Weekend - and end-of-summer woes...

[bandrik]

I'm keeping it short this time, guys. Spent the night at a friend's place. He had a get-together party shindig. Watched Meet the Spartans and another equally silly movie. Had a drink or two, and played Smash Bros MELEE - that's right, classic gamecube fun.

Also today was the bi-weekly vampire: the masquerade tabletop RPG. Good times. We barely

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[bandrik]

Haha, I like your optimism in it all. =D

[nifty_trousers]

Gotta love the tabletops... they're a dying thing these days. Its either Magic or one miniature battle game or another, which are all well and good, but my heart belongs to long nights throwing dice at eachother, wooden clothespins on the nipples, and trying funny voices speaking as our chars.

Carry on with the classes! Good to hear you're really charging on with your classes.

I hear ya on friends moving on. Most of mine either left, didn't move with me, didn't keep in touch, died, or dropped off the face of the earth. I hear it only gets better (worse) as you age, but hey, thats why its important to get rich and distract yourself with material goods and the trivialities of society. ;)

[mythdude]

I'd disagree a bit. Tabletop games are still out there, but casual gaming itself is on the rise. CCGs and mini games are just something you can run through in about an hour, where as with a good tabletop game you need to spend at least a couple of hours on it.

The gaming business is in a slump though; it's not just the rotten US economy right now. Gaming has a funny business curve thing that hits it every couple of years where it will reach such amazing heights then come crashing down, usually sending several companies to their doom. Then in a couple of years new companies emerge, gaming soars again, etc.

[bandrik]

Dying? Perhaps slipping a little over WoW... but I will argue that they are NOT dying. I keep hearing people say "woah, it's like WoW, but more fun and interactive!"

The D&D clubs here at Purdue seem to be pretty packed, too! Though I game privately with friends - I'm an elitist like that, I s'pose. =P

And yeah, friends moving on... fact of life and all, but... yeah...

Haha @ material goods. ^^

[cristofurcoyote]

Yeah it's tough when your friends leave school and you're still there. Makes going back to school less appealing.

But, it's good that your summer was awesome. Now you know just how much there is to look forward to for summer. Plus, tabletops can always be a fun time for just a little get together that provides some pick-me-up with friends.

[bandrik]

Good point @ awesome summer. And yeah, tabletop games are great! Though I'm pretty casual about them. I barely crack open the rule books, and I only game with friends. I can't see myself going just for the game with random people in the D&D clubs.

Besides, I only have enough time to combine it with friends I already have. But I've met some of the coolest people out of gaming - and I truly mean that. ;)

[cristofurcoyote]

I've never done the clubs either really. But all my current group of friends I can attribute to tabletop gaming. I met them because of gaming with a different group that happened to share one person in common and meet in the same place. It's pretty awesome.

Sometimes just having that one or two new people can lead to some pretty awesome friendships.

[bandrik]

Yep!

Sadly, our sci-fi club - the one I went to which led to me meeting pretty much ALL my current college friends (literally - 100%) - is at risk of dying. It had no attendence. The crowd is getting burned out.

And the ones that really mattered to it graduated like mythdude or stopped going like myself (because people like mythdude and __kat__ have left Lafayette).

Sigh.

I guess clubs are just going the wayside since we have facebook and other means of "hanging out" with people that share interests.

And yet, we still have "super-clubs" in the form of special interest conventions. AKA: MFM, Anime Central, etc.