Not GILTy

[robotnik2004]

Hey, what happened to all the game idea posts? There was a lovely harvest of them early this week and then nothing. Is it because arctic weather snapped back into effect?

There ought to be a name for that last blast of winter that comes after a week or so of premature warmth, just when you start to let yourself think that spring has arrived. It's like Indian Summer's evil twin. I've heard people call the sneaky warm period "Strawberry Spring", but I don't know if that's real or just from a Steven King story. I was thinking something more like "Fuck You Winter".

Yeah, you're probably going to say, where are my game idea posts? Good point, but I did just put up 1300 words on Superman, sex pulps, and the secret history of weightlifting. That ain't knockwurst! I do have a few new GILT ideas, or reworked old ones, but they don't seem to come as fastly and furiously when you're living in gamer exile. Actually, there was a period, about two months after leaving Boston, when I felt like I was generating scores of beautiful mad ideas a day. I think I was sweating them out of my system or something. But now, not so much. Maybe I need more structure to bounce things off of. If I started up something like bryant's old weekly idea mash-ups, would people play along?

You can always stroll down memory lane with my de.icio.us/robotnik/gilt tag. All of my old LJ games-I'd-like-to are there, and a number of yours, although I know I'm missing some goodies.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

If I started up something like bryant's old weekly idea mash-ups, would people play along?

Dear God, YES.

Also, it's a game in play, but I dare you to read ivan23's Nature's Journeymen PTA game and not gasp in awe.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Oh, and by the way? I have four words for you.

Gaming Weekend Bachelor Party.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

And I have four words for you:

Geee-eee-eee-eeek.

But yeah, I'm there.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I don't want strippers, or paintball, or drum circles, or Vegas (hmm, maybe Vegas!) or any of those other traditional manly things for my bachelor party. If it's going to be me and my friends getting together to do stuff before I get married, I want it to be gaming. Although the connotation might be, "Better do this now, beforehand, because you'll never get to do it again." And that would be bad and untrue. :)

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

And girls would be invited, right? I mean, as long as you're breaking bachelor party rules, you may as well have girls along.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Oh hell yes. But you have to dress as a boy. ;)

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Screw that! I'm dressing as girly as I wanna! Like I said, if we're breaking rules, we're breaking 'em BIG! Your lady love should ALSO be invited to the party, and we can be as girly as we want!

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I'll run a game with faeaeaeaeriaes with pointie shooes. :)

[head58.livejournal.com]

So, this has turned from being a special event to just the same-old, huh?

;)

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

My wedding. My job. My way. [/pernell roberts in "san francisco international"]

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

*rimshot*


I was going to type out the sound effect, but it's just now working. Either way, nicely done. ;)

[krustukles.livejournal.com]

Don't forget:
http://www.sandowmuseum.com/
http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/
Some of that is great shit. Frinstance:
http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Coulter/Stunts/stunts-intro-1.htm

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I figured you & mizalaina would be all over that stuff. I was thinking of you and Chris both when I read the Carolyn de la Pena book I mention at the end of the Superman post. I might just have to get it for you when it comes out in paperback. The first couple chapters are largely about the techno-gendered origins of weightlifting as a pastime (for you), and the last chapter is about really stupid stuff people did with radium in the 1920s (for Chris). And then there's a chapter in between about men sticking electric prods up their asses to ensure sexual potency (which everyone can enjoy).

[ezrael.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have an idea for a modern-day Exalted campaign thing I'm mulling over. But it's still in mull stage.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Nice.

I said it before, but it bears repeating: I would be all over the Lovecraftian space game you posted about.

[head58.livejournal.com]

My GILT can be summed up in three words:

HEIST FREAKING GAME!

We've talked about this for too long. And I know the new Heist show that starts next week (on NBC? I can't remember, but my TiVo is already set to grab it) is only going to make me crave it even more.

trouble? at the mill?

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Somewhere, editswlonghair's ears just perked up.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

And you are watching Hustle on AMC right? And you'll be watching Thief on FX when that starts in 2 weeks right?

And speaking of shows on FX did you happen to catch Gina Torres' ass on The Shield this week? ;)




Oh, and I'm so in.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

Keep the (http://jeffwik.livejournal.com/195490.html) faith!

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

That was Tuesday! What have you done for me lately? :)

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

Well, yesterday... (http://jeffwik.livejournal.com/196080.html)

[that-cad.livejournal.com]

I was about to berate you for apparently forgetting my brilliant post from last week (http://that-cad.livejournal.com/190888.html), but then I remembered that it was from last week, and you're expressly asking for this week.

(Didn't stop me from plugging it, however, as you can tell.)

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd count that among the flowering of cool ideas from last week that then seemed to dry out.

But it is brilliant, and I should have commented on it at the time. I don't know from Planescape or Sigil, but I looove the description and the referents. Queer-themed gaming - it's a New Frontier.