Greetings from an old school gamer in sunny Costa Rica.

[RichardBlank]

After reading a few threads,I wanted to introduce myself to this community and look forward to sharing ideas with other forum members.




Best regards,


Richard




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[Smapdey]

I hate you already.

[Digital Limit]

Links in your signature? Do not trust.

[LittleChief]

Dick.

[Phobo]

Ass.

[Fatty]

Cunt.

[schnitzel_bob]

Balls.

[IcedEarth]

Shoulders.

[RichardBlank]

Thanks for the replies and warm welcome.



Richard

[Digital Limit]

Double sig'd!

[RichardBlank]

Thanks...

[Hobbes874]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/Hobbes874/1271890939525.png

[Digital Limit]

I have an erection right now, too. No plans for it, just yet.

[RichardBlank]

LOL

[IcedEarth]

Banks are gay.

[Digital Pimp]

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/039/078/original/1257.jpg?1265669527

[RichardBlank]

A lot of gay talk on this forum.

Nobody likes to discuss women????



Richard

[future man]

A lot of gay talk on this forum.

Nobody likes to discuss women????



Richard


Fuck no, grow a handlebar mustache or find the fucking door.

[RichardBlank]

Gotcha.

What about the babe of the day flash promo???

[future man]

We don't go in for that bullshit here. It's either bareback bug hunts or nothing.

[Dark_Swordmaster]

You are a very weird spambot. You keep coming back. And you respond to the conversation.

[Smapdey]

A lot of gay talk on this forum.

Nobody likes to discuss women????

Gross, he's trying to get all hetero on us. Let's call the FBI and let them deal with this pervert.

[RacerX]

Did someone write something about penises? No? Well, never mind then.

[RichardBlank]

I enjoy an askew conversation every now and again.

Have a good weekend.



Richard

[tisl]

Have you found any customers for your call center yet?

[IcedEarth]

Is your call center actually a male escort service?

[RichardBlank]

After 10 years, not a single client....


Freddy was an amazing singer and performer. He rocked!

[IcedEarth]

Are you implying that Freddie Mercury was an unsuccessful male escort?

GET OUT! YOU DO NOT INSULT THE GOOD NAME OF MR. MERCURY!

[RichardBlank]

no. guess again.

I was paying a compliment to an amazing entertainer. Here sits a huge fan of his work.


Try again champ....

[schnitzel_bob]

HOW DARE YOU! HOW. DARE. YOU! GET OUT!

[RichardBlank]

i am confused...

why are you so upset?

[schnitzel_bob]

OUT! GET OUT!

[RichardBlank]

relax friend.

[Lehesu]

This guy is eclectic enough to be intriguing.

[RichardBlank]

finally...a break through.

[Dark_Swordmaster]

Successful troll is successful?

[Hobbes874]

If I work in your call center, can I be paid in sweet Costa Rican babes? I like me dat brown shuga.

[Rhenna]

So, Richard, do you manage one of the companies that call me while I'm trying to work, eating supper, in the shower, sound asleep, or drunk? (Hmmm... That pretty much covers my entire existence. Sometimes I'm doing two or more of those things, concurrently.)

If so, may I please go postal in your facility with an AK? I promise not to track blood around on the carpets or anything...

[RichardBlank]

If I work in your call center, can I be paid in sweet Costa Rican babes? I like me dat brown shuga.


If you got game, it should come easy and a bonus to your salary.
Rhenna,

we handle mostly inbound customer service. We do not prospect nor disrupt your privacy.

On a side note, you joke can be deemed as a serious threat. I know you are playing, yet, in today's society, it can be considered an offense. I hope you are not serious...

[Lehesu]

Are you Arthur Blank's poor, retarded younger brother?

[RichardBlank]

The owner of Home Depot??

[schnitzel_bob]

On a side note, you joke can be deemed as a serious threat. I know you are playing, yet, in today's society, it can be considered an offense. I hope you are not serious...

She was asking, not stating. You're taking her question and constructing it into a threat. Frankly, we can't help it if your paranoid delusions cause you to see everyone around you as a dangerous AK wielding maniac.

[RichardBlank]

today, anything mentioned can be seen as askew. don't you think?

Just like saying the word bomb in an airport.

[IcedEarth]

TERRORIST!

[RichardBlank]

why? because I will not offer drugs?

Please....

[schnitzel_bob]

today, anything mentioned can be seen as askew. don't you think?

Just like saying the word bomb in an airport.

You're right, saying the word bomb in an airport is exactly the same as making a vague, comical threat on a tiny, nearly forgotten internet forum.

[RichardBlank]

strangers must be taken seriously. we don't know one another. anything can happen...

[Digital Limit]

I see you haven't been on The Internet long.

