Week in review: Week to 7 February
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pedanther. At board game club, we played Cockroach Salad, 27th Passenger, and Dixit.
27th Passenger is a deduction game in which the aim is to identify which of the other passengers on a train are the other players in disguise and eliminate them before they do the same to you. I did well; I achieved the first successful elimination, and arguably the second, although it would be difficult to say definitely who was second since that round was a bloodbath that saw three more players eliminated, leaving only me and one other player standing. The other player turned out to be a step ahead, and got me one round before I would have got him.
. After a bit of a break, I'm making reasonable progress on another jigsaw puzzle, though I'm not getting as big into it as with some others I've tried. This is the first puzzle I've attempted from this manufacturer, and I'm not impressed by the engineering quality of the pieces (they're a fair bit better than the one I had to give up on partway through, but that's a very low bar to clear). I'm also not finding myself engaged by the picture; it's one of the kind with lots of famous fictional characters hidden in it, but I don't recognise all of them and I'm not feeling very enthused about the ones that I do recognise.
. Continuing to make progress with Natural Six; this week I watched the episode "The Last Ride of Calypso Moonrise", which was a lot of fun and in no way like what I had expected from the title.
. I finished my run-through of XCOM 2 on the easier difficulty, and, as generally happens when a run goes well, immediately wanted to start another run.
There's a big sale on Steam for the XCOM games this weekend, because it's the tenth anniversary of the launch of XCOM 2, so I took another look at the "Shen's Last Gift" DLC, which I've wanted to try for ages but put off because it can only be bought as part of a pricey bundle with a bunch of other DLCs that don't interest me. The bundle was down to around ten dollars, which I decided was a reasonable price I'd be willing to pay for just "Shen's Last Gift", so I bought it.
What I hadn't anticipated was that Steam would immediately start downloading and installing all the DLC in the bundle without asking me first, which would have been mildly irritating without the fact that the bundle includes the big update that changes things throughout the game and adds several new fully-voiced characters and weighs nearly as much as the base game itself. It was still downloading when I went to bed.
27th Passenger is a deduction game in which the aim is to identify which of the other passengers on a train are the other players in disguise and eliminate them before they do the same to you. I did well; I achieved the first successful elimination, and arguably the second, although it would be difficult to say definitely who was second since that round was a bloodbath that saw three more players eliminated, leaving only me and one other player standing. The other player turned out to be a step ahead, and got me one round before I would have got him.
. After a bit of a break, I'm making reasonable progress on another jigsaw puzzle, though I'm not getting as big into it as with some others I've tried. This is the first puzzle I've attempted from this manufacturer, and I'm not impressed by the engineering quality of the pieces (they're a fair bit better than the one I had to give up on partway through, but that's a very low bar to clear). I'm also not finding myself engaged by the picture; it's one of the kind with lots of famous fictional characters hidden in it, but I don't recognise all of them and I'm not feeling very enthused about the ones that I do recognise.
. Continuing to make progress with Natural Six; this week I watched the episode "The Last Ride of Calypso Moonrise", which was a lot of fun and in no way like what I had expected from the title.
. I finished my run-through of XCOM 2 on the easier difficulty, and, as generally happens when a run goes well, immediately wanted to start another run.
There's a big sale on Steam for the XCOM games this weekend, because it's the tenth anniversary of the launch of XCOM 2, so I took another look at the "Shen's Last Gift" DLC, which I've wanted to try for ages but put off because it can only be bought as part of a pricey bundle with a bunch of other DLCs that don't interest me. The bundle was down to around ten dollars, which I decided was a reasonable price I'd be willing to pay for just "Shen's Last Gift", so I bought it.
What I hadn't anticipated was that Steam would immediately start downloading and installing all the DLC in the bundle without asking me first, which would have been mildly irritating without the fact that the bundle includes the big update that changes things throughout the game and adds several new fully-voiced characters and weighs nearly as much as the base game itself. It was still downloading when I went to bed.
