Magus ([info]marcmagus) wrote,
@ 2009-07-03 01:59:00
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Entry tags:games, icehouse, iit, looney labs

Icehouse

Last weekend I decided I'd like to play Icehouse more often than once a year at Origins. Ideally, I'd like to get a local group together to play regularly (say for about an hour about once a month?). It might be kind of neat to do so outdoors in summer if the weather's nice, but that's not required.

Would people be interested in a regular but not too frequent meet-up for this? Could possibly turn it into part of a slightly longer pyramid-games themed event.

[Also, quick brag, eked out the last finalist medallion in the IIT this year. I'd been really hoping (but not expecting) to get one of those.]


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[info]kdsorceress
2009-07-03 05:35 pm UTC (link)
*waves hand madly*

You should know by now that I am definitely in for this, both Icehouse, and assorted other pyramid games.

...once I'm back home, of course.

~Sor

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[info]marcmagus
2009-07-03 09:21 pm UTC (link)
I was rather hoping as much. Depending on whether I get around to doing any good piecenicking, I might ask if we can borrow your weighted set for the purpose as well.

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[info]kdsorceress
2009-07-04 07:02 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's totally fine. They're not as precise as I'd like, but they have a wonderful weight to them.

~Sor

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[info]mnemex
2009-07-06 11:09 pm UTC (link)
I think this is an excellent idea.

Also, we should arrange for practice games when we plan to be at the same con.

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[info]marcmagus
2009-07-06 11:22 pm UTC (link)
But I don't want *you* to get better. ;)

Good idea. We just need to find (or plan to find) two suckerspeople who want to play.

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[info]mnemex
2009-07-06 11:27 pm UTC (link)
Sure you do! That way, you can demonize me and eke out a win over my bleeding corpse!

Also, Sor needs practice distinguishing my evil manipulation from my reasonable and helpful advice.

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[info]marcmagus
2009-07-06 11:53 pm UTC (link)
I don't need you to get better to demonize you, but I do need myself to get better for that to be sufficient for me to eke out a win over you bleeding corpse.

Sor needs to learn that there *is* no distinction between your evil manipulation and your reasonable and helpful advice, as your advice, while helpful, is also manipulative. [This is by no means a trait unique to you; we all give advice biased by our own game position.]

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[info]mnemex
2009-07-07 02:50 am UTC (link)
Yep. And best way to do so is to play good players (like, I'll admit, YT).

Quite true, or at least, no hard distinction (as I will certainly make suggestions in a game that benefit me regardless of whether they are necessarily in anyone else's interest -- though I won't couch those in the form of helpful advice, as that would be wrong).

But the only real way to distinguish offers of mutual interest from those that turn out to have a very one-sided interest is seeing enough of the game to know what's going on and why I might be making such and offer -- and, of course, one's lack of understanding might turn an offer that's -theoretically- of mutual interest into one that serves me more -- either trading prisoners with me when we both theoretically benefit as much, but I'm enough better at using my prisoners, or the business with Sor in the last game of the Iceoffs -- where I got her to share the pain with me in what turned out to be my successful attempt to put Tim (Cooler than Ice!) into the Icehouse (and IIRC, I let her play the last piece). Had she realized what was going on, she'd have likely been able to beat me to the call (particularly since the person placing the piece is usually awarded a tie for obvious reasons), but she didn't.

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[info]jlighton
2009-07-07 05:23 am UTC (link)
I can probably be talked into a game if I'm also there.

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