Interesting Links for 22-01-2014

[andrewducker]

• Older people don't lose cognitive power they just know too much
  (tags: memory age )
• Women ‘should be banned’ says UKIP Chief
  (tags: ukip satire women society funny uk )
• Cosmic 'web' of dark matter is seen for first time
  (tags: space universe science physics )
• Joanna Lumley+Brian Blessed+Anna Chancellor+Jack Davenport+Motion Capture+WorldOfWarcraft

Comments

[bart_calendar]

So in the future when our brains run on Windows OSMinds we will simply install a bigger hard drive when we get old?

[f4f3]

Hmm, "Format Disk: Yes/No?" could take on a whole new horror...

[cartesiandaemon]

Rule one of immortality club is "Don't run your brain on Windows!" :)

[bart_calendar]

Apple iMind?

[f4f3]

Eldritch Horror makes me want to get back into board games...

[andrewducker]

If only you had the time!

[gonzo21]

Geezus, Twitter is a cesspool.

And the glacier thing doesn't terribly surprise. I can remember when I was a kid being up in the hills and the snowfall from February would quite often still be up in the nooks and crannies around corries and things even into July and beyond.

Also... I like that Arkham Horror hates you, it evokes the atmosphere of true Cthulhoid horror. You're not ~supposed~ to win. :)

[andrewducker]

I don't mind games that hate you - I love Pandemic and I don't think I've ever won it. But I found Arkham Horror dull - once you knew the tactics there wasn't much choice in it, the correct option was generally obvious, which took a lot of the fun out of it.

And Twitter's just a reflection of society - TBH it only takes 1% of people being arseholes to make a place look terrible.

[gonzo21]

I think Arkham's biggest problem is sometimes if you draw useless starting equipment, you can just forget about it. You'll need to spend the first few turns looking for gear, by which point the game is probably out of control.

I suspect 3 players might be the sweet spot too. Any more than that and the amount of down-time between when you actually get to do something might be too great.

I do love it though. Had some spectacularly tense and dramatic games. It always seems to deliver a cliffhanger ending.

[cairmen]

Yes, agreed. I love Arkham Horror for just how mean and difficult it can be - much like a board game equivalent of Dark Souls.

Sadly after playing it a few times it gets a lot easier, but the initial playthroughs were still great.

[andrewducker]

Oooh, thanks!

[apostle_of_eris]

“Old people talk slow because everything reminds them of so much.”