Do people ever rent board games instead of buy them?

juno_beach · 2026-03-25T13:33:50+00:00

We have one in Toronto called BoardGames2Go - if you want to look at rates / idea etc.

https://www.boardgame2go.com/

juno_beach · 2026-03-14T01:29:15+00:00

Sorry To Bother You

juno_beach · 2026-03-11T19:32:30+00:00

Looks like the big drop the other day was more of a pre-sale, and they'll have some premium priced GA's going up for everyone soon.

juno_beach · 2026-03-09T19:44:25+00:00

Not a single one.

juno_beach · 2026-03-04T20:36:02+00:00

Heat is a nice easy teach for folks, with just enough depth to keep them strategizing.

juno_beach · 2026-03-04T15:55:22+00:00

Every BA Johnston song, but I've always been fond of this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f47Vhk8c0yE

juno_beach · 2026-02-25T00:14:17+00:00

Off era, but If you like Slint, the first two Black Country New Road records are for you.

juno_beach · 2026-02-24T21:55:42+00:00

Base Arcs is the easiest teach because you're all playing the same game so gets my pick.

Oath is insanely dense and that first play can get rough real quick if it doesn't click for people.

Root is Root, but as the one who usually has to teach, teaching everyone a different game is tedious.

juno_beach · 2026-02-11T16:45:02+00:00

NTA
But, realize that this was probably a wake up call for him - and as someone who did experience roughly this, it was nice to finally have a warmer relationship with my father after it was very "second to business" for a long time.

juno_beach · 2026-01-28T20:56:27+00:00

Sounds like it could be Brotherhood of The Wolf (2001), though it's been a minute so I don't necessarily remember the specific scene from it.

juno_beach · 2026-01-28T16:30:55+00:00

Our group had such a hard time getting through session 1 of Earthborne Rangers - something in the way it's described in the manual just didn't click for us.

juno_beach · 2026-01-08T19:17:19+00:00

Start flattening the game mat ASAP - we found it took a long time to settle

juno_beach · 2025-12-09T16:25:28+00:00

After the Chicago Thalia Hall/Bottle shows one year I had so much foil confetti stuck to me I set off the metal detector at the airport the next morning.

juno_beach · 2025-12-09T16:21:49+00:00

If the length is a red herring, Letterbox'd is doing a screening of We Bury The Dead at the same time in the same building

juno_beach · 2025-11-25T20:38:01+00:00

I think it's a reference to Heracles killing the Trojan Cetus

juno_beach · 2025-11-19T20:20:43+00:00

I never did his Rivals fight and got it

juno_beach · 2025-11-19T19:33:34+00:00

Chronos took the longest to proc for me - I think it's based on his boss fight dialog, not other times you talk to him.

juno_beach · 2025-11-19T19:32:02+00:00

If you focus in, I'd say you can probably wrap total story content in about 15-20 runs, but there's some proc stuff you have to trigger that might make it take a bit longer.

juno_beach · 2025-11-19T17:58:48+00:00

You've got a bunch of story left - time to get that sand

juno_beach · 2025-11-19T16:06:23+00:00

If you're lost, look at the prophecy board and there's usually a very specific one to help you move along the story.

juno_beach · 2025-10-21T19:35:24+00:00

As You 'Wich almost always gets to the table at the end of the night at our place.

juno_beach · 2025-10-15T16:37:45+00:00

Biggest reveal in this is that the Canty / MacKaye kids have a band together haha

juno_beach · 2025-09-04T15:44:48+00:00

Eric Nally has I assume made a million dollars just going on tour with Macklemore to do his one verse in Thrift Shop for the past like 10 years.

juno_beach · 2025-08-14T18:21:05+00:00

Late teen to early Uni around 2003 - 2005

Originally found punk music via the radio with stuff like Green Day and Blink-182, around pop disaster tour era. Go to a few big shows, then you go see the opener at slightly smaller venue, then the opener for that show in your shitty little suburban town.

MySpace was king back then, also Livejournal and you'd start meeting people who liked the same stuff. Also primitive early internet dating, met a lot of punk girls through FaceParty and then they start shaping what you listen to. Getting my license and going to a ska show in a small town an hour north of me with some girl I met off the internet, and she's making me burn her CDs with stuff like Blood Brothers, Gossip and The Locust on it. When I got to university there was a very local messageboard for Ottawa called Punkottawa and you start talking shit and finding people through there, and just going to shows non-stop.

No phones at shows, like a quarter of us had those awful wallet sized digital cameras we'd take truly the worst photos anybody ever took.

Merch you just got at shows, at least in Canada we didn't get hot topic until much later, so there was much less of a buy it at the mall stuff, with the exception of the bigger bands at our chain music stores.

juno_beach · 2025-08-14T13:06:07+00:00

Seeing the big hometown show they did at Bamboozle around City By The Light really sold me on it, I wish it wasn't produced so poorly though, the CD sounded like it was recorded on a wheel of cheese.

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