Because I was the owner of the game and I had previous poker plans for Saturday night, I grudgingly agreed to play Twilight Imperium from 10 AM - 7 PM Saturday and, given its tendency to run between ten to fourteen hours, resume the game Sunday from 1 PM until the bitter end ( Read more... )

I returned from a thirteen hour board game to find the boyfriend completely smashed.

I do believe he pronounced "restaurant" as "dress-a-lot."

What an utterly adorable drunk.

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Nope, string of shit luck continued with a ludicrous speeding ticket passing through the EZPass lane at 9:45am and ended with coming in last place in Twilight Empire.

But, at least I enjoyed the fourteen hour game.

That's right... Fourteen...

Hours.

"I don't know if Starcraft has enough depth to it."
- snippet of an incredibly nerdly conversation overheard in the hallway at work

I tried to warn them that, after what happened last time, we should target a pre-noon start time, but no one listened. They never do, even though I am always right. So, as a consequence, we failed to truly commence until well after 2:00 pm and ended up playing until a little after three in the morning. Although I am completely fucked up and have ( Read more... )

"All I can say at this point is that it's going to be a choice assignment to be posted as an ambassador to the Thuna'vulde homeworld ( Read more... )

As per usual, it is when my life starts getting stressful that I allow myself to get pulled back into gaming.

( How I spent my Saturday... )

Despite my strict policy of Casual Saturdays, somehow I allowed myself to be railroaded into playing Twilight Imperium yesterday afternoon, and yesterday evening, and early this morning. In general, I try to avoid board games that cross the fine line between an evening's entertainment and an eleven hour exercise in tedium. Risk 2210 is really the ( Read more... )

Instead of a pony, I bought this.