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Easter holiday, and still I got up at 8.30 ... Must be ill or something ...
Borrowed Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys from Martin yesterday. Sounds good so far, and music usually improves after a few listenings. Very good signs indeed :-) ... I still need to figure out the printed lyrics, they're one solid block of text like on Hello Nasty, but Martin says they're a bit worse to figure out ... And now that short banjo song comes up (slow, sad headshake). It sounds like something out of Earthworm Jim, would prpbably be unbearable if it was two minutes longer ...
Games don't have to be on a computer to be good, Svea Rike is a good example of that. In fact the two computer game versions there are aren't nearly as much fun. It's about trying to become the mightiest family in Sweden so that you may be elected to king at the end of the 18th century, when the last absolute monarch dies. We played it, the board game, yesterday and it was as good as ever. Svea Rike was designed by what seems to be Sweden's only good and inventive game designer; Dan Glimne. All good and non-imported game ideas seem to be his. His games are complex, strategic and full of ideas far beyond the normal dice-throwing and marker-moving affairs. If he was a computer game designer, he would probably have invented some genres of his own, but he isn't, so he hasn't. Too bad ...
Actually, this house is quite full of games, few of which ever get played anymore. We even have some games we've never played at all ...
