It’s a bad, bad game. It’s a parody of hack & slash roleplaying games, where you’re competing with other people around the table to reach level 10. I dislike it because it’s got about as much in the way of interesting mechanics as kill dr lucky does, and is at least half a game of luck. Both games are dependent on flavor for their appeal, and kill dr lucky has better flavor.
I like Munchkin. It’s silly, mindless fun. Wouldn’t want to play it all night though. I would have voted for it, but I wanted to vote for others. And I am rule-follower.
you could bring the new guy with you to the family thing, but only if your family is super cool, or you and he are so into one another that you think you can both handle it.
i tend to treat my family and SOs as though they’re Church and State. if i can help it, never the twain shall meet. except at a wedding. or the Republican Convention
I don’t think it’s any kind of crazy….just perhaps a bit ill-advised. And not in the sense that “Well you still don’t really know this person very well & once you’re cooped up in the car for all that time you might decide you want to scratch his eyes out and you’ll be stuck there.” I mean in the sense that bringing a “friend” to a family outing tends to be a symbolic act that I assume you are not intending at this early stage. Not only might the family make assumptions about how serious this is, your friend might make those assumptions, too — and who wants to have a conversation along the lines of, “Okay, just so you know, this doesn’t really mean anything…..”
Nah, we’ve talked about it already. We were having a hell of a time finding mutually available time for date #4, and this popped out of my mouth. He acted as though it was neither rank insanity nor a marriage proposal. I’m still trying to figure out whether I was just joking. But honestly, I mostly posted this to get a reaction from my cousin who reads my blog. 😉 She knows the extended family better than I do. So far, no dice. (The gentleman in question also reads this blog. Hopefully he sees the humor.)
I dragged to my mom’s house when my parents split up. We’d been dating…not long. A few weeks, I think, most of which I’d spent out of town.
He walked into a house containing the following:
1) my mother and two of my aunts, all ragingly drunk
2) my sisters, all sobbing hysterically
3) my young female cousin, frantically attempting to cheer my sisters up
4) my young male cousin, unutterably relieved to not be the only boy in the household anymore, but not really sure what to make of his older cousin’s new friend
Sometimes you can learn a lot about how compatible you might be with someone in a wacky situation like that, or other pressure-cookers. (Sometimes, of course, it goes horribly, horribly wrong.)
That context makes the contrast between your and Nat’s votes on the poll incredibly funny to me, though I imagine it was quite an experience and a little less funny to live through.
I’ve only been over for thanksgiving and your wedding as I recall, and both were memorable experiences.
i guess i must have a lower threshold for random arbitrary rules. Race for the Galaxy had more than i was willing to deal with. i can deal with like, 2 arbitrary rules at a time, like, you can play X when your player is Y s fine. but if you add more rules than that (ie you can play X card when player Y in in the Z zone when the player to the left is in Q) i cannot deal.
I don’t actually know what “munchkin” is, I simply clicked it because I wanted to click other things and I love “not following directions”
It’s a bad, bad game. It’s a parody of hack & slash roleplaying games, where you’re competing with other people around the table to reach level 10. I dislike it because it’s got about as much in the way of interesting mechanics as kill dr lucky does, and is at least half a game of luck. Both games are dependent on flavor for their appeal, and kill dr lucky has better flavor.
I like Munchkin. It’s silly, mindless fun. Wouldn’t want to play it all night though. I would have voted for it, but I wanted to vote for others. And I am rule-follower.
can i add a negative vote to Race for the Galaxy?
you could bring the new guy with you to the family thing, but only if your family is super cool, or you and he are so into one another that you think you can both handle it.
i tend to treat my family and SOs as though they’re Church and State. if i can help it, never the twain shall meet. except at a wedding. or the Republican Convention
You dislike Race that much? Who were you playing it with? =)
you. and my roommate Rob, i think. its one of those games with the totally random and arbitrary rules that i just can’t play. i get too frustrated.
Random and arbitrary rules?
Could yah give me an example? *headscratch*
You’re totally entitled to your opinion, and I’m not trying to change it, but I didn’t get that from the game.
I’m mostly tired of it just because we’ve played it to DEATH.
I don’t think it’s any kind of crazy….just perhaps a bit ill-advised. And not in the sense that “Well you still don’t really know this person very well & once you’re cooped up in the car for all that time you might decide you want to scratch his eyes out and you’ll be stuck there.” I mean in the sense that bringing a “friend” to a family outing tends to be a symbolic act that I assume you are not intending at this early stage. Not only might the family make assumptions about how serious this is, your friend might make those assumptions, too — and who wants to have a conversation along the lines of, “Okay, just so you know, this doesn’t really mean anything…..”
Nah, we’ve talked about it already. We were having a hell of a time finding mutually available time for date #4, and this popped out of my mouth. He acted as though it was neither rank insanity nor a marriage proposal. I’m still trying to figure out whether I was just joking. But honestly, I mostly posted this to get a reaction from my cousin who reads my blog. 😉 She knows the extended family better than I do. So far, no dice. (The gentleman in question also reads this blog. Hopefully he sees the humor.)
Oh well that’s cool. I was just thinking of avoiding potential awkwardness but it sounds like you’ve got that covered. In that case: ROAD TRIP! 🙂
Oh, never mind my crazy vote then. It sounded like a great way to come on too strong and scare him off.
It’s not TOO crazy….but crazy was the least severe choice other than close your eyes and jump…lol.
I only know scrabble in that list…..
I dragged to my mom’s house when my parents split up. We’d been dating…not long. A few weeks, I think, most of which I’d spent out of town.
He walked into a house containing the following:
1) my mother and two of my aunts, all ragingly drunk
2) my sisters, all sobbing hysterically
3) my young female cousin, frantically attempting to cheer my sisters up
4) my young male cousin, unutterably relieved to not be the only boy in the household anymore, but not really sure what to make of his older cousin’s new friend
Sometimes you can learn a lot about how compatible you might be with someone in a wacky situation like that, or other pressure-cookers. (Sometimes, of course, it goes horribly, horribly wrong.)
That context makes the contrast between your and Nat’s votes on the poll incredibly funny to me, though I imagine it was quite an experience and a little less funny to live through.
I’ve only been over for thanksgiving and your wedding as I recall, and both were memorable experiences.
my dad was at both of those! for which I always feel I should apologize to all attendees.
He was part of what made them both so memorable.
seriously what happened to pictionary????? or twister?????????
I initially said crazy, but then when i read the game list… well, then i changed it to “why not”!
I know right?
Where are the party games? 😉
i guess i must have a lower threshold for random arbitrary rules. Race for the Galaxy had more than i was willing to deal with. i can deal with like, 2 arbitrary rules at a time, like, you can play X when your player is Y s fine. but if you add more rules than that (ie you can play X card when player Y in in the Z zone when the player to the left is in Q) i cannot deal.