I'm just asking, because as it stands, I am quite bored right now. I can't play D&D, as I do't have a group, so I ask everyone here. Do you know of any good webcomics, online games, or other things to do on the internet that are mildly enteraining even? I read questionable content, 8-bit, and OOTS. but there really feels like there is nothing much for me to do right now...
Anyone?
Well, being bored is a big problem, especially when you live in the Hamptons like I do: there isn't anything to do at ALL during the winter.
I find the best thing to do to pass the time is sketch. I draw all kinds of creatures, including artwork for Raelifin's Races of Phaedoras. Don't know how that helps you with your problem, but that's what I do :)
webcomicry:
www.sluggy.com
www.schlockmercenary.com
www.scarygoround.com
www.nukees.com
www.alienlovespredator.com
www.sinfest.com
www.girlgeniusonline.com
most of those have a gigantic archive, so they could keep you a while.
umm... lessee... online games:
shadowbane is free now, i dunno if it's any fun. googling 'korean mmorpg' should find you a crapload of beta onlines.
if you're into muds, they can take some time (www.retromud.org)
muds and mmorpg should also have a nice chatroom or something, which is good for taking up time.
if you want to 'enrich'yourself, learn a programming language, like python (www.python.org), or learn some html. (www.htmldog.com). both of those will be pretty useful to know now and later.
Quote from: Natural 20I'm just asking, because as it stands, I am quite bored right now. I can't play D&D, as I do't have a group, so I ask everyone here. Do you know of any good webcomics, online games, or other things to do on the internet that are mildly enteraining even? I read questionable content, 8-bit, and OOTS. but there really feels like there is nothing much for me to do right now...
Anyone?
i practice / learn webpage creation.
Oooh, I should get around to learning that sometime.
If anyone wants to see some of the stuff I do when I'm bored, here's a link:
http://senkennomei.deviantart.com/
I already know basic HTML, I took a course at school. I proably should draw though, I'm getting better at people, and I should practice som more anyway.
I work on what ever mechanical projects I need to complete at the time.
If you're looking for something productive to do, I would really appreciate another hand working on the mechanical aspects of my setting. Mostly I need someone to toss ideas past and also to get some ideas I haven't thought of from. Right now I really need help deciding which mechanical aspects will best fit the flavor of my setting.
Read VG Cats (www.vgcats.com) or Penny Arcade (www.penny_arcade.com) if you like video games.
I know what I do when I'm bored.
I come here. ;)
Haha amen to that. :)
Currently, I'm playing a lot of Diablo II when I'm bored, with Family Guy DVDs running in the background.
I still don't understand why people like Diablo II, nor why it's "addictive". I played it for two weeks, went, "this sucks," and never touched it again... :(
Besides, D&D is the ultimate RPG substitute: you can make any game out of it :)
I go thru phases with that game. This is literally the 4th time I've installed it on my computer and become addicted. I'm sure I'll be bored with it again in a few weeks, but it really is pretty fun for mindless zombie-slaying.
oh yeah...
www.blender3d.org
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
free 3d modeller. pretty good, as far as a non-artist can tell.
i worked 1/2way thru the tutorial and had a robot going, and havent had time to work more on it.
I just read all of schlock mercenarys' archives, and the last strip. that's right, fear my boredom, I just read 5 and then some years of webcomics. Bow before my wasted life!
dude, if you read all that in a day then frankly i can't help you. ;)
Well, that is reassuring...
oh yeah... ... and i masterbate.
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but so do you, so i'm not worried...
[edit] ... anyone that thinks masterbation is unnatural, is doing it for all the wrong reasons. ;) ..
(you can quote me on that.)
Quote... anyone that thinks masterbation is unnatural, is doing it for all the wrong reasons.
I do it for all the wrong reasons...I leave it to you to figure out what that actually means... :bag:
Thank you both for that... er, ahem, interesting suggestion...
Moving along now...
If I'm bored and feeling intellectually lazy at the same time, I generally play Rome: Total War and try to take over the Mediterranean while playing as the Scythians.
