This weekend I will be gaming. I will be gaming all day, all weekend. It is the Game Fest. It happens every four months or so here in Atlanta. A bunch of smarmy dorks like myself get together in the ballroom of a cheap hotel and play board games all weekend. There is also Game Day. This happens between the Game Fests.

I haven’t been to a Games Fest yet, but I have been to a Games Day. I am looking forward to this one. It will give me the chance to unwind a bit and lay waste to unsuspecting gamers in various strategy games. No one ever suspects me as being good or liking those games. Hopefully I will get off of work in time to make it back to the other flipping side of town where I live (and basically where Games Fest is) and get in on a Diplomacy game or something similar.

I like Diplomacy. I first played back in High School. We played in English class after reading “Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun”. We also played this game where we were trying to build the biggest tower out of the other groups. My group won in both cases. I did all of the wheeling and dealing for both games.

In general, people believe the things that fall out of my mouth. I suppose it helps being a stoic in those cases. It also helps to have keen observation skills. I’ve found that most people don’t. I’m fairly good at finding compromise in situations and then manipulating the “compromise” into my advantage and smiting my enemies. My enemies, of course, being everyone else.

In the Tower Building game back in High School, we were given two “bombs” with which to use at any point in the game and “blow up” another team’s tower. I convinced other teams to blow up other people’s tower’s for me so I could save my bombs until the very end and blow up any who might possibly beat me at the end of the game. I also traded items between groups to form such “alliances”. My alliances were all lies.

“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”

I think perhaps I was the only one who read that book. Maybe other’s read it, but I don’t think they actually understood it. I suppose the key is being able to think on your feet and turn any situation into your advantage.

I am looking forward to letting out a bit of aggression this weekend. I wonder what games will pop out of the woodworks for me to play.

Posted by Utopia at May 19, 2006 08:44 AM

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