a bit of this, a bit of that
Aug. 12th, 2004 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishRick Boucher, my Congresscritter, is guestblogging for Larry Lessig. This is about the coolest thing I've seen a politician do, but then I don't pay much attention to politicians.
Koko the sign-language gorilla seeks medical help. Quite cool, but my pull quote has to be "The woman handed [the gorilla] a business card, which Koko promptly ate."
Some people are just too lucky for words. Man. Twenty-five dollars.
Some get sucked into MMORPGs and never see the light of day. Others sit up all night playing Counter-strike [or whatever cool FPS the kids are playing this year] or Starcraft.
Me, I just got started on BrettspielWelt. Online boardgaming.
The interface is less than good [comes of being a graphical client on top of what appears to have started life as something like a MU*], and English is far from being the primary language spoken, making navigation even trickier, but . . . wow. I sat down with some munchies and a drink and figured "what the hey, I'll give it a whirl" and suddenly I look up and it's an hour and a half later and I've just played three games of TransAmerica and how did that happen? Tied in one and won another, too, so that probably contributes to the buzz. Felt quite shaky at first [and the client briefly freezing up on me didn't help any], but I suspect that in a few days it'll be just like breathing. And for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jedibfa, they've got Puerto Rico without all the painful setup time. :)
It's certainly no replacement for playing games face-to-face with people I know and like. But it gives me access to games I don't currently have, pretty much any time I'm at home.
Update: User id on BSW is, of course, JazzFish.
Koko the sign-language gorilla seeks medical help. Quite cool, but my pull quote has to be "The woman handed [the gorilla] a business card, which Koko promptly ate."
Some people are just too lucky for words. Man. Twenty-five dollars.
Some get sucked into MMORPGs and never see the light of day. Others sit up all night playing Counter-strike [or whatever cool FPS the kids are playing this year] or Starcraft.
Me, I just got started on BrettspielWelt. Online boardgaming.
The interface is less than good [comes of being a graphical client on top of what appears to have started life as something like a MU*], and English is far from being the primary language spoken, making navigation even trickier, but . . . wow. I sat down with some munchies and a drink and figured "what the hey, I'll give it a whirl" and suddenly I look up and it's an hour and a half later and I've just played three games of TransAmerica and how did that happen? Tied in one and won another, too, so that probably contributes to the buzz. Felt quite shaky at first [and the client briefly freezing up on me didn't help any], but I suspect that in a few days it'll be just like breathing. And for
jedibfa, they've got Puerto Rico without all the painful setup time. :)It's certainly no replacement for playing games face-to-face with people I know and like. But it gives me access to games I don't currently have, pretty much any time I'm at home.
Update: User id on BSW is, of course, JazzFish.
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Date: 2004-08-12 09:52 pm (UTC)...now I have a new addicition to add to Carnage Blender, MarcoLand, ButtonMen Online, and Java Settlers of Catan...
ah well...who needs to sleep anyways? lol
Not quite a cool thing a politician did, but...
Date: 2004-08-13 06:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-08-13 07:22 am (UTC)speaking of which, when are we playing again?
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Date: 2004-08-13 07:22 am (UTC)You need to give us a handle to find you on bsw.
(And if you think the current interface on BSW is bad, you should have seen it a year ago. Though various games are worse/better than others).
(mine is mneme, of course).
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