Bay 12 Games Forum

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Bay12 Secret Santa/Kris Kringle/Amigo Secreto/Wichteln/Buy-some-person-a-gift-anonymously-for-the-hell-of-it-I-don't-care-what-season-it-is is gooooooo!
I closed the first thread.

Sign up begins now and continues until early December~

Only cool, intelligent, beautiful people sign up for Secret Santa! Don't be a hater.

What I need via PM (private message through the forum):
Do NOT email me, to ensure everything stays organised.
Name/screenname/whatever you want your packaged directed to.
Address/P.O. box/location of where you are able to pick up mail including country and all necessary postal codes.
YES/NO whether you are able to ship internationally at your Post Office or buy gifts online (This way I can edit the RNG to not have someone with no credit card in Europe have to ship to Australia)

Optional:
Steam screenname ONLY if you would prefer to receive a digital game gift instead of a physical one.

Rules:
-Keep maximum price gift + shipping under $30. It can be lower or higher, but this is baseline.
-Nothing that would be considered inappropriate for non-adults. Cute chibified Cthulhu plushies are awesome. Actual eldritch tentacled abominations (or anything else with tentacles) are right out.
-Avoid perishables: food, kittens, things that risk breaking while in transit.
-Use common sense. Don't send anything that will have the CIA and Interpol after you.
-Ship by early December after I close sign ups to avoid the holiday rush.

Info:
I will do the partner matching in tiers over the next few days. Even though I will allow the initial choices to be completely random, I will step in to ensure that no one has to ship across the entire planet.
You will get your giftee's information from me in PM through Bay12's forum.
If you are a penguin and live in Antarctica, or some other boondocks- but would like to participate- we will figure out a work-around so you can participate.
Should you not receive your gift by mid January, we will work to figure out what happened.
I will keep the log of gift givers and receivers, but I will not divulge that information unless it is deemed necessary.
The gift giver has the choice of remaining anonymous or not. This is part of the fun!
I will not use addresses to stalk you. I am a monk. 0:3 What the hell.

This is in the spirit of giving! You do not need to spend a lot - just make it look like you care. Anyone that signs up is awesome and will get a little token of thanks from me.

I've posted in threads and gotten a bunch of questions and PMs asking me about my time as a Buddhist monk. Since it's rather hard to answer them all where ever they are, I will answer anything and everything here- although there may be a few days lag. If you want an appropriate picture shoutout, give me a week or so. 

I am a monk in the Thai Theravadan Buddhist order, Ask me Anything.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html

Paraphrased: "We're so obsessed with homicide and terrorism when all of us are dying of heart disease and obesity and related fatness diseases from not knowing about food."

Discuss.

This continues along the fine conversation we had earlier when we had those debating with me. This is how racist you have to be before the Tea Party kicks you out.

Mark Williams, leader of the Tea Party Express, following accusations of racism within the Tea Party from the NAACP, wrote an "open letter to President Lincoln from 'colored people'".

The National Tea Party Federation, an organization that seeks to represent the Tea Party political movement around the country, has expelled Williams and his Tea Party Express organization because of the inflammatory blog post Williams wrote last week

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/18/tea.party.imbroglio/index.html?hpt=T1

The letter by Mark Williams in question:

Dear Mr. Lincoln

We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!

In fact we held a big meeting and took a vote in Kansas City this week. We voted to condemn a political revival of that old abolitionist spirit called the 'tea party movement'.

The tea party position to "end the bailouts" for example is just silly. Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn't that what we want all Coloreds to strive for? What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us coloreds! Of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the only responsible party that should be granted the right to disperse the funds.

And the ridiculous idea of "reduce[ing] the size and intrusiveness of government." What kind of massa would ever not want to control my life? As Coloreds we must have somebody care for us otherwise we would be on our own, have to think for ourselves and make decisions!

The racist tea parties also demand that the government "stop the out of control spending." Again, they directly target coloreds. That means we Coloreds would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right.

Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government "stop raising our taxes." That is outrageous! How will we coloreds ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn? Totally racist! The tea party expects coloreds to be productive members of society?

Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa in the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong.

Sincerely

Precious Ben Jealous, Tom's Nephew NAACP Head Colored Person

Can't say it's that surprising, given he also said this:


So, I'm feeling a bit vindicated here.

Funny thing is, Stormfront, a notorious white power site, still recruits at and promotes Tea Party rallies openly.

Steam names of Bay12 people who have Defcon and have posted info:
KaelGotRice
mager56723
Wimdit
forsaken1111
[DFC] A Centipede
deadmeat1471
[DFC] x2yzh9
[DFC]Mindmaker
Pandarsenic
Captainhat

So... defcon.

What is Defcon?

It's chess, but with nukes. The game is easy to learn but difficult to master. How you play the other players is as important as how you play the game. The ability for backstabbing, political intrigue, and happily blowing each other to smithereens in Defcon can't be matched. It and 3 other games are $5 on steam until July 4th.

So let's get some bay12 games going.

Tonight's results so far:
None of us really remember/know how to play. Pandar nukes the crap out of woose and umi while my europe screens for him after I accidentally quit the game. London survives a blitz of a couple dozen nukes and planes sent at it.

www.bay12games.com

Toady, you magnificent bastard.

EDIT: Oh wow it keeps jumping from the new one to the old.

So, I just had a steel armored elephant with fighting skills charge into 50 grandmaster elven archers and lay waste to 47 of them before bleeding to death with thousands of arrows stuck in it.

Share your arena mode stories.

I know I started a thread for steam sales before but I figured I'd just throw this one up with a new header for a heads up.

So uhhh, did you guys find L4D2 worth it? I'm debating.