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FulsomFrank posted:Putting boats into trays would make my life a lot easier. I should give that a shot. lmk if you want me to take a picture of my tray layout at some point. It is based on two assumptions: first, that the box contains more boats than I need, and second, that plant and meat don't really need to be separate, nor do green and blue. Oh the other thing that I did is make a foamcore tray that's the width of the box and like 3/4" deep to hold the resource bits.
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CommonShore posted:lmk if you want me to take a picture of my tray layout at some point. It is based on two assumptions: first, that the box contains more boats than I need, and second, that plant and meat don't really need to be separate, nor do green and blue. Definitely post it. Always curious to see how people are organizing their Feast containers. Also, I've started watching the Expanse and I remember hearing reasonably good things about the game, has that opinion stayed strong or degraded with time?
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Ropes4u posted:Nice video, slightly disappointed we didn’t get to see the Boston Terrier Yeah when I do my 'thoughts' video, I'll have at least one of them with me. The Boston will probably only make a quick appearance, he doesn't like to stay in one place for long  .
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FulsomFrank posted:Putting boats into trays would make my life a lot easier. I should give that a shot. Someone in the discord wanted these posted. AFfO tile trays. So space efficient you can fit The Norwegians in the same box. Codeacious posted:Anyone got them Discord invite links? I can't seem to generate one myself. https://discord.gg/qVtPeSr8 This work? I generated it just now.
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Mayveena posted:Yeah when I do my 'thoughts' video, I'll have at least one of them with me. The Boston will probably only make a quick appearance, he doesn't like to stay in one place for long Our Boston only did what she wanted, but she was a great companion and she will always be missed. We now have a Boston / Pug mix that is a bit needy... Back to the game, are you content with the spiral bound rule book?
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Ropes4u posted:Our Boston only did what she wanted, but she was a great companion and she will always be missed. We now have a Boston / Pug mix that is a bit needy... Yes in fact I may get one for Bonfire as well. It’s rule book is terribly constructed.
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FulsomFrank posted:Definitely post it. Always curious to see how people are organizing their Feast containers.  larger special tiles are also bagged.
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Nov 12, 2020 06:03
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Mayveena posted:My unboxing video for Anno 1800, I hope you folks like it, it's my first attempt If you wouldn't mind a little criticism? Make a script, even if it's just a list of components on a whiteboard. Most unboxing videos start with the box out of shrink for this reason; you can go through the components, make a note of everything you want to talk about, then put them back in reverse order. You can also run through it a couple of times for practice, so that when you record it you know what you're going to say. They're little things, but they won't cost anything apart from half an hour of prep time and they'll make everything look more professional.
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Nov 12, 2020 21:31
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Jedit posted:If you wouldn't mind a little criticism? Make a script, even if it's just a list of components on a whiteboard. Most unboxing videos start with the box out of shrink for this reason; you can go through the components, make a note of everything you want to talk about, then put them back in reverse order. You can also run through it a couple of times for practice, so that when you record it you know what you're going to say. They're little things, but they won't cost anything apart from half an hour of prep time and they'll make everything look more professional. I will generally be using a script for some videos but for unboxing I want to be more authentic. If I do a video channel and I think I'm going to, I want the channel to reflect who I am, not necessarily to be distant and professional. I won't have a script for those but I will have notes, just like I do for the Game Brain podcast. I hope you can understand what I mean. The main thing for me is not to wander or waste space and I think I did a decent job of that.
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Nov 12, 2020 23:04
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Nothing wrong with making something targeted at other people who also groove on your wavelength. Making and creating stuff is cool.
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The Eyes Have It posted:Nothing wrong with making something targeted at other people who also groove on your wavelength. Making and creating stuff is cool. The main thing is that I don't want to compete with those who are doing things in a more 'professional' manner. I don't think I have anything more to offer as a 'professional' than what's already out there. What I have is my experience and my extensive knowledge. So it's important to me that who I am can shine through.
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Nov 12, 2020 23:08
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Mr. Squishy posted:https://discord.gg/qVtPeSr8 This work? I generated it just now. That worked! Thanks.
