If you started a kickstarter, what would it be for? What do you dream of creating?
I was just talking to a good friend of mine about a website called Kickstarter. It's a place where people post projects that they need funding for and the general public can back their project like investors. The great part for the investor is that if the project doesn't make it's goal and doesn't get fully funded, they aren't charged any money. They are just pledging that they would pay a certain amount of money if the project was fully funded. So, there is almost no risk to the funders. This makes for great ideas because people aren't afraid to back a crazy project! So he was thinking that he should start a kickstarter project and I had been thinking about the same thing. Now I can't stop thinking about starting my own project. I want to start small, like with a short story or a card game or a craft or something. But it's just so scary to put yourself out there, what it people think my ideas are stupid? It's nerve racking. But it's so cool. We all need to live on the edge right? I think I'll start working on a card game to put up on kickstarter! Watch out world, here I come!
If you started a kickstarter, what would it be for? What do you dream of creating?
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Toby, Tom, Shane, and I playing some Smash Up at Chipotle in Fresno, CA! :) Board and card games have long been apart of my house and American culture, but it seems to be inappropriate or frowned upon to play games while at a restaurant or eatery. I like to play games while I eat, not only is it something I enjoy, it's also good for us. First of all, it helps us all the eat slower, taking time in between scarfing it all down. Two, it allows us to digest our food between bites and possibly feel more full before we have over-eaten. And lastly, it helps us enjoy our eating time as not just another social encounter, but a memory-making, brain-stimulating, and fun-creating time. That is my small rant about playing games while eating at restaurants and fast-food eateries. I will continue to play and encourage others to do so as well, because if you pay for food, it shouldn't matter how long you are there for, as long as you are respectful and a paying customer. That's all for today. Let me know what you think about playing games in public places like restaurants, parks, bars, fast food joints, and bus stops? I have been working a lot and finishing up my Masters at FPU so I haven't had much time to post. Although as we all know, that isn't much of an excuse. That just means I didn't think about recently. I have had enough time to watch Big Bang Theory, Whitney, and Sherlock recently, so why not post on my blog? I'm lazy. That's why.
So all in all it's been a pretty awesome couple of months. I've been working on a few new card games, perfected one and started some preliminary work on a couple others. That has been fun. I have also been disc golfing more recently. I had a drought for awhile where I hadn't gone in month or so and that was just weird. :( But now I'm back and I'm loving it. I realized that I will probably never be as good as I was when I was playing weekly, but I will always love it. :) During the winter I always seem to rack up more board gaming time since it's harder to go outside and play in the sun. This winter is no exception. I have been playing a lot of games! If you ever want to come over and play some board games with me, feel free to call me up or hit me up on Facebook. I love it. Just this week at my lifegroup we played "Game of Things", "Bohnanza", and "Family Business". So much fun and so much bonding going on. That's one of the easiest ways for men to bond, through games/sports. A smart man once told me, "Women tend to bond with each other face to face, through shared conversation, while men bond side by side, through shared experience. We have fought side by side in wars for millennia, and it is in our blood to do so, not because we love bloodshed, but because we bond with other men when we are by their side through adversity and trial. " Now I know what you are thinking, games do not equal adversity and trial?! Well, yes and no. They do include many of the same feelings as men at war: camaraderie, teamwork, betrayal, disappointment, hope, fear, and frustration. These characteristics of board-gaming make it much more like war than much of what we do during our day. So fight an imaginary war instead of a real one and play a board game! And that's the way the cookie crumbles...uh huh...uh huh....uh huh. BTW. I love board and card games, I have started writing a few reviews of some of my favorite games. I only have two so far, but I will continure to post. The first two I have written on are Battle Line and Bohnanza. These are both card games and they are fairly easy games to learn and play, but the similarities end there. Battle Line is a war-themed card game in which two opponents face off across a 'battle line' and attempt to win the battle by taking 5 of 9 flags or 3 adjacent flags. Flags are decided by placing cards into 3 card poker-type hands on either side of the flag (similar to straight flush, 3 of a kind, straight, flush, etc). The side with the highest 'formation' of cards wins the flag. (My Review Here) Bohnanza is a bean planting card game in which you cannot rearrange your hand, as you need to play the cards in the order that you draw them. The cards are colorful depictions of beans in various descriptive poses, and the object is to make coins by planting fields (sets) of these beans and then harvesting them (getting coins for them). To help players match their cards up, the game features extensive trading and deal making. (My Review Here) That's all for today. I will write more reviews, share more ideas, ask more questions, and generally bore you to death with my ramblings...
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