Blanck @Blanck@meow.social

This is a silly game of mostly-chance that I can play standing in line with people! And that changes everything!

Waiting for something actually interesting to happen is the perfect time to play a silly little card game, and now I can actually conveniently do that. And the game *is*, as I said, distractingly fun enough that you don't care too much that it was only maybe 39% skill. Also, the playercount is 2-11, so that's neat.

I recommend it, for anyone who waits in lines.

All of these points are great - I especially like how the MacGuffin is extremely desirable, but not perfect or unbeatable. Anyone can still steal it or destroy it, so to pull off playing it, you have to be careful.
But the part that made me pick it up is the last one. I think a big reason I don't often play the random "take that!" subgenre of card games is that they always feel like a waste to play. All that setup and sitting everyone down, for a silly game of chance.

- The last person to have cards left wins.
- All strategy is therefore about figuring out ways to not play cards if at all possible, or steal cards. The card abilities back this up.
- Some cards literally only exist to stave off death and include junk actions like "Play this card and wave at everyone", which is fun.
- The MacGuffin card lets you play it over and over again for infinite free avoidance of death, but it can still be countered.
- You don't need a table to play.

Get the MacGuffin is a surprisingly very solid game.

It's one of those "everyone gets given random cards, play them in the best order at the right times" games, like Munchkin, Fluxx, or Exploding Kittens. They're a subgenre with level little actual skill involved, so the game has to be extra fun to distract you from caring. You've got to spice it up so much that victory is rewarding even when obtaining it feels arbitrary.

GTM manages this via some great gimmicks.

Oh hey, I'm not sick anymore, complaining actually worked.

I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to get sick when I already can't handle life right now. That's cheating.

Got to work an hour early.
It is not fun here. Even when not working, being here feels like work. It sucks.

Just played PUBG for the first time. It's literally just one of those lame Korean mobile games where you throw everyone in a map and they find stuff and poorly strafe around shooting in each other's general directions til everyone's coincidentally dead.
How did this become popular?

Our Metro driver just called the stop "Judiciary Scare" instead of square, and while I normally don't make fun of accents, there has to be a pun on the current state of politics in there somewhere.

So I was walking home and I saw two rats scurry down an alley away from me.

I look back, and suddenly one is actually running directly at me.

Simultaneously, both me and the rat jump a foot in the air and flop away from each other at top speed.

It was so comical I swear I was briefly a character in Ratatouille or something.

Sufjan is just so flawless and perfect and I don't know where to begin.

The song that got nominated was pretty mediocre though, compared to his usual work. Worked great in the context of the movie, but even his iPhone demos of already lo-fi pieces on The Greatest Gift had a more complex sound, imo.

I can't even express how happy I am that Sufjan Stevens performed at the Oscars and wore a pink pinstripe suit. Setting the perfect example for the millions of new fans you clearly deserve, Suf 👌

I'll be live blogging a bean-eating competition tomorrow.

The more that I eat, the more that I'll toot.