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*Reborns as 90% board games, 10% everything else, 5% lard, 15% not familiar with percentages.*

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Generic "Best Games of 2015" Title Goes Here

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I don't believe in "best games of the year" lists. Mostly because of the abstract naming of the list itself. It's reall...
Monday, December 21, 2015

The "Real-List," Revisited

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Earlier this year, in an effort to attain some realistic goals for myself in my board game acquisitions, I replace the "wishlist...
Friday, December 4, 2015

Breaking Point

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I side-glance at the digital clock on the stove. 10:13 PM. I have some time. Kids are in bed. Wife is asleep. I'm still wide awa...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Re-assessing Buying Board Games

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Forget about "The Cult of the New." Forget about saving money. Forget about lack of time. Forget about #10x10in20-whatever. For...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Playing Right on Time

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I'm an indecisive mess when it comes to choosing what board games to play solo. Every night, when I have some free time to myself, I ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Crafty Gamer - DIY Dice Trays, A Modified Method

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I've come a long way from my first DIY dice tray, back in the day. Back then, the only thing that drove me was NOT paying a premium...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

The Cost of Waiting

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There's no doubt that accruing a board game collection is costly, with some board games almost as high as $100 for just the base set,...
Friday, July 17, 2015

A Humble Request to Board Game Kickstarters

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There's a growing trend of official solo variants for board games, and as a person who often only has time to play by himself, I coul...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Nobody's Perfect: A Guide to Playing Imperfectly

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There's an old adage that I started, a method in which to get your games out of their shelf slumber - emptying the box . It's a r...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Solo Gaming is Fine

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[Editor's Note: I realized too late that I DID do a rant before about solo gaming . To clarify, this is more a disdain to people tha...
Friday, March 13, 2015

I Want to Bring Something to the Table...

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The table.
Monday, February 23, 2015

I Received a Curious Envelope Today...

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Curious, because this flat, rigid envelope came from the Netherlands. I know no one from the Netherlands.
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Being a Realist, Making a "Real"-List

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Buying new board games is as exhilarating to me as playing them, but sometimes "the cult of the new" can get out of control. I...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Legacy III: The Epic End to the Trilogy

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So, about 2 months ago, I blogged about my Twitter tale that started with a Portal Games sale at BGGCon, and the awkwardness mess that e...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Exploding Kittens - A Follow-up

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Shortly after my blog posting about Explosive Kittens, I got a LOT of great discussions in Twitter about the topic. I also found that I w...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Exploding Kittens, KS Surges, and a Worried Gamer

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There's a Kickstarter campaign going on a card game called " Exploding Kittens ," by Elan Lee and Shane Small. The game app...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Making a Solo Variant so You Don't Have to Play Solo

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Gamelyn Games recently closed out a poll in BoardGameGeek about what their next stretch goal should be for Tiny Epic Galaxies , a game ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Be The Special

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Board gamers, can you imagine a moment in your life when the whole hobby looked completely foreign to you? When all you knew were the Has...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Solo-nely

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Within my close-friend radius, I'm probably the only "hardcore" boardgamer here. I'm fully aware of that trait, and pro...
Monday, January 5, 2015

I Miss NoBloMo. *Starts Typing Again*

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I enjoyed last November's #NoBloMo, even though at times I struggled to find a topic to post. At the same time, though, I was glad ...
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