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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Mon Dec 27, 2021 5:03 pm

It's a cooperative board game inspired by the mythology of H. P. Lovecraft:


Here is the entry on BoardGameGeek:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/205 ... nd-edition
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:20 pm

2021 - Summary of week 50

Catching up. I finished Billy Summers and continued with Den andra systern (by Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström). It is the sequel to Det sista livet which I read last summer/early autumn. Swedish crime. Fewer than 300 pages left of the Edge of Eternity. This Thursday evening we played the first scenario of Parsely, which is an IRL RPG version of the old text-adventures from the 1980s. One player is the GM (or rather the parser) who interprets your commands and then presents new information. Then we played two rounds of BoardGameGeek: The Card Game, and finally another game of Surrealist Dinner Party. Last game night before Christmas.

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby Le Baron » Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:58 pm

jeff_lindqvist wrote:and finally another game of Surrealist Dinner Party.

That sounds like an intriguing game. Have you been watching the Vera Chytilova film I posted? :D
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Thu Dec 30, 2021 10:06 pm

Le Baron wrote:Have you been watching the Vera Chytilova film I posted? :D


Not yet. Maybe next year. ;)
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sat Jan 01, 2022 8:10 am

Anki summary for 2021

These are the numbers before reviewing today's cards:

cs: 17
esperanto: 46
fi: 3
ga: 4
kernewek: 0
mandarin: 40
pt: 204
ro: 7
tp: 1
yue: 14

Not too different from last year's stats for the 1st of January. Nowadays the Portuguese deck doesn't give me any new cards. A significant change from more than 500/day to around 200. I think Irish and Mandarin are the decks with cards pushed furthest into the future (something like 25 years, in some rare cases). Mandarin was the deck I started with a hundred years ago, so of course the most basic words don't appear that often anymore.
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Jan 02, 2022 9:43 pm

2021 - Summary of week 51

Catching up! I'm still reading Den andra systern, but I finished Edge of Eternity. In another topic I posted titles that have had such an impact on me that I have re-read them many times. Except one. This is going to change now. Just before leaving work the day before Christmas Eve, I checked out 11/22/63 by Stephen King (now in the original English, as you can see on the month-day-year date format). Slightly larger print than a normal hardcover. I'm looking forward to reading this again.

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Less than one week left of this year.
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sat Jan 08, 2022 12:09 pm

2021 - Summary of week 52A

52A = until 31st December.

I finished Den andra systern and started De kapabla (by Klas Ekman). Also started reading 11/22/63 again. Although the Thursday Night gaming group took a break, I managed to squeeze in a few games myself, at home base or elsewhere - Ticket to Ride (the original US map), Pathfinder Adventure Card Game (solo mode), and a version of the classic Swedish card game Bondtolva (standard deck). And of course Othello and Nine Men's Morris online.

NL: More Loyal Books content. On the 1st of January, there will be a new language.

Eventually I'll post a summary of 2021.
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby StringerBell » Sat Jan 08, 2022 1:58 pm

Could you share your thoughts on Ticket to Ride? I was/am considering buying that one but was on the fence. It sounds like it could be endlessly fun or terribly boring. I'm assuming that since you play it you like it, so I'd love to hear your opinion about it.

jeff_lindqvist wrote:On the 1st of January, there will be a new language.
. What a teaser!
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sat Jan 08, 2022 4:50 pm

It's a game that is both easy to learn and quick to play (I'm sure there are plenty of introductions on youtube - here is the BoardGameGeek entry). A friend has the Europe set so we played that one last summer. This current copy is borrowed. All of them are stand-alone (I think), so if you want to give it a try, choose a map to your liking. A fun game if you like maps, trains and might be interested in the mechanism of route building.

One game can be finished in half an hour, maybe 45 minutes. It may even be the gateway to something else...

After playing this a few times last week:
-Now, imagine this as a cooperative game on a map of the world, where you play investigators who travel, get items and allies, gather clues, defeat monsters, close gates to other dimensions, perhaps go on expeditions, get rid of rumours and solve mysteries in order to stop an Ancient Old One from awakening.
-Oh, is that Eldritch Horror?
-Bingo.

To be continued...
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby tungemål » Sun Jan 09, 2022 11:28 am

Have you got any tips for books in Dutch? All your NL log says is "More Loyal Books content"...
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