NewsThere is RussCon As Usual this Wednesday July 4, though I'll guess that there will be smaller turnout than we've been seeing lately!My house is becoming a sunglasses vortex lately. This week 2 pairs were left behind. We have attracted more mysterious attentions from England:
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| 6Nimmt | 8 | DaveB 7 BobR 5 RussW 3 TimL 1 Daniel -1 Brad -3 JP -5 Alex -7 |
| ElGrande | 5 | Fred 4 Matt 2 MattF 0 JeffF -2 Dudley -4 |
| MammaMia | 3 | Whindy 2 Matt 0 Allen -2 |
| Carcassonne | 5 | Clayton 4 BobR 2 Brad 0 TimL -2 JP -4 |
| ResPublica | 4 | JeffF 2 MattF 2 Dudley -1 Fred -3 |
| Guillotine | 3 | Ben 2 Alex 0 RussD -2 |
| Cosmic | 4 | Jeffles 3 Carly 1 JP -1 JonathanC -3 |
| PrincesOfFlorence | 4 | DaveB 3 Daniel 1 Brady -1 RussW -3 |
| WebOfPower | 3 | TimL 2 BobR 0 Brad -2 |
| DasAmulet | 3 | DaveB 2 Brady 0 Daniel -2 |
| DasAmulet | 3 | DaveB 2 Daniel 0 Brady -2 |
| PowerpuffGirls | 4 | William 3 Daniel -1 Alex -1 Brad -1 |
| WhatsThatOnMyHead | 6 | Carly 5 Jeffles 3 MattF 1 William -2 JeffF -2 Dudley -5 |
| Aladdin'sDragons | 5 | Matt 4 Ben 2 RussD 0 Whindy -2 Allen -4 |
| StephensonsRocket | 3 | RussW 2 JP 0 JonathanC -2 |
| MammaMia | 4 | Jeffles 3 JeffF 1 DaveB -1 Carly -3 |
| Carcassonne | 4 | William 3 JP 1 TimL -1 RussW -3 |
Princes of Florence... God I suck more and more at this game. Dave almost lapped me. Yet I keep coming back for more. Got to play it with 4 players finally.
The Powerpuff Girls game returned. It seems inevitable that Williams would win such a cute game.
I redeemed myself in Stephensons Rocket. This game plays out differently every time, and tonight's was especially weird. The rail lines mostly went along the coast -- several central cities were never reached! At the end of the game, among the 3 of us there were a total of 5 tokens, and 2 of those were passengers! Really weird.
Yet another Carcassonne loss? This game sucks! I'll never play it again, I swear!
A reminder: please write and spell clearly when recording game results, and remember last initials for people with common names, thanks!
Meta Party Game ResultsJP was the Meta Devil. Here is the Meta Game he emailed out:On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, David Brandt wrote:Brady brought color printouts. JP deputized Dave to compile the list of answers and email. Dave later wrote the list: Here is the current list:Looking at Bruno's site, we guessed incorrectly on:
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Altan, Harvest Storm
Clandestine, The Ale is Dear
Clandestine, The Haunting
Clandestine, To Anybody At All
Jen Hamel, Fine Small Storm
In celebration of the Clandestine concert, which of course turned out to be good fun. The latest CD which they recorded live wasn't quite ready yet, alas.
Rank ratings: 1.0000 Clayton (1 game played) 0.8182 Jeffles (3) 0.7647 DaveB (5) 0.6667 Ben (2) 0.6000 Matt (3) 0.5385 BobR (3) 0.3636 William (3) 0.2727 Carly (3) 0.2500 MattF (3) 0.1429 Fred (2) 0.0000 Whindy (2) 0.0000 TimL (4) -0.0667 JeffF (4) -0.0667 RussW (4) -0.1765 Daniel (5) -0.3333 RussD (2) -0.3750 Brad (4) -0.4286 Brady (3) -0.4737 JP (5) -0.6667 Alex (3) -0.8333 Dudley (3) -1.0000 Allen (2) -1.0000 JonathanC (2) New Win ratings: 1.0000 Clayton (1) 0.7647 DaveB (5) 0.4545 Jeffles (3) 0.4545 William (3) 0.2857 Fred (2) 0.2727 Carly (3) 0.2000 Matt (3) 0.1667 Ben (2) 0.1667 Whindy (2) 0.0000 MattF (3) -0.0625 TimL (4) -0.0667 JeffF (4) -0.0667 RussW (4) -0.2308 BobR (3) -0.2500 Brad (4) -0.2500 Alex (3) -0.2632 JP (5) -0.2941 Daniel (5) -0.3333 RussD (2) -0.3333 Dudley (3) -0.3333 Allen (2) -0.4000 JonathanC (2) -0.4286 Brady (3)Clayton pulled a Brady Maneuver. You must play more than 1 game to be eligible as Devil, so DaveB is the Devil! Jeffles is Vice-Devil. Matt and William are Co-Vice-Vice-Devils.
The big news is Carcassonne won the Spiel des Jahres 2001!
News of my old employer Kinesoft who recently closed shop: MageLords, Crimson Order up in the air: Developer Kinesoft hopes to sell the game projects to another company.
Star Wars Matrix Spoof at ifilm is wacky, and in Polish.
Foxhole and PoW built radios: history and construction.
Why did Hemingway's chicken cross the road?
To die. Alone. In the rain.
Russ
