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Comic 551 – “Catan Collab”

February 6, 2013 8:00 am /

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Errol: We eventually want to put out a new CD, so I guess we should write more songs. :D However, if you’re on this website, I guess you’ll be getting sneak peeks of those songs. :D

Debs: This song is the most awful earworm ever.

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80 Thoughts on “Comic 551 – “Catan Collab””

  1. Jezbel on February 6, 2013 at 8:36 am said:

    After listening to that song twice now (once when it was just Errol and once with Debs added) all I want to do is find and try this game. XD I have no one to play with here though so even if I did buy it it would just sit in my room. Maybe I can convince the old people to play lol.

    • Kari on February 6, 2013 at 10:22 am said:

      I own it, but I’ve never played with my copy because all my friends own it too. It’s a good game. I think I shall send the song to certain of my friends, who are pretty obsessed with Settlers. When we play, we get into vociferous arguments about exactly when the development cards can be used, and sheep are always a major issue in some way or another.

      • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 11:33 am said:

        Development cards can be used at any time! Just not on someone else’s turn. :D

        And point cards… apparently only revealed at the end when you win… from what I deduced from the instructions.

        However, playing the knight before you roll has always been the big thing…

    • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 11:32 am said:

      Old people? You just hang about the elderly? :D

  2. Kristi on February 6, 2013 at 10:15 am said:

    That was awesome! I love the song! My family’s been into Catan for 3-4 years, playing it almost religiously at every family gathering for the first few years.

    My husband tweeted the song to Wil Wheaton (have you seen the Tabletop video where they play it?). I seriously can’t get over how much fun the song is. I will probably listen to it a lot in the next few days.

    • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 11:34 am said:

      Huzzah! I play way too many boardgames. The game my daughter insists on playing is Agricola… great game.

      • Kristi on February 6, 2013 at 11:55 am said:

        I shared the song on Facebook, tagging my family specifically, and one of my sisters so far has gotten a huge kick out of it. She reshared my link. Of all my family (who are not all that geeky, really), I knew she’d like it, even if none of the rest did.

  3. jex on February 6, 2013 at 10:35 am said:

    Its a decent explanation Catan but it does get a little confusing other than that its a very good song
    BTW Errol i had the same problem with sheep last time i played.

  4. Whitless on February 6, 2013 at 11:36 am said:

    Yet another song for me to confuse my non-geeky co-workers with.

  5. The eHermit on February 6, 2013 at 12:01 pm said:

    Errol obviously doesn’t have the expansion pack that allows him to convert his sheep to yarn…

  6. The eHermit on February 6, 2013 at 12:04 pm said:

    And if you want to talk about ear worms, two days ago I had to listen to Taylor Swift’s Stay Stay Stay 20 times in a row creating DVDs for a friend’s daughter’s talent show audition… Imagine my life now… even when I wake up it’s “stay stay stay” driving me “mad mad mad”…

    • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 1:39 pm said:

      I fear having teenagers…

      • Mercenary Pen on February 6, 2013 at 1:50 pm said:

        Well, you’ve got about five or six years to go and then you have a teenager of your very own… (assuming I’m remembering Ekko’s age correctly)

        • Lore Hera on February 6, 2013 at 2:29 pm said:

          Better Taylor Swift than Fresh Beat. Trust me.

          • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 3:17 pm said:

            See… I don’t know all these up and coming new trends… have no idea who “Fresh Beat” is.

            • Lore Hera on February 6, 2013 at 5:53 pm said:

              4 teens in a band on a children’s show. The songs aren’t offensive, it is the constant exposure that makes them annoying.

              Edit: And my mother now wants me to do Geek children’s songs for FAWM.

              • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 8:36 pm said:

                oooh, i have some of those. :D I did have a CD that I did in a month and gave out to my friends for Christmas called “Binary for Babies”. :D The only way I could have done that was get other people to write the music for me, and I wrote lyrics.

        • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 3:16 pm said:

          Ekko will be a teenager in 2 years :(

          • Mercenary Pen on February 6, 2013 at 5:20 pm said:

            Fairr enough, I don’t know why I thought she was younger than that… My advice, start preparing now, and be aware that:
            1- All the preparation you do will never be enough
            2- Some of it may backfire, making the experience even more intense than it would otherwise have been…

            • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 5:37 pm said:

              Oh…. I’m not really doing anything to prepare.

              All I can do is make her know that I love her… and I love her mother.

              • Meli on February 6, 2013 at 10:26 pm said:

                Errol, take this from an actual teenager:

                - Still pay attention to her but give her a little more freedom.
                -Now’s the time to buy her a phone. She’ll probably want to text and talk and have an iPhone, just like every other teenager.
                -Be supportive! Seriously- you’ll need to be there through the breakups, bad days, and then there’s puberty…

                I mean, those are that things that I want from my parents, so isn’t it the same for all teenagers?

  8. Jana on February 6, 2013 at 1:34 pm said:

    Yay for happy Debs!

  9. Lore Hera on February 6, 2013 at 1:50 pm said:

    I just played the game for the first time last Friday, but I’m glad I did, because now I understand the song. I might be able to make the video for you, if you wanted. The custom set will be there on Friday for my game night. Half our people don’t RSVP, but the game did.

    Jez, bring it to Otakon if you get it, I’m already planning on bringing Avalon.

    Hey, Errol, wanna do an Avalon song with me? :: grins::

    • Jezbel on February 6, 2013 at 2:11 pm said:

      I won’t have room for it. Carry on luggage is small and I need to be able to bring stuff home. XD

      Besides… when would we be playing these games during Otakon??

      • Lore Hera on February 6, 2013 at 2:31 pm said:

        I dunno? In the room? I’m now playing Avalon every week, I’ll be going nuts during the summer without it. But it needs at least 5 to play…

    • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 3:19 pm said:

      Wait… is Avalon the new Resistance game? We loved the Resistance… :D

  10. Whitless on February 6, 2013 at 5:44 pm said:

    I like to play a little game on these comics now. It’s called “Which comment is new?” Sometimes they’re pretty well hidden!

  11. Lore Hera on February 6, 2013 at 5:52 pm said:

    I play that fairly often -.-

  12. Mercenary Pen on February 6, 2013 at 6:05 pm said:

    Now the real question is whether the song really counts as K-Pop having been made in Canada- because I’m not hot enough on my musical genre philosophy to know that sort of stuff.

    • Jezbel on February 6, 2013 at 7:02 pm said:

      Ah K-Pop! I <3 K-Pop lol. I'm horrible at genres but I don't really count it as K-Pop unless the lyrics are in Korean. Otherwise it's just… Pop. XD

      • Errol on February 6, 2013 at 8:38 pm said:

        Well… it’s way beyond my abilities to write those instructions in korean.

        I did base the song on a number of Kpop songs though… :D

  13. Kari on February 6, 2013 at 6:40 pm said:

    I sent the song to some friends; one replied by asking me if the person who wrote it was a Klingon. This detail is not really relevant in any way, but it amuses me.

  15. Quinn on February 9, 2013 at 2:19 pm said:

    New songs!? A new CD!? I approve. (Even if it is probably a while into the future. Stalk stalk stalk.)

  16. Kristi on February 9, 2013 at 2:34 pm said:

    This is totally not important, but I’ve listened to the song a few times since this comic, and I always have to follow along in the lyrics to keep up. When it gets near the end, after the last pre-chorus, the lyrics say there’s a chorus, but there isn’t one before the bridge. I’m used to it now, but the first few times I listened to it, I got confused, and it threw off the whole rest of the song! (*drama*) . Again, probably not important, but it’s something I noticed.

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