Twitter Week: 2010-01-22

2010-01-22 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

Ah, 5mil laminated #110 stock is almost as good as 5mil laminated #120 stock for making #18xx, but doesn’t jam Office Max’ printers. Win! #
@Infernarl Make sure you got the corrected Stock market for 1830 if you’re using Peter Mumford’s version. I’d do Coalfields next. #18xx in reply to Infernarl #
@Infernarl 18EU is also excellent. Hold back on 18FR until I release the new files. Ditto 18Kaas. 1812 may be good if you like 1861. #18xx in reply to Infernarl #
@Infernarl 18NEB art requires fixes. 1886 looks interesting. 1873 is pending English rules. 1857 & 1876 are iffy. 18NL, maybe. #18xx in reply to Infernarl #
18FR-RCE went well. Train roster isn’t quite right. Going to be hard to know when they’re right. Release to open play-test anyway? #18xx #
@andsoerinsaid Here Tobago is the game that gamers piteously beg other gamers to rescue them from. No joke. There was pleading & promises. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid I sat out Tobago & thanked Dave-who’d-begged-me for letting me watch. He said I owed him big time for making him suffer thru. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@BrenoKummel At the end of each set of ORs the govt takes a train. 2 trains if the 1st taken makes a new type available. Owie! #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
Final track from yesterday’s 18FR-RCE: http://twitpic.com/yim51 #
@brettspiel Oft my relatioship to a design-in-progress is armed truce. The design has a huge problem. I blithely ignore it. in reply to brettspiel #
@brettspiel Main time I stop on a design is when there’s a problem & no idea how to isolate/ID the problem. Oft just flail about & give up. in reply to brettspiel #
@Infernarl Nice idea, but I’m not up to building & maintaining yet another #18xx geeklist. Three is enough. in reply to Infernarl #
Pleasant chat with nice FBI lady about IDing terrorists, payment systems & false positives vs customer support. These are the end times? #
I like how my game designs keep ebbing right up against my basic failures in learning math. Yay group theory! Yay number theory! Y’all suck #
Taught Lokomotive Werks to DdJ yesterday. He: “First mover advantage!” Determining how big today was surpringly hard. Weak probability-fu. #
@brettspiel My too many shelves are usually indistinguishable from graveyards for the lost & damned. in reply to brettspiel #
@BrenoKummel That is exactly what I mean. I doubt this is a game DTG would be interested in. Just posted the pic on the geeklist BTW. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@andsoerinsaid You mean gaming isn’t personal? (Au contraire!) in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid You don’t seem such a high-volume tweeter to need to segregate your tweets. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@BrenoKummel I find 18FR-RCE too derivative. A good intro GL would be great. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel Everything is derivative somehow. I am not hiding 18FR-RCE from DTG. A fine also-ran. I will not push it on John. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel Understood. You go advocate it to John when I’m done okay? I’ve made my reply to Tom McThorn (IIRC) on the #18xx list already. in reply to BrenoKummel #
The old adage of not shopping for food when you’re hungry is true. it also applies to eating when hungry. Dear gods, please, I can’t move! #
@andsoerinsaid I’ve been trying to think of how to classify your parts by interest categories. I’d make a lousey anatomist or pornographer. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
Into every life some rain must fall. I’m stickering 18C2C. It must be about time for Noah. #18xx http://twitpic.com/ym7x7 #
18C2C – Simply amazing, & a great afternoon: http://bit.ly/8BCPTv #18xx #
Discussion of privacy & what it isn’t, in the social-network age: http://is.gd/6CFmC This is why I find #Twitter useful and #FB useless. #
#ReadItLater app for iPhone and plugin for Firefox; http://readitlaterlist.com/ Revolutionised my mobile browsing habits. Excellent. #
@andsoerinsaid: I assume there’s an internally compelling reason to stay rather than an external compulsion to stay. #
@andsoerinsaid Kids are incredibly persuasive. It is hard to fight eons of evolutionary preference. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@jdludlow Awwwww! in reply to jdludlow #
@jdludlow Ahh, I got to clean up some old/stale thumbs. Thanks. in reply to jdludlow #
@endgameoakland Do you have/can you get Container: 2nd Shipment? If so, please get/hold a copy for me. #
@andsoerinsaid: I see $3 saved! Rock! Your retirement is once more secure… #
@andsoerinsaid: Game this sentence no I verb. #
@EndGameOakland: Container 2nd shipment is supposed to be entering US distribution now. In limited #s of course. Sigh. #
@andsoerinsaid @ingredientx FYI: http://is.gd/6MXhR #
So, Dundracon or OrcCon? 18C2C is calling, calling, calling & I am of weak mind & easily seduced. Oh, whatever shall I do? #18xx #
@andsoerinsaid The MySpace angle is cheap, easy & has low standards. Of course it is attractive to men. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid A cleavage shot with eye contact, a flirt smile & that shows you doing something interesting. Magic Girl? in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Magic Girl: http://tr.im/Lgin Of course you should use Wabash Cannonball instead of MtG. A clear winner! in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid: http://is.gd/6QK0w (Tom Leher’s Smut) #

