Screw you, Alexander.
Monday, May 5th, 2008Anyone who has played the Xbox Live Arcade board game adaptation Catan, about which I have previously posted, is surely familiar with the neverending admonishment, “Not now with you.” For reasons completely beyond my comprehension, NPCs will often not simply reject your resource trade offer, but will spew that rejection alongside a finger-wagging emoticon. There seems to be no rhyme or reason behind it - my friends and I have tried to apply all sorts of empirical theories, to no avail. Alexander (The Great, presumably) seems to be the most dogged of these naysayers.
Anyway, after a few hours of Catan last night, I couldn’t get that endless drone out of my mind, so I constructed this unnecessary non-sequitur: