[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 Zoomers: The chicken dinner thing is an outdated video-game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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