I’ve been noticing online articles recently which supposedly have a human author but have their sentences and paragraphs arranged in such an odd or unreadable fashion they leave me feeling an AI must have been involved in some capacity.
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Option A: you’re totally correct
Option B: you greatly underestimate the average standard of written English on the internet 
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“Overestimate”?
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My vote is cast for BGG’s 1-Player Guild’s Peoples’ Choice… is yours (if you participate in things like that)?
A glimpse at my top 9:
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Proving the point nicely!
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We had a non-gaming related trip to the NEC yesterday to visit the motorhome and caravan show. This has now overtaken the UKGE as our most expensive NEC visit, having put down a deposit on a new motorhome 
A sufficiently large table for board games was a very important consideration!
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I knew someone a few years ago who lived full-time with her husband on a narrowboat. This meant very careful selection of board games for both storage space and play area.
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But not paying council tax means a vastly increased budget
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Mooring fees aren’t cheap tho!
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Curious coincidence, i just sold my motorhome yesterday… it wasn’t ever new though, being built in 1986 and having at least 3 previous owners, but it was a big part of my life for about 3 years
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Thanks to the Universal Life Church, I am now the Rev. Roger BW. (Well, I already have the patriarchal beard.) I find I take this surprisingly seriously, a remnant of my fairly conventional upbringing I suppose.
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WTF. I live in a suburb of that city, and I’ve never heard of this (in any sense, thankfully).
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Tiny Epic Crimes subject to tiny epic crime.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coe/tiny-epic-crimes-with-red-reveal/posts/3943633
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I don’t know the mechanisms used in Tiny Epic Crimes, but I do hope some promo content is created to commemorate such a memorable and ironic(?) series of events.
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In Porirua? That is funny.
Like Phil, never heard of it. Plus I am half a North Island away in Hawke’s Bay, they would have needed to be really loud sirens.
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After following your link I mentioned the Tiny Epic Crimes saga to Tina, who pointed out similarities to what happened with Jon Hodgson’s Beowulf supplement. She passed the link along to Jon, who thought it relevant enough to let the investigating officer in his case know.
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it sure looks like exactly the same thing. that’s… almost a pattern. i hope it doesn’t happen to more companies.
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This game is called „Neptun is shy“ (because as soon as I take out my camera the waves seem to abate)
It‘s a resource management game with a betting side-game
Players are sea sprites that want to make the „best“ waves. A wave needs momentum, water and just the right angle when hitting the rocks. There are points for the height, width, duration and overall-amount of the resulting „sprazzl“ (my very own word invention). The most points for height or width. Bonus points if the tourist is taking a photo. But the tourist‘s arm tires as they try to take a photo of the best wave and so they take a break. A sprite needs to invest some of their momentum into motivating the tourist to try another photo. So your wave might not be the best one. You can invest even more of your resources to manipulate when the tourist takes a picture or you can bet on which wave will be on the photo and gain points from that.
After the tourist has taken 5 pictures they leave—either happy with the results or disappointed.
The sprite with the most points wins the game.
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Had to go into the city to pick up something… did some shopping along the way… I visited 4 shops that have boardgames… Schreibwarenladen (they carry paper, cards, school stuff), Müller (a kind of everything store for household stuff), Thalya (bookstore chain) and FLGS. The selections vary wildly of course and FLGS didn’t have any new copies of Mischwald so after a chat with “new games guy” about how to count collection size (I insist that Pandemic Legacy 0-2 are 1 game) I went home without a game. At the bookstore I chatted with a couple who were looking at games as well. She was complaining that the latest Everdell expansion was just too expensive and she was going to wait until she could grab a used copy. He was a bit confused about games I think “Are you one of those gamers, too?” Anyway she told me that Berlin Con has the biggest used games market ever… I think I finally need to visit my cousin in Berlin next year Ramble over.
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