How to make a coaster from a sucky game.
Gaming is a wonderful hobby! As gamers we get to enjoy every art and every aspect of human creativity. Games have provided us with countless hours of enjoyment and learning; they have given us memorable moments and inspired us. As anyone who enjoys their hobby I could go on and on about how wonderful it is. However, today I will talk about something that is far from wonderful. I will talk about bad games.
Sometimes there are games made that just suck… plain and simple. Many know the feeling of realizing that the game you bought is a tragic waste of money. It happens to a lot of us unfortunately. Some have bought into the hype, some got it as a gift, and some purchased it for no good reason at all. No matter the circumstances imagine that you ended up with a sucky game.
What do you do?
Usually you’d throw it in the trash and from thereon out refer to it as a “coaster”. That, my friends, is a waste. After all, you have already paid for it; why not put it to a good use?
Today, I will show you how you can make a real, honest to goodness coaster from a pathetic waste of a game.
Let us begin. Since I had no sucky games in my possession I had to get one before I could do anything with it. For this I went to e-bay and a few cents later got me a perfect coaster candidate. I also went to a hobby store and bought an x-acto knife, a cork pad and some superglue.
I cut the packaging open very carefull. You never know what sort of nasty bugs can jump out at you from something like this.
Since I only needed the CD, the rest of the infectious junk went straight into the trash can, where it belongs.
My pad was bigger than the CD so I had to cut out a circle of a properly sized disk. I put the CD on my cork disk and drew an outline with a marker.
Then I cut out a circle of a proper size using my outline and my new x-acto knife. Watch out though, these things are sharp and can be dangerous if you are not careful.
Because the cutting left some rough edges I had to polish them out with my dremmel tool. This resulted in a nice CD-sized pad.
I knew that I will sometimes use the coaster for hot cups, so I cut ventilation holes through it.
By using a ruler I was able to make my air passages symmetrical and pretty.
Then I put the CD on the pad and marked the locations of the holes.
Next I made corresponding holes in the cork pad. Be careful using the dremmel though, it rotates at high speeds and can start the cork on fire.
Lastly I used my superglue to put the two disks together. As you are doing this, make sure the ventilation holes match.
Here it is almost finished.
And here is what a real gamer’s coasters should look like. Our hobby is great no matter how you look at it. If everything goes well, we have a crazy amount of fun and if something goes wrong we at least get coasters. Take that stamp collectors!
By now you should have a nice and functional coaster made from your least favorite game. Have a beer, you earned it! By the way if you liked (or disliked) this guide, drop me a note at my blog. This entry relates to this guide, so feel free to leave comments.
In Zeus we trust.
Subscribe to RSS feed.