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Picked up a copy of Star Trek: Captain's Chair since my last post. It's a VP-acquiring deckbuilder with some neat mechanics, the gameplay is pretty standard daisy-chaining engine mechanics to claim cards and gain VPs, and there are a couple of options for solitaire mode. The base set has six...

Idle packaging observation: whoever's running the 'plastic tie-downs' department at Hasbro, there's a difference between "keep Fingers McStealy from McStealing toys", and "the Decepticons are not real, they won't try to escape". Especially since you've moved back to closed boxes.

Huh. That's more recent than I would have expected. Then again, I haven't actually watched a Simpsons episode in about a decade.

Was listening to some Weird Al today. Playlist hit "Phony Calls". Setting aside the song dating itself severely with references to 7-digit phone numbers and the Yellow Pages, it strikes me: in the age of the cellphone, prank calls are nigh extinct (not necessarily a bad thing). Everything has...

As did I! He's a lot of fun, and feels like a properly big voyager - not that the Sideburn/Shadowstriker mold is any great shakes as a deluxe, but it feels like proper looming from sharkman, y'know? It's great that the shark mode isn't forced into a permanent banana pose, and the robot mode is...

New fortune cookie wisdom: "Even a dumpster fire illuminates something..."

We've been playing Flash Point fairly frequently at my FLGS board game nights, and I finally picked up a copy of the base game myself. I love co-ops, it's great for solitaire, and for as simple as the mechanics are it delivers a pretty thematic game - probably the most important thing for...

It's weird how much I genuinely love some of the coloring-error decos. Or maybe it's only weird for some of them, 'cause Stealth Thrust there is awesome.

Tripped over this fellow the other day and I just about sprung something.

Decided I needed some anti-summer vibes, and picked up a new Final Girl module - North Pole Nightmare, the Christmas movie from season 2! This one's the North Pole Village map, Krampus as the killer, Mrs. Claus or 'Cindy' as the PCs, a bevy of Christmas puns, and gimmicks of annoying elves and...

And just to bring it home, slammed out Sand of Inaros in a couple sessions and have mummy-man in the oven (along with both his hats from Nora). Baro Childhood Trauma unlocked. I was amused...drew Manics for the phase 3 urn hunt, and the easiest for me was to just go out to Uranus and blap Tyl...

Still working on cleaning up my copy of Richthofen's War. I'm about halfway done transcribing the rule sheet, and it's been an interesting way to read the rules for the first time. I-go-you-go actions; just fixed scenarios with no 'casual' point values in sight; a blend that feel weird where...

Limbo, my dude. Thank you for the mastery XP. I still adore your aesthetics and your notional concept. But I find your kit hard to use and really not all that effective. At least I got to make you look neat. I tried for 'steampunk' but I think it more came out like 'chocolate': So I swapped...

...yeah, that'd make me buy that mold again, haha.

Haven't bought any Bayverse stuff in ages, but Widowmaker actually looks really good! Janky as they are, the KSI Redeco Goon Squad were some of my favorite figures out of the AOE era, and she looks like she'll fit right in.

Nice tabletop score at the used shop this past weekend - a copy of Richthofen's War, in pretty decent shape for something from 1972! Very carefully making photocopies of a few things, and definitely need to retype some charts, but it's certainly playable.

I get perhaps more of a giggle out of the SD Gundam Mode combiner kibble than I should, but...tee hee.

Not new per se. Why? 🤷‍♂️

Sibling went to see Lilo & Stitch. To only mildly paraphrase: "not the worst remake, but...", "had its moments, but...", "sanitized" and "really emptied out any character development". Sounds about par for the course.

...I think I may be slightly too dumb to play Limbo effectively. I've watched some guides, I'm a solo player so I'm not trolling anybody, I just can never get the sequences on his stuff right. I still think it would really, really help if rifted enemies glowed your energy color. So far he's...