Stephen King has joined the game of Hugely Successful Fiction Writers Rip on trump on Twitter
I was surprised to learn via one of trump's responses that he actually knows the phrase 'ghost writer.'
well he should after everyone shat on him for the art of the deal because he didn't actually write it
I'm just... I feel like an American President should at least come across as more more intelligent than a writer of children's books and a writer of pop horror
But... fuck no. This guy just sounds like a fairly advanced middle-schooler
Sad
I think that's selling both King and Rowling short on their fiction.
Yeah I get the sentiment here but like I don't think we've had a president this century that could come across as more intelligent than King or Rowling.
Hard disagree
A: I am actually Stephen King's biggest fan
B: One of Barak Obama's greatest strengths was that he sounded both like an incredibly intelligent human being, but also sounded like a normal person. The "uhh's" humanized him while he was dropping the heaviest of science.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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It's Hearts, but you play with two decks combined, and the same card on the same trick nullifies both.
So if I lead the King of Spades, and you play the Queen of Spades, and the guy after you plays the other King of Spades, our Kings don't count for that trick (although it's still a Spades trick) and your Queen is leading, so if the fourth guy scoots under your Queen, you take the trick.
This can make the game RUDE AS HELL. I play it with my wife and her family (who introduced it to me) and man I am glad we're all good sports about it because dang, shit gets real.
Let me tell you about a game called Blackout.
It's a trick taking game. You deal out 10 cards to each player (assuming you have 5 or fewer players). This leaves some number of cards left in the deck. You turn over the top card; whatever suit it is, that's trump.
Now everybody bids on how many tricks they'll take. To make your bid, you have to take exactly that number of tricks, no more, no fewer. If you make your bid, you get 10 points plus your bid. If you don't, you get zero points.
A bid of "zero" is allowed.
Bidding continues until you get to the last person (the dealer). Add up all the previous bids. If the total is fewer than the number of cards you dealt, subtract the total from the number of cards. The last player CANNOT bid that amount. This ensures that at least one person will get screwed every round.
Play according to the usual trick-taking card game rules with trump.
Check to see who made their bids, then write down the scores.
The dealer shifts to the left, and this time you deal only 9 cards. Repeat the above steps, and the next round you deal 8 cards. Continue with this until you only deal 1 card to each player. Then go back up to 10.
This game gets so brutal. You're never safe, even if you've already made your bid, because if you have middling cards like 8s, 9s, and 10s, you might accidentally take something if the other players decide to screw you or you get back luck. It gets really intense when the starting hand size is under 4. The above rule about the dealer not being able to bid an amount that would make the total bids equal to the number of cards comes up way more often than you'd think, especially with fewer cards.
So much fucking other people over. So much cursing.
Actually less per the website but also don't trust the website. Contact, give info, see what they say and if they can give you a deal.
There is food & bev minimum that will put it over the top. Am calling now.
What $ limits are ppl generally comfortable with?
the highest it ever was when i hosted was i think 80 bucks? plus some ambiguous amount more diffused around the room in alcohol to hit the minimum, but we could have easily hit it even with some people ordering no drinks
It's Hearts, but you play with two decks combined, and the same card on the same trick nullifies both.
So if I lead the King of Spades, and you play the Queen of Spades, and the guy after you plays the other King of Spades, our Kings don't count for that trick (although it's still a Spades trick) and your Queen is leading, so if the fourth guy scoots under your Queen, you take the trick.
This can make the game RUDE AS HELL. I play it with my wife and her family (who introduced it to me) and man I am glad we're all good sports about it because dang, shit gets real.
Let me tell you about a game called Blackout.
It's a trick taking game. You deal out 10 cards to each player (assuming you have 5 or fewer players). This leaves some number of cards left in the deck. You turn over the top card; whatever suit it is, that's trump.
Now everybody bids on how many tricks they'll take. To make your bid, you have to take exactly that number of tricks, no more, no fewer. If you make your bid, you get 10 points plus your bid. If you don't, you get zero points.
A bid of "zero" is allowed.
Bidding continues until you get to the last person (the dealer). Add up all the previous bids. If the total is fewer than the number of cards you dealt, subtract the total from the number of cards. The last player CANNOT bid that amount. This ensures that at least one person will get screwed every round.
Play according to the usual trick-taking card game rules with trump.
Check to see who made their bids, then write down the scores.
