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Three new ones:

High Society is a simple auction game (bid for 'luxury goods', winner is the one with the highest total value) with three neat twists:

• Your money is in varying denominations (one each of 1 through 10, 15, 20 and 25) and you can't get change. So the more you spend, the less flexibility you have in your future bids.)
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• There are some negative cards (half your total, throw away the next good you buy) where you are bidding to not take it. First to drop out takes it and gets their bid back, everyone else pays their last bid.)
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• Whoever has spent the most money at the end is poor and shunned by society and thus cannot win, even if they have the most valuable goods.)

Definitely replayable, though it's quite easy to get to an impossible position to get out of.

Deep Dive is a pretty standard push-your-luck with a dolphin/food/predators theme. Plays quickly, easy to learn, but does nothing you can't get in dozens of other games.

HMS Dolores is a "splitting up treasure" take on Prisoner's Dilemma (both agree to share, both get half; one shares, one steals, stealer takes all; both steal, both get nothing.) It has an extra dimension where you can choose "pick first" which expands the combination, including the possibility that you both get nothing *and* lose some stuff you already have. It's simple enough, but a little overengineered and the way its scored (treasure is in different colours, you only score your highest and lowest colour, but if you have multiple colours tied for highest or lowest you score all those colours) means it's pretty much too complex to really be in control of winning.

48 minutes ago, The King of Old School said:

So 1st in the blue league faces 2nd in the gold league and vice versa? With the winners facing at Worlds End.

 

That's how these tournaments normally work in Japan when they do semifinals, but the way they explained it here it's Blue 1st Vs Blue 2nd and Gold 1st Vs Gold 2nd.

Then again, the whole "Eddie's titles are on the line in every match so the winner ends up with them all, no, hang on, maybe he's vacated  them or maybe he just hands them over on finals night if he's not in it" absolutely reekeed of "guys, I think I've mixed up the J Crown tournament and the G1."

When people talk about the "interval" between notes in music, they mean the number of notes in the scale/the number of keys on a piano, not the time between them playing.

3 minutes ago, TibBo said:

Not sure where the best place to post this is, but I have just found that they are replaying highlights of World of Sport on itv4

It's a series they did of 10-minute clip shows of different elements of World of Sport, including this episode on wrestling. It gets shown fairly frequently as it's designed as a filler whenever they have a 50-minute show in a one-hour slot, or similar.

Probably a cunt and not particularly witty or clever, but some good shithousery here:

Posted without comment.

6 minutes ago, Supremo said:

Love that people are trying to find tiny, subtle hints and references from a company who last night aired *takes glasses off, screams down the hard cam* THIS!

There’s never been a company that paints in broader strokes. Even if the Nakamura stuff was leading to Punk’s return, there’s no way they’d keep it this understated and left to the imagination. This is the same company that didn’t even trust the audience to spot Drew chatting to Rhea in the background of a shot recently. They sent Seth out there the following week to replay it, zoom in, and cut a promo explaining what we should have spotted. Such is their lack of confidence in their own fanbase to pick up anything that isn’t smashed into their face like a custard pie, whilst Michael Cole screams, “IS IT? COULD IT BE?! A CUSTARD PIE?! IN THE FACE?!?!”

Essentially, what I’m saying is that if Punk is returning, by the time the go-home show comes around they’ll bottle it and probably repeat this, only with Punk’s face on the microphone.

 

Not sure if this is true, but I've heard a rumour Seth Rollins's back is a bit iffy.

Happy to help.

https://www.youtube.com/@wweamericannation6057

Somebody who knows how to intercept the WWE satellite feed to Stamford and regularly uploads both TV matches without the ad breaks and dark matches from NXT.

https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1720403064828375519

British Summer Time (and the concept of daylight savings time in general) was first championed by the great-great-grandfather of Chris Martin of Coldplay, who release an album where "Clocks" was immediately followed by "Daylight".

