I quickly googled and there are some toxic-sounding discussions from around 2010 on BGG about the banning. I am just falling down a rabbit hole trying to figure out who this guy is and… wow… still on it though.
The other question is–why can @lalunaverde already have Ride the Rails when my boardgame shop still says “probably sometime in July” -.-
Speaking of Cube Rails games, I recently dived into that genre with a very curious print’n’play game set in South Korea called Tchu Tchu Train.
Thankfully this one’s not by John “seems to typify everything that’s problematic about the unpleasant side of boardgaming culture” Bohrer but by Gary Kim. The reason it’s curious is that it’s a little bit like Chinatown in that all the plots of land are represented by cards from a standard 52-card deck, and you can’t build anything in a plot unless you hold the corresponding card. There are ways of acquiring jokers to help you cluster tracks together (the more you build in a single turn, the more points you score, Ticket-to-Ride style) and it’s a very interesting take, even if it’s a bit hard to parse (“wait… which plots are connected to the 9 of diamonds again?”). I enjoyed it immensely. Not a particularly heavy game, and one of those games where luck-of-the-draw is certainly a factor but I’m sure that a better player will win regardless.
Definitely worth a print because all it needs is 4 sheets of A4 taped together, 2 packs of playing cards, and a ton of markers cannibalised from other games (we used Ticket to Ride trains and a few wooden houses and cubes from Orleans).
Yes. It’s a good reason not to support him. Eventually, I have to make a consumer decision (aka vote with your wallet). The same way I backed Pax Renaissance reprint.
I’m very ignorant regarding the use of Asian pseudo-names. My parents have Spanish names, and I have an English names - zeitgeist and all that. Well, pre-Hispanic Filipino first names didn’t really survived Spanish colonisation.
I usually cringed at white peeps who do embarrassing things with Asian culture (even if it’s non-Filipino), like that video where they shout “Uts! Banzai!” on an FFG L5R tournament. But the Harry Wu didn’t touched any chord for me.
EDIT: Actually, it’s not my place to say if Harry Wu is okay or not. I’ll listen to ethnic Chinese for their thoughts on Chinese pseudonyms. Apologies.
The magic of board game releases. It always seems all over the place as to when a game is actually released. Especially when considering things internationally.
Not to mention stuff happening like when Inis was released and because of the demand following SU&SD’s review, all English copies got diverted to the US and it wasn’t until there was a reprint that it actually became available in the UK.
Arrived today: Antidote: Lab Alliance, expansion for the unjustly-neglected Antidote. It’s been out for a while but I finally found a copy for cheap-ish.
Actually I think I know why it’s neglected:
① it’s more a social confusion game than a social deduction game; at least in the base play mode you don’t have good guys or bad guys, you’re just trying to work out which card is out of play and therefore which colour of card you want at the end of the game.
② however you store the game, you need to do some setting-up that’s specific to the player count, so it’s more faff than something like The Resistance or Werewolf.
But I like it anyway.
Narrator: it gets asked on a daily basis
I heard this in Morgan Freeman’s voice.
This made my joke infinitely better than it should be.
Also: what is it with games about the Netherlands (Lowlands) or from a dutch publisher (Splotter) being so extremely hard to come by in the Netherlands? 
I know the german version of Lowlands is available, thanks to a very helpful tip of someone here, but I’m not sure I’ll get my non-German speaking friends to play it with me. And paying $50+ is a bit much to risk that.
And I’m now considering giving Jeff B*zos even more money and buy Whitehall Mystery on Amazon. They conveniently priced it at 28.84 euros, with free shipping coming at 29 euros. A level of pettiness I simultaneously hate and admire.
I am weak. I am now the proud owner of The Estates. It’s been at the tippy-top of my wishlist for a while so damn it, I went for it. The dangers of going in for a chat at your FLGS.
Today I become the answer to life, the universe, and everything! In celebration, I received the Lords of Vegas Up expansion, Unmatched: Robin Hood vs. Bigfoot, and Unmatched: Bruce Lee. Been interested in Up for some time, and have really been enjoying Unmatched, so it is great having the variety of characters to use. Just need Cobble and Fog to have all of it (for now).
Happy birthday! (A special day that you share with my youngest daughter who turned 1 today) What a haul!
Happy birthday! Great haul! I can’t speak to Lord’s of Vegas, but both of those Unmatched expansions are great!!!
I may rebuy my Brucey, I sold my Unmatched stuff to a buddy within the group, so I may just tuck him back into the far reaches of the closet for just such an occasion. Bruce Lee forever.
…Until they release a Street Fighter line, and then it’s just Chun-Li and that was the end of that. (One can dream.)
Congrats to her! Age 1 is such a magical age, as they learn to stand, and you learn to put important things on higher shelves.
A street fighter line would get bought sooooo hard!
Penblywdd hapus @COMaestro
And to your daughter @pillbox
I’m a lucky boy - Just One, Paladins of the West Kingdom, and Nemo’s War, and I just won a copy of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
I love the Paladins solo mode… because I haven’t found anyone willing to play with me. More complex than Architects.
I visited my FLGS today … I don’t like biking in circles I like to have a goal and since I needed some exercise, it was the perfect solution and I came home with new recommendations (I’ll have to check out Big Monster) and two games
I caved. I am weak.
I now own Marvel Champions.
What a missed opportunity!
Nice haul! I’m interested in what you think about Just One after you get a chance to play it.
