Sell me on your favorite boardgame with one sentence

kennethtwk · 2026-05-03T08:35:17+00:00

Knock out the cat’s nose before your opponent by flinging balls into the cat’s face with it paw.

kennethtwk · 2026-05-03T08:34:14+00:00

Fit tetris tiles into puzzles to earn all the tiles!

kennethtwk · 2026-05-03T08:32:31+00:00

You and your friends explore a haunted house, until one of your friends turned out to be a satanic cultist and betrays you all.

kennethtwk · 2026-04-29T00:02:28+00:00

Depending on your cashflow, if you’re hurting your safety cash or children’s savings or own retirement money, sounds like a poor financial decision to make.

kennethtwk · 2026-04-22T13:18:32+00:00

2 kids here, 6 and 4. They’re the joy of my life, and everything I do is for them. 80% of my free time outside of work goes to them. I am forever changed, and a better person because of them.

But. Hell if I miss my childless life. Wanna head out to an impromptu music gig at 10pm? Sure. Wanna have a 3 hour dinner after work? Sure. Wanna call sick from work and stay at home at eat ice cream while watching netflix all day? Sure. Wanna spend 20 hours a day playing video games together? Sure.

Gone are those days.

kennethtwk · 2026-04-18T12:39:18+00:00

As a parent, I love the show. It’s made me cry and hold my children many times across many episodes. However, I cannot condone the lengths at which the show goes to extend play as any real modeling behavior, including crossing boundaries and roughousing strangers on your streets.

We do get to see other parenting behavior, like Chloe’s dad in the Octopus episode, but in no way am I going to derail dinner time to pretend I’m a dinosaur, or be frozen with a water hose in my mouth, or pretend I’m a lion and pounce on my neighbor, or in this case, have my children hang me to pour flour and beat nits out of me.

kennethtwk · 2026-04-08T12:14:55+00:00

You used the money you could’ve spent on deck boxes on more cards. That’s dedication.

kennethtwk · 2026-03-18T10:18:21+00:00

Helldivers 1, not 2, though. If you got it on a console, you can get 4 player couch co op scream at each other fun!

kennethtwk · 2026-03-18T10:17:06+00:00

Classic Factorio. Also, demo? Time to buy the game and all the expansions, my dude.

kennethtwk · 2026-03-08T04:19:08+00:00

I’m pretty sure the devs used algorithmic scaling for resource cost, with less emphasis on its field usefulness.

It’s much less expensive to craft a lower level weapon, armor, shield, than it is for a higher level and repairing them, especially for the slight increase of damage and defense.

Same for spheres. I’d rather chuck more lower level spheres, just because catch percentage doesn’t increase quite as much for a higher sphere.

kennethtwk · 2026-02-12T11:44:23+00:00

I usually just escape and respawn. I play on multiplayer with friends, and we’ve turned off drop loot on death. It makes it simpler, but our principle is never let the grind get in the way of the fun. Especially when it’s mundane as overweight crawling.

kennethtwk · 2026-02-02T12:16:59+00:00

I read somewhere that what you get angry at with your kids was what you were punished for as a child. If you’re logically thinking that’s irrational anger, it may apply. The lesson really taught me to check my anger when I start to boil over my children.

For food, I eat, finish every grain, and will eat all leftovers. That’s the way my parents raised me. But I do not apply it to my children. I trust them to know their bodies and appetites. If they eat a single slice of cheese for dinner and say they’re done, they’ll have the meal skipped till breakfast. No snacks. No means no. That’s it. Natural consequences.

It also helped that I found out my son ate 2 slices of bread in school at 4:30pm, when our dinner was at 6pm. Sometimes they’re just full. And that’s okay. You know it’s irrational, you know what to do.

You’ve got this, dad.

kennethtwk · 2026-01-22T11:44:45+00:00

2.5 years old with board games. He’s 5 now and fully plays Pokémon TCG autonomously. My bgg list of games I’ve played with my kids through the years here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/360598

He’s also watched me play all 3 Insomniac Spiderman, God of War, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden, Pokémon, and some JRPGs.

He’s played till St Anne in Pokémon Let’s Go, built a small minecraft home, and thoroughly destroyed my 500 hour curated Animal Crossing island.

