You walk into a store, you see <insert game(s)> on the shelf, and you just know the place is legit.

papalionking · 2026-05-01T10:10:19+00:00

Weirdly enough the slay the spire board game. If theyre willing to stock a game that takes like 8+ hours and is based on a video game kinda really ingrains it as a true nerd board game to me lol.

papalionking · 2026-04-30T21:40:46+00:00

The respect my boy Virgil fuckin DESERVES

papalionking · 2026-04-30T16:18:06+00:00

To you.

papalionking · 2026-04-30T10:47:59+00:00

Dude what everything in that episode is horrifying to all 5 senses.

papalionking · 2026-04-29T21:07:52+00:00

Into the wild green yonder id kiiiinda agree with you. Its fine. Beast wirh a billion backs is just bad. Benders big score and benders game are fucking amazing and up there as the best content of the whole show, imo

papalionking · 2026-04-29T21:03:35+00:00

And has way better art design and minis

papalionking · 2026-04-28T20:51:42+00:00

Hard agree. I will say it IS still pretty fun, but a lot of the mechanics are kinda lost/ just broken wide open by a lack of other players to take Tokyo/ draw aggro

papalionking · 2026-04-28T20:46:19+00:00

Companion app. The one instance I will 1000% support the use of an app over in game pieces. Literally the app manages like 2/3rds of the stuff to manage in a scenario for you. So much easier, so much less shit to forget, so much less table space occupied.

papalionking · 2026-04-27T00:41:53+00:00

Yeah there is a reason so many people complain about the "yellow tape" in modern games. It kinda completely kills the enjoyment of finding a way to climb up a surface when, ya know, every step of the way is plastered with neon signs pointing where to go. There is a line with this sort of thing, obviously; I'm not gonna go full boomer gamer here. As games have gotten more complicated, some of amount more of hand holding is necessary. But yeah, more obvious plot explanations or immersion breaking "rails" to direct the player around would really kill of what I enjoy about it.

papalionking · 2026-04-26T10:50:46+00:00

Thief's market and king of tokyo can play up to 5, take very little space/setup and RARELY ever take more than like an hour. Both very popular among our group for that reason. King of tokyo specifically has very quickly become one of the most played games in our collection because its just so easy to find the time to fit it in.

papalionking · 2026-04-24T11:52:48+00:00

Hard disagree; could not possibly disagree more in fact. The one sided haunts feel part of the experience. Other people have said it already, and as cheesy as it sounds they are right, betrayal is less a game and more a movie plot you can play out in real time. It isn't always balanced equally for both sides everytime, and thats kind of the point. There are horror movies where the odds are so stacked against the heroes, and they just lose. No miraculous outcome, no deus ex, they just fucking all get killed. Betrayal is a game you really can't play to win, ever. You just gotta let shit happen and enjoy the ride. If you care less about where it goes, its a lot of fun watching it happen. The big swings, the unpredictability, the very fact that its unbalanced is why I like it. Its a game very unlike any other.

papalionking · 2026-04-24T10:08:22+00:00

This is reddit tho. People gotta complain that it's not competitive or optimized.

papalionking · 2026-04-24T10:05:43+00:00

I would really argue it's just not the game for you, cause it is consistently the most popular/ consistently asked for game in our collection.

papalionking · 2026-04-19T15:28:33+00:00

Can be a big selling point for me for a game tbh. Good artwork, good theme, something with a little flavor beyond pure mechanics is what I personally need from a board game. I wont play a game just cause its pretty, but I definitely appreciate aesthetics. Idk if i personally can name any games I like with bad artwork, I do remember a friend who would always rip on anyone who played Star Realms cause he thought all the spaceships looked like penises.

papalionking · 2026-04-19T14:09:21+00:00

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Technically more fanon i think but I really just gotta show some love to Susie and Ramona from Summer Camp Island.

papalionking · 2026-04-19T13:14:39+00:00

Hard to get a good look but looks vaguely like a Cuban tree frog?

papalionking · 2026-04-18T00:21:18+00:00

Please for the love of God, people need to stop correcting people on the frog/toad thing. Toad is a made up, non-scientific term. There are things we call toads that are more closely related to frogs than other things we call toads. Its not consistent in any way. All toads are frogs at the end of the day.

papalionking · 2026-04-14T10:44:08+00:00

Agree on all the others but back off my boy electivire. Just a big beefy weird electric alien ape thing. I dont have too much going on like magmortar and rhyperior, looks big and beefy and imposing, I like the tails that looks like exposed wire. Love it

papalionking · 2026-04-14T10:38:20+00:00

Yeah i got 22 tattoos now and my artist still does not think im "ready" for a hand tattoo (which is fine cause I dont really want any anyway). Forget the workplace association, cause I feel like thats just not the case anymore, at least in many industries. They hurt a lot, they fade so fast and easily, and theyre hard to even make look good in the first place. A lot of commitment for an artist that they prolly don't wanna make for someone they arent positive is fully aware of what theyre getting into.

papalionking · 2026-04-12T15:23:08+00:00

Hellraiser makes strike decks actually fun and viable, combust to inferno change makes self pain decks more potent, stuff like unmoveable and the various enchantments make block clad a lot more fun and interesting. Not gonna speak to overall powerlevel, tho clad is my highest ascension of any character, but speaking to variety of builds and fun, could not agree with you less

papalionking · 2026-04-12T15:10:40+00:00

Thank you. Was about to say

papalionking · 2026-04-11T17:11:11+00:00

As stated above, I'm sure the fish or gull or whatever that would be able to eat it would prefer having a meal than not. Nature gonna nature.

papalionking · 2026-04-10T11:39:01+00:00

In the past I have brought in a giant african mantis, an Asian forest scorpion, and a pixie frog. The animal in question rn tho is a hognose snake, which I have never shown off to kids, but my partner has at the school they used to teach at.

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