If bored and feeling intellectually energized, I recommend teaching yourself a dead language! ;) I've got this Introduction to Classical Nahuatl I keep wanting to crack open but I never have the time.
Nahuatl? Come again?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Nahuatl
Wiki is your friend.
QuoteClassical Nahuatl (also known as Aztec, and simply Nahuatl) is a term used to describe the variants of the Nahuatl language that were spoken in the valley of Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico and during the subsequent centuries, and which have survived through a multitude of written sources written by Nahuas and Spaniards in the latin alphabet.
Nahuatl literature is extensive (probably the most extensive of all Amerindian languages), including a relatively large corpus of poetry (see also Nezahualcoyotl); the Nican Mopohua is an excellent early sample of transcribed Nahuatl.
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wiki's also saying it's not exactly dead. 1.5 million speakers today--that's modern dialects, though. i'm not quite sure at what point a language becomes dead because the dialects evolved too much...do you call old english dead, for instance?
Quote from: WikiA more controversial use of the term dead language, is to refer to an older language which changed significantly and evolved into a new language group. Latin, for example, is a dead language as it has no native speakers, but it is the base of the modern Romance languages. Likewise Sanskrit is the base of the modern Indo-Aryan languages and Old English is the base of Modern English.
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As far as the original question goes: I post everywhere I can find on a message board. Meanwhile, I also work on random setting and look at flash videos.
Also fun if you have nothing better to do is applying some of your econometrical techniques to DnD and see what useful analyses you can make about it.
Not that I have actually done that, of course.
Honest!
Uhm...
;) Túrin
Who has time to get bored??
Yeah, boredom can be a pain. Generally video games are the quick fix, but doing something productive is the best route. Drawing is a damn fine idea, as is writing. Any skill that can be improved over time, with practice (and preferably without having to spend much money on it... or even put pants on to do it) is always good. Worse comes to worst, you can go on a masturbation marathon, and see how many times you can "pull it off" in one day! Or watch Weebl and Bob, read Turning Signals On A Land Raider, or visit the Brunching Shuttlecocks. All good distractions.
P.S. Cool stuff, Senkennomei. The drawings aren't bad, and the stories that come with them are even better. And zoology is cool. And I know how much that means coming from the "masturbation marathon" guy.
For boredom? I write comics. I really wish I had a scanner and some shit... I've got a couple of months of webcomic waiting in the wings...
[ic=The brain-eaten bored one!]Muahahaha! Total boredom![/ic]
Quote from: beejazzFor boredom? I write comics. I really wish I had a scanner and some shit... I've got a couple of months of webcomic waiting in the wings...
Yeah! woot. High-five my fellow comic maker. :hand:
wish i could see some of your stuff
Whew... I just finished the entire girl genius comics in an hour and a half... Please Sir, may I have another?
Mooooore?!
Hmm...I bang my head on the desk when I'm bored :)
@nat 20: i read sooo many webcomics. if you want some good ones, some of my favourites are:
Questionable content
Ctrl-Alt-Del
Everything Jake
order of the stick
something positive
narbonic
shortpacked
sluggy freelance
penny arcade
sam and fuzzy
if you want more, just pm me and tell me what kinds of ones you like. (i can probably suggest some for any gernre)
I am hereby resurrecting this thread to simply point out what I would like to do some time when I am bored. I came up with it while picking up some extra cash working a one-day-only job over Thanksgiving, house-sitting a half-constructed condominium complex.
The idea is this: Zombie Tag.
Twenty or so people gather in a large, deserted building, preferably one with lots of long hallways, hiding places, and places where you can see into other areas of the building. One person is "it;" he wears a green cap signifying that he's a zombie, and after a five minute head start, he comes in after the live folks. If this (or any) zombie tags you, you and the zombie stop for 60 seconds, then you put on a green cap and become an additional zombie.
It's like tag, but once your "it," you stay "it," even after you tag someone else and turn them into another "it." And there's no "safe." At best, the winner is the last person to not become a zombie, though even he gets zombified in the end.
