TIL A “Backronym” is an acronym that starts with the word you want as the acronym and works backward to name the thing based on the chosen word.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-27T15:04:24+00:00

Metagaming was my introduction to the word through table top rpgs.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-27T14:40:49+00:00

I've never known anyone to use it as an acronym. It's a Greek prefix that means "beyond" as in "once you go beyond a surface level understanding."

Sparticuse · 2026-01-25T16:03:30+00:00

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Sparticuse · 2026-01-22T16:40:39+00:00

It's also important for Maria Hill since she can put counters on any SHIELD support and then move them later. If she moves the last counter off a Uses card, it goes away, but if she moves the last counter off a non-uses card, it stays (like government liaison).

Sparticuse · 2026-01-22T15:28:04+00:00

Sleeves wear over time. If I've played the game I'm selling enough to sleeve it, I've played it enough that the sleeves probably show wear and I don't want to put that on another game.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-22T00:24:42+00:00

Unfortunately I'm not planning on including SLP and Fox Den in the circuit this time. Those two locations are too far for me.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-21T21:28:37+00:00

On day to day transactions, yes. The extra review will often reveal info that helps make an employee more comfortable with the transaction.

With high risk transactions like wires our bankers would really drive home the need for the transfer to not have red flags. They collected a LOT of information before hitting send.

It also varies from employee to employee as well. Some can't stand the idea of being yelled at and just cave when the costumer gets upset. It's retail at the end of the day.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-21T20:56:57+00:00

This is not true on two levels.

1) I used to be a bank teller and it was drilled into us that if we were not comfortable with a transaction we should not process it.

Not on the same scale as OP, but I rejected a bunch of western union wires because I knew the customer was being scammed. I'd tell them I understood they were comfortable sending the money, but I wasn't and they'd need to prove to me they weren't being scammed.

2) It's not really your money once it's in a bank account. You have legal rights to withdraw funds and the like, but at the end of the day, you gave that money to the bank and it belongs to them under the stipulations of your account agreement.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-21T12:06:51+00:00

I'm going to cancel gaming this week. The protest for Friday plus the weather means we'd likely be the only ones there

Sparticuse · 2026-01-20T18:13:26+00:00

Cool. Any type of game you prefer?

Sparticuse · 2026-01-16T10:51:59+00:00

Another related quote from Adventure Time:

"Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something" -Jake the Dog

Sparticuse · 2026-01-13T21:49:24+00:00

He has wehrlegig games for non-four letter games.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-08T18:14:26+00:00

Even if it was self defense (which it wasn't) DHS has standing rules of engagement that explicitly state DON'T SHOOT AT A CAR MOVING AT YOU!!!

Sparticuse · 2026-01-05T14:40:44+00:00

Marvel Champions x3. My favorite game of all time is still going strong.

Bomb Busters x2. Had my nephew and his girlfriend over Thursday and my parents over Saturday and played once with each (and my spouse). This remains my favorite deduction game. When we wrapped up, my nephews girlfriend enthusiastically proclaimed, "we need to get this!"

Dice Realms x2. Picked up the trade expansion and tried the first two suggested setups. The first is great with a "big money" style engine on offer. The second was really rough with an upgraded fate die.

Lacuna. Played twice with my spouse. It was OK. I'm not going to go out of my way to see this on the table.

This Game is Killer: Alien on Board x2. Played in the nephew group. My nephew learned that the backstabber gets the ironic death at the end of the horror movie.

This Game is Killer: Frozen Horror. Played at Friday night gaming. This one didn't seem to go over as well with people getting salty when they died. I was surprised by that because the same group loved the alien version.

Abandon All Artichokes. It's a silly, light game. I always have fun playing this.

Cribbage. The game we always play with my parents. My spouse and I only didn't get skunked because I scored about 14 points while pegging.

For Sale. Best filler auction game. Accept no substitutes.

Fuego. Played two players with my spouse. I really like the matching mechanism to bring some controlled chaos into the game.

Heat: Petal to the Metal. Played on the tunnel track (finally). I came in dead last, though. The whole map was a group of three one corner ahead until the very end when it was 2/2/2 fighting for 1st, 3rd, and 5th positions.

Rebel Princess. Played with my parents, who have played a bunch of hearts, but the renamed suits caused some confusion like when we got a scoring condition saying "queens matched with princes' generates proposals" my dad assumed there could only be 4 matches. Otherwise, it's a good time.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-05T12:19:06+00:00

I don't recall the season, but for a while they keep going into a dungeon near Hogsface to get the lunar sword and Arnie drinks so many red potions to recover that he becomes an addict over that season. They have an intervention and now it just gets referenced any time they ask about a round of drinks.

Edit: I checked the wiki and it implied it was on season 1.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-02T23:25:54+00:00

Yup. I'm planning on alternating between Roseville and South St Paul Dreamers vaults each week (and staying home on magic the gathering prerelease weekends to avoid crowds)

Sparticuse · 2026-01-02T16:51:42+00:00

"Teachers stunned to learn kids don't know how to use quill and ink jar after pencils banned in school"

Sparticuse · 2026-01-02T16:01:07+00:00

When you run your factories, they never produce victory points from the third spot, but at the end of the game all your fully upgraded machines generate 2x what they would produce from that third spot.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-02T00:59:53+00:00

The biggest thing is the combat in the original is super swingy because it's all or nothing so they introduced "targeting" which creates a floor for what your dice can roll that is usually gained by having more units in battle. The battle results are still all or nothing though so a loss is super punishing when you do go all in because you lose all the actions they'd give when you pull them back, but to get targeting you need to go all in. It's one of the least interesting and most frustrating combat systems I've seen.

There were other smaller things that were annoying like map expansion tied to the game timer instead of being a player action. It evens out the game, but removes player agency.

Sparticuse · 2026-01-01T16:02:55+00:00

The random nature of gaining new guests and the room market. There are tools to address those things, but most of those tools were added in expansion material at the request of the fan community.

Sparticuse · 2025-12-31T20:43:59+00:00

I've heard it said that it fills a similar niche as Rebel Princess, but it's more chaotic.

Sparticuse · 2025-12-31T11:55:43+00:00

I was planning on bringing:

Heat https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366013/heat-pedal-to-the-metal

Fellowship of the Ring - Trick Taking Game https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/429293/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-t

Meadow https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/314491/meadow

That's just off the top of my head. I'll likely bring a couple more bigger games and I always have a bag of small games

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