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Dan Thurot

6 years

Yikes. Okay. So I'm trying this Patreon thing. If what I do on Space-Biff! is valuable to you in some way, please consider becoming a supporter.

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Dan Thurot

@DanThurot

3 years

Let's do a giveaway. I'll ship a brand-new, in-shrink copy of Pax Viking to somebody tomorrow. To be eligible, here are the rules: 1. Like this tweet. 2. Please don't already own Pax Viking. 3. Please play it. Don't just sell it or something. 4. Those are the rules.

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For those who haven't made it through @Charlie_L_Hall 's interview with Travis Worthington on the use of generative AI illustrations in More Terraforming Mars!, here are ten takeaways from the conversation.

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As his Kickstarter passes $1.3 million, publisher defends Terraforming Mars’ generative AI art: ‘It’s too powerful a technology’

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2 years

Two of Klaus Teuber's games saved my life. Rest in peace, Herr Teuber. And thank you.

Klaus Teuber Saved My Life

By now you’ve likely heard of the passing of Klaus Teuber at 70 from a “brief and severe illness.” Even though his Google return defaults to identifying him as a “German for…

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3 years

Today is the birthday of my personal hero, Helmuth Hübener. If you'll permit me to be personal, I'd like to share some notes on him and on the faith tradition we share. 1/

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5 months

Arcs by @colewehrle and @LederGames feels like the fulfillment of a promise. This is a civilization game writ large, spoken into being via trick-taking, interpersonal relationships, and the development of entire cultures. My review:

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This is an interesting question for a few reasons. There's the obvious, in that it presumes a critic holds a duty of care first and foremost for designers and publishers and not for, say, the people who actually engage with art — or even for the critic's own conscience. 1/x

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1 year

#4 Travis is quick to note that FryxGames has not personally plagiarized the artwork of any other artists. Rather, FryxGames used a machine to plagiarize the artwork of other artists.

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#10 Travis understands that board games are going through a tough time right now, a situation he and his studio are dedicated to exacerbating.

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4 years

In Slack this morning, somebody pointed out that the New Testament is basically a really long board game errata. I cannot stop these thoughts.

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1 year

Since folks are asking, Space-Biff! does not and will not cover games that use generative AI in place of human craftsmanship. Art and play are human endeavors and that's where my interests lie. I'm happy to discuss or clarify this position.

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6 months

Hoping to finish our campaign tonight!

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2 years

Are board games Just Math? Sure. In exactly the same way that books are Just Words, movies are Just Frames, music is Just Notes, and video games are Just Pixels.

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3 years

r/boardgames, everybody

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#5 Travis is aware that there are more ethical models of generative AI that could be trained on the work of consenting artists. For this project, FryxGames opted for the unethical option.

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#7 Travis clarifies that these decisions weren’t only intended as a cost-saver. They were also intended as a time-saver to bring a product to market faster, thus saving on costs. Travis requests that all readers disregard the transitive property.

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#6 Travis is very clear that Stronghold obeyed the disclosure rules of Kickstarter. When asked by Kickstarter, “Do you have consent to use the artwork that generated your illustrations?”, Stronghold responded “Nope.” At which point Kickstarter said, “Cool.”

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In today's special article, I discuss my policy of not reviewing board games that use generative AI. Read it here:

What’s All This About a Chair, Anyway?

You might have heard that a fairly large board game publisher recently crowdfunded an entry in a well-loved series using AI-generative illustrations. Now, here at Space-Biff!, it’s my policy to pas…

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#2 Travis says generative AI can produce things no human has imagined. There were no board games about terraforming Mars before AI produced the ideas contained in More Terraforming Mars!, the 43rd entry and sixth crowdfunding campaign in the popular Terraforming Mars line.

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28 days

wait wait wait some of y'all WEREN'T aware that Root wouldn't exist without CIA analyst wargames?

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1 year

#8 Travis notes that prohibitions on generative AI will be impossible to enforce in the future. Like all norms and rules will be impossible to enforce in the future, FryxGames and Stronghold have decided to get ahead of the curve by breaking them as soon as possible.

