The Mana Bar - Brisbane

[Layabout]

Yes he did. It was all his brother's fault. Apparently.

Another of his ex-girlfriends teaches writing at my college. She eats lots of cake and is obsessed with lolcats.

I swung past on the way to work a few days ago. Oh my it is pretty small. It should be good once fully fitted out though. Only licensed for 50 patrons. It'll be interesting.

[kaputtnik]

You have a name, you open a bar that matches your image: happy fun times for all! I think it will work just fine, the old "gamer" stereotype is really outdated by now. You still sitting in your dungeon, hacking the day away? Anachronism, shame on you!

[MrColossal]

Man, some you people talk about this dude yahtzee like he punched you in the face or like you know him at all. I am actually extremely surprised people still have emotions towards some random dude they don't know.

All he did was open a bar with some friends. What an asshole, amiright?

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

What an asshole indeed!

This bar sounds like a fun idea, but I think the expense of having a back room exclusively for three pirate chiefs might be a bit much.

In my half-awake state I actually read this as 'three pirate chefs' and thought that would be pretty awesome!  Authentic (whatever that is) pirate cuisine!

[Dualnames]

Man, some you people talk about this dude yahtzee like he punched you in the face or like you know him at all. I am actually extremely surprised people still have emotions towards some random dude they don't know.

All he did was open a bar with some friends. What an asshole, amiright?

You can travel back in time, we can do shitty and trash talk! And yes, we don't know Yahtzee. THANK F%^&& GOD FOR THAT!!

P.S: It's magick!!

[Ali]

What an asshole indeed!

This bar sounds like a fun idea, but I think the expense of having a back room exclusively for three pirate chiefs might be a bit much.

In my half-awake state I actually read this as 'three pirate chefs' and thought that would be pretty awesome!  Authentic (whatever that is) pirate cuisine!

Weird, in my half-awake state I nearly typed three pirate chefs.

[JabberwockyAi]

This seems like something me and my girlfriends would love to go to for friday/saturday night outings.

I wonder if they'd have any tourny fighters? I'm a beast with Tekken.

[Radiant]

Okay, but how is this different from yet another Cyber Cafe?

(ok, most cyber cafes don't have Yahtzee; but other than that?)

[Ali]

This seems like something me and my girlfriends would love to go to for friday/saturday night outings.

That sounded a little boastful, until I realised you too were a girl.

[Wonkyth]

Okay, but how is this different from yet another Cyber Cafe?

I've only been to a couple of Cyber Cafes - and must of them were more of LAN gaming rooms - but I think the idea is that there are only consoles.

Getting people to mingle through playing video-games sounds like a good idea to me.

[Goldfish]

Only licensed for 50 patrons.

Speaking as someone who amongst other things has interests in clubs... That right there is a big BIIIGGG problem for a licensed venue. Seriously. However, depends if they seriously want to make any money or not. If not, then it's fine.

[Wonkyth]

Chances are that if it works they'll upgrade a little.

[Goldfish]

Trouble with that is two fold though, firstly the licensing laws in most parts of Australia are quite deliberately Catch-22 ish so if you start off licensed for 50, thus shall you remain year in year out... And with such a small venue the odds are not good that it will trade well enough to break even let alone profit. But like I said, it might not be a for-profit thing one way or another. Could be inexperience or it could be part of a cunning plan, or a tax writeoff or who knows what.

But they're chasing their dreams so I wish them sincerely all the success the universe can give them.

[Stupot]

I'm more excited about the opportunity to tell Yahtzee, while extremely intoxicated, that he is a massive cock. On behalf of ags of course. :p

Do you really hate the guy that much? coz whenever Yahtzee crops up you always come out of the woodwork to slag him off?  I can't tell if you're being tongue in cheek or have a seriously unhealthy grudge against the man.

[Babar]

I...get the feeling he was joking. hence the :p.

For some reason, the only people who have anything against him (or pretend to?) are the ones who came to AGS much after he left

[Dualnames]

I...get the feeling he was joking. hence the :p.

For some reason, the only people who have anything against him (or pretend to?) are the ones who came to AGS much after he left

I just hate the guy for no reason! People hate people that they've never met, or they don't even exist! (like those that hate Allah or God)

[Spummy]

When DID Yahtzee frequent this board? Wasn't it like a decade ago now? Sure, you can argue he was an ass at the time, but y'know, people can change over a DECADE, if you met him recently and he was still an ass then sure, you can hate him.

He does at least still seem to have a negative out put on life, but he may not be a total ass still.

[Layabout]

I...get the feeling he was joking. hence the :p.

For some reason, the only people who have anything against him (or pretend to?) are the ones who came to AGS much after he left

I've been here since 2000ish. Before Yahtzee left.

Trouble with that is two fold though, firstly the licensing laws in most parts of Australia are quite deliberately Catch-22 ish so if you start off licensed for 50, thus shall you remain year in year out... And with such a small venue the odds are not good that it will trade well enough to break even let alone profit. But like I said, it might not be a for-profit thing one way or another. Could be inexperience or it could be part of a cunning plan, or a tax writeoff or who knows what.

But they're chasing their dreams so I wish them sincerely all the success the universe can give them.

I think it's kindof a trial for something bigger. Start small you don't lose too much money if it doesn't work.

[m0ds]

Interesting idea! It's certainly easier to play a point and click whilst drinking than it is Modern Warfare 2. Well, so long as they got a Wii or two, it could be quite fun But yeah, geeks and alcohol? Two negative polarities trying to get close to one another... Good luck to them though!

The only difference I can see between a cyber cafe and Yahtzee's is that Yahtzee's is still open for business

[Wonkyth]

All the geeks I know make wicked homebrew, and aren't too stingy on drinking it...