During the winter sale, this kept going on sale. Diss and I kept bugging people to buy it. I snagged a 4 pack and have given out 2 of them so far for $5 a piece. I have one remaining for $5. I would love to give it a try for game night one week if we can get enough people to get it.

Ok so what is this week anywho

It is a mystery of time and space

Never used Vassal before, but downloaded the Carcassonne's thing. Hopefully will be around Tuesday to kick it with you folks.

Carcassonne can last anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on how fast people play. Also any expansions added immediately add more time to the game since it adds more tiles.

So far as I can tell, Hunters & Gatherers is more of a reskin than an expansion. You just have forests, meadows and rivers instead of cities, fields and roads. I would figure 3 hours is enough time for at least 2 rounds, assuming a no-more-than-usual level of bumblefucking and foot-dragging.

Rules are here, if you want

Maybe we could talk about switching nights at some point. I may be looking at some early Wednesday mornings myself in the near future.

Pang if you're dead or were eaten by THE RULES OF NATURE please let me know

otherwise imma keep choppin ninjas and shit

Did you guys seriously need my help to explain how to put a tile down next to another tile

Shade said something about being unable to rotate the tile and that was good enough for the rest of us to not even attempt it and instead play Mega Man.

If a night change is up for discussion I'm gonna selfishly suggest any night that isn't Sunday or Tuesday. Thursday would be pretty boss, for example. How do you all feel about making it a weekend night?

Pro: People located further east would be able to stick around later.
Con: People may occasionally have other plans and be unable to participate.
Pro: Deni might be one of those.

Thoughts?

The board game failed because you guys weren't rotating the components enough? What is this.

(I popped it open, apparently rotate is set to Ctrl + Right Bracket. That is stupid. You chose correctly.)

Well next week was going to be Dominant Species but now that I take a hard look at the rules it seems like a fiddly mess that makes Arkham Horror look like compact design. So, instead: Mâamut, a game about hunting a mammoth. With only 4 pages of rules. Won't that be nice.

(If this fails somehow we'll just fast-forward to MOONBASE, fuck it.)

As far as scheduling goes: turns out my own personal get-the-fuck-up-at-dawn-situation is going to be totally unpredictable, so there's that; I'll just have to bail early when I have to bail early, week to week. Assuming Thursday works for Garr it's as rad as anything else.

I'm a little leery of making Game Night proper a weekend thing; we already have Supplemental on Friday about half the time and it feels like Supplemental is a good fit there for the no-effort chat crowd that just wants to play the same 3 or 4 games over and over.

While we're being selfish about moving game night, please don't move it to Monday or Wednesday for my sake. As it is, any other day of the week will still get a 50% attendance rate from me, but those two days will never not be work days.

Thursday is totally cool for me.

Putting tiles down isn't the hard part. Flipping the center tile over was the hard part. I had the board loaded but the center tile was all LOOK AT MY BACK SIDE and I made a frowny face before declaring ice cream cones a bust and then trying to host everything all at once.

Thursday is cool with me.

Also, Shade: meet me on the roof. We're playing basketball.

Speaking of...

YouTube Video

Also I'm not all that enthused about Thursday cuz I have work Friday morning but eh I'll try to work with whatever the group wants.

Do not forget: I beat you all. Twice.

Just let that sink in.

In other news, all the planets have moved out of alignment.


It wasn't until I scrolled down to type this that I realized how fucking enormous that block of tags is. Good work, gentlemen.

Well, all together it looks like Thursday is the option that steps on a minimal number of toes, so let's roll with that until some new disaster happens. Thursday the 23rd. Mammoths. Huzzah.

There has been talk of an impromptu Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch night tonight. For anyone who hasn't played before, you're probably not even reading this thread. But whatever! If you don't have it yet, it's a free Doom 2 mod and is available here: Cutstuff.net – Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch Home

Typically we start game nights at around 6 pm (hahahaha, start) Pacific time, as that allows the west coast to get home from work etc. Obviously, being Saturday, we are under no such obligations.

I am going to suggest a 4:30 pm Pacific start time just to throw a number out there. Is that too early for anyone?

Whenever you get it up and going just text me.

Gentlemen:

Kindly purchase the current Humble Weekly Sale. For $6 you get everything you need to play DayZ, which would usually cost $25 or more. There may also be another interesting game in the bundle, I didn't really notice.

Is game night tonight or Thursday this week?

We Thursdayin' it up for the foreseeable future.