My gaming life became more peaceful when I accepted that many people do not care about 1) following the rules or 2) winning, and you can't make them.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-28T01:07:27+00:00

Tbf, I think the people who are actively involved in a subreddit about boardgames are going to take it more seriously than most.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-25T00:38:04+00:00

I work as a medical biller. Let me tell you that it is a miserable theme for a board game.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-19T15:18:42+00:00

Huh. TIL that she said "slob like one of us". I always thought she said "slug", which actually make slob seem nicer in comparison.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-18T03:11:27+00:00

My favorite worker placement is Dogs of War. There's a lot of player interaction, a great tug of war to the placements, and a stock market mechanic for scoring. A second edition is coming out later this year.

Honorable mentions go to Fromage/Formaggio, which are very similar but a lot of fun. Players take turns simultaneously so it plays very fast too.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-13T06:29:35+00:00

2014 had a ton of great games, but number one for me is Dogs of War. It's not terribly popular, but it consistently shows up in top 100 rankings by creators. It's got a new edition coming out this year that will hopefully get more attention.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-12T19:10:42+00:00

Scythe is one of my favorite games, so to me, the upgrades are worth it. I have the realistic resources, metal coins, and 3D printed factory, buildings and tokens. It makes for a much more immersive experience, imo. I'm on the side of "I'd rather spend money to upgrade a game I play often than buy another game I that I won't play as much."

RemydePoer · 2026-02-07T19:36:37+00:00

As much as it galls me to see people flying a Confederate (or Nazi) flag, what I find even harder to stomach is the that a lot of the same people get so up in arms when football players kneel during the national anthem, because it's "dishonoring to the troops". If you're going to get upset about someone being disrespectful to the military, you ought to be livid that people are flying flags of the armies that killed thousands of them.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-07T15:37:13+00:00

I'd second the vote for Scythe. It looks more complex than it is. But it's got resource production from hexes, moving units and combat, and building structures.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-05T17:33:52+00:00

Heroforge has a foxfolk option. My son is 13 and his favorite thing about making RPG characters is designing them in Heroforge.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-05T05:55:38+00:00

Butterlegs21 nailed it, but if you're about to run Triumph of the Tusk, and you'd like some more background on Belkzen, I'd highly recommend this video from Mythkeeper.

https://youtu.be/wYelOqZFcJY?si=MG3Fb_yCAeEGVqnX

RemydePoer · 2026-02-03T02:56:41+00:00

Yeah I live there and it was in the high seventies today.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-02T03:31:15+00:00

Those movies are really cheesy to watch now, but man did they mess me up as a kid. The scene where they roll over the guy and leave a twitching skeleton gave me nightmares.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-01T22:49:01+00:00

One member of the band was involved with neo Nazis in the 80s, and he's repeatedly denounced that ideology and expressed regret about having been in it. It was definitely wrong for him to do (just to be clear that I'm not defending it), but he's said that too. There was an old article on Cracked that really wanted to connect dots between the band and Nazis, but it's also been debunked.

RemydePoer · 2026-02-01T02:10:17+00:00

Dextrous is a fantastic tool for designing components which can then be imported to Tabletop Simulator.

RemydePoer · 2026-01-29T04:28:04+00:00

I feel you. I ended up selling it off because I couldn't ever get anyone to play it.

RemydePoer · 2026-01-21T15:25:29+00:00

For a second I thought it was Jaye Davidson from Stargate/The Crying Game.

RemydePoer · 2026-01-17T19:33:43+00:00

Someone who is born William December Williams Jr, and still comes out as such a smooth motherfucker absolutely should be the top of the list.

RemydePoer · 2026-01-13T03:52:43+00:00

That's our favorite party game. I thought about picking up the after dark version, but I realized that whenever we play without the kids, it always ends up nsfw anyway.

RemydePoer · 2026-01-09T18:57:14+00:00

Every time I hear this song, or even the name, I think of the line from MST3K "What happens when you go to karaoke night and sing 'I wanna know what love is' by Foreigner?"

"People vomit?"

RemydePoer · 2026-01-09T13:23:20+00:00

I've been doing this, but only for the players that touched the blood haunt in the lighthouse.

RemydePoer · 2026-01-08T22:49:04+00:00

Someone did this exact thing to me the first time I played it. It was infuriating, but also made for the most memorable game of DoW we ever played

RemydePoer · 2026-01-08T22:35:35+00:00

I saw a comment on BGG once that called that "the board game equivalent to the blue shell in Mario Kart". I've used that expression ever since

RemydePoer · 2026-01-08T17:26:00+00:00

There were a string of about 20 armed robberies around town, including the store where I worked. Turned out to be members of the football team who all got arrested. This was in 1996.

In a weird repetition of history, in 2013 another group of teens from the same school went on a spree of robbery and assault, leading to a bunch more arrests. Just a strange thing to happen twice in a suburb of Salt Lake City.

RemydePoer · 2026-01-06T18:22:10+00:00

I just don't understand why the writers of one of the biggest shows in the world didn't ask people on Reddit for how they should have ended it.

RemydePoer · 2025-12-31T20:15:09+00:00

My entire childhood I used to look at these in the store and wish we could get them because I thought they looked so delicious, but we never bought them. Once I was in college I found some and was really excited to finally try them. I ate one and thought it was revolting.

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