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In the wave of “Occupy Wall Street”, “Occupy Oakland”, “Occupy Everything” … at least let occupy Terra Nova 🙂

Thursday *LAME* Clan’s deathmatch in Terra Nova. Not sure I will play. Jesse proposed to play at 20:30, instead of at 21:00. Post your comments here and vote for your favourite maps.

Recycling operation: I’ve put together 12 of my creations, with fun Western movie quotes and anniversaries from Old West events in this calendar for year 2012. All images were previously featured in this site or in BallerBude’s one.

A preview:

Take the calendar here.

It’s a PDF apt to be printed at home in the simplest possible way. Paper size: A4, resolution: 300 dpi. It has not been assembled for binding, nor for typography. For best result, I suggest to print on photographic paper.

1st warning! The file is huge (around 50 MB).

2nd warning! If you don’t want to waste ink and paper, print a single page and look at result. If you are satisfied print more.

Credits:

• For help: *LAME Clan, Baller Bude.
• For historical dates and Israeli holiday dates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_American_Old_West, *LAME* Greyman, *LAME* SAPE, and *LAME* Mope.
• Movie quotes from: A Fistful of Dollars, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Duck You Sucker, The Outlaw Josey Wales, True Grit.

Our neologism “lamerick“ (a mix of lame and limerick) officially enters in Urban Dictionary … [Mugs, T-shirts, Mousepads, Magnets available] 🙂

But what is Urban Dictionary anyway?

When you start playing online games, one of the first problems you have to solve is understanding what others are saying in game chat.

In a virtual world where people from all regions and dialects come together and communicate in real time with everyone else, it should be no surprise that the language used in these cyber realms takes on qualities of its own.

gg, bb, cu, cya, omg, afk, lame, noob, cheat, pwned, lol, brb, n1, gn, thx, ty, ns, lag, ping, bot, camper, kick, spec, wtf, idk, k, np, …

Hmm…, for me it wasn’t easy at all, until someone pointed me to Urban Dictionary.

Urban Dictionary is a web-based dictionary of slang words and phrases, which contains over 10 million definitions. Submissions are regulated by volunteer editors and rated by site visitors. Most words have multiple definitions, usage examples, and tags. Many examples are funny, though frequently gross.

[BTW, the image above is an accurate “Wordle“ of the words I used more frequently in BallerBude game chat, during the 6 months when I was admin. Based on BB logs].

Looking at his/her game history in BB stats, are you able to identify this mysterious player?

Thursday evening is approaching again. Keep ready for one more loving tribute to *Lame* Clan, to Terra Nova, to Smokin’ Guns.

Meeting Time: 21:00 (GMT+1). Vote for maps in comments.

[Inspiration: http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianmontone/5149084775/]

Make love ❤❤❤ Don’t make deathmatches ✟✟✟