Jonny Lawless
United States
Bountiful
Utah
Love my Lil'bug!
My name is Glenn! Long have I carried Cyrus's hopes and dreams, and now I bear the Masamune as well! Henceforth, I claim them as my own! I shall slay the Fiendlord Magus and restore our honor!
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Multiplayer solitaire.
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Colorcrayons
United States
Maplewood
Minnesota
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Knizia
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DK Kemler
United States
Sacramento
California
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"Eurogame" isn't offensive enough?
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Jason Root
Australia
Dubbo
NSW
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Cube ridden, victory point laden snooze fest.
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Robert
United States
Portland
Oregon
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Nazi sterilized.
Go on, try for more offensive.
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Bradley Hays
United States
Kansas City
Missouri
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Block-athon.
Wait a minute...  I like Euros.
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Peter
Bermuda
Cornwall (originally)
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Freestyle Abacus
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Math equation pop quiz.
Memorization=success. Memcess!
Bash the newbie with our pre-programmed strategies.
Chess.
Eurotrash.
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Carsten ◄► Wesel
Germany
Pinneberg-Quellental
Germany
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Good games with understandable rules.
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Christoph Haeberling
Switzerland
Hinterforst
SG
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Quality components.
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Wendell
United States
Arlington
Virginia
All the little chicks with crimson lips, go...
Hey, get your stinking cursor off my face! I got nukes, you know.
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No dice games. (Settlers of Catan excepted)
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Rodney Clow
Canada
Moncton
New Brunswick
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offensive terms for eurogames:
block races
mathamphetamines
Offensive terms for euro gamers:
cube pushers
wood worshipers
meeple mommies
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Ceryon wrote: Good games with understandable rules.
habchr wrote: Quality components.
I've been over these a few times and not sure how they're offensive. Did we read the thread title?
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Gary Bacchus
United States
Altamonte Springs
Florida
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How about:
Themeless mathiness
Un-gaming
Point(less) chases
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SuperflyCircus Pete
United States
Independence
Kentucky
www.superflycircus.blogspot.com - Best Reviews Ever!
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EPAGs.
(European Pansy Ass Games)
Will that work for ya?
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Gary Bacchus
United States
Altamonte Springs
Florida
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superflypete wrote: EPAGs.
(European Pansy Ass Games)
Will that work for ya?
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jumbit wrote: Ceryon wrote: Good games with understandable rules. habchr wrote: Quality components. I've been over these a few times and not sure how they're offensive. Did we read the thread title?
Maybe he tried to offend ameritrashers?
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The most offensive name for eurogamers I can think of would be a symbol; like how the artist formely known as Prince changed his name into a symbol - you know, that piece of crap that looks like something you'd get by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Z and 8 in Word if you had set the font to Wingdings - but the symbol I'm thinking of, it would be a picture of an office belonging to some successful, fat cat publisher of eurogames (he's got a bunch of Spiel des Jahres-trophies sitting on a shelf, and a framed picture of the mindnumbingly dull cover from Caylus on his wall), and Reiner Knizia is there, holding up a couple of spreadsheets, demonstrating his latest game. But the publisher frowns at him with bitter, soulless eyes (pretty much like that guy on the cover of Caylus) and says "no! no! This game is too much fun! We must make it more boring! We have no choice but to call the fun-vampire!"
And so our eyes shift to another part of the symbol, where we see the interior of an ancient, damp crypt, where a pale monstrous being (with an uncannily resemblance to Max Schreck in Nosferatu) is standing in front of a young boy who has been chained to a rack. The boy has had almost all his fun sucked out of him, but with his last remaining strength he starts muttering the names of different pokemon: "Butterfree... Charmander... Snorlax... he, he, that's a funny one"; and the vampire goes batshit crazy and holds up a box of Die Macher in front of the boy's face. "NO! No funny monzterz! German politiczzz!". A phone rings, and the lifeless funsucker quits the torture to answer it. "Yezzz?"
"Funvampire, listen:" says the publisher. "We have a really boring game here; it has it all - Race for the Galaxy-esque iconography, multiple unintuitive auction mechanisms, shitloads of wooden cubes in the dullest hues of beige and brown we could find, and an extremely complex and backwards-as-hell scoring system. But we haven't got a theme! We need something extremely boring, here, but we're completely out of boring ideas! Should we just do an abstract?" The undead funsucker hisses in disgust: "No! Haven't I told you hundredz of timezzz; abztractzzz have aezthetic qualities, and zome people find enjoyment in aeztheticzzz! I need to zuck out the joy of every human being!" "Yes, of course I know that. But what should we do, then?" and the vampire thinks for a long, long time, before he finally speaks: "You will name thiz game... Docents of Bulgaria"
And the publisher gasps in astonishment: "Yes! That is the most boring profession and the most boring country! It's brilliant!"
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I admit that it's gonna be quite difficult to fit all that into one single iconic image, but it will provoke the shit out of all eurogamers, because it is the truth.
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Christoph Haeberling
Switzerland
Hinterforst
SG
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Quote: I've been over these a few times and not sure how they're offensive. Did we read the thread title?
Well for my part I understand the thread very well. It is widely accepted (which I do not understand) that Ameritrash games are often not so good, have often incomprehensible rules and often trash quality components. So it must be very offensive for a game to be called good, to have understandable rules and to have quality components.
I make a proposal: let the Ameritrash games be Ameritrash and let the Eurogames be Eurogames. Love them or hate them as you like. But please stop using offensive terms.
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Colorcrayons
United States
Maplewood
Minnesota
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Rising wrote: I admit that it's gonna be quite difficult to fit all that into one single iconic image...
Not difficult at all.
Now all we need is some brave soul that will stake Knizia to a crate of 'Through the Desert' and perhaps morning may yet rise once again.
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Philip Stiff
United States
Glen Allen
Virginia
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Sissyspiel
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Colorcrayons
United States
Maplewood
Minnesota
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I kind of like the game Automobile..
As you can tell from the picture below is full of excitement and hijinks.
There was that one time after drawing research and development cubes, that Gus spent $400 dollars by accident to build a factory. Oh, we all had a quiet smirk over that one. Ahh! All those bland memories just waiting to be shared.
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Ian Peters-Campbell
United States
Santa Cruz
California
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I like euro-games and I like ameritrash and I think it's absurd to complain about something so meaningless, but in the interests of silliness...
Eurmom Games
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Chris Tannhauser
United States
San Diego
California
Callisto 1 Mission Log, Day 3,125: I swear to god, if Logan does that spoon tapping thing again I will use it to dig his other eye out of his head. Also, the toilets stopped working sometime last month. Probably should've mentioned that first.
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Brown games.
Why try any harder? It's just not worth the effort.
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Gary Bacchus
United States
Altamonte Springs
Florida
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habchr wrote: Quote: I've been over these a few times and not sure how they're offensive. Did we read the thread title? Well for my part I understand the thread very well. It is widely accepted (which I do not understand) that Ameritrash games are often not so good, have often incomprehensible rules and often trash quality components. So it must be very offensive for a game to be called good, to have understandable rules and to have quality components. I make a proposal: let the Ameritrash games be Ameritrash and let the Eurogames be Eurogames. Love them or hate them as you like. But please stop using offensive terms.
You are aware that most folks that mill about here only debate the Euro vs. Ameritrash controversy in jest, right? You are aware that a little bit of self-deprecating humor is a sign of a healthy community?
The controversy has been over with for some time. There are so many games that put their Euro in their Ameritrash and vice versa nowadays that the designations are nearly meaningless.
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