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LodgeNet! (Bored in Atlantic City.)

Happy 4th. There's a new article in town, detailing my experiences bored and alone in an Atlantic City hotel room with only a television pay-per-entertainment interface called "LodgeNet" to entertain me. It's the story of bad movies, porn, video games and hotel guest surveys.

Posted by Matt on 07/04/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 91 comments

Any English out there that check out X-E: All of us over here across the pond wish you the best.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 07/07/2005 9:10 AM

Just heard the news about London here in Korea (11:41 PM now) Horrible stuff. Thank God there are things like XE that make you forget about the real life crappy things going on. Sometimes it’s better to ignore reality.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 07/07/2005 10:42 AM

Do we have any Londoners here? I have no idea who any of you all might be from London, so I don’t know if I should be worried if you don’t check in. *scratches head*

Well, at least you got a free steak out of it, Matt. And, a pretty gold bag. Maybe you could cut it up and make karoake stage for all of the new Star Wars figurine additions?

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 07/07/2005 12:55 PM

We have "family" over in Tor Point, Cornwall, and I expect them to call some time soon. Just to let us know they’re doing all right. When they were here in the States a couple of years ago, they were amazed by the weather.

Saw Batman Begins last night. Pretty good film. So, how does one pronounce "Ra’s" anyway? Roz or Raysh?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 07/07/2005 3:00 PM

If you were a fan of the 90′s animated series, you’ll pronounce it "Raysh".

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 07/07/2005 5:13 PM

Lodgenet doesn’t have an option for SNES any more? Atlantic City was the first place I ever played Lost Vikings. Too bad the closest we can ever get to it again is Sonic Heroes. For shame, Sega, for shame.

Chestnuts roasted by Garaxy Conboy @ 07/07/2005 5:31 PM

I do pronounce it "Raysh," but in the movie, I kept expecting a diner waitress to come out and call Wayne "Detective." Roz Al Ghul, she runs the noodle shop at the base of the mountain. "Want coffee with your Beef Bowl, hon?"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 07/07/2005 6:25 PM

Matt, on the pay-per-play music system, how much was it per song? And how much were the music videos per play?

I love those mimiature condiments. Where did you get those? The restaurant you got the gold doggy bag?

Chestnuts roasted by Destro @ 07/07/2005 7:36 PM

No, they came with room service. They always do.

I can’t remember how much the songs went for, but it was absurd enough not to try.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/07/2005 7:38 PM

Matt, I’m in Redmond. I was just at the Nintendo Employee Store & Museum yestarday, and let me tell you, that hotel is not out of date. Nintendo hasn’t made a GCN version of the Gateway system.

Chestnuts roasted by "MR. GAME & WATCH" @ 07/08/2005 10:31 PM

Brings back memories from when I used to play Street Fighter II at the Comfort Inn.

Chestnuts roasted by CheezNapkin @ 07/10/2005 5:46 PM

Smash Bros. is the best! My friends and I would play the 99 minute matches and we would lose nights doing that. One of my friends always used Pikachu (with party hat Pika :D ) and kicked our asses. One 99 minute match he had 54 kills and we all had -60. Ahhh…the good ol’ days. Both games are good, but the first will always be the best!

Chestnuts roasted by kos22mos @ 07/12/2005 10:48 PM

Oh and one more thing Matt-if you listen to the background music on the Yoshi’s Story level in Super Smash Bros. for N64, it sounds like they ripped it off from the theme for Garfield and Friends!

Chestnuts roasted by kos22mos @ 07/12/2005 10:56 PM

Classic trip :) How could you NOT go for the latex ladies?

Let’s see…

Bad movies…
N64 Smash…
Pikachu…
Porn…

Seems like your friends missed all the fun!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Xhadoe @ 07/13/2005 12:01 PM

I heard about the attacks in London when I was getting ready to begin my commute to Philly for my internship. Needless to say, every time I say that nothing exciting happens when I’m interning, something does happen. Too bad its always something bad.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 07/13/2005 2:00 PM

Allison, I’m starting to agree with you. I heard about the attacks on London at – no joke – Damion’s Bar and Grill in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. My mom, brother, and I were making a shopping trip to the big malls and stopped at Damion’s for a late lunch, where we saw the news on their big-screen TVs. I hope all bloggers who live in England are all right, and know that our hearts are with you.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 07/14/2005 8:24 PM

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