[RichardBlank]

I guess not.

Still, I believe that people can be kind to one another and try to make our days better.

Yet, I do enjoy a good debate every now and again.

[Lehesu]

ASKEW!!!!111!!1

[LittleChief]

A stern, professionally-worded spambot on the opposition. Just what the doctor ordered.

[Rhenna]

Rhenna,
...we handle mostly inbound customer service. We do not prospect nor disrupt your privacy.

On a side note, your joke can be deemed as a serious threat. I know you are playing, yet, in today's society, it can be considered an offense. I hope you are not serious...

Here's the way I see it, Richard. If you know I'm playing, then there is no need to hope I'm not serious. You tell me that your organization isn't responsible for annoying telephone calls. Fine. Then we're good. Let's say I was kidding about the AK. I mean, why bother with that when future man has a pipebomb in his pants?

If my words make you even the slightest bit uneasy, I would gently suggest you've probably joined the wrong Forum. And, I mean that in the nicest possible way.

Now, with regard to other things that might be uncomfortable, you may want to rethink the wisdom to associate your company with your presence, here. I'd say there is a 50/50 chance that, no matter how well you personally conduct yourself, your coworkers, and more importantly, your clients, might take a dim view of discovering that Señor Blank is associated with the vile and notorious atrip.net; the Eater of Babies and Destroyer of Worlds.

[Fatty]

I mean, why bother with that when future man has a pipebomb in his pants?

Thats not a pipe bomb...He's just a little excited.

[RichardBlank]

Here's the way I see it, Richard. If you know I'm playing, then there is no need to hope I'm not serious. You tell me that your organization isn't responsible for annoying telephone calls. Fine. Then we're good. Let's say I was kidding about the AK. I mean, why bother with that when future man has a pipebomb in his pants?

If my words make you even the slightest bit uneasy, I would gently suggest you've probably joined the wrong Forum. And, I mean that in the nicest possible way.

Now, with regard to other things that might be uncomfortable, you may want to rethink the wisdom to associate your company with your presence, here. I'd say there is a 50/50 chance that, no matter how well you personally conduct yourself, your coworkers, and more importantly, your clients, might take a dim view of discovering that Señor Blank is associated with the vile and notorious atrip.net; the Eater of Babies and Destroyer of Worlds.

I appreciate your follow up and respect your point of view.

Buyer beware (or in my case, forum member beware).

I can accept all sorts of rhetoric, bashing, teasing and such. My discomfort was with a life threat. Yes, you were kidding and the people here that know you can back you up.

Today, many people are unstable and take things to the extreme. From your disposition, I believe that you like to have fun and push the limits from time to time. It makes for a more enjoyable environment and good reading.

No worries.

[Lehesu]

Is English your first language, Herr Blank? If not, how did you learn it? Just curious...

[RichardBlank]

Native from Philadelphia.(go FLYERS!)

Lived in Spain for a year and Costa Rica for 10.

100% bilingual.

Communication and Spanish were my majors at college.

I appreciate the interest.

[IcedEarth]

Native from Philadelphia.(go FLYERS!)

Lived in Spain for a year and Costa Rica for 10.

100% bilingual.

Communication and Spanish were my majors at college.

I appreciate the interest.

You come across as a foreigner who is ESL. Also, the Flyers suck and will be eliminated shortly.

[RichardBlank]

You come across as a foreigner who is ESL. Also, the Flyers suck and will be eliminated shortly.

Is my grammar that bad? ESL?

By the way, the FLYERS rule!

We shall talk after they win.

[Lehesu]

Your speech obeys the laws of grammar. However, you tend towards a rather formal tone of writing that seems rather out of place.

[RichardBlank]

too formal, eh?

[schnitzel_bob]

Now you're just trying to seem Canadian.

[RichardBlank]

reminds me of the movie strange brew, eh??????

[Smapdey]

I've contacted the internet punctuation authority. They will be at your place shortly. They've been paid up front.

Remember children, one and you're done, or we smote your ass.

[RichardBlank]

They showed up and I paid them double of what you paid.

They are now in my pocket!

Have a nice weekend...

[Fatty]

Well you know what?? I triple paid them and now they're all my hookers.

Suck on that bitches.

[schnitzel_bob]

Well you know what?? I triple paid them and now they're all my hookers.

Suck on that bitches.

You talking to us or the hookers?

[Fatty]

Both

[MrBored]

Same thing?

[SPaRKY]

So you're a telemarketer? Isn't it like entirely legal for me to set up a program that constantly calls you and hangs up?

[RichardBlank]

Fatty

You publically one upped me. Congrats!

SPaRKY,

Good question.

The I.V.R program (integrated voice response) machines became illegal September 1st.

