# The Game Room **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-game-room/17.md?page=375 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 376 --- ## [Penn State is hiring Bill O'Brien...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penn-state-is-hiring-bill-obrien/608074)
**Author:** [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penn-state-is-hiring-bill-obrien/608074 "2012-01-01T19:49:07Z")
From College Football Talk… According to Jonny Saraceno of USA Today, “only contract details need to be finalized” before Penn State names New England Patriots assistant Bill O’Brien as the football program’s new head… --- ## [All Fantasy Football Champions Post Here and Brag!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-fantasy-football-champions-post-here-and-brag/607521)
**Author:** [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-fantasy-football-champions-post-here-and-brag/607521 "2012-01-01T19:37:19Z")
I’ve done it!!! After a long, long wait, I have returned to the top of the mountain. My Monkey Butlers (inspired by this thread here) did it. We were up by 14.7 points heading into the Monday Night game, with Marques C… --- ## [Fallout New Vegas DLC question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-new-vegas-dlc-question/608021)
**Author:** [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-new-vegas-dlc-question/608021 "2012-01-01T19:29:04Z")
So I picked up NV on steam for $5 and decided to give it another go after trying it when it first came out. For some reason it didn’t grab me and I moved on to other games shortly after starting. This time I’m really int… --- ## [Railroad Tycoon 3: Get the hell off my rails!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/railroad-tycoon-3-get-the-hell-off-my-rails/608068)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/railroad-tycoon-3-get-the-hell-off-my-rails/608068 "2012-01-01T18:54:18Z")
For Christmas I got Railroad Tycoon 3. It was noted how much I enjoyed Sid Meier’s Railroads! except for the part where it crashes my machine every single time I play it-- so I rarely play it. So, I’m playing for the fi… --- ## [Dear Wii Fit machine:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-wii-fit-machine/608039)
**Author:** [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-wii-fit-machine/608039 "2012-01-01T14:28:58Z")
I don’t think you are measuring what you think you are. OK, so it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the Wii Fit Balance Board is great at measuring balance, and whether someone is putting weight on it (including … --- ## [Is there any legitimate successor to Myst?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-legitimate-successor-to-myst/607159)
**Author:** [@Villanova\_Junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Villanova_Junction)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-legitimate-successor-to-myst/607159 "2012-01-01T06:00:16Z")
I have all the Myst games and since the end of the series I’ve been waiting either for a new edition or another similar type of game. I read somewhere Skyrim is visually great and the player can choose the play scenario… --- ## [Tower defense question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tower-defense-question/607884)
**Author:** [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tower-defense-question/607884 "2012-01-01T00:19:24Z")
In tower defense games, is it generally better to have a strong tower at the front and weak tower at the end, or the other was around, or does it make no difference? Assuming just ‘basic’ 2 towers (no poison, slow, spla… --- ## [Nominations for the most annoying video game character.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-most-annoying-video-game-character/607010)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-most-annoying-video-game-character/607010 "2011-12-31T15:23:32Z")
Gotta have Percy (from Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom) on the list. --- ## [Is anybody watching the Iowa/Oklahoma Insight Bowl?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anybody-watching-the-iowa-oklahoma-insight-bowl/607922)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anybody-watching-the-iowa-oklahoma-insight-bowl/607922 "2011-12-31T05:22:20Z")
If you are, turn it off and go back to you video games and on-line gambling. This game sucks. It’s a total waste of time. Just giving you a heads-up. --- ## [Will my MacBook play these PC games?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-macbook-play-these-pc-games/607800)
**Author:** [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-macbook-play-these-pc-games/607800 "2011-12-30T22:49:26Z")
I have this MacBook pro specifically. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Apple%26%23174%3B+-+MacBook%26%23174%3B+Pro+/+Intel%26%23174%3B+Core%26%23153%3B+i5+Processor+/+13.3"+Display+/+4GB+Memory+/+320GB+Hard+Drive/9755322.p?id… --- ## [Game Apps(Andriod and Iphone) Christmas sales.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-apps-andriod-and-iphone-christmas-sales/606898)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-apps-andriod-and-iphone-christmas-sales/606898 "2011-12-30T22:10:26Z")
