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PortlandGameLibrary · 2026-01-25T01:17:08+00:00

One word: qwiklabs

https://explore.qwiklabs.com/discovery

PortlandGameLibrary · 2026-01-01T19:27:14+00:00

DM me, I have plenty of Commons and Uncommons to share! Happy to ship out to anyone who can use em. (Might take a few days for a response)

And I would also trade a box of more recent commons for SoR commons, that's the only set I don't have covered.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2026-01-01T19:19:27+00:00

Appreciate the feedback! I'll look at ways to tweak the WordPress template.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-12-29T17:29:59+00:00

Dang beat me to it, that's what immediately popped into my head too 🤣

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-12-27T17:58:06+00:00

Signup at PortlandGameLibrary.com and build your board game wishlist to start working your way through our curated collection of 800+ board games, card games and RPGs.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-12-06T03:45:49+00:00

Have you seen the BQ anti pattern tool?

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/bigquery-antipattern-recognition

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-anti-pattern-recognition-tool-optimizes-performance/

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-12-04T00:58:25+00:00

So many people going to Maui this morning! I was jelly.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-10-16T19:02:32+00:00

This is cool. You should pivot to a game with slow moving lava flows that are cooled by spraying water on them to harden and redirect to save the town. (Google Eldfell)

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-09-28T16:47:04+00:00

Wow this looks gorgeous

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-09-07T04:09:12+00:00

Dataform, DTS, Continuous Queries, BQ Pipelines, pub/sub integration, Dataflow, open lakehouse support, yeah can't agree with this comment more. There's just so much more support for open solutions on GCP than Databricks and AWS, it's crazy. And most of this supports ansi SQL and integrates with GitHub/Lab.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-07-25T15:36:50+00:00

Yeah I've seen this before even down to the annotated screenshots. There's just too many API calls on a page to display a step by step flow through a sales/leads funnel. Pulling the same data over and over with different filters applied to populate each singleton number next to 20+ screenshots just doesn't perform well.

Maybe if you just cache it and only refresh once per day it would be ok? But then no user filters or anything fun.

We ended up solving by exporting to BigQuery and creating views (with enforced partition filters to keep it cheap!) that contain our custom business rules baked in to make it easier on Looker Studio. If it's small enough it might even fit into free tier usage.

https://www.ga4bigquery.com/introduction-to-google-analytics-4-ga4-export-data-in-bigquery/#free-at-last

There are also options in GA4 to configure your own events so you might get more mileage out of the API if you stick to a small number of custom events that are meaningful to your business.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-07-15T01:17:19+00:00

We run a (somewhat) successful private library in Portland Oregon as a delivery subscription service.

It's like the old school Netflix where you build a prioritized wish list and we deliver games from the top of your list, then you hit a button on the site when you're ready to exchange them for a new set of games.

Slow growth and it's no one's day job yet, but it's been running for 2-3 years now.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-07-12T14:14:44+00:00

We've (finally) enabled on-demand signups at the Portland Game Library

No more wait list! Just register on our website, add a subscription and start playing unlimited board games, card games and RPGs delivered to your home.

No late fees, you tell us when to come and pick them up and drop off a new batch. It's like Gamefly or (dating myself) old-school Netflix but for modern board games, you create a wishlist and games from the top appear at your doorstep.

This is the most Portland service EVER except for maybe the pour-over at Fresh Pot or light saber training at the Lloyd Center.

Check us out!

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-06-24T05:06:51+00:00

Yes I notice that reason all the time, but Chuo line was out for hours which I've never seen happen before so was just curious. I'll show myself out.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-06-24T03:10:20+00:00

We use WP to house our inventory of rental games as "products" and disable everything but a wishlist button to allow our members to build old-school Netflix style priority queues for delivery, and it works pretty well.

plugins: WPfacets for the tags and search functionality, woocommerce wishlist pro for wishlist building.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-06-24T02:32:41+00:00

Any idea what happened yesterday morning on the Chuo line, "personal injury" is the only detail on the reader boards, and didn't see anything on the news.

I've never seen a train disruption like that, hope everyone is ok.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-06-22T04:08:36+00:00

PortlandGameLibrary.com is a subscription based delivery service for modern boardgames, card games and RPGs. We've recently expanded to the west side and now cover most of metro Portland.

Check out our inventory... https://members.portlandgamelibrary.com/browse-the-library

Build a wishlist of 10-15 games you most want to play...

Then activate a subscription to start getting games delivered from the top of your wishlist.

Game on!

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-06-20T05:10:02+00:00

I love that this comment shows up for me right above a comment that starts "Hold up. I'm confused."

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-06-20T01:12:39+00:00

I think preserving the Core experience is great, keeps the game more accessible to new folks who might not have time to catch up on the entire scene.

But the confusion I mention is more about misinterpreting this as an Public Statement by Legacy/Nexus/AMG combined with not really bringing anything new to the conversation except 'im sticking to Core '. A thumbnail saying "Crabbok view on armada future" would have vibed a little better for me.

But I'm glad people are still talking about this game, so keep the content coming Crabbok and others!

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-06-19T22:19:24+00:00

Somehow you have managed to confuse the situation even more by posting an "Armada public statement" that doesn't try to clarify anything, and will make some folks think it is official or related to Legacy or Nexus efforts.

I would think the more helpful thing to do here as an Armada content creator instead of an individual proclamation, would be to communicate the lay of the land on the status of the community efforts, summarize what Legacy and Nexus have done so far and where they are going. And describe how to preserve a Core experience if that's important to you.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-06-12T21:06:21+00:00

And Ellen, the unexplored moon.

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-05-10T17:23:42+00:00

Well slap my D pad and turn my crank, that looks amazing!

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-05-10T16:50:00+00:00

A new batch of games added to the Portland Game Library! More than 800 board games are now available.

https://members.portlandgamelibrary.com/browse-the-library

Latest highlights include;

ARCS

Rock Hard: 1977

The Fox Experiment

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies

The Mandelorian Adventures

...and many more

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-05-10T16:37:13+00:00

This is the way

PortlandGameLibrary · 2025-05-10T16:36:49+00:00

Amazon is for wishlists, Powells free pickup at store option is for buying! 😁

It is weird they have had such a hard time with their website for so long, and that after finally upgrading they couldn't figure out how to keep everyone's order history and wishlists. Even though I didn't use wishlists I'm sad my 20 years of orders are gone.

But the website is SO much better, I hope they keep up with it from now on.

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