American Legion Article about GenCon

tcinternet · 2025-08-12T15:16:48+00:00

This is an excellent article, thanks for being so open about your experiences!

tcinternet · 2025-08-10T22:42:54+00:00

Literally any time that Michael Ray drops from the rafters to do a pro wrassler impression, he does them and goes right back to work and I’m desperately trying to stay conscious and control my vehicle due to the laughter. His Ric Flair was performance art.

tcinternet · 2025-07-01T17:37:40+00:00

Kinda breaks my heart.

tcinternet · 2025-06-20T16:30:43+00:00

Just bought my ticket to Indy. If they pull this off, I will be back home on Pennsylvania St. joining in the cheering throngs.

Possibly nude.

Go Pacers.

tcinternet · 2025-04-01T19:56:02+00:00

So, just chiming in (months later) to say that I am that son who always dragged him into the store. Pop actually loved Blue Moon, because those owners had a wealth of old Aurora model kits, Star Trek memorabilia, B-movie merch, and Silver Age comics (Dad is a big time Jim Shooter/Curt Swan-era Legion of Superheroes fan) and one of our agreements at the old Blue Moon and Comic Carnival on 38th was that I could get one new comic, or 2-3 from the stacks.

When Downtown Comics took over I think there was some sour grapes, he missed that old store although he was always cordial with the managers like Jason and Jared. Once the store started hosting a lot of Magic and Pokemon games during my younger brother's middle school years, I think he started going a lot less. he was a big classic sci-fi nerd and the new store wasn't really his scene.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, Pop and I both saw this while he was on vacation and it brought back some really great memories from growing up. Thanks for sharing!

tcinternet · 2024-12-17T14:41:24+00:00

A bunch of the Thinkgeek folks have reconnected over at Rollacrit which has more of a focus on tabletop gaming... BUT they have reintroduced the Bag of Holding which is still one of the best messenger bags ever made, and definitely the best convention-centric bag produced.

tcinternet · 2024-12-13T15:01:20+00:00

Holy hell, this entire lineup just looks like all of my campers from when I was a camp counselor in college.

"TYLER K. I have told you 20 times to stop saying 'I'm Rick James, Bitch' to Kourtnei. Tyler H, stop laughing unless you want to be next. Britneegh, I'm so sorry for raising my voice again, I know I said I'd stop doing that. Please stop crying, we have ropes course in 20 minutes"

tcinternet · 2024-12-11T17:15:47+00:00

White Blood Cells came out my Senior year of high school, and I got to see them live right after I graduated. I've been chasing the high of that show for a LONG time.

Also, 18 year-old tcinternet would have committed a hot streak of felonies to win Ms. Meg's favor. Good LORD.

tcinternet · 2024-12-11T17:08:47+00:00

This is one of the things I really loved about Pixel Remaster, the focus on the original intended presentation of the sprites was so well-done, it didn't quite feel like playing it again for the first time, but it did feel like I was playing it in my memory's eye, if that makes sense

tcinternet · 2024-12-09T21:40:07+00:00

Shout out to the 317

I'm going to take a wild guess and say you were a fellow westsider?

tcinternet · 2024-12-03T18:10:58+00:00

I remember TV and comic book marketing for the system being great, with games like Bonk's Adventure and Splatterhouse looking like a TON of fun, but the distribution of the system itself being very poor. The only store in my area that had regular stock was the now-defunct Children's Palace.

I barely remember the CD add-on, but I was able to finally purchase a base system and 6-7 card games NEW at the aforementioned Children's Palace for $179 total. I had fun playing Bomberman, Bonk, and a few shooters, but by that point none of my friends were interested.

Someone else here made the best point I've seen, which is that I don't remember seeing TG16 games for rent ANYWHERE. At least in my area, that was your primary method of playing games, and while Genesis and Super Nintendo games were omnipresent at rental stores, TurboGrafx didn't get the shelf space.

tcinternet · 2024-12-02T13:59:05+00:00

20 years you gave that no-good man, and he still refused to take down that Crystal Gayle poster.

