Cost to weight was certainly part of my decision.
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Jaws of the Lion is definitely great value, and pretty impressive in terms of the content packed into the box. The guided tutorial missions with gradual ramp up of extra rules until you reach the āfullā experience is very well done in my opinion.
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Miniature Market sent me a $10 off $50 coupon for my birthday, and they actually had some Firefly expansions in stock, so I just ordered the Kalidasa, Pirates and Bounty Hunters, and Crimes and Punishments expansions. Also a Jawa Scavenger for Imperial Assault, since they had it and I didnāt.
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I love this phrase
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On friday I bought a mystery box of games. I regret it already and I havenāt opened it. still Iām a little bit excited too.
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They do that. Itās like a really dysfunctional friend.
Hey! I heard you had a birthday! Happy birthday, man! Probably got some nice birthday checks out of it, too, right? Hey. Listen. I need some moneyā¦
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Mind MGMT showed up sooner than expected and Iām losing my mind over this production. The components etc. are delightful and worth a post of their own, but here Iām talking purely about the art and printwork. Itās absolutely crammed to the gills with subliminal messaging and other weird subversions.
This right here? This made me actually exclaim out loud. Iām not honestly sure how many folks will get this (though the work itās spoofing is practically memeified by now), but I sure did and Iām delighted.
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Oh come on, who wouldnāt get that?
(But yes, nice to see playful stuff like that in boardgame, especially if itās on-theme in some way.)
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I know people who donāt get obvious Warhol references. Dada is pretty obscure as movements go, and old as modern art goes. But like I said, that piece in particular has definitely moved outside its own little sphere of reference, so maybe more folks will get it than I think?
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I wouldnāt, but Iām an uncultured heathen.
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Same. Can someone explain this to the heathens?
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I think you guys may have a broader definition of mainstream than me. Ive never heard of it, nor any meme related to it!
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So the games arrived. Iām happy with the result.
For the Ā£44 I got Mississippi Queen, Queenz and some small card game.
(The order also contaned Faiyum and Brekst which is a word roll and write with an alphabet dice)
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Okay, I knew the whole āThis is a gameā reminded me of some piece of art, but I could not remember the details. I have seen that before.
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Yeah, I somehow also slipped through the cracks. Iām actually a decent art history buff but havenāt seen that piece or any joke spun off of it. That said, Warholās never really moved me either!
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Im more of an Impressionism and Art Noveau fan. 
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Donāt feel bad, guys. Dada was a short-lived reactionary movement that was explicitly in response to WWI and growing anti-bourgois sentiments. Half the names in Dadaism went on to the far more popular and ongoing surrealist movement.
I went to university for this stuff, and Iād still get dead stares from folks when Iād bring up Dada.
ā¦unless I said āThe one with the pipeā.
[EDIT] I just thought it was exciting that I opened a silly product that showed that level of parody right out of the gates.
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I always thought it was one of them things that went around your room at about waist height! 
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I guess I over-estimated how (in) famous that image is, and the reach of all the many pop culture memes based on it.
Anyway, more interesting to me is how it subverts the usual meme-ing. Magritte stated that āthis is a pipeā would have been a lie, so presumably āthis is a gameā instead of the usual āthis is not a Xā is intended to be understood as a lie? i.e., it is not a game, but a matter of life and death?
Might help if I knew anything about Mind Mgmt.
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