Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[Country homesteader]

I'll have to wait until morning to get it and take pics if that's okay

 

[flowerbug]

In college, we played Risk quite a bit, but after about the 3rd play through, the default strategy was for everyone to gang up on me to take me out quickly. Lolol.
Axis and Allies I played a lot with my son when he was in middle/high school. Ticket to Ride gets played occasionally with all three kids.

one of my brother's and i played a lot of Risk, i figured out that if you dealt a random game (deal the cards out to split the board) then the person who goes first can usually win by just blasting every place you possibly can - the other person can rarely recover from that. unless you get incredibly unlucky with the dice.

Axis and Allies i played a few times, but did not play it that much to know it well.

I do play a handful of PC games here and then. I can't do the twitch shooters either, tried Red Dead Redemption 2, playing with the kids, but no good at it.

Lots of good turn based PC games. Civilization 6 I used to play at lot. Refused to go with Civ 7.

Usually play when work has me brain dead or the weather keeps me inside

yeah, that's what computer games are for me too. something different, but i also read so those stories are much better to me if i can find authors i like.

 

[Country homesteader]

I play computer based games also, the ones I play are Gummy Drop, Angry Birds Friends, Candy Crush Saga, Microsoft solitaire, Farmville 2 Country Estates plus I have a few on my phone Best Fiends, Skip Bo, Scrabble GO, and another Solitaire game. I don't like the shooter games

 

[The Porch]

I highly recommend taking up the subject with this fourm
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures.10/

 

[Mini Horses]

Yep BYC has some great info to read! Most any chicken issue is there & fully discussed. Good info.

Hot & humid -- major mosquito season. They are about the size of a 747 I think -- nasty buggers! Add their friends the no see-ums and you need a hazmat suit. This drib & drab daily rain doesn't help. And it's too hot for long pants/shirtsleeves

 

[The Porch]

Coffees Ready
I got all the new lavender planted yesterday after watering the garden. It got to 95 here yesterday. Today I want to get the border trim up so I can mow and weed-eat easier around the bed. much cooler this morning, 49 and should only be maybe 85 today.

 

[CrealCritter]

Yep BYC has some great info to read! Most any chicken issue is there & fully discussed. Good info.

Hot & humid -- major mosquito season. They are about the size of a 747 I think -- nasty buggers! Add their friends the no see-ums and you need a hazmat suit. This drib & drab daily rain doesn't help. And it's too hot for long pants/shirtsleeves

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Alaskan]

How cool! In the 70s, I just had my best friend and we did the SPI, Avalon Hill games. Dabbled in D&D, but it wasn't great with just us (tried to get other friends interested, but no luck). Most of the gaming stores around here are card based.

We went to Origins 82 and had a blast. We had a session with the designer of "Behind Enemy Lines", a WWII RPG. Bought a copy, haven't touched it since 83.

Planning to drive to Minnesota this summer and stopping at a vintage game store near Madison WI to unload my stash. Son doesn't want many of the games and I just can't bear to simply toss them

way back i played some of the Squad Leader type games with a BIL but that didn't last too long as he ended up becoming an ex-BIL. it was fun while it lasted.

after that not much gaming until college and a group of us were playing Diplomacy and a few other games until people got too mad at each other to play any more. then another group got together for playing Rune Quest and that was fun and it stayed together until a lot of the people graduated and moved on.

i wanted to go back and play Rogue (an old game from the 80s that we could play in the computer lab) again and also to see Rog-O-Matic run (the lab wouldn't let us run that one because it could use too many resources) against Rogue so i did go out and find those and then had fun messing with those for years until i got too busy with other things and had to leave it aside. in the past few weeks someone has been asking questions and sending me fixes to bring the code up to more modern standards, but while we got Rog-O-Matic done without too many issues, his initial attempt for Rogue was too many changes and the interface to Rog-O-Matic is very brittle so that's gotta be different than what he did for it to work very well because i don't have the time to go back and figure out yet another version of Rogue... once was enough.

my favorite game for a while was Railroad Tycoon and then i got into playing Simutrans or some name like that, it's been a long long time since i've even looked at that and another game i played a lot on the computer for a while was Battle for Wesnoth. i've not looked at that for years now too because i decided i should learn Python and do some other things instead and that's been plenty enough for me.




it's hard to find people who are compatible who want to do this kind of gaming.

my nephew and one of my brothers are both into on-line games but i haven't gotten into those (fast twitch shooter type games don't appeal to me). i like turn-based games where you can have some time and also because i do get interrupted here quite often so there's no real way i can do anything that requires a lot of dedicated and uninterrupted blocks of time.




good luck, i hope some of them will reach good hands.

Had to play Risk in one of the classes in high school. Had to turn in your moves each morning and the game went the whole year

As far as antique text based games go... I still play the game I started playing in college. It is a MUD, and I think the longest running one. There are lots of puzzles and areas and quests etc. etc.

Clearly, even after a great many years, it still has play value, since I still play it.

It started as mostly D&D based.

Anyway, if you want to check it out... www.darkerrealms.org