Rants & Raves
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 | That's right, it's time once again for the monthly Cracked LCD Countdown. And this one is really going to piss off you people who are totally OK with spending $100 on a board game. Because it's about bei... |
May 6th, 2010
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I like Battlestar Galactica and yet I have found myself largely unable to join in the seemingly endless torrent of love and praise that it has garnered during the short eighteen months that it has been... |
April 16th, 2010
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 | This week at Gameshark I'm talking about those other hobby games, but more specifically why I don't talk about them much. Miniatures and RPGs are almost completely a non-interest for me at this point in ... |
April 8th, 2010
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 | Last month's Cracked LCD Countdown was one of the most popular and beloved board game article to ever appear on the internet. I am positive that sales of all of the listed games surged over the past coup... |
April 1th, 2010
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Back in 1994-95 two very influential board games came out on the market. In Europe, Klaus Teuber designed Settlers of Catan and in the United States, Mark Herman designed We the People for Av... |
March 15th, 2010
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The majority of games I play are with 2 - 5 players, but every once in while I'm in a situation where we have 8 or more people who want to play a game together. Sometimes this is at cons or when p... |
March 9th, 2010
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 | I have an amazingly poor record when it comes to finding bargain copies of games in charity shops. But about this time last year I came close - I found copies of Civilization and Kingmaker in my local ch... |
February 6th, 2010
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Around this time of year, for the past few years, I’ve made a habit of listing a top fifty games according to the boardgamegeek ratings of people who hold the “ameritrash” microbadge. The idea ori...
January 8th, 2010
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 | Here they are, fashionably late and probably not very surprising- your Cracked LCD Games of the Year for 2009. Pictured at left is a man eating a giant hamburger. It has nothing to do with this article. ... |
January 7th, 2010
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 | Thanks almost entirely to the existence of Fortress:Ameritrash and my ongoing need to fill column inches therein, 2009 has been the first year of my entire life during which I've played enough of the new... |
December 21th, 2009
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"Today is Christmas. There will be a magic show at eleven hundred hours."
That's one of my favorite lines in FULL METAL JACKET. In context, it's bizarre and almost completely alien.
Anyway, it's ... |
December 17th, 2009
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I've always shied away from trying to compile "best of" lists. Considering that your tastes change, little by little, every day and that when you're put on the spot it's often hard to remember just how m...
December 7th, 2009
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Okay, so I’m sure you’re all pretty sick of hearing about my self-imposed “targets” for this year using John Farrell’s stats system as a guide. But here’s the final update and I’ve ch... |
December 3th, 2009
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 | My little girl, age three, seems to be neither more or less interested in playing structured games than any other three year old. She likes to get my “grown up” game off the shelf and play with the p... |
November 16th, 2009
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 | Hey, remember AGE OF CONAN?
I barely do. I played the game one time, and it just kind of died on the vine. No one is interested in it anymore, it seems. It's kind of a shame, I liked it OK the one ti... |
November 5th, 2009
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 | For reasons I can no longer remember, I became fascinated by the world of Silent Hill long before I'd ever actually played one of the games. There's something terribly compelling and haunting about it: a... |
October 23th, 2009
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For as long as I’ve been gaming, game companies have been publishing expansions. It may be that this has something to do with the roots ofthe modern board gaming hobby in the early role-playing a... |
October 5th, 2009
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 | In my time, I've seen one prevalent attitude among gamers. We cower a little. We hide our incredible lights under the most baskety of bushels. We seek solace in shady corners of the internet, to discuss ... |
September 22th, 2009
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 | If you’d told me a couple of years ago that I’d do the majority of
my game-playing on-line, I’d have thought you were mad. Yet there’s no
getting away from the fact that one way... |
July 8th, 2009
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 | Those of you who are blessed with both an excellent memory and anunusually high degree of tolerance may recall that I started this yearon a quest to demonstrate that I was definately playing my existingg... |
June 29th, 2009
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