Shake Ur Ass
I succumbed, and bought a little golden lab called "Rex". I taught him a couple tricks already: "Sit down", "Shake a paw" and the amazing "Shake Ur Ass". We won 3rd place in a frisbee competition, and moved up to open class from beginner class.
Of course, this dog is a Nintendog, and I bought a new DS to house him. I also picked up "Feel the Magic" and "Trace Memory" for DS. The dual screens, microphone and the touch pad definitely add new gameplay possibilities.Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to play with "Rex" on my way back to Toronto. Why? Because I don't want people to think that I have Teurets. Imagine a stranger on the plane yelling out "Rex, Rex! Rex!! Sit down! Sit down! Sit down! Rex! Rex! Rex!! Sit down!!". Yes, I don't want to be that guy.
I may touch on the other games later, and they are incredibly fun, but let me get back to heaping more praise on Nintendogs. The puppies act so believably, especially the way that they grow disinterested in you and go play with the ball you threw, not bothering to give it back to you. They even get scared of new things, "Rex" shivers when I blow bubbles at him. It is so fun playing with your dog, petting, feeding, and training. Somehow I figure that I will be the only one with a DS in my clique for a while, which is too bad because then I can't have my dog kick your dog's ass. Or sniff it ... I guess? Hmm ok strike that.
Also, I picked up Carcassonne the boardgame yesterday and played 3 rounds with Sunny and my family. Kev wanted to play this and it was from his rave reviews that I ended up getting it. It was either this, "Diplomacy", or "Frag". They all seemed quite promising, but this game was different both from its price tag (half the price of the other contenders), and from its short 30-45 minute play time requirement. It is really frustrating starting a great game of, oh let's say "Axis and Allies", and then not being able to finish it because 5 hours later everyone is so tired of it.
Anyway back to the game, it is an interesting turn based game where you effectively build a map tile by tile, alternating between players. You win depending how you place tiles in relation to little wooden people that you position on the tile that you place, and to the tiles and people that have been previously placed by the other players. The version I got came with a free expansion... the river (pictured above), consisting of 12 new tiles. Wow. I did try it with the river last night and it did make it a little different, especially since farmers (one of the types of wooden people) became effectively neutered. So yes, it is fun, I would recommend it to others, and I'm looking forward to playing it again.Let me know if you have any cool boardgame recommendations, or videogame relevations.
posted by Blight @ 1:24 PM
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The best I can offer on the videogame tip, is that GTA: San Andreas is probably the best game ever (but we already knew that), and that Street Fighter II is BACK! Or, at least at my place. I bought the Street Fighter II collection for my X-Box. It has all the Street Fighter II versions (minus the Capcom, Marvel, and X-Men versions), and it has Street Fighter III, which is actually pretty sweet! Screw 3d fighters, 2d fighting games are where it's at.
I'd like to get a nice shooter for my laptop, but I'm going to wait until my finances setting down from the move. Widescreen FPS = dope.
Oh yeah, here's a game that I think has some promise, and fills the multiplayer void that Rockstar Games promised for GTA III but never delivered: www.25tolife.com
Also, the new Warriors game by Rockstar sounds pretty good.
I didn't get San Andreas, but I'm looking forward to Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. I like those non-linear, massive gameworld type RPGs, and the depth of the gameworld sounds incredible.
Street Fighter II was the bomb. But you know what, we were really stupid. Stupid stupid little boys.
Remember that time we had 3 or 4 girls over at your place Derelict? And then we subjected them to playing Street Fighter II??? Why Derelict why!?
You know they wanted to get jiggy!!!
And besides, Kevin totally practiced 24 hours a day (his dad said so) and he was cheap. Cheap! We had to invent "street fighter rules" just because of him!
Buddy! The river neuters the farmers? That river adds some sweet farmland area. In every game I've played, farms are always hotly contested.
Anyway, if you like vanilla Carcassonne, try the hunters/gatherers expansion. Really cool. And SoC the card game, if you can still get it. And always check boardgamegeek.com. very nice site.
As for video games, you were right. Resident Evil 4 is awesome. Street Fighter was epic, but I'm a Soul Calibur man now, and I don't think I can go back.
"Is that painful?!"
3 or 4 girls? Street Fighter? When was that?
It was when we were in junior/high school. Not our proudest moment guys... proof that we were not yet mature enough to realize the potential of certain situations.
"Hyuk hyuk, there's girls downstairs, what should we do? I know, let's play Street Fighter II!"
Ouch.
Who were the girls?
Were they hot?
Ok look, we were in junior high, so retrospectively I have to say that they were not hot, because they would no longer appeal to me. However I'm sure they were decent for our age at the time.
I can't remember exactly, memories might be combined here... Derelict has to help me out.
I think I remember G.Bushey, ... T.Goo, and one or two other girls.
Were you there? I've tried to block this shameful part of my past from my memories.
Oh yeah, response to Beaver boy:
Yes the river neuters farmers. I mean, they already had 2 sets of balls so they aren't exactly impotent, but they are definitely more eunuch like than before.
The river and roads that cross it add another barrier to farmers and help prevent a single group of farmers from monopolizing the points to be gleaned from completed cities.
Wait until we play and I'll smack your farmers with my thieves!! It's like that... and that's the way it is! Yeeeaaahhh...
Well, whenever I played, that river area turns into sweet sweet farmland. But enought about my epic farmers and your flaccid thieves.
Junior High? I think I managed to destroy every memory of that era with consistent use of booze, drugs and video games. Of course, If there were girls there when I was playing Street Fighter 2, I bet I got some lovin' after they saw my mad skillz.
Mad skillz? I have some faint memory of you losing consistently to Derelict. And then you getting angry at him. And him just sitting there grinning. And Sunny just eating KFC.
Wait, did that happen?
That may have happened, but Sunny would have shown up late, and been drinking a slurpie on a cold day. Derelict may have had the occasional victory, but only because he would pick ONE character, find the cheapest, most annoying attack, and do it over and over and over again. His goal was to not simply to win, but to devour our souls.
Hey, so where are we meeting up in Urban Dead? I finally killed my first zombie. Bet he's pissed because he had 13 of his friends one block south. Maybe we should get a ring of Archmage going too?
Wait, wait, wasn't the point of those games to win, or was it to have fun? I seem to remember a lot of "cheap!" being called out in most of those games we played.
There were girls in Junior High? Wait, Junior High???
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