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, 15:35:34 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, played reasonably well in 3½, nearly won 2, enjoyed 5, for what it's worth.)
Was somewhat impressed by your victory over the Chocolate Challenge. Was slightly less impressed that Simon Hornby conquered it too.
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