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1 year

#1 Travis wants to emphasize how unfortunate it is that everybody is focused solely on the capabilities of generative AI to produce illustrations. The reality is that it can do so much more. FryxGames, for example, used generative AI to produce illustrations.

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5 years

Because sports are shut down, my local news station is running a board game bracket. It's a total shitshow. Look at these ridiculous contenders in the final 8. Feels good to be outraged about something other than the government, at least.

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2 years

"The future of tabletop games is digital." Incorrect.

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1 year

#9 Travis reminds us that Stronghold was once criticized for using Kickstarter. Because every complaint about Kickstarter has been resolved to everybody’s utter satisfaction, people’s complaints about Stronghold's current behavior are also without merit.

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3 months

Some Saturday Arcs.

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4 years

In today's Talking About Games, we're discussing the difference between portrayal and endorsement in board games! If that sounds dry, don't fret: it's even drier than you'd expect! Read here:

Talking About Games: Portrayal vs. Endorsement

Morality has become a strange notion. Part of the problem is the mental imaging it tends to conjure: at odds with science and ethics, possibly relative, very likely handed down from Mount Sinai on …

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2 years

I'm setting up for our first campaign of Arcs. Our goal is to do an entire three-session play tonight. Wish me luck.

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5 years

Over the past few weeks, I've played Oath by @colewehrle and @LederGames at least ten times. Every play resembles a single pivotal turn in a larger civilization game. Even as a prototype, it's terrific. This is what modern design is accomplishing. Preview:

Five Generations: A Look at Oath

History is a funny thing. Ask yourself, what era do you live in? The modern age? Postmodern? Information? The Holocene, more specifically the Meghalayan? Or will the historians of far-flung generat…

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3 years

Happy Birthday, Helmuth Hübener. God bless you for obeying your conscience instead of your stepfather, mentors, and church leaders. You have found peace and justice through the judgment of your heavenly parents and history. You have been vindicated. /x

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2 years

Congratulations to the fine folks at Leder Games for crashing past their funding goal! I did everything in my power to halt Arcs in its tracks, but it continues to garner the attention it deserves. I love watching good board game projects succeed.

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1 year

#3 Travis is very excited about the many ideas, innovations, and mechanisms produced by generative AI. However, because he is not involved in the game’s development, he must decline to name any of them.

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11 months

I'm up to $1,000. They messed up. Didn't realize I've played every Knizia auction game.

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11 months

Okay, so here's the question: accept $800 to take a flight tonight instead of in an hour?

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2 years

Super sad that my intimate Root shoot hasn't been nominated for BGG's 2022 Picture of the Year.

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2 years

John Company by @wehrlegig and @colewehrle is powerful not only because it presents the horrors of the past without flinching, but also because it proposes that we can enjoy the experience. Review here:

The Anarchy Comes Home

The thesis for John Company is drawn right onto the lid of the second edition box. Two worlds, starkly divided, seemingly incongruent. The first, drawn with affrontive rotundity, features genteel E…

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9 months

It is so good to be back.

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1 year

Goodness. This is the most impoverished response to anything ever. "Games can't mean anything! Not to me and not to you, either! They are light entertainment and nothing more!" Like, think of doing that to any other medium. "Books aren't for thinking about and discussing!"

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5 months

This is not a healthy perspective on the function of criticism.

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10 months

The SUSD video review of John Company is maybe the best thing they've produced. Way to go, Tom!

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1 year

There is nothing quite like Molly House, a board game that makes love and sex as worthy of consideration as war or economic optimization. My preview:

Our House Is a Very Very Very Molly House

I often joke that I’m a class-four prude. Like many jokes, this one hides a kernel of truthfulness. For reasons that are far beyond the purposes of today’s discussion, sexuality is not …

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3 years

Yaaasss

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2 years

There are good mail days... and then there's THIS good mail day.

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2 years

Let's punch some fascists.

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11 months

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. #SDHistCon

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2 years

This is tough.

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5 months

Earthborne Rangers is a quietly revolutionary game, an improvement on the adventure card games of years past, one that invites us into a wild and vibrant world. My review:

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9 months

Well, that's absurd.

