Do:
- Play card games rather than study
- Playing card games in the common rooms has long been a
staple form of social interaction for KAOS agents. Particularly
popular games include: 500, Black Bitch (not the MS version),
Scum, Bastard Gin, and Sex.
- Learn to talk a load of shit
Talking shit in the LCR is a KAOS tradition with a long and proud
history, which has been sadly neglected in recent years. The great
days of premium grade conversational manure - rich and dark - have been
replaced by the thin, watery chicken shit of the student loan era. The
MTV and microwave dinner generation only have the attention span for
rabbit dropping quantities of shit, it seems. This makes me sad.
KAOS agents should consider it their duty to consider such things as
the proper and correct way to construct an effective live frog
launcher. They should, with an air of mock solemnity, contemplate the
ways in which everything is better with monkeys. They should ponder why
it is, that in any album review that features a song where someone is
playing a banjo, the reviewer always seems to mention that they're
"notoriously difficult to tune" - like they're somehow in league with
a nervous guitar industry who's worried the kids will all suddenly switch
to playing banjos or something - "Whoa! Dude! Did you see that kid in
Deliverance with the banjo? That was jerkin', man. We should get ourselves
some banjos and start a Jug band!" "Like, no way, dude. I hear they're
really hard to tune and shit. Lets get some guitars and a drum machine,
instead."
- Play Strategy Boardgames
- Avalon Hill used to be one of the best and biggest makers of board
games, until they where bought out by Hasbro, asset stripped and had
all but their most popular games canceled, so now the only place
you'll find a copy of Advanced Civilization is on Ebay. These
days, most of the interesting boardgames come from Europe, and
Germany in particular. Check out Settlers of Catan,
Carcasonne (particularly the Hunters and Gatherers varient), Diplomacy
and Risk, amongst others. And play Dillon Burke's Housewar if you
get the chance.
- Play Cheapass Games
- The underlying principle of Cheapass Games is that most card
and board games all use a similar set of mechanics and basic
pieces, and they cost too much. So they sell you just the bits
that are different - the scenario and specific peices - leaving
you to pick up dice, pawns, fake money and whatever from other
games. Highlights include Lord of the Fries, Kill Doctor Lucky,
Unexploded Cow and Witchtrial.
- Take a Philosophy Course
- A popular passtime amongst KAOS agents has been the taking of
various philosophy papers, to supplement the degree with something
interesting for a change, or just to figure out what all those people
talking shit about ethics, logic, and
the philosophy of mind are on about. Some people even get the bug and
major in it, resulting in a degree that's not much more useless than
anything else outside of the engineering school.
- Play Role Playing Games
- We mean the table top D&D variety, rather than anything more
risque (though don't let me stop you). Many KAOS agents have
played all kinds of RPGs from AD&D to various homebrew
systems, but games like Call of Cthulhu and Paranoia, are quite
popular for single session games, while the various White Wolf
games cross over to the live action versions. And HOL is good for
a laugh, if you've ever played any RPGs.
- Play Live Action Role Playing Games
- Most of the local games don't involve much action, as such, but a
lot of interaction, and range from the commercial games like
the various White Wolf World of Darkness games and Cthulhu live,
to various homebrew systems and scenarios to more strategy
oriented games like Kreigspeil Diplomacy.
- Join the Mailling Lists
- KAOS agents have been using electronic communications to announce
parties and talk amongst themselves since before the third age of
the internet. In the early ninties most of the discussion happened
on the BBS Realm Of Insanity (ROI to his friends), but it has since
moved out into mailing lists, this website, IRC and instant messaging.
- Play Laser Strike
- Laser Strike is a kind of IR remote control tag played in
warehouse maze, while the Ulimate Game is the local BB gun tag in
a forest game, both of which are kind of like our killing rounds.
- Go to a late night Rocky Horror Picture Show session
- It's best enjoyed in the stage play form or in a big theater full
of people dress in costume, or at least bring the props, shouting
out the audience participation lines and sing along with the songs.
- Play Retro PC Games
- Star Control 2 was so popular around '93 that the posting rate to
the Realm Of Insanity BBS droped to a trickle for while everyone
was playing it. KAOS agents have also been obsessed about the
usual compliment of first person shooter, real time strategy games
(starting with Dune 2), and the UFO/XCOM series, to the extent of
playing RPGs based on it.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Listen
- Read
- See
- Do
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