Played Bunny Kingdom which is a good light strategy game with a very thin theme. You're drafting cards which can let you place a bunny figure in a specific space on the board, place a building (with 1/2/3 turrets) on a space where you have a bunny, do a special action, or get an end-game bonus. You then score at the end of each round for each continuous area of your bunnies, with the score being the number of different types of terrain times the number of turrets. You then score end-game bonuses.

It plays very smoothly and doesn't last too long and it's got just enough complexity of gambling on whether you'll connect up an area and which cards to draft. There's also a good gambling element where you can use a special scout card to place a bunny on any empty space, but you can be kicked out if somebody later takes the card for that space. I pretty much got most of my points with a massive area that would have fallen apart if my squatter had been moved on.

The main downside is that it appears simply taking as many end-game bonus cards as possible gives you a decent shot of picking up enough points to make the main scoring almost irrelevant. 

https://archive.org/details/@titan012?and[]=subject%3A"Lucha+Underground"

I remember somebody brought Maponimoes to our games group and we assumed it was a little kids game for teaching them geography. Turns out it's a proper brainburner, particularly because it's (literally) disorienting when all the countries end up in the "wrong" place on the map. If you were playing serious strategy rather than as a bit of fun/relaxation, you'd have to pretty much strip out any association with the real world and just view it as an abstract strategy game.

Please to say our weekly game group is doing really well, to the point that we even had to send some people to a different pub as an overspill a couple of weeks. We're regularly getting 25-30 people signing up and the pub we play in (in the skittle alley/function room) is so happy to have the extra business that they've installed better lighting and even built extra tables for us.

So you know the annoying way that in The Hundred, the BBC mikes up fielders and interviews them during the game (usually getting out of breath, distracted responses by somebody who could be asked to take a catch at any moment.) Australian TV in the Womens BBL took it a step further and miked up the wicket keeper. They were asking her questions between deliveries and then being surprised when she was responding very briskly during the bowler's run-up.

Reasons why people have lost their party whip in the current Parliament (largely but by no means entirely Tories) in chronological order:
 

• Antisemitism
• Assault
• Harassment
• COVID Breach
• Antisemitism
• Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Assault
• Paid advocacy (aka bribery)
• Sexual Harrassment
• Watched pornography in the chamber
• Groped two men
• Investigation into undisclosed matters
• Bullying
• Sexual misconduct
• Went on I’m A Celebrity
• Investigation into unspecified complaint
• Investigation into unspecified complaint to Met Police
• Spread vaccine misinformation
• Investigated for paid lobbying
• Antisemitism
• Sexual Harassment
• Complaint about conduct
• Argument with chief whip

Note this doesn’t include Boris Johnson (misled parliament), Nadine Dorries (didn’t get peerage) or Nigel Adams (flounce) who all resigned with the party whip (as did several MPs who had legitimate reasons like taking another public office), or those who defected to another party. Also doesn't include whatever happens to Peter Bone.

If you've had a bad day, it could be worse. You could be the Chilean women's team.

7 hours ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

Jay White has a serious issue with thick white spit after a while in matches. Got to sort it out; it’s a visual business, brother.

 

 

 

 

 

Fucking Tory cunts:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/partygate

12-year-old in my area crowned national BMX champion.

Name: Senshu Flukes.

1 hour ago, Dead Mike said:

Given the current polling it was inevitable the Murdoch press would start shifting. It happened when Major's Tories became toxic. Populist media can't be seen to be backing a loser for too long as nobody will want to buy what you're selling. 

The record of Murdoch never backing a loser has less to do with his direct influence (which I believe is significantly less than it was) and more to do with him following the crowd but shouting loudly. Contrasting stories in Scottish & English versions of the same paper show this. 

 

I suspect The Times will "reluctantly" endorse Labour and The Sun won't do an endorsement but will put out some shit about "We'd never tell our readers who to vote for, they are smart enough to make up their own minds."

https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1708913451710484494?t=KM2kDiXgk1NlQoGGuhnxBQ&s=19