Chris Yang

Cover of game: dark green with gold foiling that says “A Place for All My Books” with an illustration of several books stacked cover to cover in a tower.

Player board: a pastel colored grid with illustrations of a woman doing various tasks and a central grid with several stacks of varying numbers of wooden tokens shaped like books.

Central town board: illustrated cartoon town center with several highlighted spots including “Town Park,” “Exchange,” “Library,” “Bookstore,” and “Village Shoppes.” Two character maples are placed on two spots on the board. Above the board are three piles of book shaped tokens of varying numbers. Above them are three cards. There is also a stack of cards to the right

Computer player for solo gaming: a character card with a blond woman illustrated in a cartoon manner named Penelope Eveready and four actions and descriptions of actions listed. Above the card are several stacks of wooden book shaped tokens of varying colors. Beside them are an assortment of other tokens, include cat images. Above that is the corner of the central town board and two cards next to a stack of cards.

Back to sologaming after a bit of a break.

A Place for All My Books: a cute cozy game about collecting books and arranging them in patterns in your house. Adorable wooden book tokens and a super cozy vibe. A relaxing game but still puzzle-y and just the right amount of difficult.

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Trump literally making up a reason to march the military into the nation's capital should be terrifying to everybody.

huh. Turns out Dean Cain was Bizarro after all...

Super excited to see Superman tomorrow. Just wanted to say how disappointed I am that Dean Cain (the first Asian Superman in popular media, btw) is a right-wing Trumper. Disgrace to the S.

*Seeing new Pope alert

*preparing for Chicago-ans to be even more insufferable about how much they love Chicago....*

U.S. House comes after Purdue on ‘Trojan horse’ of Chinese students on campus Purdue President Mung Chiang among six to get letters asking to account for what House committee calls a national security threat of Chinese students in STEM degree programs

Chinese international students are in a double bind: If they try to stay after graduating, they will be treated as a security risk and denied work. If they return to China, they’re accused of “stealing” US education and creating a “brain drain.”

We’re en route to a tacit return to exclusion.

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

Yeah, it’s based on Imperium! I never played Imperium but I have heard that people who have played before really enjoy this game.

Israel breaks ceasefire with surprise airstrike, killing more than 400 Palestinians Israel launched surprise airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing at least 404 Palestinians, shattering a ceasefire in place since January.

Netanyahu has blocked aid to Gaza for two weeks. Last night, he ordered strikes that killed over 400 Palestinians, endangered hostages, and broke a fragile ceasefire.

Congress must uphold our laws and stop further weapons transfers to Israel.
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in other words, noted rightwing snowflake MTG wants to punish people for hurting elon's feelings...

chinatown chicago

Four elderly Asians playing cards on a bench

chinatown

The side of Cathay House and the welcome to Chinatown sign

Doing Chinatown SF tour today for work.

Remember how in the original SW trilogy, they spent three movies destroying the Empire and finally got rid of them and overthrew the emperor? But then in the new trilogy, the Empire was just all of a sudden inexplicably back, only this time more sniveling and more whining?

anyway...

Neither have us! I think thats the goal for tomorrow!

Ayyy! We’re playing TTR Legacy tomorrow!! I think we’re on game 5 or 6? Our unlock is also wacky. The point leader in our game decided he was going West to get to California so we haven’t even gotten Florida yet.

Box cover picture

Picture of player board with Sisko as captain

Hand of cards, the top one is Jadzia Dax

Player board from solo play with Sisko

Star Trek Captain’s Chair: wow! Super complex but so rich and deep. The complexity works well with the theme and the diversity of Trek in the game is fun to play with. Lotsa brain power but well worth it.

Also played solo and it’s incredible as a solo game. Top notch Trek!

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YouTube video by SNL Fanatic Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years of SNL Music | Official Preview | Peacock Original - SNL Fanatic

Literally the best editing work I’ve seen. This was amazing.

Yeah! It’s a pretty good solo experience too!

Box cover

Cards, including the Frodo character card and a 2 of rings

The box interior with two closed pockets with cards that have not been revealed yet

Lord of the Rings Trick-Taking Game: super looking forward to this! Love that they were able to put in a solo mode. Pretty interesting and thematic for a trick taking game. Clever and engaging!

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The same people who say Elon didn’t mean to do a Nazi salute are the same people who say that you can “accidentally” say a racial slur.

Nice! I love how you stack a green token on a brown token to make trees. It’s pretty cute. :)

Cover of the box

Overhead picture of the board in middle of game 1

Some player components after game 1 scoring

Hand of train cards

Ticket to Ride Legacy: wow! So glad we got this to the table!! We went out of our way to schedule a game day just so I could try this out and it was super worth it! Loved all the new things in the game, kept us on our toes. We played 4 games today and will be playing again in a few weeks! #gamenight

The box cover

The center common area with animal cards and the token pool

The player board with some tokens on it and some animal cards above.

My player board at the end of the solo play

Harmonies: I passed over this one when it came out because I didn’t want to play an abstract puzzle. But it made so many best-of lists, I got it. And I’m glad I did! It’s actually super fun and very cute. Just enough flavor to keep it engaging and the puzzle part is fun and thematic.

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Arcs: the Blighted Reach Expansion: ok, we did it. Full day, three game campaign. A masterpiece game by @colewehrle.bsky.social - by the end, we were saying this was our favorite game. Good choices but not overwhelming and so deep and so layered. And above all, amazing story narrative

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Box cover

Central board with spaces to place workers.

Resource board with all the different resources, the night card, and the tableau with a starting village

The resource board and tableau at the end of the game with many bat meeples

Atiwa: I’ve always had a soft spot for Uwe Rosenberg. Agricola was one of the first games to get me like that. Atiwa is very much like Uwe’s other big box games (gotta feed!) but I enjoy the story a lot—well researched. The engine building is always good. Plus, the bat meeples are fun.

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Box cover

The board: a map of Hill Valley

The DeLorean!

The perfect record as the soundtrack

Back to the Future: Back in Time: a super tense co-op experience. Definitely got crushed the first time but barely won the second time. Plenty of depth without too much unnecessary stuff.

Also, was able to play the perfect soundtrack since I happened to have the right vinyl.

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Namiji: the sequel to Tokaido, this game is the same gameplay and mechanics but just a little bigger. Still a super chill game, one I would use to introduce newer gamers to board games with a low stress experience. Also, this is the Kickstarter version so the pieces were gorgeous!

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Box cover

Hand of Dracula encounter cards

Picture of the board, map of Europe.

The Count himself, Dracula

Fury of Dracula: cool throwback to hidden movement games. Takes longer than you think but very tense.

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Cover of the box

A picture of components, including the dry erase marker

Close up of an island board

General layout with game pieces

Rivages: an interesting draft and write, with a very forgiving exploration mechanic and a pile of islands to get through. Simple to get, quick to play, and an interesting series of choices.

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