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If you're like me, you back up your web bookmarks and move 'em over when changing browsers or computers. Does anyone else have one or two that are definitively dead but you just can't bring yourself to delete? For me, it's the bookmarks for a couple forums that I joined when I first Got On The...

Game time! Picked up a copy of Star Trek: Captain's Chair recently. 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...

As I said in the random thoughts thread, happy Moon Landing Day! And to that end, I have a (glare-y) box: Kinda marathoned this one, and yes my hands hurt, but this is such a neat kit and I have very few nits to pick with it. As much as I have cut down on Lego, NASA sets will always get me...

I consider it a personal holiday today. 56 years ago: Happy Moon Landing day!

Some of those scout-sized molds, man. I genuinely would have bought Hubcap in any colors, I could have gone for another Skystalker or two, I would have bought a whole jasta of Ransacks.

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.