What do you do when you're bored?

[Captain Obvious]

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...

Yeah! woot. High-five my fellow comic maker.  :hand:
wish i could see some of your stuff

[Numinous]

Whew...  I just finished the entire girl genius comics in an hour and a half...  Please Sir, may I have another?

[Senkennomei]

Mooooore?!

Hmm...I bang my head on the desk when I'm bored :)

[Captain Obvious]

@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)

[Epic Meepo]

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.

[SA]

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.

[brainface]

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.

awesome[/i].


This is what i do when bored:
http://www.prisoner34.com/hex
it still can't draw a line right.

[Captain Obvious]

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.

[Ninja D!]

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.

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.

[Epic Meepo]

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.

[brainface]

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.

sleep outside all night in the cold so they're never caught[/i]. Those people exist.

[Epic Meepo]

You'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.

[Captain Obvious]

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".

[Ishmayl-Retired]

that'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?

[brainface]

I 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.