I manually deleted all my plays from BGG last night. Took several hours but was really cathartic. My records on there were super incomplete and it really did become an obligation I just wasn't keeping up with. I now feel lightened by doing that. My H score is zero and i'm ok with that.

Today's video is leviathan wilds, a nfity little co-operative game about a small group of heroes vs monsters so big they have to climb all over them to beat them. Big monsters, tiny heroes and a pretty good time to boot. youtu.be/dDxpju4G7tI

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Sentinels of the Multiverse publisher Greater than Games back in hands of founders Christopher Badell, Paul Bender, has multiple games in development: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Our "allies" did this.

MOB writes: An AI slop website has appeared featuring janky AI-written gaming biographies and weird, not-quite-right AI-generated images of real people straight out of the uncanny valley.

Our daughter has a coded language for her hair styling. ELSA! is one braid ANA! is two braids MOANA! Is her hair out. Sometimes communicating with her is tricky, so this code of hers is both adorable and useful :)

So last night the NZ game industry had it's annual awards, the Pavs. And while the awards are almost all about video games they do have a board game award for locally published games. And we won it with Shadow moon syndicates, which was really nice. Big congrats to the team at arkus.

I purchased a pair of board games last night. And now my facebook feed is nothing but adverts for those two games. The ones I already purchased. What the fuck else do you want me to do about this internet, I already paid for the product. You want me to buy the same thing again?

There is no way this orthodontist featured in my previous dentist office's newsletter is a real person.

I know this is about UK Labour and their local elections, but you could have posted this after last election when Hipkins got smashed at the polls losing Labour its massive majority. They actually think they lost because they were too left. Can we please get a real Labour Party for workers?

Today's video is for the Lord of the rings the Fate of the Fellowship, and are names for games getting a bit too long or what? This is one of the most talked about games of the last year, I personally thought it was ok. Find out why i'm not head over heels in love with it here. youtu.be/f_Da9epAGPM

Wow, some shots fired here. Former Deputy Police Commissioner Tania Kura believes she was thrown under the bus re McSkimming and is naming names. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...

The Game Design Round Table podcast had been going downhill for the past year Their TTRPG series was a joke: they just didn’t like or didn’t believe in the work the game designers in the space are creating. They were out of their element, without any experience to back up their opinions.

Today's video is our final girl season 2 mega review. All the feature film boxes reviewed, the killers, locations and final girls ranked and a bunch of tactics and strategies from someone who has played the games a lot. youtu.be/abpxnevUUwk

I love Nominative determinism

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

Today's video is Earthborne rangers, a campaign game where you build custom character decks and go on very different types of adventures. Instead of monsters and swords, you are helping people out, taming and befriending animals and exploring the valley. youtu.be/E2uTOn7ZBAE

This is unhinged. This is an unhinged thing to say. "Let's not warn people about potentially deadly weather, so that instead they go out and spend money*" *"And maybe die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make on behalf of business, who are the real victims here."

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

A reminder that the USA has lost the war against Iran and the US navy is incapable of forcing the strait open. What the US navy needs now is a lot more frigates and other escort vessels, not constipated sailors doing incredibly homoerotic chin up contests to prove their alphaness to each other.

#DystopianWars has a new starter set - Dominion of the Dragon - and it is absolutely packed with everything you need to play this exceptional tabletop miniatures game! @warcradlestudios.bsky.social youtu.be/Dybewi_ot7k

you'd hope as minister or foreign affairs, winston peters, may care about how a new zealander on a valid green card has been kidnapped by ICE, and is now being held indefinitely in a prison in the middle of the mojave desert?

*Stumbling out of her room, bleary eyed at 9pm" 5YO "Chess, want chess!" No honey, it's bed time "Chess...... *tears*" Someone is a little addicted to setting up the chess board and then resetting it and going again.

Having figured out that her parents were not compelled by simply repeating "THREE cookies?" every time she's offered a cookie, the child has developed the strategy of opening with a demand for SIX cookies and then acting like THREE is now some kind of compromise

1798 different reviewers content being used without permission. If you have ever done a you tube board game review, there is a good chance this person has just harvested your work and is misrepresenting your words on their site.

