I also need to apologize for my own bloviating stance: the central conceit of your main post is absolutely in finding the humor of "look how this game bowled us over ass-over-teakettle," and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't comically stunned at the endgame.
And that's the thing, I agree with 99% of your original post, both in content and in tone. I totally get that your OP was without malicious intent and that you went out of your way to include yourself in the Keystone-Cops level of running in circles that was the session, and I do appreciate the extra work you must have put in to make it so.
It was the occasional 1% of "look at those hardcore gamers, so set in their ways, get blindsided by this clever little game!" as if we were some sort of self-important Goliath just waiting to be popped by the plucky David's sling. One of my (not inconsiderable amount of) faults is being thin-skinned in regards to humor at the expense of others, and a large part of the above umbrage is most definitely in (over)reaction to said 1%.
But yes, you're absolutely right to stand by your report: it was descriptive, educational, and sought to find the truth of both the game and the session, tasks at which it was remarkably well suited to illustrate. You were generous and truthful in all respects: Hornet did take me by surprise, and watching the game jerk to a comical halt was akin to seeing a house fall down revealing a guy poised to put the last nail into the new door frame he was working on. I was most certainly that fellow!
And that's the thing, I agree with 99% of your original post, both in content and in tone. I totally get that your OP was without malicious intent and that you went out of your way to include yourself in the Keystone-Cops level of running in circles that was the session, and I do appreciate the extra work you must have put in to make it so.
It was the occasional 1% of "look at those hardcore gamers, so set in their ways, get blindsided by this clever little game!" as if we were some sort of self-important Goliath just waiting to be popped by the plucky David's sling. One of my (not inconsiderable amount of) faults is being thin-skinned in regards to humor at the expense of others, and a large part of the above umbrage is most definitely in (over)reaction to said 1%.
But yes, you're absolutely right to stand by your report: it was descriptive, educational, and sought to find the truth of both the game and the session, tasks at which it was remarkably well suited to illustrate. You were generous and truthful in all respects: Hornet did take me by surprise, and watching the game jerk to a comical halt was akin to seeing a house fall down revealing a guy poised to put the last nail into the new door frame he was working on. I was most certainly that fellow!