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My new years resolution is to get my board games all organized. My new years resolution for the years after that will be to actually play them. I know I have some games that would be looked down upon in here but I hope when I get a chance to actually play them and do a writeup about them, that I can at least write something interesting about them showing why I got them in the first place or what I enjoyed about them without it turning into a big mess.
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We have an actual official FLGS in town now. Except it's more of a general nerd store that just happens to sell some games. Supposedly they'll be getting a shipment of games in next week but considering their store name is "Weebs in the Woods" and their description putting emphasis on anime merch and their photos only showing plush toys and TCGs, I'm going to assume that TCGs will probably be the extent of their inventory. Also for some reason their mascot is like an anime girl version of the brawny man. And their e-mail address domain is "@weebs.cool" lmao
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Jan 9, 2022 07:24
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Mojo Jojo posted:That has to be a front for a meth lab. There's no reason to make something so universally unappealing if you aren't using it to hide top tier crime Well at least they'll have some stuff to offer aside from the meth, though not sure how well a meth lab would do being run out of what used to be a bank. Seems like they will have some other tabletop stuff available. Also noticed their site says they'll have a gaming lounge but I don't really want to think about sitting in close quarters with others downtown during a pandemic. quote:We offer a gaming lounge featuring tournaments and a storefront stocked with cards, toys, games, plushies, and hobby supplies! We work with big brands to sell products such as Pokémon, Warhammer, Magic The Gathering, Amuse, Dragon Ball Super Card Game, Dungeons and Dragons, and many more.    
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Jan 9, 2022 08:11
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Crossposting my trip reportFirstAidKite posted:Went to the nerd store, didn't buy anything because not much of anything there at the moment I'd want to buy. Had more than I expected though and has a lot of space. Also it's pretty rad how the bank vault is right there with the door wide open. It'd be neat if they incorporated that into the design of their shop, could probably do something neat with it and it's all just right there so why not make some use of it. They also had a section of store space labeled their podcast area so I guess now I need to see what their podcast is like. Also we were the only people there wearing masks. Even the employees weren't wearing them.
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Jan 9, 2022 22:31
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Mayveena posted:Also I have a question for you all. One of the things that's obvious to me is that some of these board games (KS or not) use way too much plastic. It really irritates me and is kind of why I haven't sworn off of KS entirely. It feels like the extensive use of plastic is worse on the climate than what Kickstarter is doing. Am I wrong for thinking this way? This feels like a poor attempt at a gotcha! question. Plus there's a whole other thread already dedicated to kickstarter stuff.
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Jan 25, 2022 05:05
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Save your sprues, build guys
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Jan 25, 2022 06:47
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Leperflesh posted:I don't read this thread. None of the mods keep up with it. This seems like it would be a good chance to learn why people are asking for a particular user to be threadbanned or, at the least. Actually going and checking his post history in these threads y'know? Especially if you don't know some of the stuff he has posted because now you're saying things like this: Leperflesh posted:The standard a few of you seem to want me to impose is not in line with SA or TG standards of behavior. If I applied that standard to PRADA SLUT I'd also be threadbanning about 20 people from the magic thread, for example. This is still SA, people are allowed to be rowdy and say swears and make off-color jokes and use sarcasm. I'm asking people nicely to be civil because I think that makes for better threads, but we're not kicking people out for mild incivility anywhere on somethingawful.com. about posts you haven't read. If you know the magic the gathering thread has 20 posters in it who really are similar in every way then that's your job to do something about it because even if it's just hyperbole, reading that there are others who try to stir up poo poo like prada does and share views similar to what prada has posted then that isn't the great defense you think it is.
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Jan 25, 2022 23:47
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potatocubed posted:I feel that going from 'enjoys KDM' to 'is a rape apologist' is a jump too far. I imagine there wouldn't be as much of an issue if he was saying he enjoyed playing in spite of the uncomfortable amounts of eroticized sexual violence but his opinions were that those elements just flat out do not exist. I don't know what you should do about him and I feel like the recent crypto posts are more just idiotic than the actively bad KDM denial stuff. I agree that going from "someone enjoys KDM" to "that person is a rape apologist" is a jump too far, but it's not really a significant jump at all to go from "this game does not feature sexualized violence against women" to "this person is dismissing the sexualized violence and making making excuses for it." On top of that, this is an issue that really should have been dealt with when those posts were actually relevant because now we're in a new thread months later and this stuff has come back up over a separate issue that is completely irrelevant to why some people wanted prada threadbanned.. FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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Jan 26, 2022 17:21
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  CATLANTIS is an incredibly chill and simple filler game that I assume most would probably write off as just a children's game or something without giving it the time of day. It's definitely simple enough that a child could understand it but IMO there's more depth to the game than you might think and I think as a casual filler game it deserves a bit more credit than it has probably gotten. I tried typing up the rules here but to be honest I think I would be doing the game a disservice because I'm not good at writing, let alone explaining rules in a concise and coherent way. Instead please have this short video I found that explains the rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBp5diDxvg
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Feb 4, 2022 16:10
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Arzaac posted:I'm sure this game is good but the art is extremely uncanny valley to me 
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Feb 4, 2022 18:24
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MonsieurChoc posted:Somewhat unrelated, but the colelctors edition of the remake of classic snes jrpg Live A Live apparently comes with a board game. Who is making the board game though, I can't imagine a collector's edition incentive being very good.