The dealer shifts to the left, and this time you deal only 9 cards. Repeat the above steps, and the next round you deal 8 cards. Continue with this until you only deal 1 card to each player. Then go back up to 10.
This game gets so brutal. You're never safe, even if you've already made your bid, because if you have middling cards like 8s, 9s, and 10s, you might accidentally take something if the other players decide to screw you or you get back luck. It gets really intense when the starting hand size is under 4. The above rule about the dealer not being able to bid an amount that would make the total bids equal to the number of cards comes up way more often than you'd think, especially with fewer cards.
So much fucking other people over. So much cursing.
This was a lot of fun the one time i played it but we didnt finish cuz porp lost interest halfway
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It's Hearts, but you play with two decks combined, and the same card on the same trick nullifies both.
So if I lead the King of Spades, and you play the Queen of Spades, and the guy after you plays the other King of Spades, our Kings don't count for that trick (although it's still a Spades trick) and your Queen is leading, so if the fourth guy scoots under your Queen, you take the trick.
This can make the game RUDE AS HELL. I play it with my wife and her family (who introduced it to me) and man I am glad we're all good sports about it because dang, shit gets real.
Let me tell you about a game called Blackout.
It's a trick taking game. You deal out 10 cards to each player (assuming you have 5 or fewer players). This leaves some number of cards left in the deck. You turn over the top card; whatever suit it is, that's trump.
Now everybody bids on how many tricks they'll take. To make your bid, you have to take exactly that number of tricks, no more, no fewer. If you make your bid, you get 10 points plus your bid. If you don't, you get zero points.
A bid of "zero" is allowed.
Bidding continues until you get to the last person (the dealer). Add up all the previous bids. If the total is fewer than the number of cards you dealt, subtract the total from the number of cards. The last player CANNOT bid that amount. This ensures that at least one person will get screwed every round.
Play according to the usual trick-taking card game rules with trump.
Check to see who made their bids, then write down the scores.
The dealer shifts to the left, and this time you deal only 9 cards. Repeat the above steps, and the next round you deal 8 cards. Continue with this until you only deal 1 card to each player. Then go back up to 10.
This game gets so brutal. You're never safe, even if you've already made your bid, because if you have middling cards like 8s, 9s, and 10s, you might accidentally take something if the other players decide to screw you or you get back luck. It gets really intense when the starting hand size is under 4. The above rule about the dealer not being able to bid an amount that would make the total bids equal to the number of cards comes up way more often than you'd think, especially with fewer cards.
So much fucking other people over. So much cursing.
This was a lot of fun the one time i played it but we didnt finish cuz porp lost interest halfway
fuckin' porp
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Actually less per the website but also don't trust the website. Contact, give info, see what they say and if they can give you a deal.
There is food & bev minimum that will put it over the top. Am calling now.
What $ limits are ppl generally comfortable with?
the highest it ever was when i hosted was i think 80 bucks? plus some ambiguous amount more diffused around the room in alcohol to hit the minimum, but we could have easily hit it even with some people ordering no drinks
LOL I completely forgot last year's cash counting fiasco
Actually less per the website but also don't trust the website. Contact, give info, see what they say and if they can give you a deal.
There is food & bev minimum that will put it over the top. Am calling now.
What $ limits are ppl generally comfortable with?
I'm trying to aim for $70 prix fixe alone (base + grat and fees) + a reasonable $30-40 max average/person in drinks since that was the standard in previous years
However since our party isn't massive this year it's going to be harder to pin down to this
A couple of my friends are in that spot where like, their SO expects them to be an instant and guaranteed ally in all card and board games and will get genuinely upset if that implicit trust is betrayed
Whereas my wife and I realize we are probably each others' most dangerous foe at the table and will go for the jugular ASAP, and will form alliances with other players against each other.
Only in games that are explicitly cooperative for the entire table(Arkham Horror, for example) do we ever team up, because even in team-based games we realise that allying with each other is actually kinda unfair to everyone else.
My wife and I were allies in a game of Risk Legacy and were demolishing the board and it was my turn and I was like just a sec I gotta check something and I was fiddling on my phone
And she was like ARE YOU QUEUEING UP RAINS OF CASTAMERE ON YOUR FUCKING PHONE YOU BASTARD
lol so my gf's job will pay for her to become a notary
I want there to do it just so I can get EVERYTHING notarized
you can just buy a notary stamp you know
nobody cares
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Actually less per the website but also don't trust the website. Contact, give info, see what they say and if they can give you a deal.
