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Infinitum posted:Noone cares. Take it to QCS. loving talk about board games, jfc. YMMV since you aren't in North America but I generally buy a Giant Box of Mayday premium sleeves every year during their holiday sale. Depending on card size you can get them about 50% off during the sale and I have several dozen games sleeved in them with no issues. I've found them as good as pretty much any other sleeve and at the holiday price, they are the cheapest way to sleave a ton of cards.
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Lawlicaust posted:YMMV since you aren't in North America but I generally buy a Giant Box of Mayday premium sleeves every year during their holiday sale. Depending on card size you can get them about 50% off during the sale and I have several dozen games sleeved in them with no issues. I recall checking this out and that the shipping and currency conversion to CAD ruined it, which broke my heart. But that was a few years ago. Ubik_Lives posted:I found Ix to be an interesting expansion, because every element of it sounds pretty meh, but to me, it's greater than the sum of its parts. The dreadnaughts, the shipping track, and the tech tiles all add a bit of overhead for minor changes, but they work together to open the board up. Hm, that sounds okay... Not paying full price for it but if I see a sale I will probably grab it. Nice write-up.
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Apr 22, 2022 21:12
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The Great Wall reprint is up on Gamefound, wondering if it's good.
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Apr 22, 2022 21:34
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Lawlicaust posted:YMMV since you aren't in North America but I generally buy a Giant Box of Mayday premium sleeves every year during their holiday sale. Depending on card size you can get them about 50% off during the sale and I have several dozen games sleeved in them with no issues. Sorry, but I’ve never heard of this. I’m guessing holiday sale = December? What should I look for in case I decide to, e.g., sleeve my entire Dominion collection as a Christmas miracle?
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Apr 22, 2022 21:57
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Admiralty Flag posted:Sorry, but I’ve never heard of this. I’m guessing holiday sale = December? What should I look for in case I decide to, e.g., sleeve my entire Dominion collection as a Christmas miracle? I have an entire sleeved Dominion collection. Don't sleeve Dominion. Buy a few sets of Base Cards and replace them as they start to show wear.
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Apr 22, 2022 22:01
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Poopy Palpy posted:I have an entire sleeved Dominion collection. Don't sleeve Dominion. Buy a few sets of Base Cards and replace them as they start to show wear. I bought a huge set of Dominion - like every expansion up to Adventures(?) maybe. All sleeved...every sleeve on upside down (ie. "hole at bottom"). We joked about them being "rain sleeves" for a while... but while I was laughing outside, inside I was dying every time I shuffled. I ended up spending like 5 hours re-sleeving. Then like days later we got Gloomhaven and never played Dominion again.
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Apr 22, 2022 22:17
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So Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies is up on Gamefound and I'm debating grabbing the original game (Sleeping Gods )as well. I've never seen a game so polarizing among reviewers I generally respect - some really love it and call it groundbreaking, whereas others seem pretty meh on the game itself. I've collected a lot of Laukat games and have yet to find one that 100% clicks for me - always beautiful art and some interesting mechanics, but the sum of the pieces never quite coming together (although I haven't gotten around to Near and Far / Empires of the Void II yet). Naturally, I'm considering buying two more Laukat games with at least two unplayed in the hopper. Anyone a little more caught up on his work got thoughts on SG for me? 
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Apr 22, 2022 22:37
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Admiralty Flag posted:Sorry, but I’ve never heard of this. I’m guessing holiday sale = December? What should I look for in case I decide to, e.g., sleeve my entire Dominion collection as a Christmas miracle? Here’s the one after Christmas this past year:  I usually buy enough to hit the free shipping and sleeve most of what I’ve bought in the last year. The deal is a price reduction too not a coupon so you can stack it with other coupons.  All of those are at least a dollar off the regular price and then I had another 5% coupon. So a $2.79 pack of premium Sleeves was 1.78 - 5%. Generally the best sleeves deal around. Boardlandia also puts Mayday sleeves on sale during the same time prior with a lower shipping threshold abs similar prices. They generally just sell out really fast whereas Mayday direct does not.
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Apr 22, 2022 22:53
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jmzero posted:I bought a huge set of Dominion - like every expansion up to Adventures(?) maybe. All sleeved...every sleeve on upside down (ie. "hole at bottom"). We joked about them being "rain sleeves" for a while... but while I was laughing outside, inside I was dying every time I shuffled. It's funny, Dominion is a perfectly good game but I feel like it's just fallen out of fashion somehow. All our friends and us stopped playing it too and I can't even really say why.
