The Gaming Den Face Thread

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:40 pm

Not all of my pictures are orange colored. Some are in black and white!

-Username17

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:43 pm

And yet the orange migrated onto the surrounding text, from what I can tell.

violence in the media · Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:32 pm

Here's a picture of me and my girlfriend. We went hang gliding for my birthday this past weekend.

Post by **fbmf** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:04 am

FrankTrollman wrote:Not all of my pictures are orange colored. Some are in black and white!

-Username17

That seriously looks like a mug shot.

Game On,
fbmf

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:11 am

Deep in the heart of Prague; Frank Trollman is making everything orange.

Jacob_Orlove · Post by **Jacob_Orlove** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:44 am

fbmf wrote:That seriously looks like a mug shot.

Game On,
fbmf

It is!

FrankTrollman wrote:
Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:Frank, off-topic, but are you doing alright? I keep reading articles about how the Czech Government collapsed...
Oh, I got arrested. I spent the day in a Czech jail because the Czech government lost my visa and then when I came in to sort it out they arrested me for not having my visa. It's pretty fucked up. My perp card is even in Russian. I don't even know why that would happen.

-Username17

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:59 am

...wow.

Is this collapse related to you showing how everything is broken and proposing a fix, or simply because it's always in a state of collapse and repair, linked to the 300-odd Independence Days they have each year?

Jinerviet · Post by **Jinerviet** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:00 pm

Oh which one to post! I'm a LARPer, so I have a /lot/. Many of them are unflattering, or in some cases, you wouldn't recognise me at all. Then there are the photos of me in white bodypaint...
However, a good one of me that shows my face would be:

Oddly enough, that wasn't from a LARP. My friends put on a show of acrobatics, belly-dancing, etc tied together with a narrative. I was an exotic slave that got auctioned off, and I played my oboe in the intermission.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:13 pm

Koumei wrote:...wow.

Is this collapse related to you showing how everything is broken and proposing a fix, or simply because it's always in a state of collapse and repair, linked to the 300-odd Independence Days they have each year?

I wouldn't say it's in a state of repair. OK, the country was divided illegally and against public opinion on both sides of the new border from Slovakia back in 1993. The President was supposed to send in the army to arrest the people doing it but he wimped out and resigned because he didn't want a civil war on his watch. This country is therefore 16 years old. The longest there has ever been a country here is 23 years. The independent socialist republic of Czechosloakia (the čSSR, which lasted from its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1945 until its invasion by the Warsaw Pact in 1968). So if the current government lasts another 8 years, it will be the longest running government the Czechs have ever had.

This country seriously has a coinflip's chance to cease to exist before Obama leaves office. So when the police don't know what the laws are or who they are supposed to report to - that isn't weird or anything. Anyone you see wearing a badge of any kind in this country was actually born in another country. And in fact, they probably have seen that country collapse, a new country form, and then seen that country collapse as well. People old enough to actually run for office have probably lived in 4 countries without having left their home town.

-Username17

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:43 pm

Judging__Eagle wrote:Deep in the heart of Prague; Frank Trollman is making everything orange.

Hopefully it will be better than making everything blue.

I promise I'll get a better pic soon. Also need to get one of my finished tattoo up.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:28 pm

Could you look less... Militant? Ready to volunteer for that suicide mission, maybe?

-Crissa

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:32 pm

I was in Kuwait. It's hard not to look militant that far away from alcohol and sex. And I can't smile. I've perfected the stoic and miserable look.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:57 pm

...And Iraqis call Kuwait the den of iniquity...

I recall a quote from a soldier doing guard duty after the routing of Iraq from Kuwait. Some Iraqi locals came over and asks if he knew when things would get back to normal, so they could cross into Kuwait and buy booze (which is more legal there than in parts of Iraq) like they used to.

The soldier had no idea, of course, and the poor guys just wandered back to their side of the border.

-Crissa

koz · Post by **koz** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:21 am

Jinerviet wrote:I was an exotic slave that got auctioned off, and I played my oboe in the intermission.

Yes, to me.

Jinerviet · Post by **Jinerviet** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:40 am

Mister_Sinister wrote:
Jinerviet wrote:I was an exotic slave that got auctioned off, and I played my oboe in the intermission.
Yes, to me.

And you didn't even take advantage of me, really. Friday night I gave a half dozen massages of various types, peeled many grapes, and fetched drinks.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:36 am

Hold the phone.

Grapes can be peeled? How the hell does one do that without, well, destroying it?

koz · Post by **koz** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:38 am

Jinerviet wrote:And you didn't even take advantage of me, really. Friday night I gave a half dozen massages of various types, peeled many grapes, and fetched drinks.