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Feb 14, 2022 01:03
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I asked the new game store that opened a month or so back about how they're handling pandemic stuff since they want to host events every day they're open (so 5 days a week) in an enclosed space. They said they want people to wear masks but aren't going to enforce it, the staff is vaccinated and isn't going to wear masks unless the store is at 33% capacity, and there isn't any kind of mandate for checking vaccination cards or anything else regarding safety. I wasn't going to go anyway because no matter how many measures are in place it is still a tabletop game place where people are expected to be near each other and interacting with the same game components but lmao at the just complete lack of giving a poo poo when they're located downtown in a busy area. It's like they're going out of their way to try and spread the virus.
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Tekopo posted:So hmmm, Level 99 is doing a Dead by Daylight game. Which seems a bit weird. ....huh As an exceed season or as its own unique thing?
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Tekopo posted:As it's own standalone game. Just never thought I'd see L99 doing licensed games. They've done them plenty of times before, usually just adapting a license to another of their games though. I wouldn't be surprised if the dead by daylight game ends up sharing its game design skeleton with another future L99 project like Seventh Cross.
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Mar 1, 2022 18:40
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potatocubed posted:Nah, Seventh Cross was shelved years ago and this is pretty new. Oh, I thought they were just taking their time with it. I wonder how that game was even going to play. Was there ever any gameplay info?
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Mar 2, 2022 16:23
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Is Rise of Queensdale random per game or is it the same layout of stuff for each box? Rise of Queensdale is the legacy civ building game where you use a plunger to lift tiles up from the map to discover what kinds of resources and stuff are underneath and then you can build stuff there.
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Mar 6, 2022 17:22
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Next thing you know prada slut's gonna start posting pics revealing they bought middara, a game only lame idiots will buy
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WhiteHowler posted:I bought Middara. loving same
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Mar 20, 2022 18:20
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Bottom Liner posted:Oh, you mean the one where the optimal choice is to always just take a boring rear end +1 instead of any other skill? Also are you just arguing with yourself now, considering you were just bragging about buying Frosthaven? Dumbass. Pretty sure he's just trying to get your goat. And since you're responding to him, he's winning. The optimal choice is to not respond to him even if it's the boring one.
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Mar 20, 2022 20:02
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Was the trad games irc channel tied to this thread or to a different thread? It would've been a few years shy of a decade ago now.
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Mar 21, 2022 01:46
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Leperflesh posted:#partyhard on synIRC is still running, if that's the one you mean? Maybe? Basically the funniest things I ever experienced from trad games was when I got banned from the trad games irc. The short of it is that they believed there was a conspiracy to feed irc chatlogs to plutonis to give him material to troll trad games with lmfao I'm glad the trad games board game discord is a lot more reasonable than that and I don't need to worry about something as silly as being accused of being a co-conspirator in the plutonis conspiracy.
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Leperflesh posted:Got it, thanks. Wasn't run out of this thread for it, but definitely said all this poo poo. It would have been better if instead of focusing on defending you just said something about wanting receipts so you can have them on hand if he ever comes back or forward them on to an admin
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Mar 21, 2022 17:26
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1st world problems: Dead reckoning arrived in the mail but the only person I can play it with is someone who has ADHD and I already know there is no way in hell I'll be getting her to sit through it for the 2+ hours it'll take to play lol, RIP that game
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Rockman Reserve posted:I'm going to do something wild here and actually post about board games in the board games thread. What the loving poo poo??
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St0rmD posted:It's cats, like your avatar. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
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Mar 26, 2022 07:55
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Frozen Peach posted:The best acquisition I got recently was Anna's Roundtable, a Fire Emeblem Fan Game. I honestly went in on this expecting that it was going to get cease and desisted. It amazingly made it out and now I have an awesome tactical board game Oh wow. I looked it up and it really does just include fire emblem in its name and description and character designs and names are taken whole cloth. How the hell did they get away with selling it? Nintendo's lawyers are super trigger happy so I'm surprised that something so brazen is being sold without getting taken down.
