I’ve played it, and run it. I discovered a win condition as a player:
D is not a good GM by normal standards. She is forgetful, arbitrary and vindictive. But I reckoned this made her a good candidate to run classic Paranoia, so I signed up for her convention game. The actual mission was the usual blood-everywhere fiasco. I was the only player not to lose any clones, which was officially good, but also grounds for suspicion.
When the merits and demerits were totalled at the end, I found myself in a strange position. The Computer no longer really trusted me, but for political reasons could not demote me. So I would remain officially a Red trouble-shooter, living in Red accommodation, with Red rations and medication. However, I would never be assigned to any missions.
D didn’t understand why I was so happy. I reckoned I’d found a win condition. She felt I’d lost the character, because I’d never be able to play them again, which seems like a failure to understand Paranoia to me.
Apparently I collect ukuleles. I’m now up to three: soprano, tenor, and now a concert resonator which I bought second-hand and I’ve just had to do some surgery on.
Uuugh I want an Esterbrook Estie so bad. And an Icelandic Nahvalhur. Anyway, you can go and view pens that are dated “1950s” or “1931” and they still write well. This is a very dangerous hobby for your wallet, and I say that as someone who is aware of the price of boardgames.
I sat in chairs like that a lot when I was in college, as there were a bunch in the library. Once you were used to them, they aren’t uncomfortable. Or weren’t when I was 18, I wonder if my hip flexors could do that postion for a long period these days. the ones the library had a single knee pad, not a split one.
The library had a whole bunch of slightly weird furniture, probably all designed by the same crazed norweigans.
It’s okay, I suppose. I have a counter-height desk and my partner bought me the HAG chair because it was highly recommended. However, I have a tendency, when sitting on the HAG or anything else, to sit on my legs. I find it awkward to maneuver out of the HAG after sitting on my legs. I have a tall stool that is more conventional and, in my opinion, comfortable.
It forces a very different seating position from “normal” office chairs like the new one (Steelcase) I have. Of the 3 I have now “in use” the normal one is the most comfortable.
The stool allows me to sit and move at the same time without any other support.
The HAG is somewhere in the middle.
It moves far less than I would want to but forces a very upright position somehow,
It has no arm rests which I find are more important than I thought
I barely ever use it in the “turned around” mode which seemd to enticing before I bought it. Sitting on it backwards does not allow me to actually do work. You kind of hang over the front and … the position just doesn’t work
The cross-shaped Sitzfläche is very difficult to get used to. I did it over the last 2 or 3(?) years. And appreciate it now as a change from my “normal” chair but having that one exclusively? Not great.
It has very little range when leaning backwards–not enough in my opinion.
It has a very good height range but I never once used the heigher heights to sit “half-standing”
You cannot slouch on it (I feel) and some slouching is required every once in a while. For me it has enforced a very singular seating position when in truth we need to change seating position frequently.
As a second or third chair in addition to a standing desk… the HAG seems nice. But from having used it exclusively for a few years I would recommend getting a more normal chair as a primary.
I do not want to blame my back-pain on it. That was triggered by stress and not enough exercise. But it also hasn’t been the great help it claims to be “being ergonomic” and all that. I would recommend in this order:
A high quality classic office chair
Yoga and other relevant exercise
A standing desk
The moving stool (1)
The HAG
(1) The stool feels a bit like sitting on one of these:
The most important thing about sitting at a desk is getting all the heights adjusted to you. I have had so many different little or not so little ailments from sitting wrong over the years… it should really be part of our education to learn to deal with the sitting required of many desk jobs.
