Checking out a lunar eclipse the other night, and as it peaks, goes dark, a civil defense siren sounds in the background.
Gloom n' doom's hilarious!
Yeah, we're in a stage of several blood moon eclipses. Portents o' doom, et cetera.
Et cetera.
Didn't read the articles but some Texan preacher's on about World's End. On account of some astronomical phenomena. But, Hey! you can't get all god-bothering on one hand and space science on the other! They'd be burnin' Jaspers like him at the stake for such hijinks 200 year back.
Aaand;
- Japan's kinda had their apocalypse.
- Go tell someone in Ukraine there might be political upheaval in the cards.
- Go tell someone from Chile or Solomon Islands to keep an eye out for natural disasters.
- Or... well, basically... Nigeria.
It's. All. Relative.
Belt around the world is tightening, sure. And perhaps the precious, spoiled West is nearing an end as we know it. Especially if you refuse to gel global.
Can't force feed the earth scones without acceptin' a little baklava yourself.
No crumpet without the option of dosa, my friend.
While religion is a touch silly, piety can be a nice word. Are we genetically predisposed to belief with a societal pressure to conform to atheism? Or vice versa? It depends where you are.
Since Ugg discovered fire, Ugg's been back and forth between spirituality and science to stop it getting out of hand and burning his eyebrows off.
Ugg frequently makes it worse, Ugg very occasionally gets both t' work... a little bit.
Mostly however, Ugg's flame control contrast has a tendency to suck, y'know when you've got a penance whip in one pocket and depleted uranium rounds in the other.
It's a wheel alright.
Sometimes... F*ck the wheel! Burn a direct course thru the middle.
Maybe we should all kinda' be semi-agnostic pseudo-pantheists getting on with sharing knowledge, culture and technological achievement - like the final scene outta' Grease, gettin' along 'cos we all know the words, and respecting other people's right to fly off in a 1950's themed amusement ride.
Which brings me to Hoodwik...
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The game of skill and strategy. Which is the least anyone can ask for in a board game.
And... it's basically checkers.
I'd never heard of Hoodwik.
Never even heard of anyone else hearing of Hoodwik.Which is why I like tiny 2nd hand shops in small beach side locations.
Play is very simple. The idea - remove all of opponent's playing pieces. You can reposition a piece one space in any direction. When there is the opportunity you can jump an opponent's piece, and continue jumping any additional pieces in any direction provided there is a space behind.
Failure to jump any pieces during your turn, when able, results in forfeiting the playing piece.
(Provided your opponent notices)
And... it's basically checkers.
Still, it's nice to disconnect/unplug, get traditional on it.
That said, J-Rex and I played it once, before I lost her to Ni No Kuni again.
There's no 75 like 1975. Holdson have a great reputation. Just that slight problem which can befall these types of boardgames.
If either player is concentrating even remotely, it's gonna' be a whole evening of Naughts & Crosses stalemates.
Forget, "If a tree falls in the forest..." our philosophical question is, "If two inherent cowards are playing Hoodwik for life or death stakes, does Hoodwik ever end?"
The answer is "No, no Hoodwik has never been as popular as Cher."
Fortunately we still have our Holdson Family Values...
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