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Today I only play maybe a dozen or so new board games a year, maybe 10-12 new video games a year. mostly for research purposes (to sell them).

Balrog0 posted...

I'm jelly, that's awesome

It was neat to show stuff to people they never heard of, and no one will remember how they cringed to my awkwardness so alls good.

Zikten posted...

Was Fox trying to bad mouth games and blame then for shootings or something like that?

It was just local news. Yes i probably should have said that but if headlines leave critical info out to make a point so can i

I also had a weird idea and just made this on GIMP:
http://i.redd.it/dhzdfrq303g61.jpg

Hi Timohtep! What fun stuff have you been playing? :D

And you don't wanna hear me talk about games, this Agricola card tier list I made can cure insomnia:
https://imgur.com/C69BbWM

Woah, soul! Was it TF2 we played? And she's managed to beat Pokemon Shield sort of by herself with only marginal help from the wife.

How's things with you? Any awesome life changes?

that's only because I have designer's block about how to create something and needed to reset my brain here :) Normally I make posts about ideas what to write about here which disappear fast so I don't have to feel embarassed if its a bad idea.

HOw are you Returnig_CEmen? Any amusing anecodates or awesome stuff you been playing?

Unfortunately they were only 2 minute segments with big buddah and only had a day's notice so it was all mostly improv talk about games. Fortunately it was live so no one has to cringe seeing me :)

Do any of you like long form essays about games? Like Noah Caldwell Gervais, KingK, Joseph Anderson, etc.? Do you prefer long form essays about games you already know or played?

Hello chums! I am a 40-year-old man who runs a game store, been visiting GameFAQs back in the late 90's, and player of way too many games. Here are some titles I have enjoyed now that I have had time this year to play stuff in no particular order.

Video Games

The Outer Wilds
Remember that WTF moment in Star Trek, or the movies Arrival or Annihilation where you are just figuring out what in the literal world is going on? The Outer Wilds is crammed full of them. The more blind you go in the better, so I won't even compare it to a certain video game you might have loved when you were younger. Yes, that one! You'll know it when you play it. Be warned this game can raise anxieties you didn't even know you had.

Return of the Obra Dinn
LA Noire was a good game but wasn't detective-y enough. Phoenix Wright had those justice boner moments but still wasn't detective-y enough. Obra Dinn would be the climax of those games. Only Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective comes close to pure reasoning that gives you the illusion you were the one who figured it all out without help from anyone.

Pyre
What about Hades? we already know how good it is and what I can assume Rule 34 artists are having a horny field day with now that everyone has been awakened by Avalon Penrose's voice (megera). But let's just mention a few things about Supergiant Games: they had relatively the same staff for over 10 years, there have been no employee controversies, no shady business dealings, no microtransactions, and the staff directly responds to their consumers as ethically as possible. Living proof that working in the video game industry isn't all horrible.

Strikey Sisters
Its Arkanoid + D&D. Simple, fast, old school, a nice completionist list, and all the awful voice acting you can enjoy for dirt cheap!

Littlewood
Filler while you are in between starting Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing New Horizons, despite Littlewood having no filler. Its all instant, menus are all extremely quick to navigate and use. The downside is because all the fat is trimmed there is not as much depth despite the meth addicting 'one more day' feel.

Board Games

Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
For $50 MSRP you get a lot of heavy content for the box. Heavy as in the freaking thing weighs like 10 pounds! Its all the fun of hex based dungeon crawling but without the luck of dice to ruin your day. All your actions are decided by cards which you can play in any order in one of 4 different ways, making it feel like you have total control over your choices.

Santorini
I love chess but I want high replay value and constantly changing situations. Santorini does both combining no-luck with hideously OP S Tier abilities forcing you to calculate new situations.

Gaia Project
I don't expect anyone to enjoy a $100 SRP game, but from a design perspective Gaia Project nails everything. No luck, everything is modular, factions totally change strategies, watching your income overflow out of your pants, constantly gaining rewards that are often multi-purpose, and the game doesn't end abruptly as you felt like you exploited all you could when the game ends.

The weird part is I can't find anything yet in the magazine that recommends THEIR form of treatment. All it does is bash psychiatry, implying they are sex abusers, and recommends laws to crack down on psychiatry in every state.

You don't spend all that money making a glossy magazine without expecting some money back.

This magazine is 50 pages. Holy crap, the name of that book to buy XD. Psychiatrists are literally worse than

Poop2 posted...

scientologist

She gave me a poorly xeroxed pamphlet, and a high production quality paper color magazine about the evils of licensed doctors.

Whoever guesses the real agenda behind such a magazine wins an Internet cookie.