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Nov 12, 2020 23:37
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Mayveena posted:The main thing is that I don't want to compete with those who are doing things in a more 'professional' manner. I don't think I have anything more to offer as a 'professional' than what's already out there. What I have is my experience and my extensive knowledge. So it's important to me that who I am can shine through. I prefer this style vastly, looking forward to see what you comes out of your channel.
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Nov 13, 2020 00:11
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Anyone have thoughts on Cryptid, especially at 2/3?
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Nov 13, 2020 01:34
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Bottom Liner posted:Anyone have thoughts on Cryptid, especially at 2/3? It's minimum three players. I would say that Cryptid is entertaining but fragile - one person failing to completely understand how the hints work will wreck it. It can also be a little random sometimes, particularly with five players. We had one game which was won on the first move. That was a combination of careless hints and dumb luck that will happen maybe once in 50 games under normal circumstances, but it is still quite possible for the game to end before everyone has had a turn.
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Nov 13, 2020 02:09
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There's a 2 player variant where you basically do a 2-handed 4-player game, but I haven't tried it. It's perfectly fine with 3, although I've also had the experience of people getting lucky and ending it quick. Not the biggest loss though, it's a pretty short game anyway so you can just start a new one.
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   Vs Series - Friday the 13th aka Renfield's Revenge is a go!The whispers of Draculas impending resurrection hang in the air.. Can the team of Inspector's stop Renfield from drawing the blood he needs?.. Or will Renfield succeed in resurrecting his Master to exact this revenge.. On Friday the 13th Infinitum will take on a team of 3 Goons in Whitehall Mstery (Reskinned for Dracula purposes!)   Twitch Channel https://twitch.tv/shallnoiseupon ------------------------------------------- Starting Time
If you get confused put your city into this converter and it will tell you the starting time! Whitehall Mystery takes 1-2 hours at most to play, and won't be a 3-4 hour game like Fury. ------------------------------------------- Inspector Team ShallNoiseUpon VideoGames Mystic Mongol ------------------------------------------- 'Betting' aka Donations If you would like to 'bet' on the match, you will be rewarded with a Vampire Killer gangtag on the provision that you make a charitable donation of at least $10  1.) Make a donation to the BLM movement, or your countries Red Cross, or another worthy charity. 2.) Post a pic of your donation in the Vs Series Thread, alongside who you would like to win. (Either "Infinitum" or "Inspectors") 3.) If you voted for the winner, you will receive either the new gangtag or a tag of your choice. 4.) If you voted for the losing team?.. Well..  Remember to post Donations + who're you're 'betting' on in the Vs Series thread if you want the gangtag
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Nov 13, 2020 04:46
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Is he getting another month when he loses again?
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Nov 13, 2020 10:33
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Jesus Christ whoever recommended Skull.. I hate you. My crew went three hours past our usual play time until 2am playing. Skull is our new god.
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Nov 13, 2020 11:44
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Mayveena posted:The main thing is that I don't want to compete with those who are doing things in a more 'professional' manner. I don't think I have anything more to offer as a 'professional' than what's already out there. What I have is my experience and my extensive knowledge. So it's important to me that who I am can shine through. That's fair, I was going to say use a fixed camera and move things towards it to maintain focus rather than moving the camera around. If you already have an audience that knows who you are and what's you're about then what you're doing works. That said I don't really get unboxing videos, I like see the components etc and what they're made of as that's a big factor in what I buy. The way it comes out I'd the wrap? Not so much.
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So what kinds of videos do y'all watch? No worries, I already know what I'm going to be doing, but I am curious. I like the tutorial videos a lot, and Rodney, JonGetsGames, and Nithrania-Play it right. My favorite review channel is Before You Play, noting that they are friends of mine. I like the fact that Monique leads and they have very calming voices that make the experience chill. I don't care for session videos or tutorials combined with sessions, I feel like they go on for way too long. I don't normally watch unboxing videos either (who cares?!) but I did one because apparently they are very popular.
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Dice Tower featuring Tom Vassel is all you ever need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfVFr_S_mD0
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Counterpoint: Tom Vassal is a creepy quiverful shithead and doesn't deserve anyone's support.
