Scattergories
Mar. 1st, 2014 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickPlaying scattergories today, at a friend’s house.
Letter D. Prompt: Song title. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
Letter F. Prompt: Things people shout. Fee Fie Foe Fum.
“You won. Why are you even bothering to total up the score? You always win anyway.”
I don’t... am I supposed to lose so that they can feel better? Is that the right answer? Somehow I don’t think so. *sigh*
I am not playing invincible all-out scattergories, here. I am using words within everyone-at-the-table’s vocabulary and not going for the really weird shit just because I can. This is sort of already dumbed-down scattergories and not how I would play against, for example, my more geeky tabletop-gaming-enthusiast friends with huge and arcane vocabularies.
The “normal people” limitation is a self-imposed stricture I put on the gameplay. (I don’t tell them I’m doing it.) I honestly think that the internal mental dialogue of normal people does not ever include sitting down to a party game and giving due consideration to how hard it is appropriate for them to try. (Of course, I may be wrong about how normal people work. I am frequently wrong about how normal people work.)
If I’m not supposed to be trying to win, then why are we keeping score at all? Can’t we play an unscored party game like charades or something?
One of my failing-to-understand-the-flesh-people days today, I’m afraid.
Letter D. Prompt: Song title. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
Letter F. Prompt: Things people shout. Fee Fie Foe Fum.
“You won. Why are you even bothering to total up the score? You always win anyway.”
I don’t... am I supposed to lose so that they can feel better? Is that the right answer? Somehow I don’t think so. *sigh*
I am not playing invincible all-out scattergories, here. I am using words within everyone-at-the-table’s vocabulary and not going for the really weird shit just because I can. This is sort of already dumbed-down scattergories and not how I would play against, for example, my more geeky tabletop-gaming-enthusiast friends with huge and arcane vocabularies.
The “normal people” limitation is a self-imposed stricture I put on the gameplay. (I don’t tell them I’m doing it.) I honestly think that the internal mental dialogue of normal people does not ever include sitting down to a party game and giving due consideration to how hard it is appropriate for them to try. (Of course, I may be wrong about how normal people work. I am frequently wrong about how normal people work.)
If I’m not supposed to be trying to win, then why are we keeping score at all? Can’t we play an unscored party game like charades or something?
One of my failing-to-understand-the-flesh-people days today, I’m afraid.
