Taking kicks just below the waistline is a foul.
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Looking at the board, not looking at the city
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Whattaya mean? You’ve seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town…
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Didn’t one player offer to play Magnus Carlson naked to prove he didn’t have a vibrating butt plug?
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“Redditch - my kind of town!”
(A friend of mine came from there. Apparently “the red itch” is what most of greater Birmingham calls almost any embarrassing disease.)
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You’ve just given me one of those moments when I wonder if something is real, and if it is, is it a sign of cultural collapse or healthy cynicism?
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Now they just need to give the precise number of seconds for each section, and I’ll finally be happy with following recipes.
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Yes, but it’s very space-consuming. Really, intermediate variable tags ought to solve the problem.
Melt butter → BUTTER
Mix BUTTER, sugar, vanilla extract, coffee → TENTACLE
Mix TENTACLE, eggs → MANATEE
etc.
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Yes. Would prefer a flowchart
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Doesnt take up THAT much space - you can get even that big on a normal index card if you shrank it a tiny bit.
That said, I don’t have any problems following NORMAL recipes so I rather feel its a solution looking for a problem
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Doesn’t that describe engineer hobbies and enthusiasms in general?
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I haven’t looked at cooking for engineers in a long time – possibly two decades – but I do remember the recipe format, thought it was neat, but actually using it isn’t that easy, and if you want to add explanation (like “cook until tentacles stop waving”) it doesn’t work at all. I could see using it for recipe cards for things you know how to do, and you just need formulas, but I’m not sure it’s really helpful.
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45th lap of the earth today. Got an awesome card from Mrs Bizzle.
I could Identify 12 of the 13 (certainly one of these may be a stretch). Anyone any ideas who the turquoise elf is?
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Possibly Yumi from Ulysses 31. She’s often a bit more blue but sometimes more turquoise and has the white hair and thing on top the head
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I think you’re right. A slightly more obscure reference than the others so caught me out. Cheers!
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while my last FLGS visit wasn’t too long ago, today we were in the area and so another visit was in order. Spoiler: I didn’t buy anything. Maybe because of the following “incident”.
Lengthy anecdote teaching me to not try and sell games to people at FLGS
I saw this couple holding a box of Spirit Island and just couldn’t help myself commenting “best game ever”. They looked up and I said “it’s been a favorite of mine ever since I got it.”
So next they ask me some questions especially which expansion they need to make it playable with 6? I try to tell them that I think 1,2 and 3 are the best playercounts but yeah, with some of the expansion materials you could probably play with 6. At this point I am already trying to extricate myself from this.
Sales-guy was in a game with a few people at a table at the other end of the room. So no saving to be expected from him. Usually by this point someone from FLGS is there and I can retreat.
As an aside: not my first time commenting on games to other customers–I only ever say anything when I recommend the game they are already holding in their hands, and I would never ever ever say anything bad about a game somebody might buy from FLGS unless explicitly asked and even then I’d try to recommend something else so they give their money to FLGS.
But today no help from FLGS people.
And then the guy says: “If you love this game so much, you will probably love the XCom Boardgame or (looking pointedly at my partner) that’s probably more your area.”
I stare for a moment… what a throwback to 8th class when the boys wouldn’t let me discuss playing Civilization1 with them, because it wasn’t a game for girls.
My partner: “No actually not, she’s the one who played it on the computer”
Guy doesn’t miss a beat: “Yeah but the boardgame… it is so good you would love it. You should definitely watch the Let’s Play on youtube. There are only two of them but it’s great. I bought the game on ebay used because it is out of print and… …” he goes on a lengthy explanation of the game. I keep failing to understand how this relates to Spirit Island but well he obviously loves the XCom boardgame a lot. So I nod and smile and nod and smile
“… and then there is the real-time element. It puts such pressure on you.”
I try to grasp my chance to be out of this conversation: “Oh that sounds a bit like Space Alert. Probably not for us then.”
Guy ignores my comment and keeps going: “Have you ever played Pandemic? Like that!”
I don’t see how realtime elements will relate to pandemic but fine.
I am no longer being subtle: “Sounds like a great game but our parking meter is running down. We need to get going…”
Guy keeps talking: “And then there is the other phase …”
In between, his visibly annoyed partner kept asking me a coupld of questions about the expansions for Spirit Island and I tried to explain that they are absolutely fine without any at first and that they are not necessary to get in order though I personally still recommend doing so. Again they both refer to wanting to play with 6 players and I almost told them to get Planet Unknown instead if they were so keen on 6 players… but at that point I had learned my lesson.
We finally just turned around and left. I didn’t buy anything because I was really in a hurry to get away from the X-Com guy who even by the end still couldn’t grasp that I was the bigger nerd out of me and my partner at least concerning boardgames and round-based tactical combat games (which is my favorite feature of X-Com and does not seem to be part of the X-Com boardgame.)
We went home after that and I am still wanting to get those 15 minutes back.
But I have no one to blame but my own big mouth that always has to point out how good a game is.
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That sounds incredibly frustrating. I mean, I know I could talk up my favorite games for quite a while, but I like to think I would recognize when someone is no longer interested in what I am saying. And I sure as heck wouldn’t make assumptions about a person’s preferences based on sex or gender. Sheesh!
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Sorry to hear that, Sonja.
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So because MY LIFE IS VERY ROCK AND ROLL, I found myself in an industrial estate in Hemel Hempstead.
This is where “66 books” have a giant warehouse where everything is 70% off, and every few weekends they open it up to the public.
I spent £30 on books that would have cost £105, and managed not to buy double that (seriously, if you like cookbooks in particular you’ll need a forklift to get your purchases home).
Look up 66 books’ book club if you fancy going on a giant warehouse adventure and paying £2-3 per book 
But yeah, towards the end I stopped worrying about cost and started worrying about weight…
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