Lots of Apps going on sale this week, at least on Itunes. Let’s post the best deals we have found. Android is fine, too. Oh, I hear that Apple “freezes its store” at the end of the year. What does this mean? They lock p… --- ## [Baseball rules question (stall, baby, stall!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-rules-question-stall-baby-stall/607278)
**Author:** [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-rules-question-stall-baby-stall/607278 "2011-12-30T19:41:48Z")
Is there anything in the rules that would prevent an obvious stall tactic like this one? I’m thinking back to that WS game where LaRussa got the wrong guy up (“what are you doing here?” or whatever he said when he saw h… --- ## [Is anybody watching Baylor vs. Washington?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anybody-watching-baylor-vs-washington/607792)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anybody-watching-baylor-vs-washington/607792 "2011-12-30T18:56:19Z")
Turn off your fucking stupid video games and get a taste of reality. This game is amazing. It’s a total shootout. Robert Griffith III (the Heisman Trophy winner) is having an great game. Yet, it’s still the 1st 1/2 and … --- ## [What would Ponzi Jesus Do? He'd go Full Tilt and Scheme on my Social Security! SDMB Poker, 4th Qtr.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-ponzi-jesus-do-hed-go-full-tilt-and-scheme-on-my-social-security-sdmb-poker-4th-qtr/598483)
**Author:** [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-ponzi-jesus-do-hed-go-full-tilt-and-scheme-on-my-social-security-sdmb-poker-4th-qtr/598483 "2011-12-30T05:18:24Z")
The official SDMB Poker Thread for 4th Quarter, 2011 @ PokerStars. Seriously…WTF, Jesus? A Ph.D. in Computer Science and still couldn’t figure out that your company is a Ponzi Scheme? Poor Oslo and Crane losing millio… --- ## [Brass Online](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brass-online/607799)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brass-online/607799 "2011-12-30T04:27:49Z")
There is a very good online Brass (the Martin Wallace masterpiece\*) implemetation at http://brass.orderofthehammer.com/index.php You don’t have to play “Live” - you can set it up to get an email when it is your turn. I… --- ## [And the superconferences begin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-superconferences-begin/607677)
**Author:** [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-superconferences-begin/607677 "2011-12-30T00:01:44Z")
This was the first I heard about this. It makes sense, Baby steps toward a national super conference. Build some rivalries, get some publicity, and hope it takes off and pays off with a whole bunch more states paying f… --- ## [Caption Contest game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caption-contest-game/606338)
**Author:** [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caption-contest-game/606338 "2011-12-29T19:29:43Z")
Hallo! I have been checking the games forum, and I couldn’t see any “caption contest”. I think that it would be fun to try something of the sort. In other forums I am a regular of, there is a thread with an ongoing capt… --- ## [Help me write my death pool list](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-write-my-death-pool-list/607690)
**Author:** [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-write-my-death-pool-list/607690 "2011-12-29T19:00:09Z")
I’ve just got too much going on, I don’t have time to write a death pool list. It doesn’t seem right not to enter, though – so I need 13 suggestions for names to put on it. They can be shitty suggestions, I scored zero t… --- ## [2012 SEC FB Schedule announced, with Mizzou and TAMU](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-sec-fb-schedule-announced-with-mizzou-and-tamu/607679)
**Author:** [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-sec-fb-schedule-announced-with-mizzou-and-tamu/607679 "2011-12-29T14:56:13Z")
No specific details in this article. But some highlights. Missouri joins in East Division :dubious: hosting UGA in their first SEC game TAMU will play in West Division hosting Florida in their first SEC Game Teams wi… --- ## [Excuse me while I gloat, NZ beats Australia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-while-i-gloat-nz-beats-australia/605884)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-while-i-gloat-nz-beats-australia/605884 "2011-12-29T13:05:34Z")
By seven runs, in what has to be one of the better matchs I have seen in a while. Cicero will doubtless be here to bash me on the head with a bat and do the same for Ponting. --- ## [Which Is The REAL Kind Of Pool Table](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-real-kind-of-pool-table/607649)
