Opening Night

Yay!

The Free Speech Flag

"We give this flag away freely, and also give away the rights for people to make similar, derivative works. the colors of the flag are (in hex code format):

#09F911 #029D74 #E35BD8 #4156C5 #635688

The letters “C0″ are added to signify that simply publishing a number is “Crime Zero.”"

Catan

Having had really the first bit of free time since the start of daily evening rehearsals, I got to play some Catan today. If you've listened to the latest episode of cwKnightly, you'll have heard me talk about this a little bit.

Catan is the Xbox Live translation of the classic board game Settlers of Catan. Settlers of Catan is a game of resource trading and settlement construction; like a far more sophisticated and fun Monopoly. Unlike Monopoly, trading and player interaction is an integral part of the game, as opposed to a random space-landing occurrence.

I love that they're bringing board games to Xbox Live; as a gamer, I enjoy artificial constructs of competition within which I have goals and achievements to attain. I don't really care if those constructs are digital or analog; each has their unique advantages and disadvantages.

However, analog, tabletop games have what is, for me, a pretty big fucking disadvantage: they require like 4000 people to be at one place, at one time, all of whom enjoy the same fun-producing-construct.

It is nearly impossible for me to organize this mystical scenario.

By bringing these types of constructs to the digital realm, I don't have to worry about those anymore.

Xbox Live is the perfect place for this.

I can put on my microphone headset, jump on Xbox Live, search for a game, and instantly have a very similar experience to what was previously available only in the physical realm.

And that is sweeter to me than a thousand bowls of ice cream.