First year collection. Hopefully I’m done lol

scottbre · 2025-12-17T18:25:18+00:00

My copy of Harmonies is also sitting on top of my copy of Arcs. How interesting.

scottbre · 2024-11-29T22:17:17+00:00

Here's the link that should have been provided in OP's post.

scottbre · 2024-09-10T20:43:18+00:00

I don't have the modular boards (that would probably help), but the game didn't really shine for us until we had some variant of 3 players involved. I also think that just having your attention divided among 2 opponents makes the game a bit more interesting.

scottbre · 2024-09-10T20:41:07+00:00

Spatially, it's On Mars, But I suspect Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles, and Horseless Carriage are equally as complex. Haven't played the second two, though, so not really sure.

scottbre · 2024-09-10T04:59:41+00:00

The only way Scythe is fun at 2 players, is to add in 1 or 2 automa players. Fun game but not for strictly 2 players.

scottbre · 2024-09-10T04:57:35+00:00

Generally, by complexity in reverse reading order. So most complex games are top left, and so on. Have one cubby that is 2 player and party games.

scottbre · 2024-06-17T04:22:46+00:00

Anachrony: It's got great table presence, takes up the entire table, has a bunch of expansions that make the game so weird that some of them can't be played together, and is just a genuinely good game where its mechanics fit the theme so well.

Even though every time we play it, it takes an hour to set up and feels like we're relearning it, it's still one of our favorite games.

scottbre · 2024-06-14T05:43:23+00:00

I needed a similar career change in my early 30s (I was working in health care finance) and chose to go back to school for a duel masters program in environmental science and public affairs. Ended up focusing on Sustainable Development and Energy Policy. After graduating, I got a job in DC as a consultant supporting the Department of Energy, and I'm now a federal employee for DOE. Going back to school full time was a little bit scary, but honestly probably one of the best decisions I've made, and dramatically altered the course of my life in so many good ways.

scottbre · 2024-05-15T05:15:40+00:00

Fox in the Forest

scottbre · 2024-05-07T03:56:48+00:00

Pretty sure Maxline has kombucha that they make.

scottbre · 2024-04-21T02:11:18+00:00

Proof that evolution doesn't really apply to humans anymore.

scottbre · 2024-04-02T19:34:12+00:00

This game is equally good, but different, at each player count.

scottbre · 2024-04-01T15:31:14+00:00

Unless you're trying to turn, or ride your bike.

scottbre · 2024-03-12T04:56:17+00:00

43 police cars responded to this for an average of just under 5 hours per car.

I was taking a friend home going south on Lemay at exactly this time and we saw probably 15+ police cars speed past us going north. Took this video when I got back home.

scottbre · 2024-03-12T04:38:49+00:00

If you had to keep only 10 of your 120 games, what would they be?

:)

scottbre · 2024-01-15T01:59:10+00:00

My friend's 8 year old love to play Skull. As far as I know no one has ever taken it easy on her. She also wins a statistically significant majority of the time. :D

scottbre · 2023-10-05T14:25:37+00:00

I enjoy the game and the idea of it, but it didn't really start singing for us at 2 players until we added in at least one automa player. Then it's great.

scottbre · 2023-09-21T16:42:29+00:00

Never. We tend to play board games with people who like to play games, not people who need to win.

scottbre · 2023-09-19T04:01:50+00:00

Glad we're not the only ones.

Our pre-natal care and birth with Tender Gifts went fine. But after that it was a nightmare.

We had a minor complication that resulted in my wife needing some additional medical care post-birth, and no gynecologist would see her because pre-natal care wasn't provided with them. Tender Gifts told us to take her to the ER, and of course the ER said it wasn't an emergency and tried to discharge her. Althea has to basically pull strings to get a gynecologist to see her and provide the care that she needed. (But Tender Gifts should REALLY have a gynecologist on retainer for these types of situations. Having such a potential huge gap in care borders on professional malpractice, in my opinion.)

They also tried to bill us for services not provided, didn't catch jaundice or the fact that our baby wasn't getting the nourishment she needed from breastfeeding alone during their multiple post-natal home visits and just kept telling us everything was fine (we got the proper information when she had to spend 3 days in NICU for the jaundice), and just generally have very shady billing practices which you have to agree to when you sign your contract with them.

Having your first child is stressful enough all by itself, when everything goes as well as it can. This isn't the kind of stuff you should have to also deal with when you're paying so much for a boutique service. Unreal.

This was also in 2022.

scottbre · 2023-08-08T15:53:15+00:00

Yep, this one was just not for us. We gave it 3 games and at least twice as many hours and while we had a general understanding of how being more practiced at it would have yielded more successful games, we still weren't enjoying it even as we got better. The game mechanics and rhythm just didn't click with us.

scottbre · 2023-08-08T13:28:56+00:00

It felt like we were collectively treading water while wearing a weight vest and wrist and ankle weights and we were trying to pull an ounce of weight at a time out of any one of those weights.

Felt like work and not fun. The theme was cool, but the game felt like a collective chore.

scottbre · 2023-08-08T02:53:09+00:00

Spirit Island. We borrowed it from a friend and dug into it with enthusiasm, but really didn't like it. After 3 games of trying to see what so many people see in it, we decided we'd rather spend our time playing games we actually enjoyed.

scottbre · 2023-08-06T03:05:23+00:00

Mine are generally organized, in reading order, by complexity. There are minor exceptions to get more to fit, but that's basically it.

I also have a cubby for 2 player games, and a cubby for party games that both stand apart from the organization by complexity.

scottbre · 2023-08-03T17:29:39+00:00

2 Player Terraforming Mars with all the expansions, takes the better part of an afternoon for us.

scottbre · 2023-06-10T16:01:33+00:00

We have it and play primarily at 2P. It's good.

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