Twitter Week: 2010-01-15

2010-01-15 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@brookscl Yes, Villa Paletti is worth it. A clever game if players fight to control who adds levels or is stuck pulling a weak support. in reply to brookscl #
@brookscl But Villa Paletti is weak if just played as a HaHa party game. It needs the positional fight to shine. in reply to brookscl #
Looking to buy more poker-chip sets for #18xx: http://tr.im/K2ft One nice 300 chip set, one economy 1,000 chip set. Recommendations? #
@BrenoKummel My 500 chip-set is only barely big enough for 18C2C. I find denominated chips slower/harder to use. Mentally jarring. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@msaari The NexGen Pros or ProGens seem the most likely. I’ll probably order a sample set. #18xx in reply to msaari #
@BrenoKummel Want 2nd 300 set when we have 2 games going. Using my 500 is clumsy. Also want less-slippy chips for default game. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
18C2C has arrived. Three, no, four, no, five bags full of tokens to sticker. Oy vey, I paid for this honour? I should be so lucky. #18xx #
@andsoerinsaid: Figure 400+ tokens, tweezers, micrometer, robotic controls, electron scanning miscroscope,.. Piece of (yellow) cake! #18xx #
@jdludlow: Subversion is to SCM as cockroaches are to filet mignon. #
@jdludlow The thing that impresses me most about SVN is how much worse it is than CVS, and CVS was & is painfully and brutally broken. in reply to jdludlow #
@EndGameOakland: (Auction + Aaron) Woot! /me does happy dance. #
@icheyne: Java will take a long time to die. I hope not very long. Sadly, JS is here to stay – AJAX has ensured that. #
@jdludlow: There aren’t that many upcoming #18xx: 18Ardennes, 18NEB, 18IO, 18FR-RCE, 1812, 1817..Okay, maybe a few. #
@jdludlow: (smug) grin! #18xx #
@andsoerinsaid: I’m fairly sure y’all don’t call it “hiding the sausage” (or “making whoopee”, my long-time favourite) #
@jdludlow: Just to make you happy. http://is.gd/6dBeF #18xx. #
@andsoerinsaid: I’m tempted to say how much of an stiff uptight prick I am WRT sex, but I won’t slide into such easy temptation. #
@andsoerinsaid: Dammit. I get lewd and you go all undriven snow on me. No wonder guys always lose. #
@andsoerinsaid: Challenge schmallenge. The basic male wet dream: “Come & get ‘em!” It really doesn’t matter who says that. #
@andsoerinsaid As representative of the Guild of Y-Chromosomes I’m not worried about that. The Double-X Chromosome club wants to have words. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Amidst your recent tit muscle, wandering breasts, bush obsession & thermal-wrapped derriere, I seem to be in fine company.Ah! in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid I fear for the next hapless scruffy tween you meet in an elevator. (Fear, encourage, warn, envy? At least one of those) in reply to andsoerinsaid #
1854 has (finally) arrived & in the same week as 18C2C no less. I’m overcome with unplayed #18xx goodness. To the tables! Attack! Attack! #
@BrenoKummel: My 1854 is straight in from Helmut Ohley. #
@andsoerinsaid: I resent the implication that I may not have sent a mixed message. Ahem. #

