Bunker Project Log

I got a comment on the IGN Ultimate Setup XLVII article that I had to respond to:

“Where’s the Mountain Dew in the fridge!?! I thought this was supposed to be a gamer’s paradise?”

I had to respond because, at the last Bunker Party, I bought some Halo Mountain Dew to appease the M$ marketing juggernaut. (For those of you who know me, and know my feelings about Halo, the?joke will be understood.)??

So there you have it shaun.lavery, yes… there occassionally is Mountain Dew at the Bunker, but I prefer crab juice. Although I doubt that I will find any Halo crab juice.

The Emperor… which is not me. The emperor, as you married people know, is the wife.

I have now officially struck out three times with Mrs. G. First Settlers the Card Game, followed by Caylus, and ending with Colosseum.

?I was sure she was going to like it. I mean, the whole thing is about putting on a good show, and she had a drama career in High School and College… and… it’s a Days of Wonder game! They made a wargame that she liked! A?war game!

One word:

infuriating.

Oh crap…?

?I love Tanga. They have a great business model, cool content, and they are run by this guy?(how cool is that?). I have bought a godzillion things there.

And that’s the problem.

For an obsessive compulsive collector hobbyist weirdo like me, with a previously disposable income…?but now a father of two whose expenses are catching up with him, this is very bad.

So, when Ticket to Ride Marklin Edition (the “Real Gamer’s version”)?showed up at the appointed time of Tanga (1opm EST for the uninitiated) I did my usual bolt downstairs, halfway through a 5-player game?of Fluxx no less.

I suck at rules. I have spoiled many a game night gathering the dorks together to play some new game, only to find that, yes… there are some?important rules on the third through sixth pages… and… Yes! Players have a hard time playing when they don’t know how to win, and YES!! If you wreck the first play of a good game, it doesn’t matter how good it could have been, first impressions matter.

So, I decided to fix this. My first step? Read the rules… all the way through. A bunch of times!

OMG. There’s this game called Zombies!… and the box has, like, 5 million little zombie guys in it, and… like… the game is named ZOMBIES! But, we were like, at this party, where we played it, and there were like…?NO ZOMBIES! We played the whole friggin game, and there were like, 3 zombies all the way through it. WTH???

So I’m chillin playing Ricochet Robots, or Turbo Taxi, or something, and Pottse comes limping in with his feet wrapped in toilet paper. Somehow, he managed to slice one of his feeties open on one of the Cobalt Fluxi. (Could this be revenge for me talking so much trash?about it lately?)

Unfortunately, like all my crappy pictures, it didn’t?come out quite like it did in real life, which was… like, totally gross, thick, and weirdly fluorescent…WTF?

Anyway, we took 15 and whipped out the Oxi Clean(which really does work, btw.)

The attention whore rides again!

I have been reading posts on Boardgamegeek about Loopin’ Louie being?teh funnest game evar!!!!11one, and, it suddenly became available on Firebox.com, so I bit. Here’s the last game of the night, right before everyone shuffled off to Buffalo. Enjoy!

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It’s late, I leave you with a slideshow…

Before and After

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So, the entire IT department is Wooting Off, and this rrreallllly ugly mouse comes up for 5 Bucks American… and I’m wondering, do I buy it? And all the douchebags are bitching about it not being a Bag of Crap instead of telling me whether it is worth it or not… And I’m still wondering, do I buy it? Because, a Tangathon is going on at the same time and the wife is going to rip me to shreds if she finds out that I’d bought another version of Carcassonne… and… two different versions of Settlers of Catan… and should I buy the damn mice? It’s running out… they’re running out of stock… and I’ve got 7 machines on The Lan that could really use a groovy gaming mouse with variable DPI and all that jazz.