Gaming Overboard

Oh yeah it's clear you're not defending them, don't worry! But JK has been overtly anti-trans since at least 2020 💩

I have no idea how long this deal has been in the works, but she's been a twat for at least 5 years now so I don't think they deserve any get out of jail free cards...

Just when you thought Flip 7 couldn't get any worse 😂

That's the brain burn feeling I love!

😂😂 How was it? We rewatched 28 Days last night and 28 Weeks will be tomorrow night

Got SO lucky with this card draw - it's the perfect match for this spirit! Now to gobble up those pesky Prussians...

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What are you watching?

Tom's excitement is my excitement 🤩

Yes it was at 2, and no I did have the spare brain capacity to be thinking about what my opponent was doing 😅

My opponent looooved it, so I'm sure it's on me to get there!

Purple and yellow governor and palace wooden pieces placed across a board depicting a map of ancient China

I've heard great things, but my first play of Zhanguo didn't quite grab me as much as I was expecting it to. Hopefully I'll come to appreciate its intricacies with more plays under my belt (and not get utterly demolished in the final round like this time 🫣)

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I'm still using Instagram for the community (deleted my personal account though) and would ideally migrate fully to Bluesky once they properly roll out their Flashes photo sharing app

It seems to have flown a bit under the space radar, which is a shame cos it's nice and crunchy and probably one of my favourite games of theirs (although they're all solid!)

I've started asking for accessories for my hobbies, rather than stuff directly linked to them. Don't get me a board game, but get me a play mat or sexy components for one I already have. Or in your case, don't buy me a sword, but a fancy hat to wear whilst swinging said sword

Negotiation board showing three alien races with columns of dice underneath (most of which are mine mwahaha)

Just look at me monopolising the negotiations in Circadians: First Light 😏 Beat the bot so easily last time I thought I'd give it another go to see if it was a fluke - apparently not! On to hard mode it is 💪🏻

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This video made me not only look at, but analyse, board games in a whole new way. Brilliant stuff!

Oh yeah I know 😊 I just meant that Dan's personal experience still resonated with me and made me wanna play!

I don't have kiddos and I still wanna try it! That's the power of Dan's writing 😍

Your review has put this back on my radar! I love space games but there have been so many recently I'm starting to get fatigued

Yep, it's great! Mimics multiplayer well and will have you cursing the bot when it steals your space/negotiation token 😤

I really like it! The dice placement is pretty unforgiving (if someone steals your spot, there's absolutely no mitigation and your round could be ruined) but I like the fact that the emphasis is on negotiating with the alien races instead of killing them. BOGO sounds like a good deal to me!

Ngl it's had mixed success with my groups so far, but the main deciding factor seems to be: do you like mean fighting games?

One of my favourite board game feelings is when you introduce a game to someone and afterwards they immediately start Googling to see how much it costs 💓

And last night I scored a double whammy with Guards of Atlantis II and Decrypto 💓💓

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Cheeto fingers

I reeeealllly wanted to like this (and many better and brighter people than me do!) but it just didn't turn me on 😢 Felt like a lot of effort to send people on the space trip of their dreams to get... a point collection phase at the start of your next few turns?

How about those shelves of books that will take you longer to read than the Earth's remaining lifespan?

Park board with wooden dinosaur meeples in fenced pens

Grrr as if I lost Dinogenics by 2 points to this hippie dippy herbivore park!

Although I guess it wasn't *that* hippie dippy - the stegosaurus did kill one of the guests after all 😅 Not very plant-based, not very demure...

#boardgamesky #boardgame #dinosaur

Wooden cubes, houses and a tower on a fantasy map made up of mini hexes

I don't own many 'cosy' games (gimme blood and guts and fisticuffs) but Guild of Merchant Explorers is one of them and it feels like a cup of camomile tea in tabletop form

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The kind of people who do those things are also the kind of people who don't read signs 😮‍💨

I read about an awesome hack yesterday and it seems to work - just add "fuck" to your search term and it disables the AI because it's not allowed to engage with profanities 😈