Twitter Week: 2010-01-08

2010-01-08 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@jesnellm I dunno about 1830 Wabash variants. My rules are 1 page. I didn’t think the oddly small paper limits and no-diesels were obvious. in reply to jesnellm #
So I got a copy of 18C2C. I don’t think there’s any chance or hope of recovery from here. I’m doomed, doomed I tell you, DOOMED. #18xx #
@smok Game, diesels & CD. #18xx in reply to smok #
About to release 18FR-RCE to public playtest. David Hecht has a cow about historicity. He’s right, damn it. So much chrome to fix. #18xx #
Just in case anyone was wondering: I (hate|resent|loathe|despise|abhor|curse|detest) NFS. Just in case there was any doubt mind you. #

Twitter Week: 2010-01-01

2010-01-01 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@BrenoKummel I think 2030 is worth it, but I also think the original is the leaner & tighter game. 2030 is a considerable change of pace. in reply to BrenoKummel #
@scottredracecar: 1830 Wabash is still missing the rules. I have them. They are under-license, interesting and…not trivial. #18xx #
@BrenoKummel: I created the 1830-Wabash BGG entry. Bohrer holds the copyright, licensed to Janich, but Bohrer may re-license. #18xx #
@jdludlow: In short: Coalfields without the coal or the train-obsolecence, but with a tighter NYC area & a more track-heavy end-game. #18xx #
@jdludlow: Like Pere Marquette, JDG’s Simple or Chesapeake Bay Bridge etc, it is an interesting twist, not a fundamentally new game. #18xx #
@jdludlow: And what’s missing are the rules, and given my last chat with Bohrer, you ain’t gonna get them unless you buy a copy. #18xx #
@scottredracecar: Where are y’all based? LA area IIRC? We’ve talked about making trips down to LA to play #18xx with Vanderpluym etc. #
@scottredracecar: Oh, MN. Oh well… #
I need a better #linux #twitter client. gwibber, gtwitter, twitux, twit2 aren’t it. #
@scottredracecar: Hehn. Always. Can’t live or without ‘em. #
@scottredracecar: We’ve also noodled doing a ~quarterly #18xx convention here. Informal, just a weekend. Could be interesting. #
@scottredracecar: I grok. I have 30+, poss ~50 local #18xx players, but have to kill to get more than 5-6 in a room at once. #
@BrenoKummel #18xx over? Why? in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel: Ouch. I forsee a recruiting/evangelism drive! #18xx #
Bugger. New Years plan just disintegrated. Blast. Time to scramble. #

Twitter Week: 2009-12-25

2009-12-25 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

Heck of a day: 4P 1830 (won), 4P 1856, 3P 1830 (snatched defeat from easy victory). Sadly the 1873 we’d setup & planned didn’t happen. #18xx #
@smok Yeah, four #18xx from Friday eve to Sat Eve was pretty sweet. Not really a games day tho, just happenstance, not planned. in reply to smok #
@jdludlow Four #18xx counting Friday’s 1873. We didn’t 1873 on Sat as timing and people were both off. Damned shame. I’ll be making a copy. in reply to jdludlow #
@neilhimself Thank you for the pointer to Liyi Brunner. I’ve read no better tale of the sweet desperation of living this year. in reply to neilhimself #
@gilhova Your relationships with women are colourless and never your fault? in reply to gilhova #
@andsoerinsaid Is your copy of 1850 a) from DTG, b) fully laminated, & c) already cut? in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid I’ve no concern on it being, err, previosly enjoyed. There are no game consumables. Just interested in componentry in reply to andsoerinsaid #
Urk. My timeline is filling with random tweets. #twitterfail #
@andsoerinsaid Thanks. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@gamesonthebrain Indonesia for Heroscape? That’s one heck of a deal. Well done! #
Slept in till 17:00. Quiet house. So grateful. Tomorrow there can be noise, but not today. Today I sleep, I muse, I dream, I digest. Ahh. #

