifically the comments where you reveal what she's getting as a gift.
You don't know how lucky you are, what with your straight roads. I live in Norway, and all through my upbringing I've had excrutiating experiences with car trips - there are turns all the time so I get sick trying to read, play games: doing anything other than listening to music. But then, this summer we drove just over the border to the relatively flat Sweden, and wow; I was watching DVDs on my laptop, reading books, playing Mr. Driller on my DS and all kinds of stuff without any problems. Then almost as soon as we got on this side of the border it was back to narrow, winding roads. Meh.
Lalala
When my husband determined that
A girl on slashdot? Or do you live in Massachusetts.
Be better in bed. Wikiafterdark!
Oh yeah, I used to play that game too:
How do you do. Please state your problem.
>> I spend too much time with computers.
Why do you mention computers ?
>> You are one.
Does it please you to believe I am one ?
>> Yes.
You seem to be quite positive.
>> I suppose I am.
How long have you been ?
>> 31 years.
I'm not sure I understand you fully.
>> Join the club.
Please go on.
>> You don't make too much sense yourself.
We were discussing you -- not me.
you know, you really should be paying attention to the road, anyway ;)
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As much as it galls me to admit - he was right.
It galls you to admit that your husband was right about the well-being of your family during a road trip? What a BEEE-YATCH!
Horns are really just a broken halo.