Venusiano Sarcastico

Come on, it's clear that it's a joke.........because it's a real joke, right?

Alright, you convinced me... I’ll start the review of Grim Fandango...

One of the greatest video games in history.

"I took the bottle and went to my room. I stripped down, kept my underwear on, and went to bed. It was a big mess. People were blindly clinging to everything they could find: communism, macrobiotics, zen, surfing, dancing, hypnosis, group therapy, orgies, cycling, herbs, Catholicism, weightlifting, travel, solitude, vegetarian diet, India, painting, writing, sculpture, composition, conducting, camping, yoga, copulation, gambling, alcohol, idleness, yogurt ice cream, Beethoven, Bach, Buddha, Christ, transcendental meditation, carrot juice, suicide, handmade clothes, air travel, New York City, and then all these things faded away and nothing remained. People had to find something to do while waiting to die. It was nice to have a choice. I had made my choice a while ago. I lifted the bottle of vodka and drank it straight. The Russians knew what they were doing."

One of the greatest videos of the 90s.

They can shove that fucking vocoder up their ass.

Shit is a popular Italian card game. It is widespread throughout the peninsula and is played in many ways with various types of decks, from the French ones (52 cards, hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) to the so-called Italian regional decks (Lombard, Genoese, Piedmontese, Tuscan: 40 cards, hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades; Bergamasque, Trevisan, Trentino, Brescia, Piacenza, Romagna, Sicilian, Neapolitan: 40 cards, cups, coins, sticks, swords). The game is practiced in many forms, but essentially the rules remain the same. It is played with two decks, one used for "playing," and the other for points, better known as kilos of shit. The actual playing deck consists of a number of cards equal to the number of players multiplied by four. If, for example, there are five players, a total of 5 x 4 = 20 cards are used. The second deck is placed in the center of the playing table, so that it is equally within reach of each player’s hand: this is the deck of kilos of shit. Now, for the kilos deck, you can use the discarded cards from the first (playing deck) or use a new one. The dealer distributes all the cards from the playing deck counterclockwise. All players simultaneously must choose one of the cards they have in hand, passing it to the player on their right and, as quickly as possible, collecting the one passed to them by the player on the left. The goal is to have 4 cards of the same rank but different suits; at that point, instead of discarding, the player can declare shit by slamming their hand on the deck. When a player shouts shit, they place their hand on the deck in the center of the table (in some areas, it is also common to pronounce aloud either shit or kilos of shit or, depending on the regions, colorful dialect terms), and all the other players must do the same, placing their hand over that of the opponent who declared shit. The last player to place their hand loses and takes the kilos of shit from the corresponding deck, drawing a card. Only those who have the four matching cards in hand can declare shit. Because of this last rule, the move of the "dirty" or fake play is very common, where players can pretend to slam their hand on the table or move their arm towards the kilos deck and/or say a similar word (e.g., "slime"). A distracted player might fall for the trick and touch the deck, and in that case, they would have to draw the kilos. Generally, if the fake is successful, the game is paused but not finished; after drawing the kilos, the game resumes. If by mistake the one faking touches the deck, they must draw themselves (this usually happens because someone pushes their hand over the deck). The winner is the one who, after the central deck runs out ("the kilos"), has the least kilos of shit or who reaches a predetermined score last at the beginning of the game.

Shit is a popular Italian card game. It is widespread throughout the peninsula and is played in many ways with various types of decks, from the French ones (52 cards, hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) to the so-called Italian regional decks (Lombard, Genoese, Piedmontese, Tuscan: 40 cards, hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades; Bergamasque, Trevisan, Trentino, Brescia, Piacenza, Romagna, Sicilian, Neapolitan: 40 cards, cups, coins, sticks, swords). The game is practiced in many forms, but essentially the rules remain the same. It is played with two decks, one used for "playing," and the other for points, better known as kilos of shit. The actual playing deck consists of a number of cards equal to the number of players multiplied by four. If, for example, there are five players, a total of 5 x 4 = 20 cards are used. The second deck is placed in the center of the playing table, so that it is equally within reach of each player’s hand: this is the deck of kilos of shit. Now, for the kilos deck, you can use the discarded cards from the first (playing deck) or use a new one. The dealer distributes all the cards from the playing deck counterclockwise. All players simultaneously must choose one of the cards they have in hand, passing it to the player on their right and, as quickly as possible, collecting the one passed to them by the player on the left. The goal is to have 4 cards of the same rank but different suits; at that point, instead of discarding, the player can declare shit by slamming their hand on the deck. When a player shouts shit, they place their hand on the deck in the center of the table (in some areas, it is also common to pronounce aloud either shit or kilos of shit or, depending on the regions, colorful dialect terms), and all the other players must do the same, placing their hand over that of the opponent who declared shit. The last player to place their hand loses and takes the kilos of shit from the corresponding deck, drawing a card. Only those who have the four matching cards in hand can declare shit. Because of this last rule, the move of the "dirty" or fake play is very common, where players can pretend to slam their hand on the table or move their arm towards the kilos deck and/or say a similar word (e.g., "slime"). A distracted player might fall for the trick and touch the deck, and in that case, they would have to draw the kilos. Generally, if the fake is successful, the game is paused but not finished; after drawing the kilos, the game resumes. If by mistake the one faking touches the deck, they must draw themselves (this usually happens because someone pushes their hand over the deck). The winner is the one who, after the central deck runs out ("the kilos"), has the least kilos of shit or who reaches a predetermined score last at the beginning of the game.

"The others are just faded photocopies"...no way, if you don't mind.

Really a tasty album. And this weekend I'll see them at the Pistoia Blues!