So Mom's birthday was the 17th, and she calls me up, and she's like "Dad got me a 40" widescreen TV!"
"Ooo," I say. "Will it fit in my luggage when I come home?"
So then she calls me last night, and we're talking, and she says "Oh, you'll never guess what our new pre-bedtime ritual is now."
"Er, no..." I say, wondering if there's some goat sacrificing or something I just wasn't aware of for 25 years.
"We've been playing Mario!"
"Mario. Like, original NES, Mario 1? That Mario?"
"Yeah! With the coins, and the plants that eat you!"
"That's too awesome." I say.
Because there's something highly amusing about my parents hooking up games from my 1980s childhood to a state of the art TV. That vast increase in graphical quality, you understand.
Also, as a tangental side note while transcribing the maps from the old AD&D modules A1-A4 into CC2 so I can run them come December, it turns out that one of the dungeons therein has The Cave. We can only presume that this is the natural lair of The Deer (and perhaps The Elk as well), though I have yet to spot any flamestrikes or plaid fire.
If anybody but Cole gets any of that, I'll be impressed.
Posted by Dwip at November 21, 2006 5:06 PMIs it sad that I got that? and the hat was awesome...
Posted by: Gormican at November 22, 2006 7:57 PMYou'd be the only other person I'd expect to get that, really. Considering you were THERE.
Posted by: Dwip at November 22, 2006 8:01 PMThe Deer is teh pwnage. Firstly, The Deer never mastered any language other than the one that casts flamestrike... otoh, that's a badass language to learn. Secondly, The Deer, doesn't live in The Cave, that is where The Bear lives... And... well... he casts Quantum Spike.
Posted by: Clyos at November 22, 2006 8:28 PM