My colleague told me today that they’ve been playing Cascadia 3 times a day since Christmas at their house.
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Shrek: For your information, there’s a lot more to ogres than people think.
Donkey: Example?
Shrek: Example… uh… ogres are like onions!
[holds up an onion, which Donkey sniffs]
Donkey: They stink?
Shrek: Yes… No!
Donkey: Oh, they make you cry?
Shrek: No!
Donkey: Oh, you leave ‘em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin’ little white hairs…
Shrek: [peels an onion] NO! Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers… You get it? We both have layers.
[walks off]
Donkey: Oh, you both have LAYERS. Oh. You know, not everybody like onions. CAKE! Everybody loves cake! Cakes have layers!
Shrek: I don’t care what everyone likes! Ogres are not like cakes.
Donkey: You know what ELSE everybody likes? Parfaits! Have you ever met a person, you say, “Let’s get some parfait,” they say, “Hell no, I don’t like no parfait.”? Parfaits are delicious!
Shrek: NO! You dense, irritating, miniature beast of burden! Ogres are like onions! End of story! Bye-bye! See ya later.
Donkey: Parfait’s may be the most delicious thing on the whole damn planet!
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Quote RogerBW: “Everything is political” can also mean “Everything I do that affects anyone other than me should be done with some consideration of the overall effects it’s going to have…
I’d call that empathy. Or enlightened self-interest, a philosophical approach like other philosophical approaches that address the human condition (Caveat: not all philosophical approaches or ideologies are good, equal, or of value).
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Not sure whether this should have gone in the technology thread, but:
The Japanese government is trying to consolidate data on ID cards, and because no-one was linking their health insurance or bank accounts to the new ID, or even picking up the card, they decided to give us 20,000 “points” for a company of our choice as incentive to do this. That’s basically 20,000 yen per family member, and we figure if we miss the carrot, eventually they’ll resort to the stick by making it so damned inconvenient to have not done it, that we’ll have to do it eventually. Anyway, I chose a kind of online store (Rakuten, think Amazon but not as international) for one set of points. 15,000 points are a given, but the company can set some kind of condition for 5,000. The condition for this company was to apply for and receive their credit card.
Today the card arrived, but the delivery guy required ID. Show him my driver’s license. He says that because my middle name is on the licence and not on the card, he cannot hand it over. Rakuten confirms this on the phone. He leaves with the card.
Character count and lack of space means that the credit card literally cannot fit my middle name, there is no middle name field on the application. You can’t even add spaces or sufficient characters in the first name field of the application. Iirc, the application even acknowledges this and allows for this specific “mismatch” on your ID and application.
Technology + by the book bureaucracy = fun times
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“Falsehoods programmers believe about names”…
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Resolved this over the phone. What they are going to do is have the same delivery company deliver a pre-paid envelope, into which I put an easily falsifiable copy of my driver’s license. When they eventually receive that physical copy, they’ll tell the delivery guy to come back with the card and permission to hand it over.
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O_O
In order to meet their strict security requirements, they will implement an ad-hoc, insanely-insecure, out-of-process workflow hack?
Lovely.
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Worse than that. I don’t think Japan does ad-hoc, so this is the process.
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I’m hoping it’s called the Robert Fletchingly Robertson procedure
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We have another online game night with colleagues coming up and while we’ve had some fun with Codenames, Dixit, Fake Artist and Skribble.io I would like to add Concept to the mix. Sadly, I do not have the option to just use the BGA implementation because my colleagues do not have BGA accounts and the whole “I’ll invite you without an account” thing has been so error-prone in the past I just don’t want to…
We have an online whiteboard where I could post the main board and where everyone can draw the necessary symbols.
My question is: how do I get the words and phrases to them without me having to be a GM. I tried photographing and sharing over teams but I inevitably see a couple of phrases no matter how much I try not to. And my trust in holding it up to the camera and everyone else closing their eyes… is very little. And also they have 6 options to choose from which might take a while.
How would you do this? I do not have the time to implement a webservice that delivers random phrases …
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A quick search turned up various results that will deliver a random prompt for games of Charades, so possibly just use something like that? After all, Concept is basically Charades with a board instead of waving your arms about.
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If you can get a list of prompts, but don’t have time to code the distribution of it, maybe just set up a PDF that everyone can get and then roll randomly: “page 17, prompt 23” and trust everyone else not to look at it?
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The idea is what I had hoped to find I just couldn’t find anything in German.
I googled a bit more but I still cannot find anything.
I have done a bit of what @RogerBW said and just “prepped” 24 of the cards trying to read as little as possible and committing possibly nothing to long-term memory
Since I have played this game a bunch I know a lot of the cards anyway.
I now have 24 png images of cards. This should be fine. We’re not that many people and I can take some from the box.
Thanks for the help & inspiration both of you 
Sorry to bring the mood down but have people seen in the news about the car crash in Cardiff this weekend? That’s less than 10 minutes from here. It’s a busy road. Its just awful
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sounds terrible 
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Oh dear. Yeah that was bad
Today’s mail brought a glossy advert telling me I was preapproved to buy a Maserati. I doubt the approval committee included my wife….
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Started in my new promoted role this month. Yay!
Still not been told the salary. Boo!
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Today’s mail brought the dreaded “red slip”. While it has my address on it, it doesn’t have my name on it.
It’s an international parcel from Portugal which I’m definitely not expecting.
I’m hoping whoever’s it is has been digitally prodded and can get their parcel. Otherwise I’m not really sure what to do.
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The more I’ve thought about this the more I think I should do something.
They won’t be able to collect it as I have the red slip. They might not even know they need to collect it.
If it truly has my address on it, any attempt they make to get it redelivered will just mean it comes back to me and I may not be in. Again, they might not even know they have that option.
I think I probably ought to arrange to get it redelivered when I’m in. Then maybe I can at least check the address when it gets handed to me or try and do some detective work myself.
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