Wedding

[prog]

Before I start talking about some other damn thing: warmest congratulations to my dear friends Jess (dictator555) and Nate-of-no-real-social-media-presence on getting married yesterday evening. I was pleased and honored to be in attendance for the relaxed and friendly ceremony out in Western Mass, which turned into kind of a con (of the fannish variety)... eventually nobody was left except a gaggle of gamer geeks staying up late, and many of us slept over. (The venue had a B&B conveniently attached.)

I just realized that this now means more than half of the seven players from the Diplomacy episode have gotten married since we filmed the game in early June. Wow. And they call that game divisive?

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[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Congrats to England and her consort! But I wouldn't hold your breath for the rest of us.

[wrog]

I just realized that this now means more than half of the seven players from the Diplomacy episode have gotten married since we filmed the game in early June.

wait,... to each other??

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

France and Turkey indeed married each other. Russia and England both married non-players.

[wrog]

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at these sorts of games having a history of doing odd, unexpected things to relationships.

I'm still remembering a rather strange game of Apocalypse (*) from my college days involving me, my roommate, another friend of mine, and his girlfriend with whom he was in the process of breaking up and who eventually switched over to my roommate (though it took another week or so for that all to get worked out).

Andy and Stuart spent most of the game nuking the crap out of each other.

(*) imagine RISK on a significantly more detailed map of Europe, but with nuclear warheads available to blow up annoying stacks of armies -- we usually played without the decontamination rules