{"id":9428,"date":"2021-12-04T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2021-12-01T18:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T00:18:12","slug":"24-days-of-desire-4-rock-jocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9428","title":{"rendered":"24 Days of Desire (4): Rock Jocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So there&#8217;s this board game caf\u00e9 downtown that I went to a couple weekends ago, and they have <em>so many<\/em> board games. Like, walls and walls and walls just crammed with board games. I would suggest that they have all the board games, but I know that is not the truth of the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are at least two board games absent from their collection. One is <em>It From the Pit<\/em>, which I have written about <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5006\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5006\">at length<\/a> before. The other is <em>Rock Jocks<\/em>. Behold!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rock Jocks Commercial!\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SugVGw9oyEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I actually owned <em>Rock Jocks<\/em> back when I was knee-high to grasshopper. I played it all the time. Or, at least, I played <em>with<\/em> it all the time. The game board, being a vertically-oriented cardboard mountain, made a pretty great playset for other toys. You&#8217;d best believe that there were many a battle between Ninja Turtles, Z-Bots, and the like on that mountain. The climber characters from <em>Rock Jocks<\/em> were a bit awkward and didn&#8217;t make for great toys, but you <em>know<\/em> that the yeti piece from the game saw plenty of action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I guess sometimes I played it the way it was meant to be played, but I have basically no fond memories of that. What fun are rules, anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for why I&#8217;m desiring this game now? It&#8217;s all just to get that sweet, sweet blast of nostalgia. I was broken-hearted but not surprised that they didn&#8217;t have it at the board game caf\u00e9, and I haven&#8217;t really been able to get it out of my mind since then. It&#8217;s not an all-encompassing need or anything like that, but sometimes I&#8217;ll just be sitting there and think to myself &#8220;Man, I wish I had been able to play <em>Rock Jocks<\/em> one last time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll let it go at some point, but for today, it&#8217;s definitely something I&#8217;d like to get the chance to revisit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this board game caf\u00e9 downtown that I went to a couple weekends ago, and they have so many board games. Like, walls and walls and walls just crammed with board games. I would suggest that they have all the board games, but I know that is not the truth of the matter. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24 Days of Desire (4): Rock Jocks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9430,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions\/9430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}