Oh my...
and I thought that...
Bean Bag Buccaneers is a two player children's game, the object of which is to pick up your treasure chest on the central island and sail back safely.
Each player has a giant sailing ship as their main game piece. Each ship has a removable sail, two trigger-action side panels, and a huge spring-driven cannon. Players take turns moving forward along a prescribed track and shooting bean bags at their opponent's ship. A hit on one of the side panels will force it to pop off and give the player a free shot at the other side; a hit forcing the sail off becalms the ship for a turn.
To add to the pirate flavor, each player also has an eye patch. Wearing these will slightly affect depth perception and add a marginal bit of sport to the shooting.
This game retailed for the somewhat impressive sum of $16 back in 1962. With its huge plastic ships (close to a foot long), giant vinyl play mat, and the eye patches, it may well stand as one of the more overproduced games of the early 1960s.
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I am an Austrian mathematician and astronomer who got himself taken on as an assistant to Brahe in order to get access to his planetary tables. I had been trained as a Platonist and Neopythagorean, and am given to rather mystical views, as exemplified in my work Mysterium Cosmographicum. Nevertheless, I am also a confirmed Copernican. In fact, I wanted to use Tycho's data to prove the validity of the Copernican theory. I analyzed the vast amount of data upon Brahe's death. From this data, I prepared new planetary tables (called the Rudolphine Tables). At first, I determined the shape of planetary orbits to be ovoid, but rejected this result for aesthetic reasons. Going back over my calculations, I found and corrected an error. The new shape turned out to be an ellipse, which fit well into my Pythagorean views on nature. And I approve this message.
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I only saw BEAN and I though it's gonna be food here :c DISAPPOINTMENT ALL OVER :c
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I will read this later, just incase there is a giveaway inside,but now i'm too distracted to read :p
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My inquiries, necessarily hasty and perfunctory as I write this letter to meet a deadline, have elicited a wealth of information about Steamgifts. But before I continue, allow me to explain that I don't see how Steamgifts can build a workable policy around wishful thinking draped over a morass of confusion (and also, as we'll see below, historical illiteracy), then impose it willy-nilly on a population by force. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done but rather that Steamgifts's mentality reminds me of the stereotypical bureaucrat who cannot function unless he can "find it in the manual". I mean, think about it. Strictly speaking, Steamgifts's claim that children should belong to the state is not only an attack on the concept of objectivity but an assault on the human mind. As I have tried to show in this letter, Steamgifts never acts out of motives that might seem credible or even understandable to the rest of humanity. As long as you remember that, we may yet be able to build bridges where in the past all that existed were moats and drawbridges.
Also, I tried 10 paragraphs Comdr. Sophia S. Shepard. Scarily accurate to my character. ._.
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I'm not an activist, and I'm not a cynic. I'm just a person who wants to get people to sign a petition to limit Mr. Bean Bag Buccaneer's ability to cause trouble. The rest of this letter is focused exclusively on Mr. Buccaneer, not because I harbor any ill-will towards him but because he is the embodiment of everything petty in our lives. Every grievance, every envy, every pugnacious ideology finds expression in Bean Bag Buccaneer.
Mr. Buccaneer presents one face to the public, a face that tells people what they want to hear. Then, in private, he devises new schemes to make a mockery of our most fundamentally held beliefs. Sure, we could just sit back and let him conjure up dirt against his fellow human beings, but that prospect really grates on people who have any kind of common sense. He is thoroughly shrewish, as he has proved to my complete satisfaction. Stripping from the term "superultrafrostified" the negative connotations it evokes, I, for one, will try to hammer out solutions on the anvil of discourse. While self-justification may motivate what I call barbaric whiners, the same attitudes also work well for impulsive, crazy buffoons.
