Given all this, I arrived in town well after the start of OxCon for the day and everyone was already embroiled in long-running games. Given this, I immediately t00bed off to the cinema to watch Chicago, which was enormous fun. I've always been a big fan of musicals, and this one didn't disappoint, managing not to become a complete triumph of style over substance (and what style!). Only the one immediately memorable song, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The leads are ale great - and they even did all their own singing and dancing (as explicitly pointed out in the credits ;-)
Returned to the Mitre and found a couple of games for the afternoon/evening (avoiding Settlers as have been repeatedly told it's a game of chance - complete with comedy games involving cutting decks to see who wins etc - and nobody has convincingly refuted this). For food, I took (and completed!) the Chocolate Challenge (approx. a gallon of ice-cream, chocolate brownie, various chocolate-covered things, chocolate sauce, cream and marshmallows) - reminiscent of the hobbits having pints at Bree, various people decided that they needed to have one too.
All-in-all, another fun day. Sadly, I have to go to work tomorrow, but at least it's only a four day week.
January 27 2003, 15:37:00 UTC 18 years ago
The extent to which Settlers is a game of chance is open to question - it's probably only slightly more chance-ridden than any of the games you played yesterday. The reason why I enjoy it is that it (almost) always produces an entertaining ride along the way. (Played 5, won 0, nearly won 2, played reasonably well in 3½, enjoyed 5, for what it's worth.)
Was somewhat impressed by your victory over the Chocolate Challenge. Was slightly less impressed by Simon Hornby conquering it too.
January 27 2003, 23:46:52 UTC 18 years ago