@badp So you don't go drinking, but you do drink, then, aye?

@GraceNote Well this week I've been doing 1 small Heineken/day

@GraceNote If I go out I do drink, just occasionally.

I drink socially, like a beer with friends or wine with parents-in-law

scrooooooll

so does it even count as "drinking"?

scroooooooooooooooolll

I had a sip of Hennessy once.

@FallenAngelEyes Yeah, me too.

Okay caught up with all the chatting. PARTYING

That was roughly the end of my drinking days.

I don't drink alone though, that usually is bad for me.

@Mana You just had to get Rebecca Black stuck in my head, didn't ya?

I don't like superalcoholics. They're treacherous

@RavenDreamer DAMMIT RAVEN

They taste delicious the first 0.8 seconds

I don't see the point of drinking until you get drunk.

@RavenDreamer I can hardly think of a better topic when drinking's on everybody's mind.

@FallenAngelEyes Do I owe you that monitor after all? :3

@badp My grandmother was a scary alcoholic, used to beat my dad, so it's not really something I'm horribly fond of

I already don't understand drinking alcohol in the first place, but doing it to get drunk seems even less sensible.

@RavenDreamer Well if you'd like to buy me a new one, feel free :D

@GraceNote Me neither. I have a very high tolerance as well, so it would take a lot for that to happen.

@GraceNote Actually I'd need to do that once. I'm kinda shy, so it'd help me be more expansive

@ArdaXi Yeah, I have to literally try to get drunk

That's the idea I imagine

Also Deus Ex is ridiculously fun

@FallenAngelEyes Uh... unemployed college guy here. So... shrugs. Prospect unlikely?

Alcohol is the only reason I can stand a club though.

@ArdaXi I'm unsure of my tolerance only up to know that I am better than my mother (who has no tolerance)

@badp Next on Gaming.SE: Boozin' with badp.

Though that does remind me, I need to go email a professor right now.

@FallenAngelEyes Meh, I already know you guys, no need for booze to talk with you. :P

@RavenDreamer Considering the message you replied to, that looks really shady.

@FallenAngelEyes Lol.

@badp If you had control or memory of the event, that would be suggestible, but far as I know, that ain't usually the case. You usually make a fool out of yourself and have no recollection of just how silly you were, which works for a rather net loss.

@GraceNote That's only if you over-drink.

@ArdaXi That'd be gettin' drunk, as it were

@GraceNote Getting to the point where you puke isn't probably a win, yeah.

@GraceNote However, photographic evidence and videos are awesome blackmail.

Shady, eh?

@FallenAngelEyes That's everyone else reaping the seeds you sowed

@GraceNote You don't need to get drunk in order to loosen up.

@RavenDreamer ...Wow, @Raven, you really know how to turn a gal off.

@FallenAngelEyes -_- They never return my calls.

Why won't they return my calls? goes fetal in a corner

@badp I don't think I've ever seen anyone drink to the point they've vomited, actually. I hear tale it happens and yet no one I know has gotten to that point. Even when someone tanked for me in beer pong.

@RavenDreamer If your messages end with YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!!! I could see why

@GraceNote I can testify by direct experience it's true - it does happen

(Given that I don't drink, we setup beer pong so that I was DPS (being the sober one) while my partner tanked and did double drinking duty)

@badp Ouchu

@FallenAngelEyes Ha.

@GraceNote tanked?

Well wait

by direct experience I don't mean it happened to me

@FallenAngelEyes Don't you actually play MMOs, unlike me?

I mean I've seen people puking because of alcohol with my own eyes

@GraceNote OH. I thought you were talking about some sort of weird drinking term I was unfamiliar with.

@badp Oh, less ouchu, then.

@badp This has happened to me. Totally sucks.

@FallenAngelEyes That were why I threw in the DPS for extra measure.

@GraceNote You play drinking MMOs?

Damn. Now I'd really like to go drinking with everyone in the chatroom.

@GraceNote I didn't parse that properly either, haha.

@ArdaXi Ah, do you know of Beer Pong?

@RavenDreamer I think that could be fun. Rock Baaaaaaand!

It is possibly only a stupid States college thing.

I know of beer pong!

@FallenAngelEyes It's a date! You know... when we have time! And money! And booze! Let's make Jeff pay for it!

It was the bane of our table tennis table.

@GraceNote Vaguely.

@RavenDreamer What I'm craving for right now is drink + lan party with everyone here

I have never actually played beer pong, though I've watched people play.

@RavenDreamer And airplane tickets!

Even if it is only a stupid college thing I wouldn't know of it.

(with the focus being the lan party)

@GraceNote They had a beer pong tray that you could chill for sale on NewEgg the other week. I have no idea why.

@FallenAngelEyes Hence, "make Jeff pay for it"!

@badp What game?

@FallenAngelEyes although finding a game that works for all of us would be... interesting

@badp Wargh, that sounds amusing

@RavenDreamer Hahaha

@badp TF2!

@GraceNote Doesn't have to be alcohol! I'm rocking the apple juice hardcore right now. >_< \m/

Alright, I should really vamoose.

I guess that to meet everybody's standards we'd have to pull a classic such as Doom or Quake or something.

Goodbye, my awesome internet friends!

I'd need a new computer before I go to a LAN party though.

Later @Raven!

@ArdaXi The essence is that you have a set of 10 cups each on two sides of a table, filled with some amount of beer. Two teams then take turns tossing a ping pong ball to land it in the opponent's cups. Each one sunk forces the other team to drink that cup. The goal is to clear all the cups on the opposite side.

I'd need more easily portable computer...

Nothing kills a lan party faster than "oh you don't have urban terror? Come here, it's just a 900 MB download"

(900 MB being a lot of data to download in the context of a lan party :P)

Haha

@badp This is why I always plan beforehand and take a big (1.5 TB) external drive with me with all the games.