Twitter Week: 2009-12-18

2009-12-18 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@gilhova Because the Twitter default is public-broadcast and the FB-default (was) audience-restricted. FB has inverted its control-space. in reply to gilhova #
Games as a (social) microcosm: RT @hnshah: 10 Business Lessons I Learned from Playing Dungeons & Dragons http://bit.ly/7VvZfn #
@andsoerinsaid If there’s one thing I can’t stand, its intolerance. And discriminating extremism. And people who can’t count. So there! in reply to andsoerinsaid #
YFrog - Share Images on Twitter!: http://img154.yfrog.com/i/6tzk.jpg/ #
@dafair @ingredientx @GamesOnTheBrain I gave up on family-fare some years back. Too twee. There’s good stuff there, but unsatisfying. #
@GamesOnTheBrain: Sturgeon’s Law? #
@andsoerinsaid: I’m going to be different, just like all those other people over there. (Bahh, teenagers) #
@ingredientx: If you considered that players were (largely) predictable, would that change your view? #
@ingredientx: Understood. Not a problem, not uncommon, but not something I share. W/o the player-prediction problem, I wouldn’t play games. #
@andsoerinsaid: Without the other-player problem, games seem just mental-masturbation. I don’t solo-game. Not interested. #
Buy where you shop: http://is.gd/5sKBT Feedback loops, implied services and eating your own dogfood. #
@jdludlow Quite right. Basic life principle: Don’t take without giving at lest as much. in reply to jdludlow #
@jdludlow We’re playing 1873 tonight & tomorrow. Nyahh. #toodamnedlucky #18xx in reply to jdludlow #
#avatar: Lots of flash, lots of plot holes, mostly incoherent, not much plot or thought. Oh, & lil” blue tits instead of wang. #
@scottredracecar 1873 is soon to be published. Hpefully in the final revision now. Some comments in my session geeklist. #18xx in reply to scottredracecar #

Twitter Week: 2009-12-04

2009-12-04 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

Looks like there’s a bus on fire by the 85/Bascom southbound on-ramp. #
@thisdarkpen Aye, there are no always-win #18xx recipes which don’t involve others also making crashing blunders. in reply to thisdarkpen #

Twitter Week: 2009-11-27

2009-11-27 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@icheyne I’ve been using Debian since I built that desktop image ~13 years ago. My servers still are Debian. There’s a lot to like about it. in reply to icheyne #
@andsoerinsaid I’m thinking 6” transparent-plastic platform shoes. And flesh-painted weather-balloons for falsies. And a wig. Yeah, a wig. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Now practicing my “Tee hee! This looks like a nice move. Tee hee!” <jiggle> <bounce> (drops bit on floor) (picks up bit) in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid A woman tried that at a group here. Bra-less Dolly Parton in a tube-top. She left after getting 0 bites. It was horrilarious. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@acetate3 Nod. My other problem was that I didn’t think the game worked across the whole random setup space. Some permutations are ~broken. in reply to acetate3 #
@andsoerinsaid I agree WRT LTtW. Severely under-developed. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Merely kinda cute? I am dissappointed. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@BrenoKummel For me 18Mex 5P>4P>3P. The game is too flat for small player counts. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@GamesOnTheBrain ItSotE/ISdK is good & remarkably hard to play well. in reply to GamesOnTheBrain #
@andsoerinsaid I ~think TreeFrog games are published as soon as something seems to hang together. Undeveloped. Unbaked. (Poss except Brass?) in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@BrenoKummel For me 1848 4P > 5P > 3P. Bipolar game here too: liked or disliked, & nobody in the middle. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@andsoerinsaid Ahh. That’s not a cute definition I would have ever thought of. Men are from… in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@jesnellm Fair call on Brass. I’ve been hoping that he’d do something ~equal to AoS, but I think I’ve given up now. in reply to jesnellm #
@ginn5j 18AL’s problem is flat market and flat cities: everything is same-value. Makes low-texture low-diffentiation games. #18xx #bggcon09 in reply to ginn5j #
@ginn5j I’ve written a fair bit about this area on BGG. 1889 is an excellent starting point, possibly none better. #18xx in reply to ginn5j #
@ginn5j Good +1 tier games (by alpha): 1830, 1846, 1848, 18EU, 18GL, 18Mex. +2: 1826, 1830 Coalfields, 1854, 1856, 1860. #18xx in reply to ginn5j #
@ginn5j Key player_count principle: #_companies_in_game mod #_players should never be zero. #18xx in reply to ginn5j #
@ginn5j Founded monthly now weekly #18xx group in Feb. Purpose: teaching. Many taught, some converts. Recommendations based on that. in reply to ginn5j #
OH: …one of those things with words & lots of pages. Book? Yeah, a book about the past ‘n stuff. History? Yeah, like… #heardatgamestore #
And people wonder why I don’t play at certain game stores. Really, they do. I don’t know why, but they do. He was serious.... #

