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I have Mythos Tales from the kickstarter but haven't played it yet. Is it that bad?
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CaptainRightful posted:Watch It Played is a Spielberg film. Easy to follow, amiable, makes you feel like you understand the topic, but never deep or challenging. The Dice Tower is Left Behind with Kirk Cameron.
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Dec 1, 2017 22:41
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Speaking of wargames, tomorrow is the 212th anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz and I'll be celebrating it by playing objectively the best wargame Napoleon's Triumph. Last time I played was Bastille Day where the Allies were on the edge of fleeing until their cursed hussars broke through the French's middle ranks! I will take up Russia's saber and show my opponent that the French can get licked without breaking a sweat.
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Dec 1, 2017 22:46
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CaptainRightful posted:Watch It Played is a Spielberg film. Easy to follow, amiable, makes you feel like you understand the topic, but never deep or challenging. What's the Dice Tower?
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Dec 1, 2017 22:52
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Kashuno posted:What's the Dice Tower? I'm trying to think of an allegory in film that is poorly-crafted, low-budget, not especially insightful, yet very popular and I'm coming up blank. Paul Blart? Happy Madison Productions?
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Dec 1, 2017 23:02
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:I'm trying to think of an allegory in film that is poorly-crafted, low-budget, not especially insightful, yet very popular and I'm coming up blank. Paul Blart? Happy Madison Productions? The *genre* Movie franchise? Although that thankfully died, probably because Youtube provides just as vapid entertainment for free.
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Dec 1, 2017 23:06
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Kashuno posted:What's the Dice Tower? If I find out one day that it's Victor Salva, I won't be surprised.
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Dec 1, 2017 23:10
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Shadow225 posted:Didn't some of you have words about Food Truck Champion? I don't have a Glory TO Rome esque game, and it sounded like it was just approachable enough to fit the bill. It's definitely a GtR lite game. The card system is straight GtR, but the game doesn't have the buildings with crazy gamebreaking effects and it's much smaller scale, in that you don't increase your space for extra actions at near the same rate.
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Dec 1, 2017 23:11
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Kuso Meriken posted:If you haven't seen SUSD's review of Azul I encourage everyone to at least watch it midway. It seems weird for SUSD to poo poo on abstracts again after doing the same thing with Tash-Kalar
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Dec 1, 2017 23:16
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Bombadilillo posted:I have Mythos Tales from the kickstarter but haven't played it yet. Is it that bad? It needs a long list of errata, which SHCD has finally managed to fix.
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Dec 1, 2017 23:42
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Opinions of New Angeles? Caught my eye while Christmas shopping.
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Dec 1, 2017 23:56
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It needs a long list of errata, which SHCD has finally managed to fix. Ok, maybe I procrastinated long enough! I'll check it out thanks.
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Dec 2, 2017 00:09
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FunkMonkey posted:Opinions of New Angeles? Caught my eye while Christmas shopping. I thought it was tedious as hell and there's not much interesting negotiating going on. Although it's a bit heavier, just play Archipelago instead.
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Dec 2, 2017 00:14
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FunkMonkey posted:Opinions of New Angeles? Caught my eye while Christmas shopping. Fenn the Fool! posted:There are a lot of things I like about it, but I have to recommend strongly against it. It's WAY too long for what it is, often pushing 3 hours simply because the semi-coop nature generates a lot of discussion and negotiation. All this talk is the best part of the game, but there's just not enough meat to keep it interesting. The game is also very highly random, most of this is driven by the asset cards varying wildly in power, but also because how the game is structured means that your ability to affect the board will vary significantly from turn to turn. If the city doesn't have any problems you can solve, or if you just don't have any cards left from previous turns, you have very little agency. On the flip side, if you're the only one that can solve a major problem and that happens to drop a very powerful asset into your lap (especially the ones that give you a bunch more cards) that means you have significantly more agency than everyone else for the rest of the game.
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Dec 2, 2017 00:30
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Kashuno posted:What's the Dice Tower? Particularly lovely reality television. There's a lot of it, it's garbage without any redeeming qualities, and yet it's still somehow popular.
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Dec 2, 2017 00:55
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Interesting, the motif was also what attracted me, but obviously that alone isn't enough. Thanks for both of your thoughts.
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Dec 2, 2017 00:56
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Bombadilillo posted:I have Mythos Tales from the kickstarter but haven't played it yet. Is it that bad? It has some good ideas (like the concept of some leads being too reckless or dangerous to follow up on, therefore being negative points) but the print and play I thought was really a letdown as it was not well written. I had hoped that maybe that was just a rough proof of concept and the finished version would be better, but I read here that apparently that's not the case so I passed on it.
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Dec 2, 2017 01:17
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CaptainRightful posted:Watch It Played is a Spielberg film. Easy to follow, amiable, makes you feel like you understand the topic, but never deep or challenging. Tabletop with Wil Wheaton is something on VH1, full of D-list celebrities and washups firing off terrible jokes they wrote themselves, and getting all the facts wrong at the same time.
