NYC Resistor

We had an all-day / all-night LAN party at NYCR yesterday, with over a dozen players in ioquake3 on a mix of OS X, Linux, and Windows machines. There were lots of pizzas, highly caffeinated beverages and one combatant had a full-sized monitor for the extra old-school feel. Everyone was on the WiFi network (and the quake server was running in the router), so there were not any Ethernet cables, making it a WLAN Party instead.

I’m Kellbot! I’m a member of NYCR, and I love gaming.

My friend Katherine and I have been working like crazy on a game project for the last few months, and we’re thrilled with what we’ve accomplished so far. Now, we’re trying to bring it to an open beta while making it as fantastic as possible. We’ve started a Kickstarter campaign to get us there.

City of Epic is an RPG based around real-world exercise. Rather than get all TL;DR, I’ll let this “high quality” video explain it:

If you like some combination of gaming, fitness, and awesomeness, please consider donating!

Come learn to brew your own beer at NYC Resistor on Sunday, May 22nd. You get DIY instruction from two knowledgeable brewmasters. You’ll take a hands-on tour of the process from raw ingredients to the final bottling. You’ll also get to sample the beer from the previous class.

Sign up at EventBrite here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1644521809

I’m tired of my keys always jangling in my pocket, so I built a key-multi-tool out of a Crank Brother’s M5 bicycle tool. While I had the tool disassembled, I rearranged it so that the M3, M4 and #2 phillips were on the same side, which leaves room for five keys on the other side. It turns out other people had the the same idea. My keys still need cutting down since the key heads on the Medco keys are so large.

Chris Fenton will be demoing his contribution for the interactive party on Saturday: the NYCRcade is a collection of NYCR-themed arcade games for your playing pleasure. Try and beat ‘em all!

We sold out of pre-sale tickets yesterday, we we’ve added some more at the $10 price.

Grab ‘em before they’re gone!

Or you can be lazy and pay $15 at the door. Your call hoss.

Check out Paul Strohmeier’s amazing interactive paper cranes, which will be at our Interactive Show this Saturday!

Guess who’s guest bar tending at our favorite watering hole? Pacific Standard will be hosting our robotic bartender Tuesday night from 8pm until 10ish or whenever we tired of the bottitude, which ever comes second. Come see the bot in action! Drinks are just $4 and proceeds will go directly into our next generation bot.