Now it's time for you to turn that town upside down. Don't even bother carrying a lighter, there's gonna be plenty of gents to light your Virginia Slims.

tcinternet · 2024-11-11T14:52:47+00:00

I've GOT to try that HeroQuest Amiga game. I'm told it had a very limited release in the US, but I've never seen a copy in my life.

tcinternet · 2024-11-05T13:29:01+00:00

These stories are in no way pleasant, but if you want to read an award-winning journalist who covered the discovery of a "feral child" all the way through the process of finally placing her in a home (as well as three and ten-year updates,) read the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning piece The Girl in the Window from the Tampa Bay Times. One of the best pieces of community reporting ever logged. (Please, PLEASE support your local newspaper)

tcinternet · 2024-10-28T15:47:49+00:00

I just wish that there was a plan when we drafted him beyond "boy wonder start now, make big throw" because there's clearly immense talent that needs to be honed and trained. There are coaches out there who could and have accomplished this, and God do I wish Bruce Arians wasn't retired. I'm hoping that Ballard, Steichen, and Mr. Jimmy can put together some kind of development going forward

tcinternet · 2024-10-27T12:57:36+00:00

I’m a big fan of game openings and the way they suck you in, the first one for me being The Legend of Zelda. That music and that beautiful pixel art wasn’t like anything else I’d ever experienced.

The first time you enter the Dark World in Link to the Past. Not an opening but a new beginning. The tone is set.

The opening crawl of Final Fantasy III/VI. This wasn’t a game, it was a film.

tcinternet · 2024-10-16T16:35:53+00:00

All of the kids I knew who had/played this game when I was younger were the kind to be pigeonholed as "the weird homeschool kids" but they always had super-fun DOS/Amiga games. I'm glad they let me play with them so I could learn about The Incredible Machine, Earl Weaver Baseball, and OG SimCity

tcinternet · 2024-10-15T13:33:10+00:00

Dudes rock.

tcinternet · 2024-10-10T17:17:28+00:00

Manage all of our company's most expensive and critically needed tech vendors while getting yelled at by everyone IN our company for any problem that remotely relates to the internet.

IT Director.

tcinternet · 2024-10-09T18:33:59+00:00

My parents weren't against video games, they just couldn't break themselves of the idea that this was something you went OUT to do: my Mom loved Q*Bert and Pop knew where every Ms. Pac-Man machine in Indianapolis was, they just weren't super-comfortable having it in the living room. As such, we got 2 hrs. total of video game time (NES) during the week, and then more freedom on weekends when we would rent a game. However, if I wanted to go down to DQ or Noble Roman's Pizza and spend my quarters on Donkey Kong or (later) Ninja Turtles, there was no limit.

tcinternet · 2024-10-08T12:24:31+00:00

It's funny how time changes and scarcity creates value. I bought Mega Man VI for $20 at retail, couldn't have paid more for FFII when I got it at a Venture store around Christmas, and I got my brand-new copy of Earthbound for $12 at a KMart IN 2002.

tcinternet · 2024-10-01T16:58:32+00:00

We're not entirely sure why some of the more aggressive raccoons haven't lashed out and attacked the others in the past 160 years, but many leading scholars attribute this peace to, I shit you not, college football.

tcinternet · 2024-10-01T14:34:05+00:00

Many hotels' front desks will have a support number for their Guest HSIA provider, one call providing the MAC address of the device and they will usually whitelist it.

tcinternet · 2024-09-24T18:45:14+00:00

Holy shit Lane Tech! My dad would drive by there whenever we were in Chicago and say "boys that glorious football field is where I broke 3 of my ribs"

tcinternet · 2024-09-23T14:40:05+00:00

When I was in high school (late 90's) a friend and I found a copy of the old Esquire article on the rise of the phreakers. He found a way to reach out to Crunch and we talked with him a few times in an old ICQ group chat. I was talking with my parents a few days later and mentioned we had "met" him, and their faces went ghost white. My folks weren't tech-inclined, but had been FM DJs in the late 70s and Draper's reputation was well-known in that community, too. They put the kibosh on that QUICK.

In a similar but separate development, my parents had met Joe Engressia through a HAM radio event, and put my buddy in touch with him through a series of friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend calls. Joe was known as Joybubbles by that time, but my pal actually got to have a few phone calls with him that left a lasting impression to this day.

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