2009: The Year We Played the Games We Bought

I spent a recent column trying to take a different view of what it is that unites us all under the banner of "Ameritrash". But there's one particular unifying factor that I forgot, and while it wasn't really important to the argument I was trying to make there, it's interesting in its own right because it marks a near-universal point of agreement amongst AT fans. The point in question is simply that games need to have a good, solid dose of random to make them ...

FLGS versus OLGS.  Just the mention of the two terms is enough to get flame wars erupting instantly...how gamers are "killing" the Friendly Local Game Stores by buying online.  The secret, of course, is that brick and mortar game stores have been killing themselves for years...and all because they're basically run by two different guys.