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Last night, Miriam had a funny realization about an instance in the past where I'd behaved like "a typical guy" in a way that seemed out of character for me.
Some years ago, when she and I were attending Gen Con together, we went by a booth where women were demonstrating a Japanese card game called Tanto Cuore. It's basically a rethemed Dominion, to be honest, and I hadn't really been interested in Dominion up to that point. But unlike Dominion, which is themed around building a sort of medieval fantasy fiefdom, in Tanto Cuore you are hiring lots of maids to come work in your mansion for you. Instead of Dominion's currencies of copper, silver, and gold, you are buying the services of the maids with love. Yes; love.
The art, and maybe the whole game, is very much anime-style fan-service stuff, chock full of various girls in various maid outfits with little blurbs about their personality or quotations from them as flavor text. The women demoing it were also dressed in maid cosplay, and I was just squeeing over the game and the outfits and the cute girls and everything. I got really excited about this game and ended up buying a fancy copy that had some special Japanese foil cards along with all the base cards, and I bought matching card protectors sleeves with pink backs from them too. Miriam made loving fun of me about how out of character it was for me to get so excited about a game like this because it's such a typical guy thing. There were so few ways that I was a "typical guy" and this really stood out to her. I thought it was funny too, but the game was just super cute and I had to have it!
Last night, she brought that game up again and said she'd realized that I wasn't being a typical guy after all. I was being gay as hell!
Nailed it!!
Some years ago, when she and I were attending Gen Con together, we went by a booth where women were demonstrating a Japanese card game called Tanto Cuore. It's basically a rethemed Dominion, to be honest, and I hadn't really been interested in Dominion up to that point. But unlike Dominion, which is themed around building a sort of medieval fantasy fiefdom, in Tanto Cuore you are hiring lots of maids to come work in your mansion for you. Instead of Dominion's currencies of copper, silver, and gold, you are buying the services of the maids with love. Yes; love.
The art, and maybe the whole game, is very much anime-style fan-service stuff, chock full of various girls in various maid outfits with little blurbs about their personality or quotations from them as flavor text. The women demoing it were also dressed in maid cosplay, and I was just squeeing over the game and the outfits and the cute girls and everything. I got really excited about this game and ended up buying a fancy copy that had some special Japanese foil cards along with all the base cards, and I bought matching card protectors sleeves with pink backs from them too. Miriam made loving fun of me about how out of character it was for me to get so excited about a game like this because it's such a typical guy thing. There were so few ways that I was a "typical guy" and this really stood out to her. I thought it was funny too, but the game was just super cute and I had to have it!
Last night, she brought that game up again and said she'd realized that I wasn't being a typical guy after all. I was being gay as hell!
Nailed it!!