I especially "love" the irony that J BUILT our channel over nine years based on a really good niche - short summaries & reviews in a field dominated by 45-minute analyses - and some dude went "nah, watching a literal three-minute video is too hard, I want the slop to tell me if a game will be fun"

So, some dude is making an AI harvesting app that is taking board game you tubers reviews, mangling them, and attributing bullshit to us in order to make some random numbers. Not a single thought about asking first, obviously. Ive asked to be removed from his app. www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

Hahahahaha, Cool Microtransactions and NFT's. Time for this company to go the way of all "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" publishing houses.

So last week we covered Agricola, now we look at Caverna, the carefree, more extravagant and also more hirsute sibling game from the same designer Uwe Rosenberg. How does a more open game featuring dwarfs compare to good old misery farm. youtu.be/DSPlDeyDkic

MAKING IT BLUESKY OFFICAL! I've been selected as the Green Party candidate for Māngere I know this will come as a shock for some of you, it is for me but the community voluntold me to step up and so that's what I'm doing Things just got a little more radical in the Māngere electorate

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If the two Chrises (Chrisii?) currently running our major political parties really wanted to cement a legacy for themselves, they'd pledge that *neither* of them will countenance Winston Peters in their Cabinet after the 2026 election (a girl can dream)

Fred really needs to be asking what happened to Fred Fryers 1 through 5.

Molly House was nominated for three Golden Geek Awards! Voting is now officially open, so head on over to BGG if you want to share in the Molly House joy! boardgamegeek.com/thread/36965... @colewehrle.bsky.social @miasmacorp.bsky.social

A few decades ago, the British press said the same about Martina. They called lesbians sexual predators for changing in the same rooms as “vulnerable” or “normal” (read: heterosexual) women. The media’s transphobia is recycled homophobic trash. So it’s even more perverse when gay folk say it.

Tal Anderson on the Pitt's earnest portrayal of autistic life: aftermath.site/the-pitt-autis...

I want one of them silver you tube thingies.

Tonight's channel testing called off on account of a silly amount of rain hitting the region and a state of emergency being declared. @bootstheory.bsky.social and I are fine. But it was also the wee ones first day of school, and picking her up in that was not a lot of fun.

Foxes and Lions is on P500! www.gmtgames.com/p-1229-foxes...

Also free advice to NZ Labour, try deploying Greg O'Connor and Ginny Andersen on this one, I mean, if the strategy really is pitching to a mythical centre I just spotted a unicorn for ya

I saw someone on here arguing the other day that you don’t own a book, you only own a license to the book and the book itself is a token of the license. I assure you, I own my books. I can lend them out. I can read them aloud to my child. I can sell them to other people. I can hit you with them

watched 12 Angry Men for the first time absolutely unreal. truly one of the greatest movies ever made

Today's video is a review of Agricola, and it is a throwback review. We are looking at an older edition so we will be talking just about what matters, the gameplay. Find out why a game nicknamed "misery farm" is actually pretty damned good. youtu.be/EM4W5HyYldE

Endeavor: Deep Sea by @grandgamersguild.bsky.social is an absolute masterpiece in the art of fun.

I am an advocate for solo board gaming, but not every game needs a solo mode. Seeing people complain that Fury of Drcaula 5th edition won't have a solo mode and all i can think is No shit it won't There are so many games and so many solo modes these days, just get over the odd game not having one.

“‘Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination.’” Holy shit, W Montana and Zooey Zephyr!!! ✨ If it can happen in Montana, it can happen everywhere across the US. KEEP PUSHING!!!

Logistical rolls in the US military are disproportionately staffed and lead by women and people of color, because white men used to be the only ones allowed in combat. I can almost guarantee many of the “woke” officers this ass hole is firing are the ones who keep the supply lines up and running.

This, 1000 times this. Mamdani works because he presents Smashing the orphan grinding machine as a good and fun thing to do, not a dead rat we may be forced to eat stoically all while knowing the elites wont like us and we may not get knighthoods later because of it.