On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Karen J. Cravens wrote:
> Most of our relatives aren't "against" gaming so much as they are
> "clueless about gaming," so it's likely just as well they don't buy
> anything, or we'd probably end up with weird Rifts books or something.
So I just stick to asking for the few DVDs that I actually want to own...
although this year wasn't so "few"... Star Wars, Return of the King,
Spiderman 2. Got them all... two copies of Star Wars, in fact. Gotta
find a place to return the one that doesn't have a crushed box. :)
I didn't get gaming stuff, but I got something I've been wanting for a
_very_ long time, but never could manage to save up the money for... a
pottery wheel and (my mother-in-law's used) kiln. Can't wait to get my
pottery studio set up and producing. Plenty of fantasy-ish stuff to make
out of pottery now.
> Some years one family member or another will decide "Hey, they play games"
> and buy us the latest "party game;" I think we have Cranium and a few
I like some of those party games, but Cranium... that just seemed to put
my raw, unedited creativity out in front of other people, and I'm not too
much into that.
> Gamers seem to fall into the sort of demographic that likes folk music. I
> don't really know why.
I think that for fantasy gamers, it ties into the whole renfaire,
creating-an-experience kind of thing. It's not exactly the kind of music
you'd have heard in an English castle, but it speaks of a simpler life
from the past. Or at least the freewheeling life of an Irish pub.
> see if the ones we got this time are good. And Carl got a Trout Fishing
> in America disc, so that's always good. (Oddly, we didn't own any TFiA
> before now. I'm not really sure why.)
Actually, your mom ordered Gnomusy's _Ethereality_, which was on my Amazon
wish list. I'm sure she had _no_ idea what it was, but I'd marked it
"must have". It's a limited-edition, signed by the artist. But I got a
chance to play it for everyone. Gnomusy is one of my favorite "writing"
composers... it really helps put me in the mood to write fantasy world
stuff. So in a way, this was my only "gaming related" gift.
Trout Fishing in America isn't exactly something I'd go out to buy for
myself... but it is really funny if you... throw it out the window!
("Little bunny Fu Fu, hopping through the forest, scooping up the field
mice and throwing them out the window! The window, the window, throwing
them out the window!")
I think this'll get you there to listen to samples...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000655S
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