No son of mine

[prog]

Man, having a good laugh about something on Boardgamegeek until someone brings up Fluxx and everyone starts bashing it... it's like when you're having a grand time at a family gathering until suddenly everyone else starts having a farting contest or joking about dirty Mexicans or something. Who are these people.

Fluxx is to BGG as Zardoz is to the Thon message board. "Fluxx, now, there's a game!" Except that I guess the metaphor only stretches so far, since the Thon people wouldn't say that Zardoz is the movie you watch to make your wife or girlfriend happy before moving on to a real movie. The idea makes me giggle, though.

I need to learn Photoshop.

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I just introduced my Dad to Fluxx over the break; he was amused, after a few hands. This was after galaneia came home from game night all ready to buy a deck. (I handed her mine.)

I can see how people don't "get" it...and I feel sorry for those people...

[prog.livejournal.com]

In my experience, almost all non-gamers love Fluxx as soon as they are exposed to it. There's a lot of talk of "gateway games" that introduce people to the world of non-Hasbro tabletop games, but Fluxx is the only one that I've personally seen to have this effect.

Actually, when I've taught it to gamers, they've loved it too. I personally know only two people who loudly despise the game, at least one of whom is a neuron in the BGG hive-mind. There's nothing to be done about that.