Twitter Week: 2009-11-20

2009-11-20 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@ingredientx The only place in Endeavour where there’s Area Plurality is in the shipping tracks, and you can’t lose pieces from there. in reply to ingredientx #
I have a pair of scissors. I have 53 little 1/2” circles to cut out by hand from cardstock. Please tell me I’m not in preschool again. #18xx #
Today’s inane pride: Cutting out 72 cards with a craft knife and having them all measure within 0.5mm of each other. Ahh. #18xx #
@habermanm Umm, I never had a 1/2” punch? Not willing to spend ~$100 on one. I miss my old AIDOX corner-rounder. The new Fiskars’ is crap in reply to habermanm #
There’s a package of games downstairs, brown-paper wrapped & all tied up with string. If I open the box, I’ll get nothing more done today. #
@GamesOnTheBrain Ahh yes, that does look good. And cheap. I’ll dig one out. in reply to GamesOnTheBrain #
@BrenoKummel No, I studied the rules some more & didn’t find things that interested me. (18VA) #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@habermanm @gamesonthebrain pointed me at a nice $3 1/2” punch that seems like it would do the job. in reply to habermanm #
Evolution of space over time: Photograph a context for 24 hours: http://tr.im/F1nF #
@hnshah @bocardo I’d say that women notice context & relations. Men notice women & motion. (I’ve also watched both) in reply to hnshah #
@jason_a_reid So I opened the box to find Greed & Imperial 2030. Being of cache incoherent mind, I then played 18FR & 1860. #18xx in reply to jason_a_reid #
@BrenoKummel Played twice, both 4P. It is 1830 on a new map with a few twists, with all that means. Worth the effort for me. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel BTW our first game was won by the bankrupt player. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@andsoerinsaid How many players for 1830? #18xx in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Most of our 3-player games of 1830 end in bankruptcy. Almost 90% for 4-player. Did anybody really push the trains? #18xx. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@ingredientx If you think you have time to read during an #18xx: you’re likely not paying attention to what you need to think about. in reply to ingredientx #
@andsoerinsaid That’s a slaughter. #18xx in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@ingredientx I suspect the #18xx really only work for players who like (and try to) to plan out the whole game out in advance. in reply to ingredientx #
@clearclaw That’s where the game is: trying to get all the patterns & layers together in your direction from start to finish. #18xx in reply to clearclaw #
@andsoerinsaid 3P 1830 should end after ~5 sets of ORs. Sometimes 4 sets ith a bankruptcy. Capital is too dense for much longer. #18xx in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@ingredientx When played well there’s a lot of improv in the #18xx - in order to survive the other players and stay on (or make a new) plan. in reply to ingredientx #
@ingredientx Yes, Tom is fascinatingly educational to talk game design structures with. He’s a nice sense of patterns & models. #bggcon09 in reply to ingredientx #
@andsoerinsaid The range of games & game-styles tweeted about at #bggcon09 has been far smaller/narrower than I expected. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@acetate3 I found Last Train to Wensleydale had no ability to plan, & was almost purely tactical. That killed it for me. You? #bggcon09 in reply to acetate3 #
@andsoerinsaid Across #bggcon & #bggcon09 hashtags: All short light tactical games presented as unexamined experiences. No meat or thought. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Perhaps, but I had hoped that there would be at least something in the tweet stream, even if for a shorter game. #bggcon09 in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid I’m not so sure how well I can make that one work for me. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid What about falsies and a falsetto? Oh, & high-heels. And false-eyelashes to bat adoringly. A girl like me has to have style. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Get the expansion kit for Imperial 2030 if you can (& Imperial if you don’t have that). It all fits in one box. if barely. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@ingredientx Oh, dahling! You say the sweetest things. in reply to ingredientx #
Hesitating before making the dive into Ubuntu. My old Debian desktop, built nigh 13 years ago is getting too cranky & hacked to maintain. #

Twitter Week: 2009-11-20

2009-11-20 23:00 · Tags: Personal / Twhit-Twhoo!

