I should be sewing

[lisefrac]

I am working on Byzantine garb for an NPC in Shadows of Amun, using this pattern.This weekend I have achieved a tunica (the underlayer), and most of the dalmatica (the overlayer) I am still trying to figure out how to attach the clavii--really, inch-wide trim--in straight lines. There will be pictures once I really have anything to show

Comments

Hanabi

[truthspeaker]

I wasn't in the Hanabi game, but it sounds like people didn't like it. I'm sortof curious why, since I like it well enough, though I wouldn't say it's my favorite game.

I think a lot of the game is meta -- trying to figure out conventions/strategies for winning. For example, if someone calls out a single card of yours, that is a signal to play that card. Another convention is to discard your oldest card when you discard a card, so people know which card you will be discarding and can warn you not to do so. So, the game is a bit like Bridge, in that you are giving extra information away by using conventions. However, if the bidding conventions in Bridge annoy you, then so will Hanabi, and nothing will change that.

Re: Hanabi

[lisefrac]

Mostly for me I just felt like I was the one letting everybody down, since I didn't glom onto the conventions fast enough. People would say things like, "I think there's something you should tell Matt" and I'd be like... what? Inevitably I'd pick the wrong hint to reveal.Or someone should say, "It should be obvious what you have now based on the cards that are out," and I couldn't figure out what.

I actually have never played Bridge, so I can't comment on that.

Re: Hanabi

[truthspeaker]

I think you're supposed to play the game once and expect to lose. After that, people are supposed to come up with conventions and tell everyone else -- conventions only work if everyone else knows what they are.

[laurion]

I've done or attended a few shows at the theater even further under Foundry. Never stopped into Saloon itself though. But the vibe is definitely fun.