@badp That's what we figured when we had a lan party as sort of a pre-wedding gathering with my friends, but somehow it ended up with half of us picking up League of Legends.

That, and one dude did was @Arda just noted.

Later @Raven

Or, well, I just set up an FTP server and serve the files from my computer.

Actually this dutch meetup we're doing should totally feature some lan partying

although it's a PITA to organize

The only LAN partyish thing I've ever been to was a competition my high school did in our library for Rise of the Triad

I've never done anything else

Well, if you had a Dutch Gaming Meetup, not doing some measure of LAN gaming seems like a total waste.

@badp I see location being a problem

I have never actually been to a LAN party. I'm missing out, man.

@badp If I move my computer, it will die.

I've done some Urban Terror lan partying back at the uni LUG

@Mana You're still young, you'll have the time.

@GraceNote I've been to like 5 of them.

And I'm like a lot younger than Mana.

@ArdaXi You're still young, you'll have the time for more.

@ArdaXi You have way more friends than I do apparently

@GraceNote Hey, so I am! haha, wow.

Mana's only 19 neh?

@FallenAngelEyes I sincerely doubt that.

3 years isn't a superhuge difference

Veinte, last I checked.

ah, 4 then

I'm 21... or am I 22? I forget :/

I am indeed 19 years of age.

But I thought Mana was like ancient.

Oh, right, that's @Powerlord.

@Mana WHAT? God, we used to have LAN parties at my house every weekend when I was in high school. Granted, the most computers we had at one time was only 6...

Oh man, I'm going to be the oldest person at the Dutch meetup

@Powerlord You're old, you've had plenty of time for LAN parties.

@Powerlord It's a sign of the times IMO. Plus, I don't actually game that much.

@ArdaXi It also used to be the only way to have more than 2-player games.

@Mana BLASPHEMY. NO DIAMOND FOR YOU.

@Mana But you're... but this... you're a moderator on a Gaming site.

@Mana I trusted you...

TAKE HIS DIAMOND AWAY

@GraceNote We... we all did. sniffle

pfffffffffffffft

OK, I vote that we hold an election to reca... oh wait, if we recall Mana, does that mean Ivo becomes a mod?

Yes

@badp Never mind, then.

Ivo totally deserves a Gaming diamond, cmon. Look at all the work he's doing for the blog.

We should do a re-election now.

@Powerlord ...Ouch.

Hm. Well, fact, diamonds can resist heat. So the solution, then... BURN HIM!

@Powerlord Ouch man.

That was way harsh man

@FallenAngelEyes I didn't say anything this time!

@FallenAngelEyes If you haven't noticed, I don't really get along that well with Ivo.

I wanted to.

@Powerlord I hadn't noticed that, actually.

@Powerlord I try not to pay much mind to interpersonal conflicts. It's all about the gaaaames yo.

@Mana Really?

@FallenAngelEyes Except with Mana, apparently. :(

I guess I'm not very good at seeing the dynamics between other people.

You don't remember that pinning incident?

@TimStone Hahaha

@Arda Oh, that was Powerlord?

@ArdaXi I still think that was way overblown, imo.

@Mana Yes.

@FallenAngelEyes I don't.

I agree with @FallenAngelEyes here but I'd rather not get the chat all riled up over something that happened a few months back.

@Mana People usually wait a month or so before they start campaigning to kill off their PR polls

But I thought there was just that one thing, I didn't know there was like a "history" or anything between the two.

I dunno. I'm uncomfortable talking about people if they're not here, so I say we switch the subject back to drinking.

I mean

Gaming

I have to find a box, apparently, so I guess that's my vanish point.

Torchlight 2, why are you not out yet?!

store.steampowered.com/video/1800 <-- Counter-Strike: GO trailer if anyone cares.

I've never played any CS. Its reputation precedes it too much for me to want to try.

@FallenAngelEyes Sadly, it is a bit too heavy on the "headshots from any weapons are instant kills" side.

Which is why I'm glad the TF series doesn't have those.

@Powerlord I'm more concerned with the rampant homophobic slur spouting douchebaggery of the population than I am with the mechanics, honestly

@FallenAngelEyes Oh.

@FallenAngelEyes You'll find that anywhere. I've personally never seen it in CS:S.

Also, teamchat is pretty vital in that game for success iirc (or at least has become more so) and I'm not comfortable voicechatting with random strangers on the interwebs.

@ArdaXi Yeah I know, but those are still places I prefer not to be. One of my b/f's still play CS:S once in a while and has told me about some of the crap he's heard on there. Blegh.

That's funny, the banner for Jay is Games plays as an entry in the Robot wants <item> game series.

TF2 is surprisingly great as communities go

@badp Yeah, I don't hear too much asshattery (lol pun) there, but I'm still not comfortable voicechatting with PUGs there

It's not as bad as it used to be, but hostility towards females on random voicechat can still be kind of... disheartening sometimes.

The server I'm playing on right now used to have a woman with admin powers

she's not online anymore as of late tho

"stupid bitch" and "go back to the kitchen and make me a sandwich" are things you'd hope not to hear anymore online but it still happens :/

I should probably start TF2 and see if I have any promo hats. >_>

Hey @Powerlord

I really really really do hate it when I'm left alone defending

I really really really really do

How hard can it be

It's Hightower

Their cart is on the bend

My sentry is on the other side of the bend

There's not much you can stay around to defend

but on the bend by the cart with the well placed sentry

but one sentry ain't no defense!

The first soldier that caught me as I typed in chat brought my toys permanently offline

and as soon as I started building them back he'd just keep sniping

Not a problem if I had any support

BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

So I have 15 hats, 2 glasses, and 2 badges