Our first week in Vancouver is wrapping up, and here’s a quick report of how things have been going so far.
Read More »Author: Riley John Gibbs
Socially functioning geek.
Scootbussing
Graham has often struggled with daycare drop-off. Most days he’s completely fine at daycare, but it’s very hard for him to say goodbye at drop-off. Long hugs, tears, reaching for Daddy or Mommy, pleas to go home. But this week I’ve discovered that the trick may be how we get there.
Read More »Kids Sleeping for Others: It’s Not Just Us 😅
Positively Bummed
Danielle tested positive for COVID yesterday evening.
Read More »Changes
To date, all my posts on this blog have been focused on either (tabletop) games or triathlons. As my general appetite for posting on the various social media platforms has waned, I find myself wanting for a way to keep my friends and family updated on the goings on in my life and brain.
So this blog will shift to a more general purpose personal blog, and if you want to know what I’m up to, this’ll be a good place, if I keep up with my intentions.
One more bit of context for this decision, which will also serve as the first personal update I’ll post here: on April 22, Danielle, Graham and I are moving from Santa Monica to Vancouver!
Read More »On Games Neither Zero-Sum Nor Victory-Sharing
I’ve been thinking about games that are not explicitly competitive but in which each player has their own victory metric. In other words, games that are not zero-sum but in which victory is not necessarily shared.
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Dungeons & Dragons-ish on My Last Day of Work
On my last day of work at Sure, the insurance tech company I’ve worked at for the last year and change, I ran a very impromptu game of Dungeons & Dragons for some people on my team. And by “impromptu,” I mean I had literally nothing prepared save for an idea of how to design a set of rules simple enough to be explained in under ten minutes and some character builds based on those rules. I got that together in roughly thirty minutes before we were scheduled to play.
Read More »Friday on Friday Night: Success
Quick update: I had my first win in Friday, the game I wrote about in my last post. Two things I did differently this time around:
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“Friday” Solo on a Thursday Night
My good friends Ben and Lizzy got me a copy of a game called Friday for my birthday recently. I think it’s my first single player tabletop game aside from the various forms of solitaire you can play with a poker deck. This is a deck building game themed off of Robinson Crusoe, with you as the player trying to toughen up Robinson before he gets himself killed. I’ve played it five times now, and I’ve lost every single time. But I’ve played enough to have some thoughts on the game.
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Supercharging Gaming
I just played a session of Dungeons & Dragons in person with two of my best friends for the first time in nearly two years, and it’s as if all of my burdens have suddenly become a lot lighter.
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No Free Parking Money 