The Ninth Day of Fishmas

Lauby:  Speaking of drunk driving...    
Uglyraincoat: It is funny because it is offensive to a certain group of people’s lifestyle.  [Face palm.]  
Lauby:  What are you talking about? This is a perfectly fine salute to our country’s proud yokel heritage.  It’s pretty much the most powerful card we made and my favorite card to play as a result.  It IS America to me.
dethtron:  AMURICA!!!!!
Uglyraincoat: True, and that guy from across the way who gave us all of his “old beer” is a case in point.  He had just driven in from the Anheuser Busch factory, and insisted that anything with a born-on date older than two days tasted inferior.  (His beers were born that very morning.)  He had somehow achieved being a snooty beer-snob about Budlight.  Plus, he ran his mobile home into a tree, knocking down a branch.  He then drafted our help in a bit of impromptu tree-trimming in the middle of the campground - with chain-saw.  I guess it isn’t worth a face-palm if the joke doesn’t make any of the people it references feel bad.  We were cool with Mike, and Mike was cool with us.  Now, Mike’s wife, on the other hand, was not ok with us because her retired husband had suddenly reverted to beer-swilling, 20-something behavior and wanted to play in our bean bag tournament.  
dethtron:  AMURICA!!!!!



Lauby:  That’s a direct quote from the design process.  This card is the result of the fact that Jesus was an unstoppable monster in playtesting if you get him to stick.  Though why we decided to put Jesus and ALL of the banding cards in the same color is just one of many mysteries about this set that we’ll have to chalk up to heavy drinking or a rushed design timeline.
dethtron:  sounds like how I chalk up most of life’s problems.
Uglyraincoat: And Respeck Knuckles are how you fix those problems.
Lauby:  I’m not going to lie to you fine folks, this staggeringly bizarre card is purely a vehicle for a couple of puns about my last name.  It’s also a bit of a consolation prize for how terrible OG sunshine was.
dethtron:  so it’s not a vehicle to cram more counters into the set?
Lauby:  can’t it be both?
Uglyraincoat: That is the most dangerous laubster I’ve ever laid eyes on.  I love the counter-spell action almost as much as I love chain seafood restaurants.  ``
Lauby:  ouch?
Uglyraincoat: It is funny because it is offensive to a certain group of people’s lifestyle.
dethtron:  goblins are not people.
Uglyraincoat: That is a hurtful thing to say.
Lauby:  You’re the kind of guy who won’t play pokemon because of the animal cruelty implications, aren’t you?  
Uglyraincoat: No way, pokemon is like any other respectable gentleman’s sport, such as cock-fighting or dog-fighting.  
dethtron:  yet another tropical fish added to the set because the native fishes of Illinois are so fucking boring.  Hell even the invasive species of Illinois are boring (with the exception of those crazy ass jumping carp).  Oh no, Zebra mussles.  Everyone run!
Lauby: Sad but true. Speaking of sad, you just pointed out a golden missed opportunity with zebra mussels.  
Uglyraincoat: I think that dethtron has not taken enough responsibility for being our resident fancy-aquarium owner / enthusiast.  Why do we have scat in here without one single example of a giant shark, man-o-war, octopus, or whale?  
dethtron:  and no sharktopus either.  Fuck dethtron, that guy sucks.

Lauby:  you get smelly when you camp for a week and willfully ignore the showers that are mere 200 feet from camp.
Uglyraincoat: I get it; you are detectable when you are smelly, and therefor not sneaky.  The game mechanic is classic blue.  But how is “stench” not an entirely different card and black?  Why a skunk, which is green if anything, and uses its power as a deterrent and not as a marker to make sneaky things visible?  This has my vote for worst design in the set.  Sheer missed opportunity here for a card that is supposed to be about body odor.  
dethtron:  I think the idea here was that we smelled so bad we couldn’t possibly sneak around.  The stench would rat us out.  That’s where the blocking of landwalk comes in.  At the same time though it’s kind of awesome to reek, so as a gift you get to draw a card.  Sounds right at least.
Uglyraincoat: I said I get it.

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