BoardGameWire AT ESSEN SPIEL ‘24

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9 months

Facebook bans ads for award-winning Votes for Women board game's new Kickstarter, claims it is a “sensitive social issue” Full story in the replies:

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5 years

Trying to decide if anyone would appreciate a piece on how @colewehrle 's Pax Pamir 1e and 2e argue very different things about the history they're exploring based on minute mechanical changes.

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2 years

I'm lucky: one of her favorite things is to punch games. This morning she's helping sort John Company.

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6 months

Once more, my policy at Space-Biff! is that I don't cover board games that use gussied-up autocomplete to skip an essential part of the creative process, aka "AI art."

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6 months

Dismayed at the idea of Awakened Realms using AI generated illustrations AND dismayed at the convo in this post in which multiple people defend AI images as “art for the little guys”. Just cuz you’re indie doesn’t mean you should stand the hands of artists to get your sliver.

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6 years

If I've said it once, I've said it five or six times: I will never pivot to video. Yes, I know it's where the views are at. Yes, I know it would make me more appealing to publishers. Yes, I know text is a fossil of the ancient past. Don't care. I'm a writer. I write.

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4 years

For this month's Talking About Games, I discuss why I no longer discuss how much things cost.

Talking About Games: The Price Is Wrong

Is a game worth its asking price? The question comes up so often that I’d be surprised to hear that this isn’t also true for other reviewers and critics. Most recently, two reviews in particular dr…

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2 years

My daughter is 8. She's loving her last two weeks of school. I think I'll let her go on believing that school is fun and safe. I'm sick to death of watching craven, self-interested, sheltered politicians offer thoughtless thoughts and godless prayers rather than solutions.

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2 years

Merry Christmas!

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4 years

There aren't many games that impress me as fully as The Cost from @ulible . It's moral without moralizing, enjoyable yet relevant, and intelligent both in part and in sum. This is a rare treat. Review here:

Considering The Cost

Message games. There’s a loaded term. It’s a given that games can be more than “fun.” They can also be interesting, educational, enlightening, distressing; any number of thi…

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10 months

I've spent the past day mulling over that (fantastic) SUSD review of JC2e, and I have to say, it's frustrating to want to discuss how the review displays our hangups with the way we conceptualize both critique and board games, when I don't want to come across as hating.

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3 years

Oath is @colewehrle 's most off-putting game yet. I mean that affectionately. Review here:

Oaf

Oath is Cole Wehrle’s most off-putting game yet. I mean that affectionately. I also don’t anticipate everybody will feel the same way. Riding high on the goodwill generated by Root and …

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2 years

So... I don't get why deluxe board games are such a terrible thing. Are they really crowding out innovation? Seems like we see more innovative games every year. Pushing up prices? I don't think that's due to deluxification. Putting off newcomers? I doubt newcomers ever see them.

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1 year

Congrats to everyone involved!

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1 year

Board games are infamous for how they use the imagery and language of H.P. Lovecraft without delving into the more troubling aspects of cosmic horror. Today, I investigate whether there's anything worth preserving.

The Shoggoth and the Shotgun

Cthulhu is in the news again. According to CMON, a third edition of Martin Wallace’s beloved A Study in Emerald is soon to appear. Details are few, but the forthcoming game, dubbed Cthulhu: D…

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3 years

Today on Space-Biff!, I discuss Unfathomable, Battlestar Galactica, Homeland, and post-9/11 alienation and paranoia. What's it like to be an infiltrator in your own society? Certain board games tried to help us understand.

We Call Them Cylons

There was never a chance that Unfathomable would sweep me off my feet. From its very announcement, when news broke that Tony Fanchi would be recasting Cory Konieczka’s Battlestar Galactica: The Boa…

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2 years

Votes for Women by @torylynn and @fortcircle offers an approachable and uncompromising look at the struggle for women's suffrage in the United States. This is reflective of the new wave of historical board games, and I'm here for it. Review:

Justice, Not Favors

I wish I could say Tory Brown’s Votes for Women didn’t feel so timely, coming over a century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, but here we are. Back around the turn of the new ye…

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1 year

Molly House!