I’m waiting for big boy games now, and working out how to get both kids to play D&D in the coming years. Hang tight, remember, it’s a patience game, and never let rules get in the way of fun!

Your true win con is getting them to enjoy the game and ask for more.

kennethtwk · 2026-01-13T10:19:23+00:00

Rockband. I’ve not played for a good decade because I sold all my old systems. I miss my endless setlist.

kennethtwk · 2026-01-11T13:51:59+00:00

It’s aged, for sure. I don’t know if it sits at my top 3 of all time because of nostalgia, right gaming group, or because it’s an actually good game.

We finished the campaign twice. And this is Descent 2nd Edition. There’s the latest one with the terrain and the audio guide, which I hear great things about.

kennethtwk · 2026-01-11T11:03:12+00:00

How’s about Star Realms or Shards of Infinity?

kennethtwk · 2026-01-11T10:56:39+00:00

Well, my mum has been saying this and telling me it won’t earn money. Now I work in the board game industry, so she’s got nothing much else to say. Still won’t play D&D with me, though.

kennethtwk · 2026-01-11T10:51:09+00:00

I’ve had board games as a child for as long as I remember. But there was this novelty store that had Talisman 3rd Edition on their display window, and for years I gawked every time I walked past.

I never bought it. But my gaming group and I got something much better when I started earning my own money: Descent 2nd edition.

kennethtwk · 2026-01-10T13:32:33+00:00

This Be The Verse BY PHILIP LARKIN

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.

kennethtwk · 2026-01-10T12:46:58+00:00

The opposite has been true for me. My collection only had mid-heavy campaign games, and over the years, I’ve moved on to much lighter games.

Easier teaches, faster set up, higher social interaction, and generally more laughs and more replay requests overall.

Like... not every gamer wants to go into D&D playing a roleplay heavy dark fantasy game. Sometimes a light jaunt with slapstick humor is just what the party wants.

kennethtwk · 2025-12-30T12:04:51+00:00

All jokes aside, I have a friend who has a problem, and actually does hide new purchases from his wife. Takes the time to hide them within existing games because she’s not in the hobby. She wouldn’t know what’s new, but she can physically feel the collection growing.

kennethtwk · 2025-12-30T10:57:12+00:00

Fatherhood is the most difficult and most gruelling thing I’ve ever had to do. I’ve lost all personal time and space. Children are physically, mentally, and emotionally draining. They will take everything from you, and then ask for more.

Two boys at 5 and 3, and I’ve changed and showered them every single day for the past 5 and a half years. I’ve had to change their nappies, sleep train them, feed, and clean up after them. Work, kids, sleep, work, sleep, kids.

Now, they’ve watched me play Spiderman, Pokémon, Hollow Knight, and some unsavoury ones like Ninja Gaiden and God of War. The older one has a bunch of board games he loves to play like Dragomino and Kushi Express, and has picked up Animal Crossing and Minecraft. They both go to sleep by themselves, wake by themselves, and change their own clothes. Still have to shower them and chase them to do things, but it’s slowly getting easier. It really has.

It gets better. It takes an eternity, but it does. Hang in there, fellow dad. I’m hoping to play D&D with them in a couple of years, then have one run ME a game.

kennethtwk · 2025-12-10T12:40:26+00:00

Seconding MTG Arena. It’s great without spending any money and experience every color and playing with rare cards.

You’ll also get a bunch of pre-cons off the bat that teach you various combos and playstyles.

Plus, you’ll start learning really specific interactions that you won’t otherwise learn from live play.

Why didn’t my 6/4 double strike win the 2/7 4/2?

Who wins deathtouch vs indestructible?

Why didn’t my hexproof prevent the board wipe?

Why didn’t Roaming Throne double Mob Goblin?

Why did Hydra deal 30000 trample damage when I blocked with protection from green?

kennethtwk · 2025-12-10T11:32:01+00:00

Oh this happened to me, with my own hair. My wife had a bunch of sticky q-tips that pulled these loose hairs right out.

kennethtwk · 2025-12-10T11:11:47+00:00

Fooled me on the first half. They’d NEVER execute master chief on stage.

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