HerbieZ Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Fridays, mmhar yes we love em. As it's friday (apparantly), i wanted to know what everybody is upto tonight. What do my fellow Kotorians do on their friday nights and what are they doing tonight? As im unsociable and love myself, i have taken recently to playing old school star wars games like Dark Forces 2, Shadows of the Empire, Episode 1 Racer. Sadly, the last two are hard to play because my mum ALWAYS hogs the tv and it's the only thing to play the N64 on. Any suggestions in dealing with TV hogging mothers will be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PazaakPrincess Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Chocolate! Always worked on my mother We're being very anti-social and boring tonight. Just going to watch the DVD's we got from Lovefilm and make a nice dinner. During the day I am working on a play thru of TSL (currently on Citadel Station). Tonight my husband will probably want to play one of his games as he's just finished Fable Lost Chapters. As we're old Friday isn't that important to us, we prefer to go out on Saturday Night if doing a party or dinner with friends/pubs etc. Sunday usually we go to see a film, buy gaming/web/sci-fi magazines and break out the old eps of Dr. Who and Blake's 7. We're just two geeks living the life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiEND_138 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Gambling & drinking mostly. Though I'm on the mend now, walking from the bed to the computers almost too much. So all thats happening is watching reruns of Frasier & Cheers with a bit of Mario 3 thrown in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted April 7, 2006 Author Share Posted April 7, 2006 Thank God im not the only one, love you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ztalker Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Ehm....ask? I now have my own TV for my cube, but before i had it i just made an agreement with my mother. It worked for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reclaimer Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 I just got an Alienware laptop (YES!!) and last night just loaded on all my games I still play, and then some. So tonight I'll be playing alot a games online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Love your mom anyway. Whether she works in or out of the home, she's working for you, too, and she needs some downtime just like the rest of us. If you're lucky, maybe you can find something the 2 of you can play together. Not all moms will do that, but you never know.... Our Fridays are pretty much the same every week--get home from work and school, go to taekwondo class, go home, eat leftovers or pizza (of course you have to eat something unhealthy to counteract the benefits of exercise), and watch a movie or MST3K, post on LF, play Kotor.... We spend a lot of time together as a family--we don't want the daycare to see more of our kids than we do--so we don't go out a lot. However, we do spend some time alone once the kids are asleep for the night to talk about the day's events, debate the finer points of anything from the Chosen One prophecy to the intellectual arguments for Christian apologetics to the merits of the Romance poets, and just hang out. Not only are we geeky, we're kind of boring. And I'm OK with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Tell your mom you've got a TV Tuner card and that you can now watch TV on the comp. Ask your mom to use it and get down to the N64. She'll keep searching for ways to run the card. Just tell her you're busy playing and tell her to find out herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkonium Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Well, I suggest you stink up the room, which should clear your mom out pretty quickly. Although, you might not want to enter that room either. Just an idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus Q'ol Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Here's a sure fire Mom neutralizer. (Jae, please disregard. Kids eyes only) Walk up to your Mom and explain in your most serious manner of how you would love to earn TV time with chores. Inquire about work that has to be done and volunteer to trade work time for TV time. When she wakes up from unconsciousness, place cool towel to her head and give her a big kiss. Make sure to remind her right away of her agreement so she doesn't think it was a dream. This has a mid 90's % chance of success. Unfortunately, for future references, you'll have to do the work, but it beats watching the E channel when you have more pressing matters on Tatooine. Tonite I plan to finish my conquest of New York in the 30's and become Godfather of New York. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSR Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 heh heh. fat chance of that happening ^^^ do you have things along the lines of "car boot sales" where you live? if you go there, you can get tvs for next to nothing. works everytime. just make sure theyve got the right ports i.e scart or AV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaV™ Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Hmm the only thing I do during the weekends and practically any day of the week is train for Boxing. I hate running, but it's the only way I can condition myself to being a GREAT boxer. Pretty boring friday won't you agree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Devon Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 I'll stay up till unhealthy hours playing video games while wondering if this scenario