Nine circles of gaming hell

[matgb]

What happens when a group of gamers who prefer European/German board games get told they have to play Advanced Squad Leader?

"These rules," he wailed, "all these rules! Look at them--rules for smoke screens, rules for vehicles, rules for tanks who don't have turrets... rules... too many rules. Too much conflict--I don't want to shoot anyone, I just want to move wooden cubes and trains across the board--where is the auction system? Why can't we bid on who gets shot?"

GeekList: Gaming in the Nine Circles of Hell... | BoardGameGeek

I know how they feel. I've met players of all the types listed, and more. I can see older versions of myself and friends in some of them. Via Mr Pink himself.

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I is sat in bed watching Jennie's birthday present from pmoodie, having eaten a midnight snack of haloumi, oat bread and carrots. Life is goooood...

Comments

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

The Trouble with Tribbles is a work of genius! :)

The final scene with Kirk having Tribbles flung at his head is possibly Trek's finest moment! :D

[mdmnmdllr.livejournal.com]

Well, not quite the final scene. That's when everyone's hemming and hawing about telling Kirk where the tribbles were sent to (i.e. the Klingon's engine room, "where there'll be no tribble a'tall").

The one you're talking about is when they dump a storage bin's worth of tribbles on his head as they're investigating whether the security on Station K7 had been breached. And yeah, that's a pretty good moment, too! 8-D

Favorite line - McCoy is reporting on the Bridge reporting to Kirk regarding the tribbles' biology ...

McCoy: "They reproduce at will." (looks around Bridge, which is covered in tribbles) "And brother, have they got a lot of will ... !"

[matgb]

I really liked the DS9 episode where they went back in time and pasted everyone in, really well done.

I also was with a friend when he ended up losing his ship in Elite on the C64, unfortunately they weren't on the Speccy...

[mdmnmdllr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the DS9 Tribble ep was a real treat, and ditto on the job they did adding the DS9 characters to it.