My friends and I played a game like that when we were younger, except we called it viral tag, or "leper's chasey".
Rest assured, it's one of the best things you can do in a desterted building, short of arson.
QuoteIt's like tag, but once your "it," you stay "it," even after you tag someone else and turn them into another "it." And there's no "safe." At best, the winner is the last person to not become a zombie, though even he gets zombified in the end.
awesome[/i].
This is what i do when bored:
http://www.prisoner34.com/hex
it still can't draw a line right.
We didn't have big empty buildings, so we played in forests that also had some big piles of rocks and busted concrete slabs. There were a few place with ruined buildins that we used.
Anyone else played sardines? That game is such an awesome part of my childhood.
Quote from: Epic MeepoI am hereby resurrecting this thread to simply point out what I would like to do some time when I am bored. I came up with it while picking up some extra cash working a one-day-only job over Thanksgiving, house-sitting a half-constructed condominium complex.
The idea is this: Zombie Tag.
Twenty or so people gather in a large, deserted building, preferably one with lots of long hallways, hiding places, and places where you can see into other areas of the building. One person is "it;" he wears a green cap signifying that he's a zombie, and after a five minute head start, he comes in after the live folks. If this (or any) zombie tags you, you and the zombie stop for 60 seconds, then you put on a green cap and become an additional zombie.
It's like tag, but once your "it," you stay "it," even after you tag someone else and turn them into another "it." And there's no "safe." At best, the winner is the last person to not become a zombie, though even he gets zombified in the end.
Been there, done that. Zeds vs B.L.A.R.G (Battlefield Legistics And Recon Group) at Sogen Con. Two years in a row. We also did capture the flag that way and some other stuff.
Well, dag nammit! All these folks already playing exciting brands of tag should have been around when I was a kid. My friends would always just play with a rotating "it" that reset the game, not a viral form of "it."
I don't know about Zeds vs. BLARG, though. The "vs." impies that it is possible for live folks to fight back. Where's the sense of despair? Where's the sense of impending and inevitable doom? A live action zombie game needs to be all Dawn of the Dead doom and gloom and running away, not Day of the Dead fighting back. And it needs to be in a dark, half-constructed condominium in the middle of the night, too. I'm tellin' ya. Perfect place for zombie mayhem if ever there was one.
QuoteI don't know about Zeds vs. BLARG, though. The "vs." impies that it is possible for live folks to fight back. Where's the sense of despair? Where's the sense of impending and inevitable doom? A live action zombie game needs to be all Dawn of the Dead doom and gloom and running away, not Day of the Dead fighting back. And it needs to be in a dark, half-constructed condominium in the middle of the night, too. I'm tellin' ya. Perfect place for zombie mayhem if ever there was one.
sleep outside all night in the cold so they're never caught[/i]. Those people
exist.
Quote from: brainfaceYou're assuming play with people that won't like, sleep outside all night in the cold so they're never caught. Those people exist.
The bastards.
A favourite tag location of mine (i've only done it a bit though) is inside hotels that you aren't actually staying at. A personal favourite of mine is the Sheraton. Also, security provides "wandering monsters".
Quote from: brainfaceQuotethat's really how i remember playing tag while preteen/teenager. in a large, dark building at night. i assure you it was awesome.
may[/i] have had a steeple, and sat next to the parsonage?
QuoteI remember a very similar place... are we talking about the same one? One that may have had a steeple, and sat next to the parsonage?
it's possible!
War (capture the flag, in the dark, somewhere out in the woods, is also a very fun game.
Watching (and even performing) speed runs is good fun. A friend and I are going to do a speed run of Gears of War on Insane, which should be interesting, to say the least...
I love speed runs... There's a speed run of Super Demo World (which is a ridiculously awesome hack of Super Mario World) that you should seriously watch...
http://tasvideos.org/435M.html
Oh dear lord. If TAS had patron gods, this would be one.
Hadn't played it for like 8 years up into about 3 days ago, but me and a bunch of friends just busted out our old magic card collections. i had forgotten how much fun that game was.