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jarofpiss posted:i'm not trying to make you like kdm or whatever because clearly my interests don't align with the board game thread, but i'm just saying you guys get pretty hostile very quickly and there are some weird boundaries that are drawn itt and nowhere else. If you just left it at "kdm has bad art, I enjoy playing the game but I won't deny or defend the problematic elements" then I don't think there would have been much pushback. Instead you denied those elements altogether and argued that people were just being prudes about it. The denial and piss poor defense with "there are naked men too" is why you got so much backlash and eventually probated.
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PRADA SLUT posted:I'd feel really weird if I was playing Great Western Trail game with some Natives in a game group and had to explain like "oh yeah and the teepees are the bad guys who steal your poo poo" Bud you gotta try harder than this. Right now you aren't even in the same ballpark as the rabble rousers from the rest of the forums.
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One of my favorite board games in my collection is a game that's not even real. Like, here's the thing. The game is real but it is entirely made up.  It's one of those mystery boxes, they get labeled as stuff like "escape room in a box" even though they're not really about escaping anything. In this case, Mystery Agency has a few different puzzles with different goals. The goal of this box is to solve the mystery behind a board game that was recalled, pulled off the market entirely, mysterious deaths that occurred relating to the game, and figuring out if the game is haunted or not. This mystery box comes with a copy of the recalled game, the "last copy" of it in fact, and you have to study the pieces included to solve the mystery. What makes me love this game so much is that there is no point during the mystery where you are asked to play the board game. There is absolutely nothing ever saying "hey, in order to understand the mystery, you need play through this game." Despite that, they still designed an entire game, a unique game with unique components, special miniatures, cards, a board, a box, rules, everything for a functioning board game. Granted, the game itself blows. It's a roll and move thing where you have to move around the map and collect items and if you're not careful then you might get hit by the ghost and have your progress reset, or something like that. I will admit that I have not played the game. But it is still one of my favorites in my collection because while it's not a GOOD game, the fact of the matter is that the puzzle creators designed their own not-parker-brothers roll and move game with all of the appropriate items to actually play through it and some marks and stresses to the components to make them look aged a little to try and capture the feel of a lovely board game made decades and decades ago by a couple of lovely opportunists. It's great.
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Mayveena posted:Sigh. I asked the question on Game Brain podcast's FB page (which is public if you are interested) and am getting the 'are you sure they know what they are talking about' pushback. And I said I was sure, as this site is full of techs, not to mention that there are a ton of folks who don't agree with the KS approach outside of SA. They were referencing these concepts fwiw. https://www.businessinsider.com/per...0more%20energy. Blockchain is bad and the only ones trying to convince you otherwise are grifters who stand to profit from it, techbros too caught up in the fantasy of it that they don't or won't understand why it doesn't work and isn't good, and marks who are trying to justify it to avoid admitting they were scammed or are hoping to find a bigger fool to bail them out. This isn't something where the truth is in the middle or some decorum matter where both sides need equal representation for their arguments because the fact of the matter is that they are objectively and factually incorrect, provably so, and they are just going to continue to sidestep issues, deflect arguments, and move the goalposts.
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I have a new "escape room in a box" arriving tomorrow called The Emerald Flame. Hoping it'll be pretty fun  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSYlz9fL3Og https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/299371/emerald-flame 
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Mayveena posted:This post has been reported so you don't have to report it again. If a post gets reported a bunch then posters are told they can't report it so you don't need to say this PRADA SLUT posted:Kickstarter said they wanted to decentralize their platform three months ago and used the word "blockchain" once and now everyone seems to think they're in on Buttcoins and Monkey jpegs. jarofpiss posted:tbh kickstarter enabling the endless production of miniature based plastic board games shipped overseas from china to be played once and never again is probably worse than whatever crypto related things they've done Do all of us more or less understand why both of these posts are wrong and not good faith arguments or will I or someone else need to write up why both of these posts are wrong, invalid, or otherwise just goalpost shifting and whataboutism?
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lmao did you really just try to pwn me with imgflip
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radmonger posted:Dunno if this is the thread for it, but yes, it is certainly not obvious to me why the unstated position opposing that poster is right. Here's the relevant bit from the OP quote:Inexplicable Crypto Baloney in the Trad Games Space
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Viper915 posted:I hope this is as good as it looks, because I somehow managed to accidentally order it when I thought I was just checking the shipping cost. Oh. Uhm. I'm sorry.
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Viper915 posted:Are you saying it is not very good? My FLGS does an auction twice a year I could probably recoup some money from if I keep it all in shrink. No, I'm just sorry if my posting ended in you accidentally buying it
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PRADA SLUT posted:Thread title :\ if they didn't mean to buy it and were just trying to check shipping costs after they saw my post about it then I inadvertently caused them to lose cash on something they weren't trying to buy yet. I didn't know their store made it possible to do that since I purchased it through kickstarter.
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