would've been any different if I wasn't such a geek. Then I hope it won't be, because that 'life' thing is completely overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Here's a sure fire Mom neutralizer. (Jae, please disregard. Kids eyes only) Walk up to your Mom and explain in your most serious manner of how you would love to earn TV time with chores. Inquire about work that has to be done and volunteer to trade work time for TV time. When she wakes up from unconsciousness, place cool towel to her head and give her a big kiss. Make sure to remind her right away of her agreement so she doesn't think it was a dream. Reminds me of Delia Ephron's book "How To Eat Like a Child". A truly kind child will make sure there's a pillow on the anticipated spot where her head will land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 I'll probably go out to the movies with some friends, come back, and stay up late playing video games, maybe with my roommates maybe by myself. It's the good life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 A good friend is transferring to another part of the company. A small army is converging on a local Italian eatery to give him a proper send-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 I'll be chillin' out with my friend and watch some movies or just hang around..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTV2 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Fridays...hmm...basically i get home from school , then i go to Gymnastics >_> from 4-8pm, get home, have dinner, watch some tv shows then go to bed. thing is my parents dont let me play vid. games unless its a holiday or a long weekend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Fridays are usually Sci-Fi (2 stargates and a battlestar...*dies*), and gaming or foruming until 3-4 if I have saturday off. I was spending quite a bit of them down at the arcade, but you've gotta pay to play until you can't pay no more;) @Jae, I think you must have missed the motherhood class about anything geek related being evil;) Video games, Arcades, G4, ATHF and Ghost in the Shell... all hindrances to the plans for my technology repressed upbringing. I've really gotta save my money faster and get my own house ASAP! I mean, I've got the ideal geek basement, but no internet, and family members who loudly proclaim their powerless cries of "zOMG that movie's rated R!!! and You don't actually shoot other people over the internet???" ...oh and FYI, Modding is a waist of a productive life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 @Jae, I think you must have missed the motherhood class about anything geek related being evil;) Video games, Arcades, G4, ATHF and Ghost in the Shell... all hindrances to the plans for my technology repressed upbringing. I've really gotta save my money faster and get my own house ASAP! I mean, I've got the ideal geek basement, but no internet, and family members who loudly proclaim their powerless cries of "zOMG that movie's rated R!!! and You don't actually shoot other people over the internet???" ...oh and FYI, Modding is a waist of a productive life. Heh, not only did I miss that class, I'm corrupting my children by actually playing Kotor and other games _with_ them. Family--meh, movies are no big deal. There's very little that they're missing by skipping rated R movies. There's plenty of good rated PG movies, and the vast majority of R movies could be cleaned up a bit to make them PG with very little loss of anything more than some useless swear words or a couple gratuitous scenes of excess skin. Shooting people over the internet is much preferred to shooting them in Real Life . Of course, that's a smart-aleck response.... Your family won't be complaining about modding long if you end up running your own game dev company and make a killing after producing the next big game blockbuster, or some equally productive and lucrative career. There's a study out that says some of the surgeons who are the best at doing surgeries requiring scopes are those who played a lot of video games as kids. I'd have to go back and search on Medline to find that one, though. And it's certainly more productive than some of the other activities my high school and college classmates engaged in (drinking to great excess--legal age for drinking was lower when I was in H.S.--and other self-destructive behaviors). At least you're utilizing brain cells instead of doing things that kill them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Man Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Not only are we geeky, we're kind of boring. And I'm OK with that. Hey! Speak for yourself! I may play computer games, post about computer games, debate about prophecies in science fiction movies, build pinewood derby cars with my son, write medieval poetry, and read theology textbooks for fun, but I am not a geek! Okay, well...maybe just a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Friday night was spent pretty much the same way I spend every night - online while doing homework. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 I don't remember what I did last night, so I'll assume I had fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus Q'ol Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I know it's only thursday, but I have that Friday Feeling anyway. No school or work tomorrow!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 No school or work tomorrow!!! Boo Yah! Yes. I can't wait either. I'll probably game or go to Games Workshop if it's open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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