Funny Descent Memories thread...
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 6:01 pmLet's post our funniest Descent memories!
For me it probably dates to around 1997. Let's just set the stage:
I was at my first job, as an intern at Wake Forest University. I did very LITTLE work ever at this job, it was basically just a time to play around on the computer for 3 hours a day and get paid a ridiculously low minimum wage of something like $4.75/hour at the time. I had 2 other coworkers the same age as me, and our boss had recently just put up a dart board on the wall. Spice Girls were popular at this time, and of course we hated them.. So we printed out a picture of them and put it on the dart board. Bonus points for hitting them in the eye and calling them "blinky"...
So we had 3 desktop computers set up at 3 side-by-side cubicles. I brought my preferred joystick at the time, a Gravis Blackhawk (I didn't discover the wonders of twist axis until slightly later, but it was a really comfortable stick). Thomas brought his Gravis Phoenix which was an OMG monstrosity. Adam didn't have a joystick and I can't remember if I brought a cheap logitech joystick, or the third computer may have just been set up with mouse aiming.
Anyway, we set up a Descent anarchy game where our player names were "I", "you", and "me". Two of us would play Descent against each other, while the other played Darts against the spice girls. When the dart player was done, we would all rotate chairs and so everybody got to play Descent at each computer (with vastly different control setups!). I guess it would have been better if we had 1 more person.
Alas, the in-game kill messages were hillarious. "I killed you"! No you didn't! "Me" killed "you"! No, "You killed I!" What? And so on! We were cracking up furiously over these messages when our grand-boss, a man of few words came over to see what we were laughing at. "Well sir, we've got this game set up and made our player names "I", "you", and "me"". Him "You mean you've got those games connected to each other? Fascinating". He watched for a minute and then walked off... And we just continued the mayhem
As you can see, it didn't really matter that we weren't working.
Best..Job..ever...
For me it probably dates to around 1997. Let's just set the stage:
I was at my first job, as an intern at Wake Forest University. I did very LITTLE work ever at this job, it was basically just a time to play around on the computer for 3 hours a day and get paid a ridiculously low minimum wage of something like $4.75/hour at the time. I had 2 other coworkers the same age as me, and our boss had recently just put up a dart board on the wall. Spice Girls were popular at this time, and of course we hated them.. So we printed out a picture of them and put it on the dart board. Bonus points for hitting them in the eye and calling them "blinky"...
So we had 3 desktop computers set up at 3 side-by-side cubicles. I brought my preferred joystick at the time, a Gravis Blackhawk (I didn't discover the wonders of twist axis until slightly later, but it was a really comfortable stick). Thomas brought his Gravis Phoenix which was an OMG monstrosity. Adam didn't have a joystick and I can't remember if I brought a cheap logitech joystick, or the third computer may have just been set up with mouse aiming.
Anyway, we set up a Descent anarchy game where our player names were "I", "you", and "me". Two of us would play Descent against each other, while the other played Darts against the spice girls. When the dart player was done, we would all rotate chairs and so everybody got to play Descent at each computer (with vastly different control setups!). I guess it would have been better if we had 1 more person.
Alas, the in-game kill messages were hillarious. "I killed you"! No you didn't! "Me" killed "you"! No, "You killed I!" What? And so on! We were cracking up furiously over these messages when our grand-boss, a man of few words came over to see what we were laughing at. "Well sir, we've got this game set up and made our player names "I", "you", and "me"". Him "You mean you've got those games connected to each other? Fascinating". He watched for a minute and then walked off... And we just continued the mayhem
As you can see, it didn't really matter that we weren't working.
Best..Job..ever...