I was at a park yesterday where some friends were fishing and those of us who weren't eventually got bored and started chucking shit in the lake. I told them about Sink, and only one payed attention really(but she got into it, she was hellbent on sinking Kentucky[this was in Illinois]), but we all kept throwing shit anyway. Eventually we found a bunch of wood, including the palate for crates or whatever, and we were all a couple joints in at that point so we decided it was our boat, and threw it over the mound of shopping carts that were already in the lake when we got there, and spent a good 45 minutes pushing it out to sea and throwing shit at/on it. It was an incredible amount of fun.
Anyway, has anyone else intentionally played Sink?
Does anyone play any other absurdist games they consider Discordian?
1000 Blank White Cards comes to mind. Any others?
Oh yeah, and pics to come.
Sink is my least favourite part of the PD.
It's like the stuff toward the end of Steal This Book, when you wish Abbie had just stopped when he was on a high note.
(pun mostly not intended)
I just sank your Battleship with the candlestick, in the conservatory. Sorry!
Quote from: Rev. Whats His Name? on May 14, 2008, 01:41:00 PM
I just sank your Battleship with the candlestick, in the conservatory. Sorry!
I didn't know you were Colonel Mustard....
:lulz:
pfft! That wanker? No way, I'm Miss Scarlett.
Quote from: Rev. Whats His Name? on May 14, 2008, 02:48:29 PM
pfft! That wanker? No way, I'm Miss Scarlett.
ZOMG if YOU are Miss Scarlet, then who am I?
:eek:
I'm not sure I actually understand this game - been a while since I read the Principia, and I don't even remember that part.
You just throw stuff in a lake? That kind of seems like litering.
I once sank the Home Counties.
Ask revidic about our alleged 'summer' last year.
I haven't been south since Easter (which was pretty nice), how bad is it? Up here, in Scotland, its pretty good, we have the occasional overcast day but otherwise its nice and sunny.
Portland used to have a lot of yellow bicycles which were free for anyone to use, but too many people played sink with them and now there are hardly any left.
Hey, remember when the banks played sink with those loans? :lulz:
The Official Game Of The 2012 Olympics!
I just sank Kennebec County!
I'd say you've done many of us a service.
Sink I'm not sure I understand. I suppose I see the quality, but in practice, it sounds a lot like litering?
Now building makeshift dams... that was my favorite hobby in elementary school. I used to go to streams with friends and get piles of rocks and debris and build really solid dams... well, or as solid a dam as you can build with rocks and debris. We never really had a plan for the dams though. It was just sort of a social thing. We hung out and built dams and enjoyed ourselves as the water kind of started to flood....
ah, good times.
we did the same thing, except we'd bring our machetes and cut down every plant in a two-acre radius, and then accidentally build a dam by dropping it all in the creek.
also, we were still doing that shit in 12th grade, because it was that much fun.
Quote from: NWC on May 14, 2008, 04:34:03 AM
I was at a park yesterday where some friends were fishing and those of us who weren't eventually got bored and started chucking shit in the lake. I told them about Sink, and only one payed attention really(but she got into it, she was hellbent on sinking Kentucky[this was in Illinois]), but we all kept throwing shit anyway. Eventually we found a bunch of wood, including the palate for crates or whatever, and we were all a couple joints in at that point so we decided it was our boat, and threw it over the mound of shopping carts that were already in the lake when we got there, and spent a good 45 minutes pushing it out to sea and throwing shit at/on it. It was an incredible amount of fun.
Anyway, has anyone else intentionally played Sink?
Does anyone play any other absurdist games they consider Discordian?
1000 Blank White Cards comes to mind. Any others?
Oh yeah, and pics to come.
1. Way to pollute the fucking lake.
2. If that blank cards shit starts up again, I will personally shit all over this entire site until my rectum overheats and melts down. You will all smell my scorched intestines before I am done.
Use the search function, for fuck's sake.
What is blank cards?
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on June 26, 2008, 03:28:18 AM
What is blank cards?
you know all the "post your version of the same thing the last 300 posts said" threads? it's like that, except there's actually potential for lulz.
I just completely ignored whatever forum that was in.
As an IRL game, it has massive lulz potential, if you have an active rather than passive imagination.
As an online game, it's nothing but another stupid race to the top of Mount Cleverest.
I agree that Sink is a bit of a flop, particularly in modern times. But then, I never saw it as a actual game, but rather a short joke on the idea of labeling. :lulz:
I saw it as a dual joke on labelling and on the pointlessness and stupidity of things we do as pastimes.
I'm not joking. I will lay a steaming turd the size of a school bus.
How does it work in real life?
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on June 27, 2008, 04:42:12 AM
How does it work in real life?
I grunt really hard, and then the poop comes out.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 26, 2008, 02:53:50 AM
2. If that blank cards shit starts up again, I will personally shit all over this entire site until my rectum overheats and melts down. You will all smell my scorched intestines before I am done.
Use the search function, for fuck's sake.
I remember the RPG forum you guys had here when i first came in
:lol:
on the plus side it was a graveyard
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on June 27, 2008, 04:47:58 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 26, 2008, 02:53:50 AM
2. If that blank cards shit starts up again, I will personally shit all over this entire site until my rectum overheats and melts down. You will all smell my scorched intestines before I am done.
Use the search function, for fuck's sake.
I remember the RPG forum you guys had here when i first came in
:lol:
on the plus side it was a graveyard
I thought I was gonna have a stroke.
