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1. Leave me a comment saying, 'Interview me'.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
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kerravonsen asked:
1. Discovered any new and interesting games recently?
My latest favourite is Alhambra (I think it wasmajor_clanger who originally recommended it. Each player builds his own Alhambra with mansions, gardens, mezannines, chambers, etc. The pieces are attractive and the rules are simple. I still haven't fully mastered the tactics...
The bidding system is evil. If you can pay for something exactly, then you get an extra move. If you pay too much, it ends your turn. So, how badly do you want a particular tile if you can't pay for it exactly (you hold coins of particular denominations in your hand and you can't always make the correct total)
Another one I like is a German game called 'Power Grid' where you're competing to supply electricity to various cities and building power stations and power lines. It's more fun than it sounds as you try and decide whether to build stations that are cheap on fuel or ones that are cheap to build but expensive to run.
2. What stories are you working on at the moment?
None. I've had writer's block for some time now. It's a combination of factors. It kicked in when I had a lot of stress in my life, and although the stress is gradually shifting, I haven't yet got past the block. All I've written in the last year and a half is three short adult stories. And I can't even write another of those at present. And I used to be a compulsive writer.
3. If you were stuck on a desert island with a fictional character, who would you choose?
That's easy. Jack O'Neill. He's had commando training and knows how to find food and build shelters. He's also a gentleman with women (but not immune if we're stuck there for more than a hundred days) and very easy on the eye. Much though I love Harry, his survival skills are for the urban jungle and useless on a desert island.
4. If you were born in some other era, what time and place would you like to have been born?
As long as I can choose my social class, I'll be a Roman. They had central heating.
5. Is there anyone on your friends list whom you have not met but would like to meet?
There's a few I'm mildly curious about, but most of the people on my friends list are people I've already met. It's rare that I get really close to someone online without having met them first, though there were quite a few exceptions to this in the early days on Lysator and I first got to knowscarlatti online.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
kerravonsen asked:1. Discovered any new and interesting games recently?
My latest favourite is Alhambra (I think it was
major_clanger who originally recommended it. Each player builds his own Alhambra with mansions, gardens, mezannines, chambers, etc. The pieces are attractive and the rules are simple. I still haven't fully mastered the tactics...The bidding system is evil. If you can pay for something exactly, then you get an extra move. If you pay too much, it ends your turn. So, how badly do you want a particular tile if you can't pay for it exactly (you hold coins of particular denominations in your hand and you can't always make the correct total)
Another one I like is a German game called 'Power Grid' where you're competing to supply electricity to various cities and building power stations and power lines. It's more fun than it sounds as you try and decide whether to build stations that are cheap on fuel or ones that are cheap to build but expensive to run.
2. What stories are you working on at the moment?
None. I've had writer's block for some time now. It's a combination of factors. It kicked in when I had a lot of stress in my life, and although the stress is gradually shifting, I haven't yet got past the block. All I've written in the last year and a half is three short adult stories. And I can't even write another of those at present. And I used to be a compulsive writer.
3. If you were stuck on a desert island with a fictional character, who would you choose?
That's easy. Jack O'Neill. He's had commando training and knows how to find food and build shelters. He's also a gentleman with women (but not immune if we're stuck there for more than a hundred days) and very easy on the eye. Much though I love Harry, his survival skills are for the urban jungle and useless on a desert island.
4. If you were born in some other era, what time and place would you like to have been born?
As long as I can choose my social class, I'll be a Roman. They had central heating.
5. Is there anyone on your friends list whom you have not met but would like to meet?
There's a few I'm mildly curious about, but most of the people on my friends list are people I've already met. It's rare that I get really close to someone online without having met them first, though there were quite a few exceptions to this in the early days on Lysator and I first got to know
scarlatti online.
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2. Do you do any voluntary work?
3. If you were the leader of a political party and found yourself in power, what would you change and how would you pay for it?
4. What is the most beautiful place in the world?
5. What's the most unusual sexual activity that you're prepared to admit to having done?
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Yeah,
I've had writer's block for some time now.
Wah!
It's not permanent, it's not permanent. You're just tired.
Much though I love Harry, his survival skills are for the urban jungle and useless on a desert island.
Very true. I wonder how he'd do in the B7 universe?
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