Microblog: Medium Spicy
There's this pattern that happens every time I go to a new falafel place: They'll ask me how spicy I'd like the sauce, I'll say "medium spicy" then they'll look at my pasty boyish frame that weighs 120 lbs wet and give me the mild sauce. I know this because of the four sauces available they'll give me the exact one that the previous customer who asked for "mild" got, and then later give me a look of surprise when I know to ask for banana peppers. After a few visits they'll start giving me the actual medium-spicy sauce and once I really get to know the place they'll goad me into trying the spiciest sauce they have, just to give it a shot. It's a pattern that's as predictable as it's been endearing. Anyways this is about tabletop games. Games like Flames of Orion or MAC Attack sit opposite of BattleTech on a scale of a certain kind of "spiciness" - Some call this crunch, some call this rules weight, but playi...