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Apr 22, 2022 23:18
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Apr 22, 2022 23:41
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Dominion may have actually been the physical game I've played most recently
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Memnaelar posted:So Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies is up on Gamefound and I'm debating grabbing the original game (Sleeping Gods )as well. I've never seen a game so polarizing among reviewers I generally respect - some really love it and call it groundbreaking, whereas others seem pretty meh on the game itself. I'm in on it. I liked the original Sleeping Gods. It's fun if you play it more like a "narrative adventure" of just going around discovering poo poo, instead of like a "balanced" campaign game. Somewhere in the midgame you can build your crew in such a way that you're pretty durable and not much threatens you anymore, so I just boated around reading cards and getting into trouble. I don't think it's groundbreaking, GOTY, or redefining the genre, but it's enjoyable enough that I put 16 hours into the first campaign. Probably 2-3 plays more to see everything and consume the game. e: haven't played any of the others PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Apr 23, 2022 |
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For Viticulture fans, this is worth a read: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2853449/april-21-south-america-cultural-consulting-and-fix TL;DR: They screwed up with representation of historical conquistadors (who committed heinous acts of genocide) in the Viticulture World expansion but are taking very thoughtful steps to fix it.
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Apr 23, 2022 00:23
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Mayveena posted:It was at the Gathering. Candice Harris played it and really enjoyed it, said it reminded her a little of Automobile, one of my favorite games. Did they mention anything about the aesthetics or was it just a plain prototype? Automobile sounds good, that’s the best Wallace
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Apr 23, 2022 02:21
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Cheers all for the advice on sleeves. Went to a card shop nearby and ended up grabbing some KMC Hyper Mats they had on special. Sleeved a handful and they're the perfect fit and feel great. I don't really have any delicate sensibilities about protecting my cards, and everyone at my table aren't gronks, but I can forsee Ark Nova going into heavy rotation - so may as well invest in it a little bit.
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Apr 23, 2022 02:49
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It's funny, Dominion is a perfectly good game but I feel like it's just fallen out of fashion somehow. All our friends and us stopped playing it too and I can't even really say why. The latest expansion is really good, we just played it at a game day a few weeks ago. It’s still a staple game for us.
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Podima posted:For Viticulture fans, this is worth a read: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2853449/april-21-south-america-cultural-consulting-and-fix I don't think I'll hold a grudge against Stonemaier on this one but holy poo poo how do you think making cards such that you have to say "hey these were bad people, just fyi" is a good idea rather than just removing those loving cards. good on em for getting it right but Jamey looks like a clown on this one
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Apr 23, 2022 04:07
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Let’s see, he allows the designers to put one of the worst Europeans in history into the game, prints the game up, and then sends it to a Venezuelan woman who has ancestors that were murdered by this man. He’s an idiot. I cut him no slack.
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I think the adage "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." is probably apt in this instance. Probably could have used with some cultural cross checking, but they've corrected course swiftly. ------------------------------ Cleaning out the garage as we need room for some old furniture, cause I'm getting a big rear end table tomorrow  Thought this thread might appreciate some oddities. These are all 35~ years old at this point.        Blanked my name out on the last one. Twister got binned, and I'm going to pop the rest into storage inside. The copy of Monopoly is probably closer to 4 decades old - as it's using Rich Uncle Pennybags old design. I've cleaned up the Checkers and Chinese Checkers boards as they are solid hardwood and in excellent nick, and I'll bust them out when my Niece and Nephew are a bit older.
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Infinitum posted:I think the adage "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." is probably apt in this instance. That's what makes it worse - he had cultural advice, and decided that "these people were bad" text was good enough justification to include actual villains of history in a game about making wine. There isn't a "woops i goofed" big enough for how stupid this is. The course correction might get the game right, but this is some permanent clown makeup for Jamey.
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Infinitum posted:Cleaning out the garage as we need room for some old furniture, cause I'm getting a big rear end table tomorrow Gettin some strong hoyle intro vid vibes here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2pp4fqHIj4
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JoeRules posted:That's what makes it worse - he had cultural advice, and decided that "these people were bad" text was good enough justification to include actual villains of history in a game about making wine. There isn't a "woops i goofed" big enough for how stupid this is. The course correction might get the game right, but this is some permanent clown makeup for Jamey. At first all this made me think the game was set around the era of the Aztec / Inca empires because why would you include even an allusion to them otherwise. 
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Infinitum posted:Twister got binned, and I'm going to pop the rest into storage inside. Twister was the best of the bunch there, followed by the hardwood sets.
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Infinitum posted:The copy of Monopoly is probably closer to 4 decades old - as it's using Rich Uncle Pennybags old design.
