12-14-2020, 01:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-14-2020, 01:33 PM by Drunk Monk.)
My family didn't play games very much. My folks played bridge to be social but I never learned. I learned cribbage, which is similar I'm told but we'd only play it when car camping. Stacy is into cribbage and soundly trounced me and Tara for years.
My dad gambled, playing craps and blackjack. He took me to Reno for a father/son tutelage trip. It's one of my fondest memories with him. We killed it in craps the first day - won over $500 bucks. But we put it all back before we left.
I think D&D spoiled me. I remember in High School, I established a D&D club and we met in a room right after the chess club. The teacher who was the advisor for that club used to try to get me to come over. He thought wargaming and D&D were just derivations of chess with 'landmines' and that randomness detracted from the sheer nakedness of playing with someone person to person. He loved that chess was contained and just down to the players. He's not wrong but I never switched.
I may. I wonder. They were B&W and pretty stilted because I needed something very specific for my experiment. They were shots of artist mannequins with swords in various positions.
You had some extra film so you shot one of my favorite photos of me. I was holding a lava lamp, in my leather jacket, standing in front of your bulletin board collage. I know I still have that. Maybe I'll post it to sitonmyfacebook. Maybe I already did.
This shoot was in 1983.
And Harry Potter...it all comes back to Harry Potter...(Though I always thought HP was ripped off, if not heavily influenced by Roald Dahl)
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HP poached from so many things. Definitely Dahl, as well as Marvel, LotR, and a lot of others. But something worked in the gestalt of it all obvs. The metaphor for Rowling's own struggles, along with her attention to miniscule details and her sense of the teen inner world helped.
I see your quadrachess and raise you:
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My dad gambled, playing craps and blackjack. He took me to Reno for a father/son tutelage trip. It's one of my fondest memories with him. We killed it in craps the first day - won over $500 bucks. But we put it all back before we left.
I think D&D spoiled me. I remember in High School, I established a D&D club and we met in a room right after the chess club. The teacher who was the advisor for that club used to try to get me to come over. He thought wargaming and D&D were just derivations of chess with 'landmines' and that randomness detracted from the sheer nakedness of playing with someone person to person. He loved that chess was contained and just down to the players. He's not wrong but I never switched.
(12-14-2020, 01:15 PM)thatguy Wrote:(12-13-2020, 10:38 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: As some of you might remember, my PhD thesis was going to be on chess and fencing. tg shot my photos for the experiment.
There's some missing brain cells...I must have done a little too much pruning. Still have the pix? I'm curious to see what past-tg's skillz were like at that time.
I may. I wonder. They were B&W and pretty stilted because I needed something very specific for my experiment. They were shots of artist mannequins with swords in various positions.
You had some extra film so you shot one of my favorite photos of me. I was holding a lava lamp, in my leather jacket, standing in front of your bulletin board collage. I know I still have that. Maybe I'll post it to sitonmyfacebook. Maybe I already did.
This shoot was in 1983.
(12-14-2020, 01:15 PM)thatguy Wrote: [quote pid='43688' dateline='1607924302']
We realized we've had a run of orphan stories - this, Great Expectations, The BFG.
And Harry Potter...it all comes back to Harry Potter...(Though I always thought HP was ripped off, if not heavily influenced by Roald Dahl)
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HP poached from so many things. Definitely Dahl, as well as Marvel, LotR, and a lot of others. But something worked in the gestalt of it all obvs. The metaphor for Rowling's own struggles, along with her attention to miniscule details and her sense of the teen inner world helped.
I see your quadrachess and raise you:
Shadow boxing the apocalypse