This page used to be just a personal reminder of what I need to pick up if I ever get some cash, but then it became quite clear to me that that was a foolish dream that would never come true. Then it briefly became a list of things I wanted as birthday presents, but as it turns out that the few people who actually feel oblicated to give me such things prefer to just gimme a check for 15 bucks.
Anyway though, the current trend lately seems to be begging the people who read your website for cash. I still frown upon that notion, so odds are you won't see me doing that. Still though, the stark reality of the situation is that people who frequent pages like mine have disposable income and hearts of gold, and while I frown on begging, I WHOLELY support the notion of giving random people presents just because you dig'em. So, if you have some cash burning a hole in your pocket, and dig my page enough to even be reading this page in the first place, why not help a penniless bum obtain some of those things that make nerds squeal with joy?
Oddly enough, I have obtained the bulk of what was formerly on this list. Thus, I am forced to set my aims higher.
Anyway though, after the list here come some means of giving me sane quantities of money, and stuff I'd do to reciprocate, and stuff.
| ITEM | COST | PRIORITY | AVAILABLE | GIMME DA MONEY |
| Steve Jackson Games | ||||
| Munchkin 3: Clerical Errors | $25 | Medium | Now | |
| Star Munchkin | $25 | High | Now | |
| Munchkin Fu | $25 | Medium | Now | |
| Game Systems and Cabinets | ||||
| Nintendo DS | $150 | Medium | Now | |
| Paperboy | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Millipede | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Joust | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Gauntlet | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Ms. Pacman Table | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Star Wars | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Digdug | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Arkanoid | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Q*Bert | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Frogger | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Rampage | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Pole Position | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Hang On | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Space Invaders | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Missile Command | $700 | Low | Now | |
| Any Given Pinball Machine | $700 | High | Now | |
| Trips | ||||
| ACen Plane Ticket | $200 | Low | Now | |
| ACen Admission | $40 | Low | Now | |
| ACen Hotel Room | $120 | Low | Now | |
| E3 Plane Ticket | $200 | Medium | Now | |
| E3 Hotel Room | $30 | Medium | Now | |
Disclaimer: You know, it just hit me that if someone was really out of it, they COULD in theory misconstrue the above table as a list of things I'm selling. So again I stress that those little links all say Donate.
Little Buttons to donate small ammounts of money
Amazon: Better for giving about a buck or two, but it was frelling up when I tried to get it to point at my cute little thank you page.
Paypal: Shaves off a bit more cash on donations under 3 bucks, but it's all spiffy and paypally.
Subscrition: GIVE ME YOUR ETERNAL SOUL! Er, I mean, 3 bucks a month. Granted, I can see why you wouldn't want to pay regularly for a page with this sort of updating frequency, but I swear on the holiest artifact my room contains (Transformers: The Movie) that if I get a couple subscriptions from people, I will make sure to update this site at least 4 times a month with REAL content.
And you should win stuff for watching!
Now, if people actually start throwing me cash and such, there are certain perks they will get in return. Here's a few for starters:
If the population at large puts 10 bucks in my pocket in a given month, I will get at least 4 quality rants thrown up the next month.
If the population at large puts 30 bucks in my pocket in a given month, I will get at least 4 quality rants thrown up the next month, and make 4 nice updates to other chunks of my page.
If the population at large puts 100 bucks in my pocket in a given month, I will get at least 4 quality rants thrown up the next month, make 4 nice updates to other chunks of my page, AND go on an adventure to collect some nice annecdotes for you all, like one of these:
- Midnight Graveyard Roleplaying: I'll take a couple of books, a bowl of dice, a blanket, and every friend I can find I have who isn't chicken, head to the middle of the nearest graveyard, and start running a session of something fittingly dark at the stroke of midnight, running until everyone's dead or the players pass out... or people start snooping around and kicking us out.
- A Night on the Town: I don't have an active social life. The preceding was a severe understatement. Therefore, I'm guessing you could get an interesting story or two out of me if I spent a night in a bar, talking to all those freaky normal people.
- LARPing: LARPs freak me out. The whole concept of going outside and getting excercise just totally clashes with what RPGs are I say. Plus I know first hand that being smacked with a foam sword hurts a LOT more than you'd think. Still, I'd be willing to endure the trauma and tag along the next time my friend heads out for a weekend of LARPing if it meant cash in pocket... unless it conflicts with Farscape.
- Tour of the New England Occult: I live within a couple hours drive of two castles, everywhere H.P. Lovecraft ever resided, the former home of Rod Serling, an ancient druidic uh... place, Salem Massechusets, a few spiritualists churches (read: people who act like John Edward), and at LEAST one big old mansion built on an ancient indian burial ground. Accounts of my visiting these places would probably be extremely boring, but hey.
- Googleshng goes to Japan: I have a cousin living in Japan. He's getting kicked out around summer 2003. Between now and then, I'd like to pay him a visit. Plus, while most people who take a trip to Japan just gawk at Tokyo, he lives up in the mountains surrounded by obscure shrines and mountains and stuff, so MY stupid little report on Japan would be different from the average nerd's! This one has been delivered for the record.
Also, if any one person gives me some large sum of money (like, say, when you click one of those buttons in the big table up there), I'll come out with some sort of weird prize for them. Frog-boy has it easy, since he has spiffy pieces of artwork he can throw to people. I could try going that route, but it'd make darn sucky incentive. Still, I'll think of something.
Pipe Dreams
If by some miracle, people donate huge amounts of cash to this website, I will attempt to fund the following:
- RPGamer, the magazine: and you'd most likely get a free subscription!
- A TV Station: I'd hunt down the creators of cool shows which were cancelled by evil networks, and give them the budget to continue them, and ignore such concepts as ratings. Oh, and you'd most likely get to pick a show to buy!
- A Groovy Nerd Club: Just a big huge building, open to the public, with LANs and couches and TVs showing Farscape marathons and RPGs all over, open 24 hours a day!
So anyway... uh.. that's about it really. I'm done publicly making a fool of myself... well, on this page at any rate. Gimme money if you want, but then you should really get back to some real content.
