Games Evening
Sep. 8th, 2005 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI went to games evening. It was fun. I met several old friends I haven't seen for a while (particularly Neil, but also Tom and others) and met new nice people. Ian swears he's seen me there before, but I don't *think* I've ever been.
We played a pattern-matching game which I was awful at. Visualise, where you have a score of dice with pictures/glyphs on and have to form phrases from them. I started badly but ended ok, with even a couple of puns.
And Apples to Apples. Last time I was hopeless, but here I got the highest score or nearly highest score, partly by ruthless psychological tactics such as physics arguments, blatant flirtation, and reverse psychology.
I have become a loud person. I used to be painfully shy. I remember at a ?MO event spending literally minutes trying to make myself speak to someone I didn't know. Now I talk a lot. But it's overcompensating, too much sarcasm and innuendo, and not enough interest, and not enough talking *to* other people. Can I change *again*?
Magic: The Gathering. I spied on several people's magic game. I'm always intrigued by it, but I think I don't want to wate time now learning. But it's still funny. And there actually *is* a "wrath of god" card: when Cryponomicon proposed cards like "ex-USSR nuclear arsenal" and "Yahweh" I thought it was *joking*. OTOH MD *did* explode a nuke in a roleplaying campaign, to not much effect, though if we'd been a bit more secretive about it it might well have been a marvellous kamikaze run.
We played a pattern-matching game which I was awful at. Visualise, where you have a score of dice with pictures/glyphs on and have to form phrases from them. I started badly but ended ok, with even a couple of puns.
And Apples to Apples. Last time I was hopeless, but here I got the highest score or nearly highest score, partly by ruthless psychological tactics such as physics arguments, blatant flirtation, and reverse psychology.
I have become a loud person. I used to be painfully shy. I remember at a ?MO event spending literally minutes trying to make myself speak to someone I didn't know. Now I talk a lot. But it's overcompensating, too much sarcasm and innuendo, and not enough interest, and not enough talking *to* other people. Can I change *again*?
Magic: The Gathering. I spied on several people's magic game. I'm always intrigued by it, but I think I don't want to wate time now learning. But it's still funny. And there actually *is* a "wrath of god" card: when Cryponomicon proposed cards like "ex-USSR nuclear arsenal" and "Yahweh" I thought it was *joking*. OTOH MD *did* explode a nuke in a roleplaying campaign, to not much effect, though if we'd been a bit more secretive about it it might well have been a marvellous kamikaze run.