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jerkface, do games w Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?
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In the 80s I went to a public event featuring the California Joy Stick; “Joy” referring to the brand of dish soap. There’s probably a more common name for it. It’s a device made of a large fabric loop on a stick with a nut for holding the loop open. You dip it in a solution of water, dish soap, and glycerine, and then open the loop to the breeze or walk with it. You can create bubbles tens of metres long, and wide and tall enough for a person to stand inside. I’m surprised it isn’t still a thing people do, you could easily make one.

There was a bubble making competition. Most of the competitors seemed to be quite casual, but most of them found it fairly easy to be competitive.

jimerson, do games w Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded
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MUDs, I think, have a place on this list.

thisbenzingring, do gaming w A small moment in gaming history

there’s a common last name in some Sioux heritage… Killsenemy and a bunch of years ago a lot of American Indians with the last name were getting their accounts banned but the pale people with the same last name we not.

probably due to the n8v way of pointing out it’s KillsEnemy

robocall, do gaming w A small moment in gaming history
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Gaymer

Soupbreaker,

I know someone with this vanity plate!

rizzothesmall, do gaming w A small moment in gaming history
9point6,

Lol

In 2008, Microsoft confirmed that its policy to prevent the use of words relating to sexual orientation had meant that Richard Gaywood’s name was deemed offensive and could not be used in his “gamertag” or in the “Real Name” field of his bio.[42]

How does this exact issue happen twice

Are you not allowed to be gay on Xbox?

rizzothesmall,

Dick Gaywood is probably the funniest name in history. I hope he’s a supply teacher.

yucandu,

I had a supply teacher named Mike Hunt. He rolled with it. He said “You can call me Mike, or you can call me Mr Cunt”.

absGeekNZ,
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I don’t know.

Dr Rod Badcock has a fairly good claim. It is such a pornstar name.

silverchase, do games w Day 382 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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The header picture makes me imagine a Halo Kart

MyNameIsAtticus,
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There’s a mod out there for MCC that adds Mario Kart Tracks to Halo. I think it’s called Cursed Halo irc

ThePantser, do gaming w A small moment in gaming history

Strange how they haven’t been forced by Turnip to change their name yet.

IndiBrony, do gaming w A small moment in gaming history
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I always find that shit like this could be very easily resolved by a single person going on Google Maps Bing maps and searching for the place.

There are many places with seemingly stupid names.

roguetrick,

And there’s the problem. It wasn’t so much they refused to acknowledge the city existed. The company refused to acknowledge they had to provide support staff beyond seeing a ticket and closing the ticket.

ramius345,

Intercourse, PA ; checking in.

ChicoSuave,

The customer support center was probably locked from accessing any website except a tightly controlled set of pages and tools. Even Maps is too easy to turn into a game. Look at Geoguesser.

I remember in high school we would use MS Paint and an eraser tool to make a game where you had to trace over a similar sized line and whoever had the most erased without backtracking won. Point being, people will make a game out of anything so petty tyrants managers have to lock that shit down to focus their people on the work.

skulblaka,
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This is a pretty textbook example of the Scunthorpe Problem.

IndiBrony,
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Oh I live not too far from Scunthorpe. Believe me, it’s always been a problem 👍

BurntWits,
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Check out place names in Newfoundland, Canada. We’ve got Dildo, Placentia, Conception Bay, and many more. We’ve also got Heart’s Desire, Heart’s Content, and Hearts Delight, not necessarily inappropriate names but I could see someone flagging it as a fake name nevertheless.

Regrettable_incident, do games w Day 381 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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Hey mate I’m enjoying your posts and I’m happy to see you’re playing prey - because I am too. I’m old, only started playing games again after a twenty year gap when I got a steam deck last year, and I’m pretty crap at them all!

So help me out here - how the fuck do I deal with phantoms?

MyNameIsAtticus,
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The big carriers? Usually they leave after a bit so the best strategy for us is just to take cover and wait out. Or if you need to get them gone that second a well placed shot to the grunts on the turret with Magnum/Battle Rifle and then a sticky on the Main turret usually works pretty well

ViatorOmnium, do gaming w A small moment in gaming history

Give them a break, they were searching in Bing.

maniacalmanicmania,
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TIL Bing was launched in 2009. That can’t be right.

So the comment I’m replying to could be right on the money.

atomicbocks,

Bing was just a rebrand, Live/MSN Search was a thing for a decade or so at that point.

Kazumara,

I just went and checked Microsoft Encarta 2005, even that finds Fort Gay

Bronzebeard,

Yeah but the minimum wage call center employees who likely aren’t even in the US, didn’t have this issue as part of their script, so they didn’t care.

AstaKask,

Came here to make that exact joke. Have my upvote.

jaykrown, do games w My new game is live for anyone to play at https://kewbash.com/
kibiz0r, do games w My new game is live for anyone to play at https://kewbash.com/

I played, I won, I smiled. Good job OP!

jaykrown,

I’m glad, if you have any feature requests or issues you run into feel free to message me here or in the discord.

sym, do games w My new game is live for anyone to play at https://kewbash.com/

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  • jaykrown,

    I understand that, and it’s possible. I had it like that before on a wide screen, but went with consistency if someone plays on a big monitor or mobile they’re below for both. In the future I could add a layout toggle or something.

    jaykrown, do games w My new game is live for anyone to play at https://kewbash.com/
    Lumidaub,
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    Died on that hill.

    I have NO IDEA how I ended up in that spot lol I thought I was done then I wasn’t and I huh? That’s when some kind of log might come in handy like in chess. But maybe I’m asking too much of a small game like this :)

    jaykrown,

    Good game, and great use of your abilities though when things got tight I could tell you were taking a bit more time to think about it. The move log (+ end game reason) is a feature already posted in the forum that will be worked on.

    Lumidaub, do games w My new game is live for anyone to play at https://kewbash.com/
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    https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/72110b5e-efd8-414c-b6bf-119cfafb25fc.png

    I think this should display both players on the same tile, no? And maybe some hint as to what happened here (so my opponent knows I moved two spaces). In general, it’s not always clear what the final move was.

    Also, I just now realised that clicking “How to play” again closes the instructions. Was scrolling up and down between matches.

    Any way to get a sound to confirm a match was found?

    jaykrown,

    Great feedback, I can work on that. I’ll be adding a forum to the discord for feature requests and known issues.

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