I want to play Whist again. ~10 years ago I played it all the time with my friends in school. Lots of fun. I also want to play Risk again. And I want to try Cranium.
Lately Viridiana and I have played Worms World Party once in a while. We get overly competitive. "I won! I won!" "You can't use the rope; that's not fair. No rope!" "Oh, that was luck, pure luck!" "Sucker!" "Don't do that, don't do that!" "Ouch". "Hahahahahahahaha". "That was easy!".
The most elaborate war game the U.S. military has ever held was rigged so that it appeared to validate the modern, joint-service war-fighting concepts it was supposed to be ing, according to the retired Marine lieutenant general who commanded the game’s Opposing Force.
As explained at boingboing where I found the story: The whole point of "war games" is to figure out what works and what doesn't. If you don't allow the "enemy" to exploit weaknesses in your system you are not being very efficient. Doh.
When I hear someone igoring the existance of the world that is not the United States, I usually quote this joke ....
Recently, a worldwide survey was conducted by the U.N.
The question was asked, "Would you please give your opinion about the food shortage in the rest of the world?"
The survey was a huge failure.
In Africa they did not know what 'food' meant.
In Western Europe, they did not know what 'shortage' meant.
In Eastern Europe they did not know what 'opinion' meant.
In South America they did not know what 'please' meant.
And in the U.S. they did not know what 'the rest of the world' meant.
