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April 20, 2010
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Rethinking the Hobby
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Boardgaming used to be an inexpensive hobby. Even as starving grad students, the Man and I could scrape together enough money to buy a new board ga...
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March 30, 2010
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Who Gives a Damn 'bout Their Bad Reputation?
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Tonight I finally got my Euro-loving friend to play La Citta. It has a map, and a bunch of little dudes, so, despite the fact that Rio Grande Games...
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March 26, 2010
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Luna Llena is Pissing Me Off
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In case you couldn't tell by the title, this is probably going to get a bit ranty. Starting with Matt's review:
The rules themselves are pretty at...
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March 22, 2010
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My ConnCon Report
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Got to ConnCon an hour later than I wanted to on Friday night. The first person I saw when I walked in the lobby was Megafauna Dan. Had a drink wit...
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March 08, 2010
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House Rules Should Stay at Home
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My house rules stay in my house , or at least within the small group of friends who tweaked or developed what ever rule it is. I'm happy to share a...
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February 28, 2010
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The Wolfman
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Friday night we had a rare evening sans Spawn, which meant we got to go to the movies. When you only get to go to non-family movies a few times a y...
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February 17, 2010
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I'm Not Who I'm Supposed to Be?
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Sometimes when I read on facebook about the things my friends are doing - going to fund raiser dinners, attending Oscar Night parties, throwing coc...
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January 13, 2010
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Fucking Science Fair
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Well it's that time of year again when I have to spend like 6 hours doing battle with the printer to get the Spawn's graphs and crap to print out, ...
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November 27, 2009
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Settling for Almost
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I used to spend some time over Thanksgiving weekend editing my game wish list. The list used be long, filled with games about which I knew only a l...
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November 15, 2009
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Play with me
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Games give me new and interesting ways to interact with other people. This is the difference between e-games and board games. While the increased s...