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Admiral Joeslop posted:Sounds like they all time traveled from 2023 shots Wednesday will do that to you
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# ? Aug 7, 2023 23:27 |
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# ? May 2, 2024 07:51 |
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Bottom Liner posted:This year was a total bust for new board game releases it seems. Bought a couple of older games I found in the hall but it's dry out there. Yeah, I wasn’t overly impressed with any new releases. Sky Team was cute enough that we bought it, but nothing blew me away. There will never be another first year of Android Netrunner. Maybe chasing that high is foolish?
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 01:47 |
Deviant posted:shots Wednesday will do that to you I've had more Fireball "shots" on all the Wednesdays before Gencon than I have the rest of my life.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 01:54 |
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Shots Wednesday needs to be restored to its former glory. Next year, we storm the courtyard.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 02:26 |
Bottom Liner posted:Shots Wednesday needs to be restored to its former glory. Next year, we storm the courtyard. Obviously one of us needs to form a band and get booked Wednesday night then just no show.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 02:41 |
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Obviously one of us needs to form a band and get booked Wednesday night then just no show. That sounds like a lot more effort than sticking a pointy thing into 4 rubber things
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 02:59 |
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It was a good year for casual games IMO. I enjoyed Spellbook, Aurum, Whale To Look, Tiger & Dragon and Sea Salt & Paper. World Wonders is so close to being a great game but the scoring is broken because buying wonders seems to be detrimental to winning. The secret objectives can help but it just seems goofy that most wonders get you the same VP as a small tile if the tile is surrounded on all sides.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 17:04 |
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djfooboo posted:Yeah, I wasn’t overly impressed with any new releases. Sky Team was cute enough that we bought it, but nothing blew me away. There will never be another first year of Android Netrunner. Maybe chasing that high is foolish? Lunar Rush looked good; not enough to make me want to buy it right then and there, but enough that I would want one of my friends to buy it.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 18:10 |
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I had a nice time Nesbit37's writeup definitely makes me think I should always be writing up my own recollections after every convention, though of course it would be half funny or memorable things from the Auction and half how little I ate between breakfast and dinner every day Speaking of, even though I imagined taking a break from the Auction for a few years, management told me that next year I am prefigured into the schedule for T.O.V.A. and the Charity Auction before sign-ups start, so I feel like if they are going to actually appreciate my nonsense that I should try to make it work as long as that stays the case. Also yes for those of you who are wrestling fans but not on the Discord, I am inexplicably on Being The Elite this week as a result of Gen-Con
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 18:46 |
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Dr. Quarex posted:Nesbit37's writeup definitely makes me think I should always be writing up my own recollections after every convention, though of course it would be half funny or memorable things from the Auction and half how little I ate between breakfast and dinner every day You should do it. I always like looking back at them, and I am surprised how much I forget over time if I don't write it down. Plus a lot of the work I am doing on this writing project has to lean on other people's reports like that one from over the years. They're getting harder and harder to find due to how most people use the internet these days ***shakes fist at facebook and discord***. Think of it as doing future Gen Con historians a favor.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 19:49 |
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Here's some clips I put together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOkOmimWn1c
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 05:08 |
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I had a great time. Picked up several Indy RPG books and a copy of Thunder Road, which has been a hit with my son. I won't be able to attend for the next few years so glad I had a good one. Thanks to the organizers of Grover Lunch and Shots Wednesday! Huge thanks to Quarex for the airport pickup.
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 21:36 |
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sportsgenius86 posted:It was a good year for casual games IMO. I enjoyed Spellbook, Aurum, Whale To Look, Tiger & Dragon and Sea Salt & Paper. I did a bunch of HeroClix stuff but there's another thread for that. I also did the Kill Team Live WH40k-themed laser tag, because I always walk by that every year and think "oh, that seems fun" and then forget to do it. Turns out: it's very fun! I was expecting something a lot less themed and immersive than the extremely kitted out conference room we got. I was on the Orks team and we krumped the stinkin' 'umies right proppa, we did. You scored points for your team based on holding a point, so my team detailed me and one other guy to just defend a point, which worked a treat -- we'd shoot the hell out of anyone coming to try and take it, and if they ever got there and switched the point to their control, we'd just let them walk away and then walk right up and switch the now-undefended point right back to us, giving the Imperium only a scant few seconds of control. Games I came home with: Star Wars Villainous Base Game, Star Wars Villainous: Evil For Hire, Marvel Villainous: Evil Born Of Science, Shadowrun: Zero Day, That's Not A Hat, Boss Monster, Doomlings Is my brother, who does not share my love of tabletop games but I rope him into playing them anyway, and who told me not to bring so many games home this year, annoyed with me: Yes Games I tried but did not purchase:
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 01:08 |
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Not really a Gen Con success story for me (I didn't get to go), but my friend Zofia bought me these bad boys, which came this morning: I read most of Captain's Log, made a character, and played my first session at work tonight. The vibe is "Michael Schur workplace comedy mockumentary, but Star Trek", I made a cast list for the recurring/main characters, and am writing my play reports as a script rather than prose or, uh, simple play reports. It's a great solo game - I think I like it more than STA and have already been able to make use of stuff from the Lower Decks book with absolutely zero finagling. Zofia said the con was great tho! Glad it sounds like most people had a good time.