We never used them.

[Rhenna]

SPaRKY,

Good question.

The I.V.R program (integrated voice response) machines became illegal September 1st.

We never used them.

If I may; they are illegal where? In the U.S.? Elsewhere?

I do so hate telephones. In the encyclopedia, next to the phrase "necessary evil" there is a photograph of a telephone as the penultimate example. Actually, I think the illustration is a woodcut.

If my phone rings, and I don't know the person calling, then it better be either Publisher's Clearing House asking for directions to my place or Vladimir Putin giving me a courtesy heads-up over a little Soviet-era mishap that just completed it's boost phase and is heading my way. Everyone else can go scratch their collective posteriors; I'm not interested.

Few things in life are as annoying as a ringing telephone, save, perhaps, someone's insipid cellphone ringtone. And, let's be honest about ringtones; they're all pretty insipid... I'm so glad I don't own a cellphone, and that I never have, and never will.

In fact, I fantasize about having a 2500 Terawatt cellphone barrage jammer that could blackout all cell traffic in six States at the press of a button, and at the drop of a hat. My hat, your hat, it really doesn't matter. Of course, that very same 2,500,000 Gigawatts might cause a few premature gray hairs, so I may need to either rethink this, or simply double-up on the tinfoil hat specifications.

If someone asked if they could put some goddam device in our homes, for that matter, right next to our beds, that literally anyone on the entire planet, even some gomer in Tierra del Fuego, could cause to make an annoying noise at any time of the day or night, without any prior warning or permission, I would submit that most of us would cripple that jackass on the spot. But, in a very real sense, that is pretty much what we've done.

Telephones may well represent the biggest legalized racket in the United States, except, perhaps, for automobile insurance. (Cable TV isn't far behind.) Closing a relay, so that two parties can communicate, translates now into simply biasing a few transistors in a particular way. Yet, the charge for that single conversation often makes one wonder if an elite cadre of technicians needed to climb a pole and wrestle with a set of jumper cables just so it could take place. I'm a full-on capitalist, so I don't want the government stepping in to "help." (Dear God, no!) But, I could damn near drive both ways to see my youngest brother face-to-face, including us going out for a steak dinner, for what I pay to call him on the phone about 85 miles away, as that proverbial crow allegedly flys. That ain't right.

So, Richard, just what old-skool games do you/did you play?

[RichardBlank]

My favorite question:

I own 5 originals:

vindicators, phoenix, free kick, freedom (pinball), space shuttle(pinball)
plus: bumper pool table, 5 cent ballys grand slot machine

in addition: vectrex, intellivision and coleco vision.

I love the games from the 1980s and 1970s!

You?

[SPaRKY]

If I may; they are illegal where? In the U.S.? Elsewhere?

I do so hate telephones. In the encyclopedia, next to the phrase "necessary evil" there is a photograph of a telephone as the penultimate example. Actually, I think the illustration is a woodcut.

If my phone rings, and I don't know the person calling, then it better be either Publisher's Clearing House asking for directions to my place or Vladimir Putin giving me a courtesy heads-up over a little Soviet-era mishap that just completed it's boost phase and is heading my way. Everyone else can go scratch their collective posteriors; I'm not interested.

Few things in life are as annoying as a ringing telephone, save, perhaps, someone's insipid cellphone ringtone. And, let's be honest about ringtones; they're all pretty insipid... I'm so glad I don't own a cellphone, and that I never have, and never will.

In fact, I fantasize about having a 2500 Terawatt cellphone barrage jammer that could blackout all cell traffic in six States at the press of a button, and at the drop of a hat. My hat, your hat, it really doesn't matter. Of course, that very same 2,500,000 Gigawatts might cause a few premature gray hairs, so I may need to either rethink this, or simply double-up on the tinfoil hat specifications.

If someone asked if they could put some goddam device in our homes, for that matter, right next to our beds, that literally anyone on the entire planet, even some gomer in Tierra del Fuego, could cause to make an annoying noise at any time of the day or night, without any prior warning or permission, I would submit that most of us would cripple that jackass on the spot. But, in a very real sense, that is pretty much what we've done.

Telephones may well represent the biggest legalized racket in the United States, except, perhaps, for automobile insurance. (Cable TV isn't far behind.) Closing a relay, so that two parties can communicate, translates now into simply biasing a few transistors in a particular way. Yet, the charge for that single conversation often makes one wonder if an elite cadre of technicians needed to climb a pole and wrestle with a set of jumper cables just so it could take place. I'm a full-on capitalist, so I don't want the government stepping in to "help." (Dear God, no!) But, I could damn near drive both ways to see my youngest brother face-to-face, including us going out for a steak dinner, for what I pay to call him on the phone about 85 miles away, as that proverbial crow allegedly flys. That ain't right.