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Twister is a well designed game and I ask everyone to treat it with respect.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It's funny, Dominion is a perfectly good game but I feel like it's just fallen out of fashion somehow. All our friends and us stopped playing it too and I can't even really say why. For us I think we just played the poo poo out of it so hard that we burned out.
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Here's Ark Nova sleeved. The rest of the boards go on top. Pretty happy with it. armorer posted:Twister was the best of the bunch there, followed by the hardwood sets. Mr. Squishy posted:Twister is a well designed game and I ask everyone to treat it with respect. Honestly would have kept Twister, but the playmat was rotting. And yeah the more I think about the hardwood boards the happier I am Mum still kept them about. Doctor Spaceman posted:Pretty sure that's the same version (or at least a reprint of the same design) as the one I had growing up and it was older than I was. It'a a pre-1985 copy. Though there are no dates I could find anywhere on the box. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly#Marketing_under_General_Mills_1968%E2%80%931985 - Copy lists "A Division of General Mills Fun Group" - Rich Uncle Pennybags doesn't appear in the 'O' as he does in later editions.
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Playing Talisman tonight hell yeah
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Quote-Unquote posted:Playing Talisman tonight hell yeah Thank you, the thread will never forget your sacrifice.
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JoeRules posted:That's what makes it worse - he had cultural advice, and decided that "these people were bad" text was good enough justification to include actual villains of history in a game about making wine. There isn't a "woops i goofed" big enough for how stupid this is. The course correction might get the game right, but this is some permanent clown makeup for Jamey. The problem may stem from Jamey in essence asking how to handle Cortez as part of a historical scenario. The consultant never thought to say "just don't" because from a professional perspective Cortez was too big a part of history to simply ignore. So the reply came from a position of "if you really want to do this, do X" and he took it as "do X, it will be fine". Still a gently caress-up, and almost certainly his, because such a consultant needs to be able to say "don't" rather than feel compelled to make everything work. But not malicious.
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I remember one of my favorite board games growing up was The Game of Life and yeah that game is lovely but I had a bunch of fun as a little kid just spinning the wheel and moving the car. HOWEVER I was always confused about why there were holes in the cars. I didn't actually know how to play or win at the game, I just knew that I had to spin the wheel and move the car. Didn't realize that there were pegs that would go into the car to represent family members you've gained along the road. Admittedly, I didn't realize it because the copy I played was old and missing the pegs. At some point the original owner just put in some broken colored toothpicks instead to replace the pegs and that was all fine and dandy but from my point of view I just saw a game with a board, some cars, a spinner, and then a bunch of broken toothpicks. Other fun childhood tabletop gaming experiences include: Winning monopoly by trading all of my properties for all of the money in the bank so the person with the properties couldn't even do anything with them. Playing the hell out of that one version of battleship that sprays your opponent with water when you hit one of their submarines. Monopoly making me bleed my own blood which turned into a chain of events that ended with me getting suspended from school for a few days. Nobody bothering to correct me when I kept mispronouncing a particular board game's name as"titty winks."
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The good game from that era and style was Careers.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Playing Talisman tonight hell yeah i love talisman
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Explain the monopoly one pls
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Two hours in. Nobody has died and nobody is close to winning.
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Leraika posted:Explain the monopoly one pls Basically he had almost all of the properties and I had some and he had almost all of the money and I didn't so I just sold them to him and hey, I had all the money, nobody could play anymore anyway so I won
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Quote-Unquote posted:Two hours in. Nobody has died and nobody is close to winning. Sounds like Talisman!
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While we’re on the topic, house-ruled Monopoly extending the game and making it unfun and miserable is good actually because it furthers the original intent of The Landlord’s Game to educate young people about how renting is a system designed to benefit the wealthy. In house-ruling the game to have occasional infusions of cash (likely to poorer players) and eliminating the auctions of property that is unpurchased, people have recognized the unfairness inherent in the game and sought to control it, but have only succeeded at delaying the inevitable outcome. Inevitably wealth is consolidated in a single player’s hands, but this more fair and managed system now generates even more apathy and misery, taking 3-4x as long to conclude. Yet as in the original game, there is a way out! The players must join together and refuse to engage in the system, even if it’s Aunt Megan’s favorite Puppy-opoly with the Pug token that her best friend just bought her, and Mom is pleading that we can play your lumber for wool game AFTER this one, just please lets play hers first. But you KNOW that isnt gonna happen. We have to be strong, only together can we throw off the chains of post holiday family time!
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silvergoose posted:The good game from that era and style was Careers. Careers ruled! Great game.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Two hours in. Nobody has died and nobody is close to winning. do you have any cool cards yet
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