[HN Gopher] How to Play Hextraction
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How to Play Hextraction
Author : tobr
Score : 30 points
Date : 2023-05-15 07:54 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.playhextraction.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.playhextraction.com)
| JohnFen wrote:
| I'm a couple days into printing this game up to bring it to the
| next game night with my friends. I'm looking forward to it,
| because this looks like great fun.
| darknavi wrote:
| I know videos aren't everyone's favorite format, but Zack
| (voidstarlab) has a great video on Hextraction and is just a fun
| person to watch.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqz7ZDdP25A
| nvahalik wrote:
| Hah! He alliterates better than a baptist pastor!
| mock-possum wrote:
| > Zoomers: The chicken dinner thing is an outdated video-game
| reference.
|
| That's cute but also completely untrue, "winner winner chicken
| dinner" predates video-games by half a century at least.
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| It actually made me wonder if the video game call-out was
| tongue-in-cheek, as if to suggest that a member of Gen Z would
| not understand a game which isn't a video game. Looks like it's
| (probably) a reference to PUBG[0]:
|
| > Winner winner chicken dinner became popular online after the
| release of the 2017 multiplayer shooter video game
| PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG). Game developer Brendan
| "PlayerUnkown" Greene is a fan of the phrase and included it in
| most of the battle-royale modes he has created. If a player
| manages to be the sole survivor of the notoriously difficult
| game of PUBG, they are greeted with the poultry praise upon
| victory.
|
| [0] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/winner-winner-chicken-
| din...
| pimlottc wrote:
| This sounds intriguing, but the images are oddly cropped so that
| it's really hard to tell what's going on. More images and bigger
| images please!
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