Paradice

Paradice

I saw this game at a local New Age bookshop last month. Looking at their website now clues me in to why they call themselves "See Through Games" -- they make pieces out of recycled clear resin -- but the one I saw at the store was made of sustainable woods.

The game board is a forest with four types of trees, each of which supports a forest spirit and a human. The two players are the Giver and the Taker. Only the Giver can win by bringing the four human pieces together "eye to eye", so the Taker is trying to become the Giver. The Giver can re-plant trees and the Taker can cut them down, which is involved in the mechanics of how the two players switch places.

The wood version was kind of expensive, IIRC (~$70?), but it looked very nice and I thought this game might appeal to some of you tree-huggers out there. ;)

Paradice

Paradice

I saw this game at a local New Age bookshop last month. Looking at their website now clues me in to why they call themselves "See Through Games" -- they make pieces out of recycled clear resin -- but the one I saw at the store was made of sustainable woods.

The game board is a forest with four types of trees, each of which supports a forest spirit and a human. The two players are the Giver and the Taker. Only the Giver can win by bringing the four human pieces together "eye to eye", so the Taker is trying to become the Giver. The Giver can re-plant trees and the Taker can cut them down, which is involved in the mechanics of how the two players switch places.

The wood version was kind of expensive, IIRC (~$70?), but it looked very nice and I thought this game might appeal to some of you tree-huggers out there. ;)

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Hello, annoying website design! Get a load of the size of my horizontal scrollbar! ( Read more... )

Some of that is because I have my font size cranked pretty high, which tends to break layouts and give me sideways scrollbars where normally there wouldn't be any, but that's ridiculous.

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Hello, annoying website design! Get a load of the size of my horizontal scrollbar! ( Read more... )

Some of that is because I have my font size cranked pretty high, which tends to break layouts and give me sideways scrollbars where normally there wouldn't be any, but that's ridiculous.

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WB to go exlcusively to Blu-ray

I guess you're probably going to turn out to be right, enotsola: Blu-ray is likely going to win the format war. That ought to soothe that wound Sony has been licking since the demise of Betamax.

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WB to go exlcusively to Blu-ray

I guess you're probably going to turn out to be right, enotsola: Blu-ray is likely going to win the format war. That ought to soothe that wound Sony has been licking since the demise of Betamax.