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Mayveena posted:So what kinds of videos do y'all watch? I watch let's plays, and stop motion videos of transformer toys being transformed.
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rydiafan posted:Counterpoint: Tom Vassal is a creepy quiverful shithead and doesn't deserve anyone's support. 
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Bottom Liner posted:Anyone have thoughts on Cryptid, especially at 2/3? Cryptid is by far one of my favorite games, I’ve had great rounds of it with everyone from board gamers to ten year olds to 70 year olds. Explaining exactly what all the rules mean and how to count distances initially can be a bit of a pain for certain types of thinkers but it still takes maybe ten minutes total to teach.
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Mayveena posted:So what kinds of videos do y'all watch? Been watching a lot of Paul Grogan recently. Beyond that, mostly the staples: Watch It Played (now fortified with Chaz!), Shut Up and Sit Down, No Pun Included. The Secret Cabal and So Very Wrong About Games don't really put out many videos but I have enjoyed them. Game Night on Board Game Geek channel with that crew is all quite good too. It's not flashy but it's a good combination of production and reality. I've peeked at a fair few channels of gameplay videos for particular games. A TTA player named DJ Parson who has helped me suck moderately less. Also, some Root video gameplay from Lord of the Board has been alright. There are also some comedians who do some board game content like ProZD and the LoadingReadyRun people. All this reminds me: I have to check Our Family Plays Games again because they were the ones to remind me about Yokohama which was pretty awesome. I also need to look at Radho again now that he's working with Shea Parker from RTFM. I could never get on with his abject rejection of conflict, and besides: he made Syphon Filter. :pretend I put the head shaking no emoticon here:
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I watch the new wave cinema of Trauffaut and Godard.
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I've been working from home since March, so I've been playing Paul Grogan's livestreams in the background while I work. It's great since he streams UK afternoons which is middle of the day central time. Lovely guy, and his tastes very much match mine. My only complaint is that he got me interested in Chip Theory Game's stuff which is painful because those games are so incredibly expensive. Used to watch a lot of Rahdo, like almost every playthrough he put out, but not lately. I think I'm mostly done with my MWE phase and that's his primary focus. Not that I dislike MWEs now or anything, but I own like two dozen of them so I'm not very interested in purchasing more unless they're really special. I'll still watch him if he puts out a video on a game in interested in, as well as the usual reviewers: SUSD, NPI, Man Vs. Meeple, etc. Almost forgot, another thing I've been watching. Brian Reynolds (Civilization II/Rise of Nations designer) has a YoutubeTwilight Struggle series where he plays top ranked players and talks strategy as he does so. As someone who could never personally get deep into TS, it's fascinating to see high level play and Brian does a good job of going through his reasoning for every decision he makes. Curious through, does anyone else watch playthroughs/reviews at increased speed? I usually do 1.25 or 1.5.
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I've played a game of Ffo: Norwegians (solo) and I've come to the conclusion that I'm absolutely terrible at it. I can barely feed my guys.
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Calandale is the video reviewer who gets as close as I’ve seen to Dan Thurot’s style of review with minimal rules explanations. I can watch Rahdo’s run through for those. Combination of both is ideal. Rahdo has a separate review video along with the run through and rules explanation which is my preference. Our family plays games is also nice since they like to give impressions of games like Dan does in a short amount of time. I wish ProZD made board game skits. His reviews are awful, though. 10 minute “reviews” where 8 are rules explanation and 2 min of basic impressions. You’re better off watching his food reviews since they offer substantially more expertise and taste - they’re actually good reviews. Paula Deming makes skits but they’re way too long and drag.
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rydiafan posted:Counterpoint: Tom Vassal is a creepy quiverful shithead and doesn't deserve anyone's support. He's a quiverful and sometimes he has a bad, rude take, but aside from his taste in hats, I don't find anything about him "creepy" or a consistent shithead. I'd say he's been more a plus than a minus to the industry as a whole, but he's not really my bag anymore, as a guy who initially came up reading his Duel of Ages written reviews on BGG and told him to stop wasting time on Youtube as I liked him better in written format. Obviously, that's why he's successful and I'm an attorney. ;-) There're plenty of streamers whose opinions are more attuned to my interests now and I wouldn't say I know him at all as a person beyond his online persona, but if you've seen behavior that rises to the level you're talking about, it'd be news to me.