@ingredientx The only place in Endeavour where there’s Area Plurality is in the shipping tracks, and you can’t lose pieces from there. in reply to ingredientx #
I have a pair of scissors. I have 53 little 1/2” circles to cut out by hand from cardstock. Please tell me I’m not in preschool again. #18xx #
Today’s inane pride: Cutting out 72 cards with a craft knife and having them all measure within 0.5mm of each other. Ahh. #18xx #
@habermanm Umm, I never had a 1/2” punch? Not willing to spend ~$100 on one. I miss my old AIDOX corner-rounder. The new Fiskars’ is crap in reply to habermanm #
There’s a package of games downstairs, brown-paper wrapped & all tied up with string. If I open the box, I’ll get nothing more done today. #
@GamesOnTheBrain Ahh yes, that does look good. And cheap. I’ll dig one out. in reply to GamesOnTheBrain #
@BrenoKummel No, I studied the rules some more & didn’t find things that interested me. (18VA) #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@habermanm @gamesonthebrain pointed me at a nice $3 1/2” punch that seems like it would do the job. in reply to habermanm #
Evolution of space over time: Photograph a context for 24 hours: http://tr.im/F1nF #
@hnshah @bocardo I’d say that women notice context & relations. Men notice women & motion. (I’ve also watched both) in reply to hnshah #
@jason_a_reid So I opened the box to find Greed & Imperial 2030. Being of cache incoherent mind, I then played 18FR & 1860. #18xx in reply to jason_a_reid #
@BrenoKummel Played twice, both 4P. It is 1830 on a new map with a few twists, with all that means. Worth the effort for me. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel BTW our first game was won by the bankrupt player. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@andsoerinsaid How many players for 1830? #18xx in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Most of our 3-player games of 1830 end in bankruptcy. Almost 90% for 4-player. Did anybody really push the trains? #18xx. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@ingredientx If you think you have time to read during an #18xx: you’re likely not paying attention to what you need to think about. in reply to ingredientx #
@andsoerinsaid That’s a slaughter. #18xx in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@ingredientx I suspect the #18xx really only work for players who like (and try to) to plan out the whole game out in advance. in reply to ingredientx #
@clearclaw That’s where the game is: trying to get all the patterns & layers together in your direction from start to finish. #18xx in reply to clearclaw #
@andsoerinsaid 3P 1830 should end after ~5 sets of ORs. Sometimes 4 sets ith a bankruptcy. Capital is too dense for much longer. #18xx in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@ingredientx When played well there’s a lot of improv in the #18xx - in order to survive the other players and stay on (or make a new) plan. in reply to ingredientx #
@ingredientx Yes, Tom is fascinatingly educational to talk game design structures with. He’s a nice sense of patterns & models. #bggcon09 in reply to ingredientx #
@andsoerinsaid The range of games & game-styles tweeted about at #bggcon09 has been far smaller/narrower than I expected. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@acetate3 I found Last Train to Wensleydale had no ability to plan, & was almost purely tactical. That killed it for me. You? #bggcon09 in reply to acetate3 #
@andsoerinsaid Across #bggcon & #bggcon09 hashtags: All short light tactical games presented as unexamined experiences. No meat or thought. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Perhaps, but I had hoped that there would be at least something in the tweet stream, even if for a shorter game. #bggcon09 in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid I’m not so sure how well I can make that one work for me. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid What about falsies and a falsetto? Oh, & high-heels. And false-eyelashes to bat adoringly. A girl like me has to have style. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Get the expansion kit for Imperial 2030 if you can (& Imperial if you don’t have that). It all fits in one box. if barely. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@ingredientx Oh, dahling! You say the sweetest things. in reply to ingredientx #
Hesitating before making the dive into Ubuntu. My old Debian desktop, built nigh 13 years ago is getting too cranky & hacked to maintain. #