There is food & bev minimum that will put it over the top. Am calling now.
What $ limits are ppl generally comfortable with?
the highest it ever was when i hosted was i think 80 bucks? plus some ambiguous amount more diffused around the room in alcohol to hit the minimum, but we could have easily hit it even with some people ordering no drinks
LOL I completely forgot last year's cash counting fiasco
your wife saved me like 400 dollars
i had been drinking a lot and really wanted to have everything over with and i was like ok we hit the number right?
and she's like no! we have enough to settle our tab but we're supposed to be 400 over because you put down a deposit! you need to get paid back for that right
*nods gratefully*
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
Last year was the worst fancy dinner ever and I haven't even been to them all but I can still guarantee it
fucking washed out 40 something white dude belting out bad karaoke, hoping to even get a drop of moisture on his dry, cracked dick
It's Hearts, but you play with two decks combined, and the same card on the same trick nullifies both.
So if I lead the King of Spades, and you play the Queen of Spades, and the guy after you plays the other King of Spades, our Kings don't count for that trick (although it's still a Spades trick) and your Queen is leading, so if the fourth guy scoots under your Queen, you take the trick.
This can make the game RUDE AS HELL. I play it with my wife and her family (who introduced it to me) and man I am glad we're all good sports about it because dang, shit gets real.
Let me tell you about a game called Blackout.
It's a trick taking game. You deal out 10 cards to each player (assuming you have 5 or fewer players). This leaves some number of cards left in the deck. You turn over the top card; whatever suit it is, that's trump.
Now everybody bids on how many tricks they'll take. To make your bid, you have to take exactly that number of tricks, no more, no fewer. If you make your bid, you get 10 points plus your bid. If you don't, you get zero points.
A bid of "zero" is allowed.
Bidding continues until you get to the last person (the dealer). Add up all the previous bids. If the total is fewer than the number of cards you dealt, subtract the total from the number of cards. The last player CANNOT bid that amount. This ensures that at least one person will get screwed every round.
Play according to the usual trick-taking card game rules with trump.
Check to see who made their bids, then write down the scores.
The dealer shifts to the left, and this time you deal only 9 cards. Repeat the above steps, and the next round you deal 8 cards. Continue with this until you only deal 1 card to each player. Then go back up to 10.
This game gets so brutal. You're never safe, even if you've already made your bid, because if you have middling cards like 8s, 9s, and 10s, you might accidentally take something if the other players decide to screw you or you get back luck. It gets really intense when the starting hand size is under 4. The above rule about the dealer not being able to bid an amount that would make the total bids equal to the number of cards comes up way more often than you'd think, especially with fewer cards.
So much fucking other people over. So much cursing.
can confirm
we played this with VH and his sister at New Years
it's fuckin brutal
Actually less per the website but also don't trust the website. Contact, give info, see what they say and if they can give you a deal.
There is food & bev minimum that will put it over the top. Am calling now.
What $ limits are ppl generally comfortable with?
the highest it ever was when i hosted was i think 80 bucks? plus some ambiguous amount more diffused around the room in alcohol to hit the minimum, but we could have easily hit it even with some people ordering no drinks
LOL I completely forgot last year's cash counting fiasco
your wife saved me like 400 dollars
i had been drinking a lot and really wanted to have everything over with and i was like ok we hit the number right?
and she's like no! we have enough to settle our tab but we're supposed to be 400 over because you put down a deposit! you need to get paid back for that right
*nods gratefully*
I have a hard time not judging when i hear about these outings and somehow the bill is massively short
Sir Landshark on
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then once we settled up on the cash our dopey, super high looking waiter took it all 'to the office' and was in there for like 15 fucking minutes and i was like oh my god and then he came out and said 'it's 2,300 dollars, right' or whatever and i said yes and he said ok and i said bye you fucking idiot
I used to play a HUmar, and my cousin used a RAmar. Now's I think about it, both of those were kind of trainingwheel-classes that let you test things and take a few extra hits, but are pretty lackluster overall.
My younger cousin went for the biggest glass-cannon FOnewearl in the universe, though.
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yeah its a shame DNF never came out
a new plate is like $2 at the home depot man. like... 5 minutes on the way home from work & 5 minutes to install.