So, Richard, just what old-skool games do you/did you play?
I got a good laugh out of that, I hate when people try to converse via telephone instead of in person too, I don't know why but I've always found that annoying. Maybe because you feel obligated to say something every minute of the call

[RichardBlank]

silence is much more powerful.

You know what you already know. You learn from others. That is why God gave us two ears and one mouth!

[LittleChief]

So Richie; what do you like in movies/music?

[schnitzel_bob]

This is bizarro thread.

[Fatty]

Few things in life are as annoying as a ringing telephone, save, perhaps, someone's insipid cellphone ringtone. And, let's be honest about ringtones; they're all pretty insipid... I'm so glad I don't own a cellphone, and that I never have, and never will.


I like to put mine on vibrate.

[Hobbes874]

I like to put mine on vibrate.
And then into your colon. TEEHEE!

[schnitzel_bob]

Wouldn't you have to shove it far up there for it to actually get to your colon?

[Rhenna]

My favorite question:

I own 5 originals:

vindicators, phoenix, free kick, freedom (pinball), space shuttle(pinball)
plus: bumper pool table, 5 cent ballys grand slot machine

in addition: vectrex, intellivision and coleco vision.

I love the games from the 1980s and 1970s!

You?

I'm assuming only the first three *may* be video games of some sort, but I don't recognize the titles. The only thing remotely resembling a console that I've ever touched is the original Atari 2600 that belongs to my oldest brother. I still have it packed away, somewhere, along with a dozen or so games. I'm betting the joysticks are MIA, however.

If I skip all the Commodore titles from the pre-PC days, I suppose the first PC-exclusive title that made a lasting impression was the original Wing Commander. Ran pretty well on the first PC I built, a 12Mhz 80286 with a soundcard that preceded the Creative Soundblaster, but I can't remember what it was called... Only that it was expensive.

This is bizarro thread.

I can't disagree. But, at present, it's almost the only thing stirring in this mausoleum.

Wouldn't you have to shove it far up there for it to actually get to your colon?

I have no idea. I think actual ingress into the large intestine incurs "roaming charges" under most contracts. I could be mistaken.

[RichardBlank]

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10319
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=12703
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9004

[schnitzel_bob]

I have no idea. I think actual ingress into the large intestine incurs "roaming charges" under most contracts. I could be mistaken.

HA! Well played.

[tisl]

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10319
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=12703
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9004
lol. What's the newest game you've played?

[RichardBlank]

sorry.

it may be 2010, but I am still living in 1985.

[IcedEarth]

I was born in '85. Important year.

[RichardBlank]

The year I became a man!


:D

[IcedEarth]

Old fart.

[RichardBlank]

Thanks. Things seem to be much different back then.

[IcedEarth]

What was it like back in the Dark Ages, before the Interwebs?

[Rhenna]

It would seem that your faith in the Flyers was well-founded. And, that IcedEarth is obviously no authority on hockey. Beer, probably, but hockey? Not so much...

I had a chance to watch the final four games of the Bruins-Flyers series at a neighbor's place who actually has enough of a view of the Southern sky to have a functional satellite dish. (Not a common thing in this area.)

I've never seen any team down three games to none in a seven game series come back and win four straight games. I imagine they were jumping out of windows, smashing furniture and engaging in unbridled domestic misconduct in Boston, Friday night. I would love to have read the autopsy report on the sports page of the Boston Globe the following day. Hope you had a chance to see your team pull off quite an upset. Hmmm... I guess there aren't exactly too many bars in Rohrmoser where the locals gather to watch the NHL playoffs. Probably only six dozen or so.

You know, "Rohrmoser" doesn't exactly strike me as being an especially Iberian-related name. It actually sounds more like some secret German military facility in Western Austria that the British bombed the hell out of in WWII. I'm pretty sure that is where Hitler had his Global Warming Device being constructed.

[IcedEarth]

It wasn't a matter of whether or not I thought the Flyers would win, but that I did not WANT them to. I have a completely unfounded hate for that team.

[Lehesu]

It wasn't a matter of whether or not I thought the Flyers would win, but that I did not WANT them to. I have a completely unfounded hate for that team.

Well, as long as its unfounded...

[RichardBlank]

I made the call! They will win the cup in 7.


Pura Vida.

[IcedEarth]

Well, as long as its unfounded...

Actually, I remembered what it was that made me start hating the Flyers. It was when they had Steve Downie. Especially after this hit:

Downie cheap hit on McAmmond (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=322zqTkL0-c&NR=1)

I know he doesn't play for them any more, but they still comes across as dirty fucks.

[RichardBlank]

Good game on Sunday!