Games Club

[avram]

First up, there was Martian Coasters, since mnemex just got a copy. I hadn’t known it was out yet (so new, the Looneys haven’t even bothered to devote a page to it on their website), so I’ll pick up a set. We played a couple times, and it was fun, if kinda random. Then we played a game of regular Treehouse, which was even more random — the guy who spent the whole game unable to make any moves on his own pieces won with a couple of moves at the end.

Then a game of Hacienda, which was great. This is one of those complicated resource-management games that serious boardgamers like so much. I did decently in the first half with my one-big-chain tactic, but I’d neglected the rest of the board so much that I was largely shut out of the big scoring opportunities in the second half. The big winners were people who’d gone for a lot of markets.

Then I noticed a mancala set on the table, so bugsybanana and I played a few games.

Then a bunch of us watched videos on YouTube. Y’know, The Daily Show used to be funnier than it is now. Too many of the current cast members are too willing to break character and go for cheap laughs. It was better with people like Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, who could play their parts with straight faces. Here, check out these clips of “Even Stehpven”, the show’s old parody of point-counterpoint acts.

Comments

Re: blasphemer!

[avram]

It’s still funny. I still watch it. But it used to be funnier.