Week in review: Week to 16 August
Aug. 18th, 2025 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther. At the board game club, we played a few games of Coup as a warm-up, and then a new game called Bomb Busters.
I won the first game of Coup very narrowly; when we were down to three players, one of my opponents took out the other in the mistaken belief that he had the last Assassin, leaving me an opening to demonstrate that in fact it was me who had the Assassin. In the second game, I was recognised as a priority threat by several players, and was eliminated very quickly.
Bomb Busters is a co-operative logic game with the theme of trying to disarm a bomb; the players are dealt random sets of tiles that each represent one end of a wire that needs to be cut, and must figure out where the other end of each wire is located in order to remove it. There's a set of missions to work through that each alter the working conditions in some way, such as restricting access to the special tools, or specifying that some wires will immediately detonate the bomb if they're cut in the wrong order, or setting a time limit. We played through four missions, and successfully completed all of them without getting blown up.
. I'm still catching up on the backlog of the randomly-selected reading challenge. The selection for April is The Night Marchers and other Oceanian stories, a collection of Oceanian folk tales retold in comic book form. I'd got the impression from the cover that it was going to be straight retellings, which I would have liked because I don't know many Oceanian folk tales already, but it turns out to be a mix of straight folk tale retellings, riffs on folk tales, and original stories inspired by folk tales. I would have preferred if it had settled on one thing to be, because reading a telling of an unfamiliar folk tale is different from reading a story that assumes you're already familiar with the folk tale it's inspired by, and I keep getting wrong-footed.
. I've finished another jigsaw puzzle. Looking back, I think I finished it significantly faster than the last few, which I attribute to the fact that I went and worked on it whenever I was feeling stressed, and it's been a stressful week both at work and in the committee I'm on. I did lose one piece off the side of the table at some point, and only noticed when I was nearly finished and found myself with a single gap in the puzzle and no piece to put in it, but fortunately once I started looking I found it under the edge of the sofa pretty easily.
. I'm still doing Parkrun, though I haven't always been mentioning it. It went well this week; I didn't have to stop and re-tie my shoelaces even once, and I got my best time for the year to date.
. I went to see the new Superman movie with friends. There were bits of it that I didn't think entirely worked, but I had a good time.
I won the first game of Coup very narrowly; when we were down to three players, one of my opponents took out the other in the mistaken belief that he had the last Assassin, leaving me an opening to demonstrate that in fact it was me who had the Assassin. In the second game, I was recognised as a priority threat by several players, and was eliminated very quickly.
Bomb Busters is a co-operative logic game with the theme of trying to disarm a bomb; the players are dealt random sets of tiles that each represent one end of a wire that needs to be cut, and must figure out where the other end of each wire is located in order to remove it. There's a set of missions to work through that each alter the working conditions in some way, such as restricting access to the special tools, or specifying that some wires will immediately detonate the bomb if they're cut in the wrong order, or setting a time limit. We played through four missions, and successfully completed all of them without getting blown up.
. I'm still catching up on the backlog of the randomly-selected reading challenge. The selection for April is The Night Marchers and other Oceanian stories, a collection of Oceanian folk tales retold in comic book form. I'd got the impression from the cover that it was going to be straight retellings, which I would have liked because I don't know many Oceanian folk tales already, but it turns out to be a mix of straight folk tale retellings, riffs on folk tales, and original stories inspired by folk tales. I would have preferred if it had settled on one thing to be, because reading a telling of an unfamiliar folk tale is different from reading a story that assumes you're already familiar with the folk tale it's inspired by, and I keep getting wrong-footed.
. I've finished another jigsaw puzzle. Looking back, I think I finished it significantly faster than the last few, which I attribute to the fact that I went and worked on it whenever I was feeling stressed, and it's been a stressful week both at work and in the committee I'm on. I did lose one piece off the side of the table at some point, and only noticed when I was nearly finished and found myself with a single gap in the puzzle and no piece to put in it, but fortunately once I started looking I found it under the edge of the sofa pretty easily.
. I'm still doing Parkrun, though I haven't always been mentioning it. It went well this week; I didn't have to stop and re-tie my shoelaces even once, and I got my best time for the year to date.
. I went to see the new Superman movie with friends. There were bits of it that I didn't think entirely worked, but I had a good time.
