Poor face :(

Were you in chat last night?

Are... are you even awake at the time for GFF game night?

GFF game night is on American time, which means I'm at work :(

On that one occasion, I could have been!

Worst part is, I might have noticed but the Steam downtime prompted me to go to bed earlier than I intended. Damn.

Sad part is, we only needed one more for 8 players. Instead we got some random. Confondido... what an asshole.

Sad. Well, remember me for next time, whenever that may be.

Out of curiosity, who were the Fabulous Seven?

Helloween, Garr, Rasputin, Diss, Hyde, myself, and my roommate. Term was with us for a game or two as well, but seemed to have some internet connection problems.

ahahahhaha CONFUNDIDO!?

I feel increasingly bad about the Euro/Asia folks that can't make it because it's 5 AM what the fuck. You guys should get your own deal going. Game Night Auxiliary. Play only complex, execution-heavy console games.

Term stop living inside of a tornado :mad:

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Yeah, Hidden was great up until RANDOMS, as always. Can't complain about lag much since WhoDunIt didn't really grab me anyway, partly because the maps were big enough to support the entire surviving Doom mod community and partly because piling so much stuff on top of Doom's elderly framework makes things glitchy as hell.

Still think we need to try The Ship sometime, which is the same basic WHO IS TRYING TO MURDER ME idea but without having to remap 50 keys.

As far as next week I know the idea of booting up ZunTzu is going to make some people groan, but: Forbidden Island? It's a cooperative class-based game like Pandemic, and that seemed like it went over well. Rules are here, game file is here. Unless it stops being there because ZunTzu is terrible at link curating, in which case just yell and I'll throw it up on Saxy or something.

Dunno how long it runs; if we escape the Forbidden Island early we can be introduced to gentlemen of the Alps whom we have not heretofore met, or perhaps enjoy refreshing ice cream cones.

My issue with Hidden is that it gets sort of boring watching Garr and Hawkeye trade the role back and forth for hours. It's called the Hidden 'cause that's the really fun part of the game; they originally called the mod Bumbling Squad of Stupid Marines but it wasn't well received. I wish that it would choose the hidden like Whodunit chooses the murderer.

Based on the one server we were on last night, I'm pretty sure the hidden is chosen based on damage dealt. The percentage of the total damage you do to the hidden is your percentage change of becoming the hidden. So if 120 damage was done to the hidden and you did 60 damage, you have a 50% chance. Then on the start of the next round, the game does :math: and picks its hidden based on those odds.

It looks like the same player will stay the hidden if no damage is done to them.

As far as next week goes, I am down with some virtual board gaming. Forbidden Island, assuming people learn the game early, shouldn't take too long to play. But knowing our group of people, it won't matter as we'll find a way to thwart Pang's plans and make game night last forever on turn 1.

I love coming into games without having made any attempt to previously learn the rules or mechanics! Count me in!

i've played forbidden island a few times, and it takes about 45 minutes to play, though you'll have to tack on 15-30 minutes for ZunTsu and the obligatory 15 for game night. game is max 4 players, though, so there's that. (Alternatively, i'm sure Helloween would love to teach you guys Arkham Horror, which is also co-op but waaay more complicated)

Hidden can have a random selection for the hidden, just no servers use it. I thought when Acer set up his server we had it on random, though i might be remembering wrong.

Acer did not have it set to random. I didn't know a random feature existed until last night when it was mentioned.

I have my older computer here that isn't being used for anything, and I would be happy to try setting it up to run as a host server for game night stuff if it's desired. It's a few years old but it's still like a 3GHz with 4GB or something like that so I think it would probably be pretty all right in a hosting capacity.

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I've definitely seen a random Hidden pick on some servers, Acer just couldn't figure out most of the server settings (which is no slam on Acer, shit is poorly/not-at-all documented and the man has animes to attend to).

Aw, dang, you're right. Well, we can just break into two groups or whatever I guess, hasn't killed anyone yet.

From what I hear Arkham Horror takes like 4 hours even when you already know how to play, so for Game Night maybe we can set aside the entire month of October for that. I would very much like to give Chaos In The Old World a spin as well, so I hope everyone will be free for the entirety of winter '13-'14.

I think the streaming is fun, we can redistribute game/Skype hosting easily enough so you can keep doing that.

Whodunit is fun in concept, I think the maps we're playing are just too large for the number of participants we have.

I'm a few days late, but I thought Hidden was fun and all at first, but then I only got to be the Hidden a few times out of the 40~ or so rounds we played. I'm not sure I even touched the Hidden during the last hour of play, so it was kind of dull after a bit.

I'd love to play Arkham Horror, I've played a bit before and maybe we should consider doing some independent research to learn the rules a bit before jumping right in. It's fun but takes some time to really grasp I think.

You.... you clearly have no idea who you're dealing with. It is a rare night when we all show up knowing what we're supposed to play.

Like, seriously? Arkham Horror? My all time favourite game (sort of, a little bit, it's complicated). I guess i'll have to show up.

I WANT TO DO THIS

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