Here we go ho ho! It's time for your annual play of Skeal
With Christmas barely a week away, it's time to start celebrating my own RPS Christmas traditions. Games to play, songs to time, surprises to spring. Let's start with a wee surprise. Pull on your mittens, fill your flask with cocoa, and clip-click-skkrachk those ski boots, for it is time to play the free downhill slalom game Skeal.
Hie thee to Itch.io to play Skeal anon. The downloadable version has been gone for a few years but if you haven't been lovingly transferring a copy from hard drive to hard drive, PC to PC, like your childhood macaroni Christmas ornaments somehow preserved by your mum, you can still play that WebGL version in your browser. It's free and it'll take you four minutes. See you in a bit!
You're done?
That's fun, isn't it.
A pun blown up into a musical spectacular with a series of escalations, knowing exactly when to end. Good joke. It's not a joke I'd revisit by myself but hey, nor are Christmas cracker jokes (including our own horrors, which I'm sorry to tell you will return this year). I'm here for tradition, for creating your own traditions and joining those which work for you (while casting off those which don't).
Every time we take part in tradition, we're building and strengthening memories and investing energy. This is amplified by knowing other people are doing the same. Repeated over time, it's an emotional feedback loop. The next year rolls around and here's a foundation of mirth and merriment to raise your level of enjoyment of a joke you've heard before. The joke's still good, and you're glad we're here doing this together again. This emotional bank supports withdrawals too.
This year I'm late to start my wee round of RPS Christmas traditions (hell, I once started in November) because
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