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My Updates can be found on your user profile page if once you are logged in. If you have updates, it should be the first module on the right hand side of your page. If you don't have any updates, then the module doesn't show up - but you can always go to My Updates from the bottom right link in the About Me module on the top left of your profile page.
After play testing Starr Harold and I found it lacking, so we started playing with the rules and making a few modifications. What we ended up with is, I believe, a game based-on (and very similar to) War, but with a distinctive strategic component. The game also plays faster than War.
Objective
For one player to win all the cards.
Setup
The rules are for two people with a standard 52-card deck. Ranking of cards are A, K, Q, J, 10 through 2.
Jade Empire finally came to PC earlier this year (2007) after being released for two years on X-Box (2005). Unlike other console to PC ports, Jade empire plays smoothly and the controls feel natural. The story is based in a fantastic and mythical China (called the Jade Empire in the game) and the fighting and many elements of the game borrow heavily from the wuxia (pronounced wu-sha) genre of movies, books, and theater. As an action-role playing game based around martial arts and magic, the environment is unique and compelling - I know I couldn't stop playing until I finished the game.
In response to Harold's War Challenge, I present my updated rules for the classic children's game War. Since I can name the game whatever I want, I chose Starr. 5 points to whoever posts a comment correctly guessing the reason for the name. I dunno if these rules will make the game faster or slower to play, but at least there's some mental exercise and decision making involved.
With Season 3 just starting, it's always a struggle to figure out who's who. So, here's my rundown of this season's contestants and what I think (having watched only the first episode).
Aaron, 48, Retirement Home Chef
Although he seems to had an even temperment, it seems that the pressures of the kitchen may be too much for Aaron (crying even before the restaurant doors had opened). I don't know what the job of a retirement home chef is like, but 48 may be a little old for someone not in prime physical shape to be able to keep up in a three star kitchen...
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