Apples to Apples, Dixit, Rock Band, Kinect
It was a day with friends, and we did friend stuff; ate some food, played some games, talked about dildos. We also played some Apples to Apples, which went about as well as it usually does (satisfactory but a little dull), although someone stated how in one game somebody played Hiroshima – 1945 with the adjective Clean. Which is interesting because I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that example before, and not from him, which means pretty much everyone I know has a dark sense of humor, or they’re all assholes, one of the two.
Also hooked up the Kinect at a friend’s place to show it off, and while it was entertaining, it’s not really a system that works in a group situation. For one it required a bit more room than we had, so we ended up pushing a couch out of the way, and there was not a lot of places to be to watch. Also, whenever anyone walked between the sensor and the player, the Kinect freaked out, so eventually everyone felt trapped. So, after everyone got their fill, we switched to Rock Band. Not everyone really felt like playing, as we eventually dropped down to one guitar, one keyboard, and various vocalists. But it was still fun, as I got to sing a couple of old favorites, and some people who hadn’t hit the mike got a chance to sing.
Then a game of Dixit with teams, because that was the easiest solution that didn’t leave anyone out. People seemed to pick up on the game pretty well, and we only had one case where everyone or no one got it, when somebody made a veiled but obvious reference to the Truman Show in connection to the card that looks like a blatant ripoff of the ending. Otherwise, everyone seemed to get it and had fun. Working in teams had a weird dynamic; the person I was partnered with picked a card and left it to me to come up with a phrase, after I explicitly told her I was terrible at the game. But I thought of a couple of good ones, like “Spanish Fallings” for one that heavily featured rain. We eventually won after a good last round in which our card was chosen as the match by almost everyone but us.
It was a day with friends, and we did friend stuff; ate some food, played some games, talked about dildos. We also played some Apples to Apples, which went about as well as it usually does (satisfactory but a little dull), although someone stated how in one game somebody played Hiroshima – 1945 with the adjective Clean. Which is interesting because I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that example before, and not from him, which means pretty much everyone I know has a dark sense of humor, or they’re all assholes, one of the two.
Also hooked up the Kinect at a friend’s place to show it off, and while it was entertaining, it’s not really a system that works in a group situation. For one it required a bit more room than we had, so we ended up pushing a couch out of the way, and there was not a lot of places to be to watch. Also, whenever anyone walked between the sensor and the player, the Kinect freaked out, so eventually everyone felt trapped. So, after everyone got their fill, we switched to Rock Band. Not everyone really felt like playing, as we eventually dropped down to one guitar, one keyboard, and various vocalists. But it was still fun, as I got to sing a couple of old favorites, and some people who hadn’t hit the mike got a chance to sing.
Then a game of Dixit with teams, because that was the easiest solution that didn’t leave anyone out. People seemed to pick up on the game pretty well, and we only had one case where everyone or no one got it, when somebody made a veiled but obvious reference to the Truman Show in connection to the card that looks like a blatant ripoff of the ending. Otherwise, everyone seemed to get it and had fun. Working in teams had a weird dynamic; the person I was partnered with picked a card and left it to me to come up with a phrase, after I explicitly told her I was terrible at the game. But I thought of a couple of good ones, like “Spanish Fallings” for one that heavily featured rain. We eventually won after a good last round in which our card was chosen as the match by almost everyone but us.
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