No no, I mean how does the game work in real life?
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on June 27, 2008, 05:03:41 AM
No no, I mean how does the game work in real life?
What game?
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on June 27, 2008, 05:03:41 AM
No no, I mean how does the game work in real life?
official rules:
1. produce blank white "card"
2. hand to Roger
3. watch in horrified amazement as Roger fills the "card" with a thick, gooey patch of 98.6-degree "hate" and proceeds to hand it back to you, dirty side out.
Quote from: vexati0n on June 27, 2008, 05:11:36 AM
as Roger fills the "card" with a thick, gooey patch
IF you're
lucky.
TGRR,
Getting more roughage in his diet.
Quote from: R.W.H.N? on May 14, 2008, 02:48:29 PM
pfft! That wanker? No way, I'm Miss Scarlett.
My favorite solution to a Cluedo/Clue game (it's called different names depending on where you live):
Miss Scarlett in the bedroom with a candlestick.
Sink is described in Principia Discordia, 4th edition, on page 00066.
I'd post a link to how to play 1000 Blank White Cards, but when I post links here I get flamed. I've never played that online, but IRL it can be very funny and a lot of fun. It's something like Calvinball, where you make your own rules by making your own cards. You can get some links to different versions of it by searching for "1000 Blank White Cards," or "1KBWC."
I love how you treat everyone like a retard...or a 13 year-old.
Me too! In fact, that's my favourite bit about him. :D
Holy fuck Cain - you're like a 1 man temperance league today.
Go on - let your hair down :evil:
To me, it's actually funnier to know that the joke is trembling on the edge of existence, but not coming through; but we know it's there.
I miss playing calvinball.
Quote from: Rabid Badger of God on June 27, 2008, 09:08:07 AM
I love how you treat everyone like a retard...or a 13 year-old.
You mean by trying to have sex with them?
Quote from: Reverend Uncle BadTouch on June 27, 2008, 08:53:40 AM
Sink is described in Principia Discordia, 4th edition, on page 00066.
I'd post a link to how to play 1000 Blank White Cards, but when I post links here I get flamed. I've never played that online, but IRL it can be very funny and a lot of fun. It's something like Calvinball, where you make your own rules by making your own cards. You can get some links to different versions of it by searching for "1000 Blank White Cards," or "1KBWC."
:mullet:
LIKE WOW!
im glad he explained how to google that cause i never woulda figured it out all by myself!
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I just sank your battleship.
Quote from: Reverend Uncle BadTouch on June 27, 2008, 08:40:46 AM
Quote from: R.W.H.N? on May 14, 2008, 02:48:29 PM
pfft! That wanker? No way, I'm Miss Scarlett.
My favorite solution to a Cluedo/Clue game (it's called different names depending on where you live):
Miss Scarlett in the bedroom with a candlestick.
You don't say?
2 Discordian games (that I invented an hour ago):
pterodactyl invasion:
you and any number of people(or just you) go to a beach, and make sand pterodactyls everywhere. I figured out a really cool and easy/quick-ish way to make them, you could easily make one a minute. With a partner it would go pretty fast.
the pterodactyl sacrifice game:
make the same pterodactyl near the waves, and then sit around for awhile until the pterodactyl is sacrificed to lake Michigan (or whatever body of water you choose).
I think I'm just going to spend a week on the beach. I'm on vacation in the states, and I have a beach where I can walk for miles undisturbed just 10 minutes away by car :) Also, I really, really love skipping stones.
edit: I think there was another discordian games thread recently in apple talk, but I only found this one with the search function
Quote from: NWC on July 20, 2010, 03:41:33 AM
2 Discordian games (that I invented an hour ago):
pterodactyl invasion:
you and any number of people(or just you) go to a beach, and make sand pterodactyls everywhere. I figured out a really cool and easy/quick-ish way to make them, you could easily make one a minute. With a partner it would go pretty fast.
the pterodactyl sacrifice game:
make the same pterodactyl near the waves, and then sit around for awhile until the pterodactyl is sacrificed to lake Michigan (or whatever body of water you choose).
I think I'm just going to spend a week on the beach. I'm on vacation in the states, and I have a beach where I can walk for miles undisturbed just 10 minutes away by car :) Also, I really, really love skipping stones.
edit: I think there was another discordian games thread recently in apple talk, but I only found this one with the search function
Um, there's a whole fucking subforum for this crap.
ok, thanks for your kind help. Which one?
Quote from: NWC on July 20, 2010, 03:51:22 AM
ok, thanks for your kind help. Which one?
RPG Ghetto. It's a subforum of Multimedia Menace. Please to keep genius ripoffs of sink there.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 20, 2010, 03:53:14 AM
Quote from: NWC on July 20, 2010, 03:51:22 AM
ok, thanks for your kind help. Which one?
RPG Ghetto. It's a subforum of Multimedia Menace. Please to keep genius ripoffs of sink there.
Move it there then if you like.
Yeah it's got a similar feeling to sink, but it's great way to clear your mind after studying/working all day. All the pointless repetitive action of sink with the added notion of creation.
They told me you're supposed to play sink with other people. Well, I guess I shouldn't have taken them so literally. :(
I would like to play this with people I guess, but I prefer it alone. There's no one else there, I can just do what I please without even considering how other people would judge me, throwing stones, making sand pterodactyls, singing.
I guess I would also really enjoy that with my girlfriend, I plan to see if she wants to play when she gets here next week :)