Not so much showing off our collection as the fancy new table that was delivered on Friday!
The remote control for your table has more controls than any of the remote controls I have for things that normally have controls.
Yeah, but most of them are colours for the lighting.
They are all related to the lighting. Unless there’s a button I haven’t tried yet that transforms the table into a mech suit
That only comes in the ultra-deluxe version.
Way more satisfying than flipping the table when you’re losing- transforming the table into a mech suit and mech-walking out of the room by Kool-Aid-Manning through the wall
How do you find the reach into the recess of the table?
I reckon it would knacker my back (not that it takes much)
And that is an excellent table
Given that I am a short person, YMMV. I think the table top is higher than an average dining table, so the vault isn’t too awkwardly low. We were playing for a good 8 hours yesterday and my back is fine, which surprised me because I’d previously tried a Geeknson table at Airecon and found it quite uncomfortable.
The table is made by Tinkerbot, in case anyone wants to buy themselves a very nice Christmas present!
I wasn’t going to comment on your height!
Just providing some context! The taller (6’ 1") half of the household also says that it wasn’t uncomfortable and his back is fine
I just purged a few more games from my collection, leaving me with 224 individual boxes of games (excluding expansions, but including stand-alone expansion boxes… so Dune Imperium and Dune Imperium Uprising count as 2, but Star Trek Ascendancy with all its expansion, including the Borg Expansion in its own box, counts as one).
Look at all that floor in front of my shelves! Almost there!
this year’s travel collection.
Trailblazers
Orchard (actually Grove, keep mixing up those)
Spawlopolis
Naturopolis
Splendor Duel (photocopied the board)
Res Arcana Duo
Rove
Forks
Palm Lab
Standard Card Game
I think that’s all
So far though I’ve only played Naturopolis.
Ooh, future thread maybe for @Acacia - what are the games you’d strip down for travel?
Since the way I count my collection is by individual boxes…
Joking aside, that is an amazing job compressing a lot of very good games!
Huh. I really thought we’d done portable games but it’s still on the to do list.
I think you are the oprah winfrey of collections. Every year it’s either back to 200 or back to 20!
this is a gamegenic box for trading card game decks. normally my old MtG decks live in there. i had hopes when i backed this that organizing my decks this was would motivate me to play again. didn’t happen.
I always take games on trips. sometimes just a wallet game or two. this feels like the most organized iteration of small travel collection that I’ve tried
I decided to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
This picture is from years ago… we tossed the couch some while back.
Anyway, with a considerable amount of work on me and a friend’s behalf (and his nephew, and his utterly useless, but nice, 14-year-old son), the furniture basically all rotated 90 degrees.
The REASON for all this is I need a table to do stopmotion animation on, and is going to go where that stack of cardboard boxes currently is. Out of the way to minimize people bumping into it, with enough space to set up cameras and lights.
Huzzah.
This leaves me trying to reorganize my game shelves… and AGAIN realizing how much I f$%king hate the godsdamned Box Throne. Holy hells is it ever awful. Flimsy, fiddly, and with mountains of wasted space.
To get replacement Kallax would cost about $500 pre-tax, and if money wasn’t so tight I would do it in a heartbeat. SIGH.
I have to accept that many of the games I have, despite “fitting” before, will not fit currently. About… 15-20 small boxes?
Plus Infinity Defiance which I am really tempted to purge… the few times I played my working theory was the guy who taught it just didn’t know how to teach games, which is true, but it might also be true that the game just isn’t super good.
I will give it at least one more try.
Anyway. Frustrated, tired, exhausted, and the room is only semi-functional. Argh.
I am a strong proponent of the Havsta rather than the Kallax. I got kicked out of our Havsta in favor of the kids toys and booted into the old Kallax and the Kallax is comparably impossible.
Havsta has a top level that is 12" deep and fits EXACTLY 10 standard boxes (2 vertical, and then two sets of 4 that can be horizontal or vertical). With the shelf spacing, the other shelf holds 6 standard boxes and maybe a Puerto Rico shaped box or two vertical, or you can get three stacks across of the Orleans/Hansa/Puerto Rico shaped boxes.
Then the lower level is I think 15" deep and fits all your Concordia’s and Beyond the Suns, etc.
It was Magic.
Kallax with it’s 15x15 or so nearly always has dead space at the side and top, and then you’re always choosing a game to stick behind the other boxes to fill up the square. It’s just not right.