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 | Holy Mother of God! Do you like the shakey cam? I said "Do YOU LIKE THE SHAKEY CAM?". I sure as hell hope so because your going to get it every damn second of this movie. Bring along some dramamine and a... |
June 18th, 2013
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 | I’ve always wanted to like traditional hex and counter wargames more than I actually do. The idea of recreating the strategic intricacies of historical battles is wonderful, but the execution too often... |
June 17th, 2013
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 | More money than most game shops make. |
June 13th, 2013
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 | How much are you willing to pay for a boardgame? Logic dictates that prices will keep on climbing, which is to be expected. It’s just the world we live in, and publishers have to make money somehow. Bu... |
June 12th, 2013
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 | Come on, it's five bucks. |
June 6th, 2013
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 | When I started Drake's Flames, Rio Grande used to send me a lot of games. Then they stopped, mostly because I was rather disparaging of one of their games. Then, several years later, I asked them for a p... |
June 5th, 2013
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 | More than any game I’ve written about recently, Terra Mystica is hard to review. I find myself torn between actual enjoyment and the reviewer’s tendency to point out little things that are not to my ... |
June 4th, 2013
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 | I’m tired of thinking of double entendres and puns on the phrase “Bolt Thrower”. You're probably tired of reading them. It’s here, it’s by me, please read it.
Board Games
You’ll recall I’... |
June 3th, 2013
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 | My god, this artwork... |
May 30th, 2013
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 | Once upon a time, there was a boy. And the boy loved games very much.
He would pester his friends and his parents to play games all the time, but while they loved him, they didn’t love games quite so ... |
May 27th, 2013
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 | Newly remastered in High Definition! |
May 23th, 2013
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 | Periodically I look at my game shelf to see if there’s anything I feel I could part with, either in a sale or in trade. It’s a way for me to ensure that games I don’t play don’t sit gathering dus... |
May 21th, 2013
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 | Writing about wargames for the Shut Up Show made me think a bit about my opinions on this particular section of the hobby. Strangely, perhaps, for someone who doesn’t identify exclusively as a wargamer... |
May 20th, 2013
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 | If jazz can be described as taking an established musical form and applying your own subjective filter to it in order to produce something both familiar and new, then Star Trek: Into Darkness is very jaz... |
May 17th, 2013
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 | MoaM (Mummies on a Map) at its best. |
May 16th, 2013
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 | Readers who have met me in real life know that I live for social interaction in games. It doesn’t even need to be an element of the mechanics, just present at the table in some form. If you’re the ta... |
May 14th, 2013
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 | A person with an automatic weapon with a rate of fire of hundreds of rounds per minute is trying to kill you. What do you do? Why you charge towards that person doing a couple of acrobatic moves and sl... |
May 12th, 2013
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 | Hey kids, look! Rebuses! |
May 9th, 2013
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Occasionally, I'll have to take a short leave of absence, so we can justify all the "Ken B.'s Back!" jokes. Hey, what can I say--I'm like that dude in the movie Summer School who gets up for a ... |
May 8th, 2013
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 | Conquere the furious river with swift swimming strokes! mind control bears and bald eagles! Get your fish laid! Wait, what? Come in friend and let me explain... |
May 8th, 2013
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