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 12:35 |
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That's Not a Hat sounds fun but I had no idea it even existed until this thread because I purposely avoided the Ravensburger booth at all costs
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 15:07 |
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sportsgenius86 posted:That's Not a Hat sounds fun but I had no idea it even existed until this thread because I purposely avoided the Ravensburger booth at all costs
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 17:42 |
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Still not over walking into the concourse Saturday morning and seeing a family of 4 with their ~4 year old and infant near the front of the all night Lorcana line, all looking completely drained and obviously having spent the night in there. What the gently caress people
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 17:56 |
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sasha_d3ath posted:Not really a Gen Con success story for me (I didn't get to go), but my friend Zofia bought me these bad boys, which came this morning: I didn’t realize they made a solo RPG version of Star Trek Adventures. I may have to check that out. I am assuming it came out at Gen Con?
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 19:16 |
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I got to be a crypto-obsessed swindler in the grim darkness of the CY_BORG future, and it was swell. I regret not going with my original plan of reciting the John Galt speech on top of the poker tables to distract security, but alas
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 20:42 |
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nesbit37 posted:I didn’t realize they made a solo RPG version of Star Trek Adventures. I may have to check that out. I am assuming it came out at Gen Con? PDF version came out about a month ago, but physical was at gencon, yeah (I got the DS9 cover)
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 20:50 |
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They were out of variant covers but I got one of the last ones available so in the end who's to say who's the loving INSUFFICIENT FAKE GEEK WHO DOESN'T HAVE A COOL COVER [leaps into bed scream-sobbing]
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 20:57 |
TheHoosier posted:I got to be a crypto-obsessed swindler in the grim darkness of the CY_BORG future, and it was swell. I regret not going with my original plan of reciting the John Galt speech on top of the poker tables to distract security, but alas I would've made you recite the entire thing in the background while I asked the other players what they were doing.
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# ? Aug 11, 2023 01:37 |
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Bottom Liner posted:Shots Wednesday needs to be restored to its former glory. Next year, we storm the courtyard. And I wouldn't have to do any work!
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# ? Aug 13, 2023 21:21 |
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Pop quiz time! You are game designers attending GenCon to promote your own game. You have access to the vendor area while everyone is setting up, and you spot an unattended pallet with $300,000 of Magic cards on it. You decide to steal that pallet. Do you do so while wearing a t-shirt with the game's logo on it, a game which, again, you created and are at GenCon to promote and is a product that has your real names and pictures of you associated with it? If you're Thomas Dunbar and Andrew Giaume, the answer is hell yes, why wouldn't you.
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# ? Aug 16, 2023 00:45 |
So have the Pinkertons done their thing yet then?
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# ? Aug 16, 2023 00:53 |
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That game had to be created specifically to give them an opportunity to steal poo poo.
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# ? Aug 16, 2023 06:46 |
Time to find out. GenCon thieves apprehended. https://www.wthr.com/article/news/l...vrpymyuizo5y0re
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 01:12 |
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It makes me feel better to know that Gen-Con Magic: the Gathering interests are moneyed enough to attract sufficient law enforcement attention to get these evildoers apprehended All Commanders Are Bastards
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 01:21 |
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Dr. Quarex posted:It makes me feel better to know that Gen-Con Magic: the Gathering interests are moneyed enough to attract sufficient law enforcement attention to get these evildoers apprehended I mean, WotC sent the Pinkerton's to a dudes house earlier this year for daring to make a YouTube video about some cards he got early. This is pretty tame considering these dudes actually stole a bunch of stuff.
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 09:02 |
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Predictably I saved over the post by mistake oops lolol
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 15:49 |
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Finally a good reason to line up for the door rush
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 15:52 |
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Bottom Liner posted:I mean, WotC sent the Pinkerton's to a dudes house earlier this year for daring to make a YouTube video about some cards he got early. This is pretty tame considering these dudes actually stole a bunch of stuff. In this case, Wizards isn't the "victim", so they wouldn't even be able to do that. The cards were stolen from (presumably, since they run all the events at the con) Pastimes, who would have bought them all from Wizards, or possibly distributors. Arguably, they weren't "victims" in the other scenario, either, but you know how IP owners are.
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 17:41 |
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Stealing from corporations isn't just right, it's your civic duty.
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# ? Nov 19, 2023 20:45 |
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When are we getting the 2024 thread, or is Quarex going to make us listen to podcasts about it instead
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# ? Jan 17, 2024 06:11 |
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Eastmabl posted:When are we getting the 2024 thread, or is Quarex going to make us listen to podcasts about it instead NO LOS DOS I did think I would finish the thread today but I am not known for correctly thinking Definitely 95% done though! Maybe I will take my laptop to bed and see if I wake up having finished it
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# ? Jan 17, 2024 06:13 |
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# ? May 2, 2024 07:51 |
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SO IT IS WRITTEN SO IT SHALL BE DONE
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