I wasn't born ! I sprang from the forhead of God , as he contemplated a particularly vile joke !
I wasn't born , I was hatched in the deepest darkest part of the ocean , and raised by sharks !
Mabool wrote:
At least it takes the kids away from the Wii for a few hours...
but i would think the Wii is a fundamental part of their training , all that back and forth and side to side hand motion is critical in preparation for dice rolling in the life time of board gameing they have ahead of them lest they fall behind the international curve ,
i am sure there are secret training camps in russia that have hundreds of sequestered children training on Wii's from shortly after birth to beef up their dice rolling arms so that they can some day declare russian dominance in the board gameing community and thus replace our beloved BGG with BoardskiGameskiGeekski ! is that what you want ?
think of the children ...........think of the world ! go out and buy a Wii for your child , your relatives child , your neighbors child ; the world is at stake , one risk board at a time !
but i would think the Wii is a fundamental part of their training , all that back and forth and side to side hand motion is critical in preparation for...
Oh my god, this guy can't be about to say that, surely? He must be a total sicko!
GrandInquisitorKris wrote:
...dice rolling in the life time of board gameing they have ahead of them
*hangs head in shame over previous thought, but feels vindicated that GrandInquisitorKris mis-spelled gaming so therefore must truly be a sicko of the worst kind after all*
"So you see, Anastasia, this gameboard was clearly printed in some pinko-Commie-ex-Soviet-bloc-wasteland because on all real maps North America is in the center, not over here on the edge..."
BorderCon 101 - Bring the fun, bring a smile, grab a game from the pile. Place the Meeple, play a card, swing your sword and kill the guard! So make the trip, don't be docile, look for details on my profile!
Shad wrote:
"So you see, Anastasia, this gameboard was clearly printed in some pinko-Commie-ex-Soviet-bloc-wasteland because on all real maps North America is in the center, not over here on the edge..."
At the age of the kids pictured, I already couldn't stand Risk. My brother (2 yrs older than me) did love it, instead, and used to get angry and beat me because I wouldn't play it with him . /runs away crying
I wasn't born ! I sprang from the forhead of God , as he contemplated a particularly vile joke !
I wasn't born , I was hatched in the deepest darkest part of the ocean , and raised by sharks !
fitzyfitz wrote:
GrandInquisitorKris wrote:
but i would think the Wii is a fundamental part of their training , all that back and forth and side to side hand motion is critical in preparation for...
Oh my god, this guy can't be about to say that, surely? He must be a total sicko!
GrandInquisitorKris wrote:
...dice rolling in the life time of board gameing they have ahead of them
*hangs head in shame over previous thought, but feels vindicated that GrandInquisitorKris mis-spelled gaming so therefore must truly be a sicko of the worst kind after all*
At the age of the kids pictured, I already couldn't stand Risk. My brother (2 yrs older than me) did love it, instead, and used to get angry and beat me because I wouldn't play it with him . /runs away crying
Ja! You could have the Plankton army versus the SpongeBob army versus the Patrick army (they don't always get along) versus the Sandy Cheeks army versus the Eugene Krabs army versus the Squidward army. The ten-army minis would be of the characters mentioned above in the appropriate color. The five-army minis would be of Plankton's Computer Wife or Gary the Snail or Little Jellyfish or Larry the Lobster or Pearl or Animated Clarinets respectively (and in the appropriate color). The one-army minis would be of various Bikini Bottom residents in the appropriate color.
i am sure there are secret training camps in russia that have hundreds of sequestered children training on Wii's from shortly after birth to beef up their dice rolling arms so that they can some day declare russian dominance in the board gameing community and thus replace our beloved BGG with BoardskiGameskiGeekski ! is that what you want ?
Being Russian, I can totally confirmski this daemonic plan! Only in Russia it's called the Wiiski (commonly confused by foreigners with the Whisky).
"So you see, Anastasia, this gameboard was clearly printed in some pinko-Commie-ex-Soviet-bloc-wasteland because on all real maps North America is in the center, not over here on the edge..."
"So you see, Anastasia, this gameboard was clearly printed in some pinko-Commie-ex-Soviet-bloc-wasteland because on all real maps North America is in the center, not over here on the edge..."
Dude, that is too funny. =)
Seriously though, I have to admit that when I first moved to China seeing all these world maps where China is in the center and North America is all warped and scrunched up on the right side was really jarring - both visually and emotionally.
Emotionally, not in the sense that I was offended, but in the sense that I was embarrassed that I had never in my previous 24 years of life stopped to consider that map projections were wholly arbitrary and that there was absolutely no reason why the US should be front and center instead of any other country.
Umm, in most world maps I have seen, Europe/Africa is in the middle, simply because that is the "center of mass" of the main continents. I can't even think of any world maps I have seen in america where North America was in the center. I think you are selectively remembering.
Umm, in most world maps I have seen, Europe/Africa is in the middle, simply because that is the "center of mass" of the main continents. I can't even think of any world maps I have seen in america where North America was in the center. I think you are selectively remembering.
I remember seeing maps like that while living in the States, but I do agree, most maps are done with Africa in the middle, regardless of where they're made, since it simplifies "cutting" the edge of the map across the Pacific.
However, I'm not surprised to hear about China-centric maps.
I wasn't born ! I sprang from the forhead of God , as he contemplated a particularly vile joke !
I wasn't born , I was hatched in the deepest darkest part of the ocean , and raised by sharks !
The Lone Gamer wrote:
Umm, in most world maps I have seen, Europe/Africa is in the middle, simply because that is the "center of mass" of the main continents. I can't even think of any world maps I have seen in america where North America was in the center. I think you are selectively remembering.
actually i remember maps from school with north america in the middle (especially smaller poster maps ), and thats the majority of maps most people in north america deal with in their life unless traveling some where or looking something up .
its not a question of nationalisim , but rather a means of emphasizing education for regional geography and history , so it makes sense that in China the maps center on asia to emphasize education to asians about asia .
its not a question of nationalisim , but rather a means of emphasizing education for regional geography and history , so it makes sense that in China the maps center on asia to emphasize education to asians about asia .
I can't help but think that the map should have a whale and ship on it, and that the players would enjoy the honest tactile nature of wooden pieces more than the plastic in a modern set.
Posted Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:59 pm
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