Mr. Buccaneer once said that you and I are objects for him to use then casually throw away and forget like old newsprint that's performed its duty catching bird droppings. Oh, please. I'm just glad I hadn't eaten dinner right before I heard him say that. Otherwise, I'd probably still be vomiting too hard to tell you that doctoring evidence and classification systems and making devious generalizations to support profligate, preconceived views is considered de rigueur by Mr. Buccaneer's camp. How much more illumination does that fact need before Mr. Buccaneer can grasp it? Assuming the answer is "a substantial amount", let me point out that Mr. Buccaneer is like a giant octopus sprawling its slimy length over city, state, and nation. Like the octopus of real life, he operates under cover of self-created screen. Mr. Buccaneer seizes in his long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection. Now that you've read this letter, let me challenge you, the reader, not just to help me convert retreat into advance, but also to educate others about what I've written.
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Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year grad student; you just got finished reading some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna be convinced of that 'till next month when you get to James Lemon. Then you're going to be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year; you're gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin' about, you know, the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization. "Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth"? You got that from Vickers' "Work in Essex County," page 98, right? Yeah, I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you, is that your thing, you come into a bar, read some obscure passage and then pretend - you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girls, embarrass my friend? See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!
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I have a feeling skimming over this that its pretty funny...but my eyes are starting to shut, will read later lol.
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You know, the more I look it over, the more I wonder: what exactly IS Bean Bag Buccaneers? Could somebody please explain it to me? Like what the gameplay was like and how much it used to sell for at retail etc.?
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All too often, some people attempt to make an argument by attacking and insulting those who hold opposing views. Bean Bag Buccaneers's blandishments are a perfect example. As I elaborate on that concept throughout this letter I will use only simple words and language so that even a child can understand my message. Yes, even a child should know that Bean Bag Buccaneers's servitors claim that the best way to serve one's country is to demonize my family and friends. This is precisely the non-equation that Bean Bag Buccaneers is trying to patch together. What it's missing, as usual, is that honest people will admit that it has for so long been nursing the wrongs it imagines the world had done it that Bean Bag Buccaneers is determined to exact revenge by breaking up society's solidarity and cohesiveness. Concerned people are not afraid to make Bean Bag Buccaneers pay for its crimes against humanity. And sensible people know that Bean Bag Buccaneers is an organization utterly without honor, without principles, without a shred of genuine patriotism. That's why I say that whatever your age, you now have only one choice. That choice is between a democratic, peace-loving regime that, you hope, may stop the Huns at the gate and, as the alternative, the mandarinism-prone and ruthless dirigisme currently being forced upon us by Bean Bag Buccaneers. Choose carefully because Bean Bag Buccaneers's analects are based on two fundamental errors. They assume that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance and they promote the mistaken idea that we can change the truth if we don't like it the way it is.
Bean Bag Buccaneers's diatribes are dangerous to my health. More emphatically, the problem with it is not that it's headstrong. It's that it wants to reap a whirlwind of destroyed marriages, damaged children, and, quite possibly, a globe-wide expression of incurable sexually transmitted diseases.
Is there, or is there not, an inattentive, snippy plot to procure explosive devices, gasoline, and detonators for use in an upcoming campaign of terror, organized through the years by what I call unimaginative, cuckoo freaks? The answer to this all-important question is that not only has the plot existed, but it is now on the verge of complete fulfilment. At first blush, it appears that the only thing protecting the people of this world from Bean Bag Buccaneers's liberticidal activities is our love of freedom and concern for justice. However, it shocks my conscience to see Bean Bag Buccaneers put the gods of heaven into the corner as obsolete and outmoded and, in their stead, burn incense to the idol Mammon. In view of that, it is not surprising that its hallucinations about the benefits of serfism are so deep and inveterate that they can be broken, if at all, only if we find more constructive contexts in which to work toward resolving conflicts. That conclusion is not based on some sort of predaceous, dysfunctional philosophy or on Bean Bag Buccaneers-style mental masturbation, but on widely known and proven principles of science. These principles explain that griping about Bean Bag Buccaneers will not make it stop trying to craft propaganda that justifies funding, assembling, and training the most self-serving incubi I've ever seen to show a clear lack of respect not just for those brave souls who fought and died for what they believed in but also for you, the readers of this letter. But even if it did, it would just find some other way to encourage the acceptance of scapegoating and demonization.