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Mayveena posted:So what kinds of videos do y'all watch? No worries, I already know what I'm going to be doing, but I am curious. I like the tutorial videos a lot, and Rodney, JonGetsGames, and Nithrania-Play it right. My favorite review channel is Before You Play, noting that they are friends of mine. I like the fact that Monique leads and they have very calming voices that make the experience chill. I don't care for session videos or tutorials combined with sessions, I feel like they go on for way too long. I don't normally watch unboxing videos either (who cares?!) but I did one because apparently they are very popular. Selecta84 posted:JohnGetsGames makes really good playthroughs, as well as Slickerdrips and RickyRoyal. Some smaller channels I like are Jplay and Michael Wißner. If they have a playthrough for a game I'm interested in I normally check them out and can afterwards make a buying/not buying decision.
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Memnaelar posted:He's a quiverful and sometimes he has a bad, rude take, but aside from his taste in hats, I don't find anything about him "creepy" or a consistent shithead. I'd say he's been more a plus than a minus to the industry as a whole, but he's not really my bag anymore, as a guy who initially came up reading his Duel of Ages written reviews on BGG and told him to stop wasting time on Youtube as I liked him better in written format. Obviously, that's why he's successful and I'm an attorney. ;-) Some goon has a personal anecdote that Vasal was homphobic round the table at a con. I wan't to say it was one of the B.L.'s.
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Memnaelar posted:He's a quiverful and sometimes he has a bad, rude take, but aside from his taste in hats, I don't find anything about him "creepy" or a consistent shithead. being quiverful isn't something you put in the minus category of your +/- sheet on a guy. its not a quirk to be dismissed. it's a deeply and profoundly abusive fundamentalist strain of christianity. You would never go "oh maybe he's quiverful but not creepy" if you knew anyone who had to suffer through it. A lot of people who haven't lived in or around fundamentalists greatly and gravely understate its threat, or they assume that they or people they care about would never get caught in it. But it works in the same way cults do - anyone who is in a fragile enough state, or desperate enough for answers, no matter how smart or skeptical they are, can get snared. Don't turn a blind eye to that. it's almost as bad as cosmic encounter.
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Tom Vassal seems like the kind of guy who'd use the f-word when disparaging someone then say he was 'just joking' when called out on it. I don't watch/listen to any of his stuff, there's just something very off-putting about him.
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Morpheus posted:Tom Vassal seems like the kind of guy who'd use the f-word when disparaging someone then say he was 'just joking' when called out on it. I’ve met him a number of times. He’s nice and friendly with people, he doesn’t go off into a private corner and stay there the way some do. He requested to be on my Facebook page which was weird but as long as he doesn’t go off on evangelical/conservative poo poo on my timeline that’s fine.
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Mayveena posted:I’ve met him a number of times. He’s nice and friendly with people, he doesn’t go off into a private corner and stay there the way some do. He requested to be on my Facebook page which was weird but as long as he doesn’t go off on evangelical/conservative poo poo on my timeline that’s fine. Fair enough. Obviously my 'interaction' with him is basically just a couple videos. He did seem pretty cordial with Quinns during their Aw SHUX video, and that admittedly did raise my opinion of him just a smidge.
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Impermanent posted:being quiverful isn't something you put in the minus category of your +/- sheet on a guy. its not a quirk to be dismissed. it's a deeply and profoundly abusive fundamentalist strain of christianity. You would never go "oh maybe he's quiverful but not creepy" if you knew anyone who had to suffer through it. A lot of people who haven't lived in or around fundamentalists greatly and gravely understate its threat, or they assume that they or people they care about would never get caught in it. But it works in the same way cults do - anyone who is in a fragile enough state, or desperate enough for answers, no matter how smart or skeptical they are, can get snared. Don't turn a blind eye to that. People think quiverfull is political but it's really about careful resource management.
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