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The Teacup Awards B-Side (2018)

Not every game fits neatly into an awards category. Think of these B-sides as the participation awards. They are something worth talking about but only when all of the hard hitters are out of the way.  I played a real mixed bag of games last year and didn’t play too many of my usual sort. Very light on survival games, for one, and there weren’t as many stand-out indie games as the year before.

Still, some interesting stuff did come out of the year so I don’t just want to disregard ninety percent of it. It was a year of catch-up really, playing through some of 2017’s biggest hits. So now let’s make up a bunch of different awards and give to games from last year that I think are worth a mention.

Two Point Hospital

The ‘Fly in the Cup’ Award for Killer Problem

I liked Two Point Hospital quite a lot when I first started playing it. It felt like a return to form; back to Theme Hospital, which I enjoyed a lot. It was refreshingly similar but with new diseases and additions that kept me excited. I recorded myself playing it and then created a different save to play in the downtime, something I didn’t do often. So I was obviously enjoying myself. Yet as I got through the game, something started to nag at me. It took me quite a while to find out what it was.

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It is impressive how diverse we are, physically and culturally.  But perhaps, from the elvish viewpoint, we’re all much the same, from Chinese to Inuit to Maya to Welshman.  Our similarities are far greater than our differences.*

*This is why we have been forced to invent differences of religious belief, which give us an excuse to kill each other because They are so dramatically different from us True Human Beings–they don’t even know that spilling salt, and then failing to hop three times around the table, invites a demon into your home.  So it’s all right to wipe the False Humans, Them, from the face of the planet.

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen, “The Science of Discworld II: The Globe” (via noirandcandycanes)
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My friend has recently started dm-ing with this campaign that we’re in. In the beginning of the campaign, we got kidnapped and sucked into a portal onto a continent halfway across the world where we were offered shelter at a hotel.
At this point one of our players lost communication with us for a bit and so we decided to play without her and have everyone wander about the town for a bit.
One player (a half elf half orc cleric) decides to take her brother character (the twin brother who is a palidan) and one of the other party members (a tiefling bard) shopping for a warhammer. The warhammers in the town ended up being mega expensive bc they were super enchanted and lvl 20 items.
They tried to cast a spell on the shop keeper to get her to hand over the items but she passed the check and knew what was up. As a result she kicks them out of the shop and flips them off.
Now is when the orc part is important. The cleric decides to attack the shop keeper because apparently when orcs are offended it wounds them physically. The ensuing battle resulted in the cleric falling flat on her face, the palidan using savage attack to protect his sister, and the bard using a shovel to knock the shop keeper out.
The entire table is dying of laughter at this point because the dm didnt expect it and was complaining that they didnt come up with stats for her bevause they didnt think it would come up. It was all fun and games until the dm rolls a dice and goes “oh” and then slams down one of their death save skulls as the table suddenly goes silent.
The shop keeper ended up living but only after she was knocked unconscious and they stole her merch and used one of her healing potions on her. And only later did the party find out that the penalty for stealing in this continent was death due to limited resources.
Tldr: part of party who was just supposed to just be shopping ended up almost killing a shopkeeper and getting the entire party arrested with the death penalty.

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some things yall should know about forest service rangers (or what justin got right)

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i would like to preface this with the fact that i am speaking from the humboldt-toiyabe national forest so things might be slightly different. however, justin clearly put a lot of research into duck and i wanted to expound on that.

  • forest service and parks service are two different things. monongahela is a national forest, so duck is forest service. the difference is that parks service actually talks to people.
  • the budget is practically nothing, and what is there mostly goes to research. everyday stuff like paper and wifi come out of the visitor center revenue.
  • not all national forests even have visitor centers. where im from, the forest overlaps with a national recreation area, so the visitor center is technically for that.
  • forest rangers usually specialize in a certain subject in the forest. ive talked to bird specialists, bug specialists, small mammal specialists, you name it. duck seems to specialize in trees.
  • [personal note] somehow the less time a person has been a ranger, the more condescending they are. like we get it, you’re a tree cop. luckily justin said duck had been doing that job for a long time so he’s not an asshole about it.
  • fire is the hugest problem. i live in the desert, so fire risk is always high here. we cant have fires outside of designated firepits and grills. i dont think this is quite as big a problem in wv, but definitely fire is a big worry. 
  • thats it honestly like i dont know enough about the monongahela national forest to say anything else. good job justin.