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| Friday, October 22, 2004 02:34 AM |
| Funny Scary, and Funny Funny |
 by Fëanor |
Peccable mentioned this article (that's a Salon page, which you need a subscription or a free day pass to view; here's the link to the study it discusses, in case you're lazy and/or poor) to me last night before game night, and I wanted to bring it up here, because it's really interesting, and explains to me why people would still support George W. Bush after everything he's done--they simply don't know the facts about him! They've been tricked and confused by all the misinformation coming at them from the media and the administration. This actually makes a lot of sense to me, and restores a bit of my faith in humanity. Of course, it does mean that there's a lot of people out there who are really gullible and incredibly ignorant, but we already knew that.
Peccable's mention of that article naturally led me to tell him, TrackerNeil, and Super Tarzan about an encounter I had with a woman at the train station the other day. She was one of these people who starts talking to you out of the blue, and continues to talk to you, despite the fact that you are obviously not interested and just want to read your paper and go quietly to work. Anyway, after telling me about her smoking habits, she got around to asking me who I was voting for. She realized this was a personal question, but I was willing to answer (after all, my car prominently displays an anti-Bush bumper sticker and a pro-Kerry bumper sticker on its rear end). "Definitely Kerry," I said. She told me that she voted for Bush in the last election, and I got the sense that she was leaning toward Kerry this time, but her friend told her that if Kerry is elected, the government will take over the entire healthcare system and will choose our doctors for us, and tell us which ones to go to. I told her this sounded pretty unlikely to me. But she was sure it was true, because her friend had told her about it.
Umm, yeah. I should have told her that person wasn't her friend.
On the lighter side, this made me laugh really, really hard, and I'm not sure why. They're just so twisted and nerdy and clever, those Penny Arcade fellows. Bless their black, steely hearts.
Anyways, tonight I shall be preparing for game day, which is tomorrow! Yay! I'll be cleaning the place up a bit and getting my various Catan expansions play-ready. I'm looking forward to putting together every single one of my Catan expansions so we can play a gigantic game of Settlers, Seafarers, and Cities and Knights of Catan. I'm thinking this version of the game should be called "Everything of Catan" or perhaps "Monsters of Catan"--as in "Monsters of Rock." Anyway, after poking about a bit on boardgamegeek.com and in the Almanac for Cities and Knights, I think I've decided we'll play the New Shores scenario of Seafarers, replacing the normal island with the larger 5/6 player island, and upping the victory requirements to 15 points. I expect the game will take a VERY long time, but hopefully not too long, as I'm sure we'll all want to play other things as well. Maybe we'll play Betrayal at House on the Hill first, just to make sure we can fit it in before Peccable and Sarcasmo have to leave...
Speaking of BHH, we played it twice last night, I was the traitor both times, and I lost horribly both times. It was quite disappointing, especially since in one of the haunts I actually had control of a Demon Lord and four demon underlings!! How could I fail? Fate was against me. Sigh. TrackerNeil pointed out that we have yet to play a session of the game in which the traitor was not trounced, which I find disappointing and odd, especially since my buddy Dave told me the first time he played, the traitor (which was himself) totally kicked butt.
In more positive gaming news, we played James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game, and it was a ton of fun. The concept of the game (you're all super villains trying to capture and kill spies, but not before taunting them a lot, of course) and the writing on the cards are both very clever and funny, and the rules seem to have been fixed, so it's also a decent game. I look forward to trying it again in the near future.
And that is all for now. Peace. |
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