Aug. 26th, 2007

sniffnoy: (Chu-Chu Zig)
So my family has gone up to Massachusetts for the weekend, to drop Elana off for school. Anyway my mom insists on me "getting out", so instead of just playing N64 with Gabe and Ethan, I met up with Kate Harney and Wai Lee. And somehow I got them to play Bohnanza (a.k.a. Bean Game). I've probably written this elsewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it right now - Wai Lee had played once before, but wasn't really paying attention; as it's a trading game, of course, that's a good way to lose horribly. He didn't like it and thereafter always refused to play. But this time I got him to play.

Early on Kate made a deal with Wai Lee - she'd give him something or other now, and he'd give her some other bean next turn. Of course, it's pointed out, there's no way to enforce this. And, apparently, just to prove the point that there's no way to enforce this, Wai Lee decides not to carry through on his end of the deal.

Well, there's only one way this can end. Kate, of course, has to get back at him, and deliberately refuses a good deal with him; Wai Lee decides to take revenge of his own, and does the same; and so it continues. However, the last and easily most noticeable example came about when Kate had flipped up a blue bean and wanted to get rid of it. I didn't want it, but Wai Lee had several blue beans planted, and could easily use another. Kate offered to give it to him for free.

And, of course, he refused. Just flat out would not take the blue bean. "Please," Kate says. "Take the blue bean." No. It helps him, sure, but he won't do it; he just wants to screw her over. "Why won't you take the blue bean!" He's not gonna take it. "Just take the blue bean!"

It eventually ended up with Kate curled up on the floor, squealing in that high-pitched voice she sometimes does, "Please take the blue bean! Please take the blue bean!" But he wouldn't take it and eventually she gave up and took it herself.

Afterwards, she said she didn't like the game because it involved too much whining at other people. I pointed out that she could just offer them better deals, though admittedly that probably doesn't really apply to that particular case... (Wai Lee, on the other hand, rather liked it this time around.)

Speaking of trading and boardgames... that old copy of Formula De I've never played? I'm trading it for Duel of Ages set 2. So, uh, I want to end this with something cool like "be ready" but am certain it will come off sounding completely ridiculous.

Moving on... interesting article on Super Smash Blog pointing out that screens so far indicate that Brawl will most likely have much more realistic physics than Melee - including, it seems, actually paying attention to which direction things should go when hit, i.e., no more Power Rangers.

Also, Wai Lee is very careless with ping-pong balls.

-Harry

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