Hard disagree
A: I am actually Stephen King's biggest fan
B: One of Barak Obama's greatest strengths was that he sounded both like an incredibly intelligent human being, but also sounded like a normal person. The "uhh's" humanized him while he was dropping the heaviest of science.
http://commonwealthcambridge.com/privateventscatering/
the prix fixe is 68 bucks (plus tax and gratuity i'm sure) and they have a ~30 person dining room
but it doesn't indicate what the room minimum is
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
DO WORK!! GET PROFESSIONAL SON!!
Let me tell you about a game called Blackout.
It's a trick taking game. You deal out 10 cards to each player (assuming you have 5 or fewer players). This leaves some number of cards left in the deck. You turn over the top card; whatever suit it is, that's trump.
Now everybody bids on how many tricks they'll take. To make your bid, you have to take exactly that number of tricks, no more, no fewer. If you make your bid, you get 10 points plus your bid. If you don't, you get zero points.
A bid of "zero" is allowed.
Bidding continues until you get to the last person (the dealer). Add up all the previous bids. If the total is fewer than the number of cards you dealt, subtract the total from the number of cards. The last player CANNOT bid that amount. This ensures that at least one person will get screwed every round.
Play according to the usual trick-taking card game rules with trump.
Check to see who made their bids, then write down the scores.
The dealer shifts to the left, and this time you deal only 9 cards. Repeat the above steps, and the next round you deal 8 cards. Continue with this until you only deal 1 card to each player. Then go back up to 10.
This game gets so brutal. You're never safe, even if you've already made your bid, because if you have middling cards like 8s, 9s, and 10s, you might accidentally take something if the other players decide to screw you or you get back luck. It gets really intense when the starting hand size is under 4. The above rule about the dealer not being able to bid an amount that would make the total bids equal to the number of cards comes up way more often than you'd think, especially with fewer cards.
So much fucking other people over. So much cursing.
What $ limits are ppl generally comfortable with?
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
That's not the place from last year right because I will withdraw from the dinner quicker than you can say gaza strip
I want there to do it just so I can get EVERYTHING notarized
the highest it ever was when i hosted was i think 80 bucks? plus some ambiguous amount more diffused around the room in alcohol to hit the minimum, but we could have easily hit it even with some people ordering no drinks
"Notarize my dick please."
This was a lot of fun the one time i played it but we didnt finish cuz porp lost interest halfway
That wasn't real trump.
@Mazzyx ahem I was totally correct
For a 3 course: $105/person, PLUS 7% tax, 20% grat, 7% admin fee, and $3000 minimum is....*drumroll* $144/person BEFORE the $25/person drink average
NNID: Hakkekage
Obviously this is still third/fourth hand information, but there seems like an awful lot of it.
Type up a forum post saying "u suck" to someone on a typewriter, get the hard copy notarized, scan, and post scanned image of the note
fuckin' porp
fucking
shit
LOL I completely forgot last year's cash counting fiasco
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
I'm trying to aim for $70 prix fixe alone (base + grat and fees) + a reasonable $30-40 max average/person in drinks since that was the standard in previous years
However since our party isn't massive this year it's going to be harder to pin down to this
NNID: Hakkekage
Whereas my wife and I realize we are probably each others' most dangerous foe at the table and will go for the jugular ASAP, and will form alliances with other players against each other.
Only in games that are explicitly cooperative for the entire table(Arkham Horror, for example) do we ever team up, because even in team-based games we realise that allying with each other is actually kinda unfair to everyone else.
My wife and I were allies in a game of Risk Legacy and were demolishing the board and it was my turn and I was like just a sec I gotta check something and I was fiddling on my phone
And she was like ARE YOU QUEUEING UP RAINS OF CASTAMERE ON YOUR FUCKING PHONE YOU BASTARD
and I was like
...no
(yes i was)
if you dye back to a darker color first it'll stress out the hair and make it harder to take the bright color later
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
you can just buy a notary stamp you know
nobody cares
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
your wife saved me like 400 dollars
i had been drinking a lot and really wanted to have everything over with and i was like ok we hit the number right?
and she's like no! we have enough to settle our tab but we're supposed to be 400 over because you put down a deposit! you need to get paid back for that right
*nods gratefully*
fucking washed out 40 something white dude belting out bad karaoke, hoping to even get a drop of moisture on his dry, cracked dick
Cats
Por que no los dos
for what
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
can confirm
we played this with VH and his sister at New Years
it's fuckin brutal
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
What a fucking prick
absolutely my first target
I have a hard time not judging when i hear about these outings and somehow the bill is massively short
or something like that
My younger cousin went for the biggest glass-cannon FOnewearl in the universe, though.