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Ping Pong

ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
edited April 2007 in Social Entropy++
So as Tycho and Gabe continue to talk about their ping pong adventures with game studios, I became interested in exactly how popular this sport could be.

Do you guys play ping pong at all? Do you have a table at home or at the office?

Outside of beer pong, I haven't seen it really become a sport often associated with social gatherings. Not that beer pong is anything like it.

I grew up with a table in my basement and my dad and I would play all the time. He was an amazing player and I never quite got as good as he was.
Now that I have my own house, I am planning to get a table as soon as my basement is finished being finished.
I work at a police station, so its not like we are going to have a table at work, but has this sport really grown in popularity since I was little?
The way PA talks about it it seems as though ping pong is the sport of choice among game companies for breaks. I find it awesome that it still gets that type of appeal, even though I don't see it in my own area.

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  • The Green Eyed MonsterThe Green Eyed Monster i blame hip hop Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I chose my apartment in Portland in no small part because of its proximity to some public ping pong tables.

    And let the record show naporeon has bitched out twice on facing me and my forehand loop, and I'm not about to let him forget about it.

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    We have a table here at the office, where I used to play regularly up until about 6 months ago.

    More recently, I've been playing a bit at this sports bar near my house with wook and Reginald.

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  • WidepathWidepath Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I prefer foosball myself.

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    knifey-spoony?

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I had no idea Walken was in that

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    i'm pretty good at beer pong

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  • CarnivoreCarnivore Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    one time I watched olympic badminton for like 4 hours

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    badminton is actually really fun

    I enjoy it

    I hate how they would air it on American TV from the Olympics at like 4 AM

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  • GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    It's all about air hockey dogs.
    I've got a long standing dream of one day having room for an air hockey table.

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    badminton is actually really fun
    YES!

    (I haven't played in a couple of years though.)

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  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I took ping pong lessons roughly once a week for a couple years and it was pretty fun

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I used to play at college. The line up in the student lounge was pretty crazy, you'd usually get one game during the lunch hour and get pantsed by one of the table veterans.

    they were so fucking cocky and precious about it too

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  • CarnivoreCarnivore Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Bogey wrote: »
    badminton is actually really fun
    YES!

    (I haven't played in a couple of years though.)

    Great workout too.

    Like those people who play tennis with the sweatbands and the 'good game' attitude dont know what hit em if they had a half decent game of badminton.

    A real sportsmans sport.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Balls of Fury looks fantastic

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Manifest wrote: »
    It's all about air hockey dogs.
    I've got a long standing dream of one day having room for an air hockey table.

    I have already attained this dream

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  • Wombat!!Wombat!! Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I haves me a pong table in my basement. Im ok, but the guy on the cart Gabe was talking about would proboably destroy me.

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Ping Pong

    or as the Chinese call it

    Ping Pong

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  • Wombat!!Wombat!! Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Man, I was like, "Oh god PAX ping pong tourny!" Then i remembered that alot of people would just clean up the field, and it would be less fun for others. Eh...

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  • Geebs61Geebs61 Ruiner PortlandRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Bogey wrote: »
    We have a table here at the office, where I used to play regularly up until about 6 months ago.

    More recently, I've been playing a bit at this sports bar near my house with wook and Reginald.

    I miss Wook...

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I rock pingpong pretty hard. I too played with my dad, who was some sort of All-star, and I got pretty awesome at it.

    Now I beat everyone at college, and no one wants to play. Not even the azns :(

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Carnivore wrote: »
    Bogey wrote: »
    badminton is actually really fun
    YES!

    (I haven't played in a couple of years though.)

    Great workout too.

    Like those people who play tennis with the sweatbands and the 'good game' attitude dont know what hit em if they had a half decent game of badminton.

    A real sportsmans sport.

    the lack of weight on the racket makes it so much fun

    also when you hit the birdy hard, it still decelerates extremely fast after you hit it

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    There's a Japanese film called Ping Pong
    It's pretty good, but fucking dumb/funny.

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  • GSMGSM Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Carnivore wrote: »
    Bogey wrote: »
    badminton is actually really fun
    YES!

    (I haven't played in a couple of years though.)

    Great workout too.

    Like those people who play tennis with the sweatbands and the 'good game' attitude dont know what hit em if they had a half decent game of badminton.

    A real sportsmans sport.

    the lack of weight on the racket makes it so much fun

    also when you hit the birdy hard, it still decelerates extremely fast after you hit it

    It's funny because the slower you hit it, the harder it becomes to return (ie, dropping it over the net). Counter-intuitive, and what not. And smashing it into your opponent isn't a foul, I believe.

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    that's the fun part

    it's moving so slow

    that they can't hit it

    they just kind of flail around

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  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    Bogey wrote: »
    badminton is actually really fun
    YES!

    (I haven't played in a couple of years though.)
    Asians are required by law to play and like badminton. It's one of those things.

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    there's this sport that is really cool

    I forget what it's called

    septrak paw or something

    you can hit the ball over the net

    but you can only use your feet

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Racquet sports are for fags.

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    there's this sport that is really cool

    I forget what it's called

    septrak paw or something

    you can hit the ball over the net

    but you can only use your feet
    broomball

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    there's this sport that is really cool

    I forget what it's called

    septrak paw or something

    you can hit the ball over the net

    but you can only use your feet
    broomball


    that's just hockey with brooms and no skates

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  • CarnivoreCarnivore Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Butters wrote: »
    Racquet sports are for fags.

    correctly spelling racquet on internet forums is for fags

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2007
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    Bogey wrote: »
    badminton is actually really fun
    YES!

    (I haven't played in a couple of years though.)
    Asians are required by law to play and like badminton. It's one of those things.
    I'm glad I meet this requirement.

    I was already in a lot of trouble for not eating seafood.

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Sepak Takraw

    that was it

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Carnivore wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Racquet sports are for fags.

    correctly spelling racquet on internet forums is for fags

    I spelled it the fag way to make a point.

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  • CarnivoreCarnivore Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Butters wrote: »
    Carnivore wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Racquet sports are for fags.

    correctly spelling racquet on internet forums is for fags

    I spelled it the fag way to make a point.

    i was gonna post a conitnuation of this conversation but i just started sniggering so much at that picture above.

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Sepak Takraw

    that was it

    19.jpg

    what

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    yeah, dude it's like volleyball, only no hands

    edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXmjOMUdsPY

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    exactly

    sepak takraw

    6a00c225200d1f604a00d10a7819f28bfa-500pi

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