Game Night at Joe & Jenn's

One night Joe and Jenn had us over for game night. It was awesome. We made pizzas. We drank beer and whiskey. We played games. We played a bunch of games actually, but the one I remember most clearly was a game of StarCraft. The teams were evenly matched: Joe and Jenn on one team, with Tom and me on the other. And so we set out to see who would dominate the cosmos.

Needless to say, this was the single greatest game of StarCraft I ever played. The battle lasted for hours! We would make a small advance, and then Joe and Jenn would flank us and drive us back. We’d knock down one of their turrets, only to find that they had teleported past the front and were attacking our SCVs. It was amazing to see them work together, carefully and quietly plotting each move and executing it with perfect timing.

As the night wore on Tom and I finally broke through their defenses. With sheer brute force we managed to get our Siege Tanks through the largest Protoss minefield ever created. We were just about to roll our troops into their home base when Joe and Jenn executed their master-stroke. In one fell swoop they not only denied us our victory, but they also completely blew our minds. At the very moment when the tide was about to turn…

Joe and Jenn quit out of the game.

The game was over. We didn’t win. They didn’t loose. Joe and Jenn did the completely unexpected, and yet in retrospect, most genius move ever. They simply changed the rules of the game on us. Needless to say I was red in the face. I couldn’t believe it. My brain was totally hacked, and has remained so ever since.

But that’s just how they roll. Tom could only laugh. If he didn’t see it coming he knew this was the kind of move only they could pull. Joe and Jenn are infamous for throwing out the rules. They play their own game, and they play it well together.