**Author:** [@AndyLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyLee)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-real-kind-of-pool-table/607649 "2011-12-29T06:08:16Z")
When I was small the pool tables I saw all seem to have a return feature for the pool balls. In other words you hit a ball in pocket and it would go down a chute and wind up at the head of the table. Kind of like the re… --- ## [Which version of Portal should I buy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-version-of-portal-should-i-buy/607346)
**Author:** [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-version-of-portal-should-i-buy/607346 "2011-12-29T03:04:34Z")
I have become convinced that I need Portal. I have an XBox 360, a PS2, and a PC running Win7. It looks like I can get a Portal for the XBox and the PC, so which should I get? I’m leaning towards the XBox, if only beca… --- ## [NFL Week 16](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-16/606937)
**Author:** [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Replies:** 142\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-16/606937 "2011-12-29T00:58:59Z")
Thursday HOU @ IND Saturday early MIA @ NE JAC @ TEN NYG @ NYJ TB @ CAR CLE @ BAL ARI @ CIN MIN @ WAS DEN @ BUF STL @ PIT OAK @ KC Saturday late SD @ DET PHI @ DAL SF @ SEA SNF/MNF CHI @ GB ATL @ NO I… --- ## ["The Ship" free copies / SDMB games](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ship-free-copies-sdmb-games/607178)
**Author:** [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ship-free-copies-sdmb-games/607178 "2011-12-29T00:56:42Z")
“The Ship” was one of the first non-valve games on steam, a source mod, but the developer went out of business and there was never anyone at the wheel to lower the price during sales, so the multiplayer died out long ago… --- ## [Free 'Pat & Mat' game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pat-mat-game/607683)
**Author:** [@badlyburnttoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badlyburnttoast)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pat-mat-game/607683 "2011-12-29T00:22:53Z")
Steam has a sort of a contest going on now where you can win free stuff including games. I won a game called pat & mat (Pat & Mat on Steam) which looks like a kids puzzle game based on some European cartoon show or somet… --- ## [Guess the movie based on the unflattering description](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-based-on-the-unflattering-description/607348)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-based-on-the-unflattering-description/607348 "2011-12-28T20:01:33Z")
Just a little bit of fun for those of us online during the holiday. Feel free to add your own. A reclusive industialist with his own twisted sense of right and wrong tortures and mutilates small children in his secre… --- ## [xbox 4 gb vs 250 gb console](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-4-gb-vs-250-gb-console/607306)
**Author:** [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-4-gb-vs-250-gb-console/607306 "2011-12-28T19:50:42Z")
I see that Microsoft has some bundles on sale this Xmas and I’m a bit confused… You can get a 4 gb bundled with Kinect, or you can get a 250 gb bundled with some games. My question: there is a big difference between 4 & … --- ## [He Hate Me FF keeper league - year 9](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-9/591413)
**Author:** [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Replies:** 202\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-hate-me-ff-keeper-league-year-9/591413 "2011-12-28T19:41:08Z")
Link to Yahoo League Schedule Offseason Trade Deadline: Monday 8/29/2011 Keeper Declaration: Tuesday 8/30/2011 Live Draft: Monday 9/5/2011 (Labor Day) at 10:30pm Eastern Keeper Rules You can only keep a maximum of… --- ## [SDMB Super League fantasy football 2011](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-super-league-fantasy-football-2011/592910)
**Author:** [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Replies:** 313\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-super-league-fantasy-football-2011/592910 "2011-12-28T19:21:49Z")
Every year I try something different with fantasy football. I’ve been wanting to try a league with few people but super deep rosters for a few years now but it never came to fruition. So this year I was more aggressive i… --- ## [Car Talk's puzzle of the week: impossible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-talks-puzzle-of-the-week-impossible/607293)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-talks-puzzle-of-the-week-impossible/607293 "2011-12-28T19:07:12Z")
I generally try to solve Car Talk’s weekly puzzler, but this week’s has baffled me. I’m sure I must have missed something. Here, stripped of all their obfuscation, is what I understand the puzzle to be: Six coins (pre… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-game-room/17.md?page=374) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-game-room/17.md?page=376)