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Card Game Review - You Are The Maniac
Today's review is more of a precautionary tale, a sort of How Not To Kickstarter. Unfortunately, given the number of people who are willing to throw money at anything that passes by like a rich kid in...
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TV Show Review - Oz
In my constant attempt to write about things that are absolutely not games, here's a review of an old TV show that you can't get on Netflix and won't see on regular cable. It's one of the first...
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Movie Review - Seven Psychopaths
Being a huge fan of crime movies, especially the quirky kind made popular by True Romance and Pulp Fiction, I ignored my rule about not going to the movies to go catch the new crime-almost-a-comedy...
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Board Game Review - Wizard Kings
I have to do penance. Horrible, painful penance. Because I have done the thing that makes reviewers everywhere look like greedy douchebags - I asked for a game, got it in the mail, and never reviewed...
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TV Show Review - Revolution
The best TV shows have a message, a statement that gives you something to ponder, a lesson to teach. And sometimes, even bad TV has a message. Like Revolution, in which the message is 'only attractive...
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Event Review - Bed & Breakfast
I've been married a while now. It's eighteen years this coming Saturday, and we wanted to spend the night at a bed & breakfast nearby. The problem was that there was a huge wedding party at the...
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Updated Game Review - Glory to Rome
Cambridge Games Factory is kind of an interesting little game company. For a publisher with such a small library, they have some surprisingly good games,especially considering the fact that their art...
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Comic Book Review - Transmetropolitan
Transmetropolitan sounds like it could be really gay. And not 'gay' the way we say it when we mean something is lame, but 'gay' the way we say it when we're describing a guy who likes to wear hot pants...
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Video Game Review - Borderlands 2
I was going to review the Schlock Mercenary board game tonight, but I can't because I haven't played it. I meant to play it last week, and then I didn't, because I was playing Borderlands 2. Then I was...
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Timekiller Review - Going Back To School
Going back to school when you're a full-grown adult with a day job and teenagers is just about as much of a headache as you probably think it is.I've been a graphic designer for almost 15 years, and I...
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Nothing Review - Not Doing Anything
The toughest thing about trying to update three times a week is that sometimes I run out of stuff to write about. Want to hear about what I had for lunch? Should I review the egg & cheese on...
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Abstract Game Review - Serpent Stone
I know, you're all amazed. You're saying, 'holy crap, it's a game review! At this game review website! What will they think of next? Cheese on a cheese sandwich? Is there no end to the...
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Observation - Rise of the Dead
Remakes of classic old movies are not a big deal any more, except when they resonate with us on a personal level. The remade Star Trek was cool, but it was better for those of us who watched William...
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Book Review - World War Z
Just a few days ago, I was talking about how zombies are on the upswing, and I mentioned a book called World War Z. It sprang to mind then because I had just finished reading it. It's very good. It's...
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Board Game Review - Thunderbolt Apache Leader
This here is another review by my dad, who I call Dad, and you may call Mister Drake.A bit of autobiographical background. I walked out of a college class in 1967 to join the army. I hated the...
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Rant - Screw Your FLGS
'Friendly Local Game Store.' Like your local game store is Spider-Man. Man, I get sick of hearing that. And abbreviating it 'FLGS', like that will make it all cute, is even worse.I've been in some game...
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Comic Book Review - Chew
I'm at BGG Con all week. Yeah, I know, but I'm working for Asmodee. The con is twenty minutes from my house and I'm getting a paycheck, so what the hell, I'll show up. Happily, my boss has made me a...
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Board Game Review - Archipelago
Asmodee understands that theme is important for gamers. That's why, when they make a game, they use the same exact theme for every fourth game. Settling the New World from Europe may have been done...
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Movie Review - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Ask the average American what the Civil War was about, and they might tell you slavery. Some (especially throwback rednecks who think the South should rise again, as if that would be anything other...
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Holiday Report - Thanksgiving
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Hopefully you got stuck at a relative's house after a really long, exhausting drive, then got to eat tons of overcooked, dry turkey and listen to your cousins...
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