For the Ford government, the cruelty is the point.
(Closing the supervised consumption site in my community has made things so much worse.)
Nighteyes from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
Great list! The Yellow House is probably my favourite game of the last 5 years so I'm always hyped to see Geonil get recognized for that design! And I just picked up High Tide and has my first play, it's brilliant.
For what it's worth, one of my first instincts when I play a game that blows me away on first impression is to check whether you have written about it so I can dig in deeper. I think you succeed well at both aims.
(and sorry if this is weird - jumping into the deep replies of a thread like this.)
What can robots teach us about humanity and about love? This musical, starring Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen, tries to understand what it means to actually live. n.pr/3OHzNZg
Abandon All Artichokes is a favourite of mine. I hope a (very lucky) employer scoops you up soon!
If you like very interactive head to head type abstract games, I can't recommend it enough!
Of the new ones? Ape Town & Dewan stood out as particularly great ones. Ape Town is a unique area majority game with a zany theme. Dewan feels like an instant classic - approachable, gorgeous art.
Patchwork, The Yellow House, & Tigris & Euphrates are some of my all time faves I played this month.
It's fantastic! So elegant, with so much depth. It's one of my favourites.
Have you tried Patterns? It's in the same line of games from the same designers. It uses the Mandala scoring mechanism but in this really unique abstract game. It's super cool.
If board gamey people come across this post, please let me know any tips you have on joining in on board game community here. I recently deleted my board game Instagram account because it wasn't super my vibe. I'm hoping this will be a better fit :)
Here are all my February board game plays including ones from #BGA.
But even more awesome than this big assortment of games was getting to play so many of these with family and friends. Plus it's not often I try 9 new games in a month so that was a blast too.
It was a great month for #BoardGames
This is my #BGStats info for in person-plays in February. I also had 34 online plays on #BoardGameArena
It's polyomino day at my house. 4 games down, 8 to go!
Trans rights are human rights.
It's discouraging to see our governments at all levels abandoning the evidence based practices (e.g. safe consumption sites) that help keep drug users and communities safe in favour of these sorts of initiatives that are at best useless and at worst dehumanizing to a vulnerable population.
With the level of disappointment merited given their abhorrent behaviour, I would hope. We can and should expect better from men who are upheld as role models in our community.
