Poll: Best way to celebrate Hallmark Guilt-Trip Day?

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:33 am

Though I was tempted to vote for persecuting Christians, I went with the Weird Al reference.

Luckily for me, I'll be gaming on Emotional Blackmail Day; of the 6 of us, 3 are totally single. Alas, I shan't be able to incorporate a love-themed adventure.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:36 am

well, I've been hoping to get kidnapped off to LA by an attractive young woman for a weekend of debauchery, sin and an exhibition of Anton LaVey's artwork, but I'm pretty sure I'll be sitting at home alone, dicking around on the internet and listening to the TV, you know, exactly what I'm doing now.

shau · Post by **shau** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:46 am

I went with the first option, mostly because I always dreamed of being a bootlegger.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:48 am

My Fiance and I got together on Feb 5th; obviously we didn't do V-day the first time, and we haven't since. Having a Feb. anniversary makes V-day easy to skip.

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:02 am

Just to point out, I'm not sure you can persecute a martyr, they're not martyrs until you kill them for the cause at which point persecuting them is moot.

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:03 am

What if you persecute someone who later turns out to be a martyr?

TarkisFlux · Post by **TarkisFlux** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:12 am

What if you trick Jesus into resurrecting one of his martyrs and then persecute them?

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:56 am

ckafrica wrote:Just to point out, I'm not sure you can persecute a martyr, they're not martyrs until you kill them for the cause at which point persecuting them is moot.

That's okay, you can persecute someone who just happens to have the same name as a prior martyr.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:17 am

I'm going to buy my girlfriend some dice. *Maybe* a single rose. Aside from that, it'll be like any other date. Cost me maybe eight bucks more than a standard date and the dice she'll love anyways.

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:23 am

TarkisFlux wrote:What if you trick Jesus into resurrecting one of his martyrs and then persecute them?

Persecute the martyr? Or persecute Jesus?
Persecuting Jesus may involve an element of risk, especially if it's post-Rising.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:35 am

My girlfriend and I got together the day before Singles Awareness Day in '05. We decided to pretend '07 never happened and that we at no point broke up. That being said, she lives over in the Arctic Nordic regions, where I'm down in Final Fantasy Land*.

Some time ago I celebrated, if you will, by drinking myself into a stupor. I can barely touch alcohol these days. At any rate, my LGS will be holding an Apocalypse battle, so what better way to stay away from couples than by surrounding myself with ronery neckbeards and BLASTING THE SHIT OUT OF CHAOS, FUCK YEAH. Especially with my new Macharius Vulcan and Dakkafex :3

Because nothing says love like genocide.

*All the wildlife tries to kill you, and we have a desert, a frozen mountain, a volcano, a nice big city, a slum, a swamp, a rainforest and so on, often there seriously is one of each terrain type just like in a console RPG. And we have at least one big crater where the final boss lurks.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:20 am

I'm going to work that evening. And if I wasn't, I'd be volunteering to work that day since everyone and their dog wants it off. Christ, I'm broke.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:37 am

Last Valentine's Day I ended up cleaning up vomit and keeping someone from dying from alcohol poisoning.

This year I intend to go to the clubs and oppress some impoverished Iberians.

-Username17

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:26 am

I'll be on the net.

Heath Robinson · Post by **Heath Robinson** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:42 pm

Uh, when is the day in question? I'm glad to say I'm totally clueless and will most likely spend it programming, note-taking, reearching frivolous things and all those other things that bring joy to my life.

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:17 pm

Koumei wrote:My girlfriend and I got together the day before Singles Awareness Day in '05. We decided to pretend '07 never happened and that we at no point broke up. That being said, she lives over in the Arctic Nordic regions, where I'm down in Final Fantasy Land*.

Some time ago I celebrated, if you will, by drinking myself into a stupor. I can barely touch alcohol these days. At any rate, my LGS will be holding an Apocalypse battle, so what better way to stay away from couples than by surrounding myself with ronery neckbeards and BLASTING THE SHIT OUT OF CHAOS, FUCK YEAH. Especially with my new Macharius Vulcan and Dakkafex :3

Because nothing says love like genocide.

*All the wildlife tries to kill you, and we have a desert, a frozen mountain, a volcano, a nice big city, a slum, a swamp, a rainforest and so on, often there seriously is one of each terrain type just like in a console RPG. And we have at least one big crater where the final boss lurks.

Fuck you imperial [EDITED].

Chaos is awesome.

The fact that they're allowed to look like a complete shambles means I can use a lot of cheap used models to represent my dudes. Like getting regular plastic marines for cheap at my LGS and then repainting them then adding some extree spikes and blades on their shoulder guards or their guns. As well as using regular WH chaos warriors with bolters glued to their hands and chaos marine backpacks "green-stuffed" to their backs. :3

Really, you get any model and add moar spieks and a bolter, and bang, a chaos model it becomes. That or add any random 'Nid body part to a regular spess mehrine; the bulk of my termies are reg. mehrines with spikeh tails, or giant fcuking chainsword sticking out of their hands (now that's a chainfist, a powerfist with a giant orky chainsword green-stuffed to it).

That and I like to build my own weapons for my guys (I've actually turned several stormbolters into heavy bolters, I just chop one barrel off, and then glue it to the end of the remaining one, then fill the gaps with greenstuff and shave down and file the bits that stick out).

I've got a whole mess of WH beastmen that I'm going to build guns for to use them as cultists/cannon fodder (using some modelling supplies from a railroad modelling store; rectangular tubing sawed to make the bodies of boltguns, and then round tubing stuck inside for the barrels); however I just don't have time to sit and paint though, or play. Honestly, I think that they'll look better than regular cultists, and well, metal chaos cultists are bloody expensive for cannon fodder units.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:18 pm

Cool. I get to escape. Turns out my GF is busy with sorority shit all weekend (she just joined yesterday), so it's not my fault that I don't treat her special on saturday. Neat.

the_taken · Post by **the_taken** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:42 pm

Looks like I'll spend the evening playing poker with some friends. Nothing unusual.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:30 pm

I *swear* this first time I read that post it said Strip Poker.

zeruslord · Post by **zeruslord** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:51 pm

I'm spending at least the morning playing with robots. Come the robot wars, which side do you want to be on? The one with girlfriends, or the one with endless robotic legions?

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:14 pm

After getting a tattoo of John Cena on my shrivelled micropenis in much the same way people paint angels on a grain of rice, I'm going to be jerking off and splattering my HIV-infected manslime on a stripper's titties.

Ha ha, just kidding, she's way too young to have any.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:49 pm

...I don't think I can follow that up with anything snarky.

I'll probably spend some time thinking about how one can be a happy, productive human being without being romantically involved with someone else.

the_taken · Post by **the_taken** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:54 pm

Boolean wrote:I *swear* this first time I read that post it said Strip Poker.

Is there any other kind?

shau · Post by **shau** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:11 pm

Maxus wrote:I'll probably spend some time thinking about how one can be a happy, productive human being without being romantically involved with someone else.

My answer to that question is to celebrate Feb. 15, or grossly discounted Valentine's day candy day.