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Dec 2, 2017 01:31
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canyoneer posted:Tabletop with Wil Wheaton is something on VH1, full of D-list celebrities and washups firing off terrible jokes they wrote themselves, and getting all the facts wrong at the same time.  drat this is the best one
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Dec 2, 2017 01:33
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Doing a secret Santa with heavy cardboard and the guy who bought it for me put my email address in so.... Getting Space Empire 4x, Red7, and 13 Days for Christmas. Cool! 
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Dec 2, 2017 01:48
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I don't know what came first, No Pun Included or SUSD, but who popularized the style of looming over the table while breathlessly screaming at the viewer?
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Dec 2, 2017 01:51
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CaptainRightful posted:Watch It Played is a Spielberg film. Easy to follow, amiable, makes you feel like you understand the topic, but never deep or challenging. Calendale is Scorsese.
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Dec 2, 2017 02:36
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al-azad posted:I don't know what came first, No Pun Included or SUSD, but who popularized the style of looming over the table while breathlessly screaming at the viewer? SUSD did that first
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Dec 2, 2017 03:01
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Countblanc posted:It seems weird for SUSD to poo poo on abstracts again after doing the same thing with Tash-Kalar I don't think you watched until the MID REVIEW TURNAROUNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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Dec 2, 2017 05:20
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I did. I didn't mean that they didn't like the game (they obviously did), but that they did the same "haha, abstracts? like with MATH and stuff? no thanks, NERDS!" thing they did in the tash-kalar vid.
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Dec 2, 2017 05:23
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Countblanc posted:I did. I didn't mean that they didn't like the game (they obviously did), but that they did the same "haha, abstracts? like with MATH and stuff? no thanks, NERDS!" thing they did in the tash-kalar vid. Yeah the idea that abstracts are hard-to-explain is at odds with almost every abstract I've seen.
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Dec 2, 2017 05:53
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Yeah like every single non-boardgamer on the planet is likely to take to an abstract much more readily than something with named characters and custom dice and a rulebook longer than four pages.
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Dec 2, 2017 06:03
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Looks like the Imperial Assault app just came out. iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/star-wars-imperial-assault/id1310959130?mt=8 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fantasyflightgames.iaca Might try it out later today, but might be adopting a kitty instead.
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Dec 2, 2017 07:11
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Can you make a video of your new kitty knocking over the AT-ST
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Dec 2, 2017 07:14
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canyoneer posted:Tabletop with Wil Wheaton is something on VH1, full of D-list celebrities and washups firing off terrible jokes they wrote themselves, and getting all the facts wrong at the same time. I don't really like to slag off Tabletop. Your description isn't exactly inaccurate so far as the content is concerned, but it's accessible and depicts people having fun playing boardgames. There are worse things in this hobby by far.
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Dec 2, 2017 08:09
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Kashuno posted:What's the Dice Tower? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RfU5r63AXY
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Dec 2, 2017 08:26
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Jedit posted:I don't really like to slag off Tabletop. Your description isn't exactly inaccurate so far as the content is concerned, but it's accessible and depicts people having fun playing boardgames. There are worse things in this hobby by far. We've found the one thing Jedit doesn't like to slag off and it's loving Tabletop.
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Dec 2, 2017 11:06
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I'm trying to a imagine a mindset where Mage Knight is bad and Tabletop is good, and to be honest I'm struggling
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Dec 2, 2017 11:18
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Bombadilillo posted:I have Mythos Tales from the kickstarter but haven't played it yet. Is it that bad? I've played.. three cases now? It's not as good as Sherlock Holmes but has some neat gimmicks and is fairly playable. If you've got it already it's worth playing. Some of the errata is hugely critical though. My bottom line is if you want to try the genre, get Sherlock Holmes. If you don't like the genre, mythos tales is not going to change your mind. However if you do like the style, mythos tales is pretty good.
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Dec 2, 2017 11:54
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Is there a game similar to archipelago that doesn’t come with the baggage of colonialism?
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Dec 2, 2017 12:31
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Jedit posted:I don't really like to slag off Tabletop. Your description isn't exactly inaccurate so far as the content is concerned, but it's accessible and depicts people having fun playing boardgames. There are worse things in this hobby by far. i dont mind it and ive heard "oh ive seen this on tabletop" when explaining a game a few times before. its good at btinging in people. But man, Will Wheaton is reall annoying. Its like he liked the negative attention from his role wheatley so much that he build his entire public persona around it.
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Dec 2, 2017 12:48
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Radioactive Toy posted:Looks like the Imperial Assault app just came out. A lot of the reviews appear to be "Hyped for this but can't get off the splash screen"
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Dec 2, 2017 13:17
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MikeCrotch posted:I'm trying to a imagine a mindset where Mage Knight is bad and Tabletop is good, and to be honest I'm struggling I didn't say it was good, I just said I don't want to slag it off when they're trying hard to be positive where non-gamers might see. Also the consensus on Mage Knight is definitely swinging my way of late, so embrace the new reality. 
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Dec 2, 2017 13:36
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That's not consensus you see swinging in your face.
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Dec 2, 2017 13:51
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Mr. Squishy posted:We've found the one thing Jedit doesn't like to slag off and it's loving Tabletop. Holy poo poo
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Dec 2, 2017 15:27
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