As for the lies and exaggerations, Bean Bag Buccaneers is a total zero. Get that straight, please. Any other thinking is blame-shoving or responsibility-dodging. Furthermore, Bean Bag Buccaneers uses obscure words like "blepharosphincterectomy" and "epididymodeferentectomy" to conceal its agenda to prevent us from getting in touch with our feelings. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that Bean Bag Buccaneers has somehow made up its mind that everyone with a different set of beliefs from its is going to get a one-way ticket to Hell. It seems to me that what it is doing is jumping to a hasty conclusion in the absence of adequate data. A more reasoned analysis would reveal that if Bean Bag Buccaneers can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that its opinions epitomize wholesome family entertainment, I will personally deliver its Nobel Prize for Nerdy Rhetoric. In the meantime, Nature is a wonderful teacher. For instance, the lesson that Nature teaches us from newly acephalous poultry is that you really don't need a brain to run around like a dang fool making a spectacle of yourself. Nature also teaches us that Bean Bag Buccaneers is firmly convinced that we're supposed to shut up and smile when it says pathological, shabby things. Its belief is controverted, however, by the weight of the evidence indicating that Bean Bag Buccaneers's favorite buzzword these days is "crisis". It likes to tell us that we have a crisis on our hands. It then argues that the only reasonable approach to combat this crisis is for it to create a global workers plantation overseen by transnational corporations who have no more concern for the human rights of those who produce their products or services than Bean Bag Buccaneers has for its underlings. In my opinion, the real crisis is the dearth of people who understand that even if one isn't completely conversant with current events, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that it is extremely sadistic. In fact, my Sadistic-O-Meter confirms that Bean Bag Buccaneers's opinion is that it is a perpetual victim of injustice. Of course, opinions are like sphincters: we all have them. So let me tell you my opinion. My opinion is that Bean Bag Buccaneers says it is within its legal right to instill a subconscious feeling of guilt in those of us who disagree with its disquisitions. Whether or not it indeed has such a right, Bean Bag Buccaneers keeps stating over and over again that irritating, confused pauteners have dramatically lower incidences of cancer, heart attacks, heart disease, and many other illnesses than the rest of us. This drumbeat refrain is clearly not consistent with the facts on the ground—facts such as that I'm convinced that Bean Bag Buccaneers will infantilize and corrupt the public before the year is over. No, I'm not in tinfoil-hat land; I have abundant evidence from reliable sources that this is the case. For instance, Bean Bag Buccaneers is trying to get us to acquiesce to a Faustian bargain. In the short term this bargain may help us enable all people to achieve their potential as human beings. Unfortunately, in the long term it will enable Bean Bag Buccaneers to create a mass psychology of fear about an imminent terrorist threat.
Who is behind the decline of our civilization? The culprit responsible is not the Illuminati, not the Insiders, not the Humanists, not even the Communists. No, the decline of our civilization is attributable primarily to Bean Bag Buccaneers. Our country is being destroyed by treasonous imbeciles. Whatever weight we accord to that fact, we may be confident that neocolonialism, cameralism, and cannibalism follow Bean Bag Buccaneers's footsteps. Wherever it goes, such things are sure to sprout up. The implication is that Bean Bag Buccaneers preys on the rebellious and disenfranchised, tricking them into joining its cabal. Their first assignment usually involves encouraging every sort of indiscipline and degeneracy in the name of freedom. The lesson to draw from this is that Bean Bag Buccaneers makes a living out of clericalism. I call this tactic of its "entrepreneurial clericalism". Bean Bag Buccaneers and its representatives have unquestionably raised entrepreneurial clericalism to a fine art by using it to build a totalitarian death machine. In closing, there is something inherently wrong with an organization that wants, more than anything else, to glorify the things that everyone else execrates.
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