Exuberance-induced shouting and running.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Monday, December 09, 2013
Weekend roundup
It was a pretty nice weekend. Friday was freezing rain,
sleet, and snow, so some of the afternoon was spent sledding down the small
hill in our front yard.
On Saturday, Kim and the girls drove to Ohio for a
cookie-baking-oriented outing with Mom at my cousin’s. I worked on another house drawing while they
were gone, but on Saturday afternoon I attended a “meet-up” at a house not too
far from my neighborhood. It was a board
game meet up with some members of the Louisville Atheists and Freethinkers. I am
normally averse to any sort of in-depth interaction with strangers, but I
figured if I wasn’t going to indulge my passion for board games with
like-minded individuals at a home not for from my own, I may as well write off
being social at all.
The people I met were very nice, and I had a good time. I stayed long enough for three games. First, we played Dominion, which has been a
hugely popular card game for eight years or so.
I’d been wanting to try it, and I wasn’t disappointed. I only played one game, but I was impressed
by its cool elegance. I certainly will
be (finally) getting it for myself soon.
Second, we played Shadow Hunters. I enjoyed that, too, but I sort of felt like
there was some little part of the game’s theme that wasn’t “clicking” for
me. I get that the game is “about” some
players being supernatural monsters, some players being hunters of supernatural
monsters, and some players being independent unaffiliated people with their own
victory conditions—all of us stalking each other in the woods. However, the
manga-tinged artwork, the Euro-style
wooden cylinders used as player markers and counters, and the player-fighting-player
interaction all seemed like a slightly odd mix, and I felt like something was
being referenced (a certain anime series? A movie? Fairy tales?) that I didn’t
quite know about. Regardless, it was a
fun, fairly easy to learn game, and I’d play it again.
Last, we spend quite a long while playing Cards Against
Humanity, which is by design a sophomoric, politically incorrect, limits-pushing
card game in the vein of Apples to Apples.
Certainly fun with the right group of people (and if you suspect you are
NOT a member of this “right group of people,” you are probably correct). I enjoyed it, and I’d have fun playing it
with certain of my friends, but I can’t see ever owning a copy.
And then I finished watching season 2 of “Game of Thrones”
while eating Chinese take-out.
Thus passed my weekend.
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