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2 years

I've been delaying writing about John Company 2e . After writing a preview plus reviewing the first edition plus penning an economic comparative piece, I wasn't sure I had anything left to say. Now I'm pretty sure something must be said. So. Deep breath. Let's give it a try.

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2 years

Continuing last week's piece on Arcs by @colewehrle and @LederGames , today we look at the version of Arcs that contains actual arcs. While it remains incomplete, the short version is that it feels like Arcs coming home.

Arcs Avec Arc

Where last week’s examination of Arcs, the upcoming title from Cole Wehrle and Leder Games, focused on Arcs as an experience meant to be completed within a single session, today we’re d…

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4 months

Publishers and designers: Please please please put a high-res box image on BGG. And please lay it flat. Angled boxes are impossible to use as header images.

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3 years

I gave a guest lecture on board game criticism at BYU today. The students were attentive and in tune with many of the relevant issues and concepts. Their questions were spot-on. My goodness, it's a relief to meet with students face-to-face again.

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2 years

Rest in peace, Klaus Teuber.

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1 year

This kid has been begging me to teach her chess. Today she got her first set.

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2 years

Arcs by @colewehrle and @LederGames is two games. The first is a single-session game — aka an ordinary board game — that uses trick-taking to tackle the unwieldy bulk of a galactic empire. Preview here:

Arcs Sans Arc

Whenever I mention Arcs, the upcoming four-letter title from Cole Wehrle and Leder Games, everybody wants to know about the campaign, the three-session “arc” that will chart the ascent …

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Stonewall Uprising by @Drawnonward and @CatastropheGam2 covers three decades of the gay civil rights movement. It is a challenging game that takes big risks and places great trust in its players — all of which pay off by producing an empathetic and important work. 1/2

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1 year

Me, every time I now write an email requesting a review copy: don't blackmail them don't blackmail them don't blackmail them don't blackmail them

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5 months

That moment when somebody thinks they're giving you feedback, but they're really making you feel warm and perfect inside.

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1 month

Pretty good week for me. What board games did you play this past week?

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3 years

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who sent encouraging messages while I was in the hospital. A terrible stomach bug gave me and my oldest daughter severe dehydration and bruised one of my ribs. Your words of kindness were genuinely the bright spot in a very tough day.

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Bloc by Bloc by @tlsim0ns and @blocbybloc is one of those rare board games that not only makes a point, it also understands its point's contradictions and is willing to grapple with them — and in the process, advocate for something better. Review here:

The Socialist Bloc

It’s impossible to separate T.L. Simons’ Bloc by Bloc from recent events. I can’t imagine it isn’t intentional. Black Lives Matter. January 6th. Anti-vaxxers outside public …

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5 years

There's apparently a "Monopoly: Socialism Edition" thing doing the rounds. It's blatant outrage marketing. And hey, I'm fine with that, provided everybody gets straw-manned equally. Which is why I'm proud to present MONOPOLY: BABY BOOMER EDITION.

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3 years

!!ANNOUNCEMENT!! Today I go down in board gaming history — for I have beaten Regicide. Praise me.

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4 years

Feeling thirsty, board game humans? #ThirstTrapBoardGames

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4 years

While trying to write about Root's Marauder expansion, I accidentally outlined an entire article on the Foucaultian and Marxist assumptions underlying every one of Root's factions. Send help.

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1 year

My 9yo invited over some friends. Suddenly my quiet home was overrun with screaming children. They asked to play a board game. We wound up playing Men at Work and Rhino Hero Super Battle multiple times. Today, board games saved my sanity.

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1 year

Well well. Look who happened to stop by this damp afternoon.