I certainly beg to differ on your definition of that concept where that night is concerned.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:04 am

Surgo wrote:Grapes can be peeled? How the hell does one do that without, well, destroying it?

Notice that grapes have an outer skin that's a bit thicker than a tomato's? I've had a few grapes where that could be removed and you get an even easier-to-chew fruit.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:09 am

virgileso wrote:you get an even easier-to-chew fruit.

How fucking lazy can you get? Even easier to chew than grapes already are? It's not like they're well-done steaks to begin with, you know.

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:31 am

Actually for those of us in the rest of the world that actually has to settle for non "perfect" franken fruit, you get grape varieties that have substantially thicker and more bitter skins that some people would rather not eat. They even have grapes with seeds in them, openly flaunting their evolutionary misbehavior of not selecting themselves to suit our preferences.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:57 am

You can, in the US, get those types of grapes, but they are specifically not called 'table grapes' for a reason.

-Crissa

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:33 am

FrankTrollman wrote:
Koumei wrote:...wow.

Is this collapse related to you showing how everything is broken and proposing a fix, or simply because it's always in a state of collapse and repair, linked to the 300-odd Independence Days they have each year?
I wouldn't say it's in a state of repair. OK, the country was divided illegally and against public opinion on both sides of the new border from Slovakia back in 1993. The President was supposed to send in the army to arrest the people doing it but he wimped out and resigned because he didn't want a civil war on his watch. This country is therefore 16 years old. The longest there has ever been a country here is 23 years. The independent socialist republic of Czechosloakia (the čSSR, which lasted from its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1945 until its invasion by the Warsaw Pact in 1968). So if the current government lasts another 8 years, it will be the longest running government the Czechs have ever had.

Ok, seriously now, is there a betting pool going for either how long the current government will last or when it will fall? If not you should start one.

This country seriously has a coinflip's chance to cease to exist before Obama leaves office. So when the police don't know what the laws are or who they are supposed to report to - that isn't weird or anything. Anyone you see wearing a badge of any kind in this country was actually born in another country. And in fact, they probably have seen that country collapse, a new country form, and then seen that country collapse as well. People old enough to actually run for office have probably lived in 4 countries without having left their home town.

was anyone else reminded of the part in Races of War talking about the possibility of a kingdom falling and being rescued like twenty times in the space of time between harvests?

Jinerviet wrote:And you didn't even take advantage of me, really. Friday night I gave a half dozen massages of various types, peeled many grapes, and fetched drinks.

Yet more proof I know none of the right people...

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:10 pm

I have at no point been offered a massage by a female. Ever. I have however had females demand I give them a massage.

My theory is that no woman actually wants to touch me.

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:15 pm

Jinerviet wrote: Many of them are unflattering, or in some cases, you wouldn't recognise me at all. Then there are the photos of me in white bodypaint...

and I thought people wearing body-covering leotards was pretty out there. Do you use an airbrush for that stuff? I've seen those used to make orks really, really fast (and look better than what I've seen some other groups use).

They get green paint their face, making it very even in terms of coverage, and it lasts until.... Sunday morning, when everyone who wears makeup has had their stuff smudge, run, or get rubbed off. You can tell who is serious about staying in character based on who will keep their face paint consistent even on the last day.

Jinerviet · Post by **Jinerviet** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:32 am

On the topic of peeling grapes: buy as many different varieties of table grapes as you can. Some will be easier to peel than others. Oh, and if you're with someone you don't mind sharing bodily fluids with, learn to peel 'em with your teeth.

Judging__Eagle wrote:
Jinerviet wrote: Many of them are unflattering, or in some cases, you wouldn't recognise me at all. Then there are the photos of me in white bodypaint...
and I thought people wearing body-covering leotards was pretty out there. Do you use an airbrush for that stuff? I've seen those used to make orks really, really fast (and look better than what I've seen some other groups use).

They get green paint their face, making it very even in terms of coverage, and it lasts until.... Sunday morning, when everyone who wears makeup has had their stuff smudge, run, or get rubbed off. You can tell who is serious about staying in character based on who will keep their face paint consistent even on the last day.

I've never been body-painted whilst LARPing. Although if the Warhammer LARP did go ahead (this was years ago, it's not going to), I had volunteered to be a demon of Slaanesh (I think that was it? I don't really know Warhammer and it was a long time ago), I would have worn very little other than body-paint, either a bikini top and bottom or just bottom.

The point about telling who's serious on staying IC based on consistent make-up application is true, for sure. When I was playing someone from the Firefly 'verse, my decorative make-up changed a bit each day, but I did do it.