tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post114169333070194460..comments2024-03-28T05:12:10.477-07:00Comments on Gone Gaming: One Is The Loneliest NumberColdfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11636345146138362966noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post-1141907062878170612006-03-09T04:24:00.000-08:002006-03-09T04:24:00.000-08:00This is why you need to expand into other gaming o...This is why you need to expand into other gaming options. If you try RPGs then alone time can be used to write up new adventures and prep for upcoming game sessions. If you try Miniature gaming then alone time is otherwise known as "Paint Time".GrillTechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17622254550183413176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post-1141887465253795642006-03-08T22:57:00.000-08:002006-03-08T22:57:00.000-08:00If I have time and am alone which place is better ...If I have time and am alone which place is better than the BrettspielWelt. I love to meet people, play the games and stop feeling alone. Some good sologames can be played there too, like BlackBox.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post-1141874627213395252006-03-08T19:23:00.000-08:002006-03-08T19:23:00.000-08:00Oh, that is *so* sad. (sniff, sniff)Oh, that is *so* sad. (sniff, sniff)Coldfoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636345146138362966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post-1141868199773195602006-03-08T17:36:00.000-08:002006-03-08T17:36:00.000-08:00I prefer to play a solo game if I can. I've got In...I prefer to play a solo game if I can. I've got Ingenious, Runebound 2e, and recently Arkham Horror. You get used to it when you're<BR/><BR/><BR/>FriendlessFriendlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05302241085168424095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post-1141860560788383512006-03-08T15:29:00.000-08:002006-03-08T15:29:00.000-08:00I've been gaming online, at BSW and also at mabiwe...I've been gaming online, at BSW and also at mabiweb. <BR/><BR/>And with many of my BGG friends now using IM software, I virtually always have someone to chat to, even if it's not playing an actual game.<BR/><BR/>And, you know, there's always housework...Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12731608339380263848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post-1141843477678310142006-03-08T10:44:00.000-08:002006-03-08T10:44:00.000-08:00I game 3, 4 nights a week, so when I'm alone, it's...I game 3, 4 nights a week, so when I'm alone, it's laundry time!<BR/><BR/>I do print off rules to read on the bus.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04755806559746959599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14856978.post-1141834592498467272006-03-08T08:16:00.000-08:002006-03-08T08:16:00.000-08:00One is a lonely number, and unfortunately, cannot ...One is a lonely number, and unfortunately, cannot be avoided even by gamers with the most gregarious groups.<BR/><BR/>Let's see... <BR/><BR/>I read up on things on the various gaming sites I'm interested in, or have RSS feeds on. BGN, BoredGameGeeks, other little blogs that may or may not get updated regularly, BGG if I get an update on a game I'm interested in, browsing the recent articles and reviews and geeklists and so on.<BR/><BR/>I update my Funagain wishlists. I take a good look at games and ask myself, do I really, really want that? And rearrange their priorities. Or perhaps I have read about a new game on BGG, and now I need to determine when it claims it will be published and stick it in the right year/quarter wishlist... <BR/><BR/>I look at my collection and wonder if I can fit the expansions in the same box (this can involve mild creativity) and get rid of some other games. The latter is usually hard and occupies me for a bit. I have the Ludoviel game, and took some time once to tag each of my games with one of the card categories (119 in all), with an eye to keeping the games so tagged and selling/trading/giving away the rest, no matter how painful. <BR/><BR/>(I have T&E the boardgame; should I cheat and keep T&E the card game, even though I couldn't tag it, or treat it as a separate entity and give it away?)<BR/><BR/>I would play more games online, except that I don't. I really should.<BR/><BR/>In the meanwhile I think about the games I have played, from the respective angles, and... well, just think a lot about them. I might take notated games (invariably the by-email games) and replay them in person, to think about how I might have played differently, and what the heck my opponent was trying to do. (Sometimes you just have one-sided notation, if the game involves cards or some other hidden/bluffing feature.) <BR/><BR/>I often set up a game and play two sides (rarely more) and think about particular themes (of late, how you turn three-player games into two-players, what rules work best, when it doesn't work and why, and why do some bidding games work and some don't...).<BR/><BR/>I think about game comparisons, too, and while I don't seem to get around to writing reviews, I just think a lot about games in general. Even if they aren't in front of me. Of course I dream about games. Last night I played a particularly surreal game of Chicken Foot (a dominoes game. Recently I have been looking for decent dominoes games to learn, and so far they consist of Mexican Train, Chicken Foot, Streets and Allies, and Simon Hunt's game, which I forget the name of).<BR/><BR/>One thing about running through games alone... you don't annoy people because you take too long while you're writing notes. Email games are like that, too. Any live game is less so, but live games are much more fun.<BR/><BR/>I have started writing a private little wiki on games, to better start drawing comparisons and outline thoughts and suchlike.<BR/><BR/>I suppose I tend to have fun with games even if no one is around. I suppose that's either a sign of deep thought or a sign of great mania.Ava Jarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01777180628319261015noreply@blogger.com