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4 years

Today I'm announcing the inauguration of Space-Biff!'s all-new (and totally objective) scoring system:

Fine, Have Your Dang Scores

Every time. Every dang time. Whenever I write about a board game, a certain sort clamors to my inbox like ants chasing a line of sugar cubes. “Yeah yeah, but what’s its score? Would you…

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There are so many things to say about Wyrmspan. The real draw, however, is the dragons — their personalities, their interactions, the way the game invites you to walk among them. My ten-year-old is smitten. So am I. My review:

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I can't stop laughing about this. Protip: if you're determined to bribe a game critic, (1) maybe don't use a throwaway email that puts you across as a troll, (2) write like you'd actually have $500 in your checking account, (3) make an offer I could believe for even one second.

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John Company's second edition (via @colewehrle and @wehrlegig ) refines nearly everything about the original. Such a description is too bland for what it accomplishes, which is a fuller realization of both its play and its thesis. Review:

The Mere Anarchy of John Company

It’s easy to imagine the East India Company as a cabal: an instrument of villains, territory marked by the plunging of daggers into nautical maps, shareholder meetings held by candlelight, ma…

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I get the whole argument. Not every game is for everyone. This game is hard. Blah blah blah. But being able to pause the game is an accessibility issue. Have nobody at FromSoftware ever been, like, sick? Had IBS? Been disabled? Had even the barest obligations?

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1 year

Yaasss. YAAAAAASSSSSS

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8 months

It's a good sign when I like a game so much that I play it even after review.

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1 year

Over the past few months, I've been playing dozens of trick-takers, trying to answer the question, "Why do people like these things?" Today, I love trick-takers. Here's part one of my exploration of the genre.

This Trick-Taking Life: The Suits

“I never understood the appeal of trick-taking. Isn’t it just, we all put a card down and someone gets all the cards?” Thus spake someone on social media this past week. I’m…

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3 years

Took my girls to the park to ride bikes this morning. Unfortunately, my two-year-old became discouraged and began crying. As I walked her around to calm down, within earshot (I think deliberately), one of the nearby moms said, "That's why fathers belong at work." Sigh.

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4 years

To the person who commented that everything I write is "pretentious waffle," You might want to refrain from reading the piece I'm writing tonight. I have truly out-tickled my pretentious bone. Thank you, Dan Thurot

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2 years

I won't lie, I was feeling pretty hairy yesterday, and that's before *waves hand*. So I doubly appreciate Cole's words and sentiments here.

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2 years

Today I wanted to highlight the work of two of our previewers who looked at Arcs before the campaign and say a little about the role of previewers in our KS generally. 🧵

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Whenever I write about mercantilism, colonization, or Christianity in board games, I'm asked one question: why not these other problems? Today, I take a stab at answering that question as clearly as possible.

Colonizers vs. Pirates vs. Egyptians!

In the month since I published Greenwashing History, my examination of how Martin Wallace’s A Study in Emerald and AuZtralia portray certain historical figures as aliens in order to justify their e…

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2 years

Well, I lost my job yesterday. Hard to believe that after 150 hours this month alone and countless chores nobody else apparently knows how to do, I will no longer be assembling the elden ring.

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4 years

Ever wanted to read a comparative analysis of @colewehrle 's An Infamous Traffic and John Company, and how they make separate economic arguments that complement one another? Now you can!

Infamous Company

Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Cole and Drew Wehrle and Travis Hill for a (digital) play of the latest build of John Company’s second edition. I’m not prepared to discuss any det…

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Medieval history is much misunderstood. Nevsky by @Volko26 and @gmtgames covers a conflict that was a hiccup to one side and a foundational myth to the other — and gets medieval warfare right in the process. Review:

Ole Snaggletooth Nevsky

Board games are fantastic at modeling complex situations. I suspect that just as music is the art of sound, film is the art of directing, and literature is the art of fantasy authors using italics …

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Dan Thurot

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2 months

Underappreciated board game critic skills: I can spell "Corey Konieczka" cold on the first attempt.

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Saw Furiosa last night, and the instant the credits rolled one of my co-viewers turned to me and said, "Where does this fit with the other movies?" and I can't think of a more boring way to experience something.

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It's infuriating watching fellow Mormons make excuses — again — for another LDS Church abuse report. I was sexually abused as a child. My bishop covered it up. It wasn't until a few years ago, when I finally opened up about my experiences, that I discovered this is the norm.

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Today's making some blocks real easy.

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