Go for it! Topics are cheap, I get them recycled from a bloke down the market.
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I made it… eventually even in the right category but that teaches me to not start new threads on my phone.
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Back In The Day a friend of mine had been annoyed by their printer rep, so he wrote a PostScript program which would make the Very Expensive Printer rotate everything 1° clockwise, thus making it look as if the thing were misfeeding paper. Much head-scratching, and eventually the bloke went for a break. At which point my mate swapped it so that it would rotate everything 1° anticlockwise…
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“Reiner Knizia counted to infinity twice.”
Lovely list of facts.
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Is Reiner Knizia the Chuck Norris of boardgaming?
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Obviously, he can parallel park a train.
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For all you mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day!
And if you are in a country where it’s not celebrated today… Well, Happy Day anyway!
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The annual day of anyone in the UK with American friends panicking and then realising ours was over a month ago.
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After living for 16 years in the UK (where I believe it was in March) now I am in NZ where they celebrate it the second Sunday in May. Back in Spain, it was always the first Sunday in May…
These days, I just wait for my daughters to tell me or the cards stands to appear on the shops. It is hard to keep track.
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And multi-track drifting
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Some of you may remember my disappointment about receiving an incomplete copy of Gingkopolis and my attempts to get replacements.
- contacting Pearl Games led to them pointing at Asmodee
- Asmodee Germany said this was not something they would handle
- Asmodee France whom I wrote to in my faulty French didn’t even answer
I will think three times (I was already at thinking twice) about buying games from any of their subsidiaries in the future (if I am aware of course).
However the shop I bought this from in Belgium, despite initially receiving the same answers from both Pearl and Asmodee, came through for me:
I now have a complete copy of the game no thanks to the publisher.
edit: the shop support told me they ended up being directed to the printer (located in Germany) for the parts.
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Good old Belgium!
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I have only ever visited one time… it was for a festival.
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Really odd that the game is printed in Germany and distributed by a German company, but yet isn’t listed at any German OGS. If been looking for this game ever since the reprint was announced, but no luck. It seems to be available everywhere else in Europe though…
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Is there a return policy?
Asmodee’s malarkey here discouraged me from buying their stuff from store. At least BGG users cant just point to Asmodee if their game is incomplete.
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I could have returned the game I am reasonably sure, that’s a European law afaik. However, it would have been a hassle for both me and the shop and the shop indicated pretty quickly that they were going to get the parts for me–it just took its sweet time for it to be mailed around…
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So time to send those cards out!
Totally not talking about personal experiences being late sending cards out …
Learned recently in Mexico mother’s day is always the 10th. I wouldn’t mind a set day though I can understand wanting it on a weekend.
Some of you might enjoy reading Spacebiff’s take on Oath: Oaf | SPACE-BIFF!
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I’m feeling good. Just did the first bit of DIY in forever.
Our mad, evil, old neighbour has been giving us shit about using “her” drain for the aircon condensation pipes since forever, probably pulling them out a few times a year so water dribbles everywhere and we get mould growing in the gap between houses.
She never owned up to that, but did recently unambiguously withdraw the permission she granted when we moved in. So I started looking into ways to carry the water all the way to the front of our property where the rainwater drainage is.
Facebook renovation group to the rescue, someone pointed out that it looks like we have an entrance or two to the drain on our side of the property line.
Bought myself a 17 mm drill bit, went to work and hey presto! No more problem.
On the left is “her” drain cover, on her property. On the right is “our” drain cover, with three fresh holes in it.
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