First, holy cow, what a luxurious game experience this is…we were hooked after the very first play! RETURN TO DARK TOWER, a full-on remake of the classic, by @RestorationGame. Plays like a board game, feels like an rpg. Outstanding all around!
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Next, this very simple game plays a bit like Tetris, you try to make a patchwork quilt and collect buttons. Simple to learn but addictive as heck, we can’t stop playing it. Just finished a game, in fact! PATCHWORK by @Asmodee_USA. You will enjoy this a lot!
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Next, this is our favorite so far of the @FunkoGames Disney park games. All are fun but some are a bit more for kids…this one manages to grab the vibe of the ride incredibly well, and has real strategy. The art and design are top-notch!
HAUNTED MANSION-CALL OF THE SPIRITS! 4/
Next, the incredible UNMATCHED by @RestorationGame and @MondoNews! Two player arena combat, with characters from myth, literature, and pop culture, all combinable, one of the FUNNEST games ever. Can’t stop!
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Then, we love this, arena fighting with Disney characters, DISNEY SORCERER’S ARENA, EPIC ALLIANCES. This game has astounding balance, suspense and replay value. Fight Gaston with Mickey, Stitch with Ariel, and it plays like a dream! From @TheOpGames!
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Next is Tsuro, by @CalliopeGames, just a gorgeous, simple abstract game, but with deep strategy and replayability. This is the fancy new collector’s edition, but there are lots of versions to try!
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And finally, for board games, we just got @DiceThrone and Marvel Dice Throne, from the nice people at @roxleygames and @TheOpGames, and I have to say, after just one game, we are totally hooked. It might be a new top five game! Gorgeous and fun as heck!
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And finally, for the rpg crowd, we cannot recommend THE ONE RING by @FreeLeaguePub enough. It feels like playing the actual Tolkien books…magnificent design, mechanics, and story. Just get it!
So, that’s it for today because @RocketSpouse is taking me out for birthday seafood. :)
All of these games are highest recommendation, you can’t go wrong with any of them. As always, these are my real opinions, not paid by anyone!
I have a short little story of a thing that happened yesterday. I don't know what the message is, but it gave me a lot of feelings.
As many of you know, we live in a small town on the Oregon coast. There are a couple grocery stores and one variety store called Bi-Mart.
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So we went to Bi-Mart, which is a local chain that is very casual and friendly and less corporate than a lot of national chains. We went to buy key fob batteries and some planters for my garden.
While shopping, there was this older couple there, in their seventies, I'd say.
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The man was oldschool in all ways, crew cut, quite fit with big muscles and a tan from working outside. Wife was pretty and petite and soft-spoken.
He was NOT soft-spoken.
He was quite loud, and got mildly annoyed at seemingly everything.
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Every year on his birthday (which is today), I write a little letter to @JoeQuesada, wishing him health and happiness for him and his family. We have not spoken in person in years.
In that note, every time, I thank him for asking me, out of nowhere, to pitch for Deadpool.
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Because I had a comics comedy column on CBR and I made him laugh. He used to read the column on the phone to friends. Garth Ennis didn't have email, so he called him long distance to read one about Garth TO Garth.
Even when I made fun of JOE HIMSELF, he would laugh about it.
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So every year, I say something to the effect of, "Thank you for taking a chance on me, and for opening the door that had made my life's dream come true over and over."
And he always says something humble and sweet, that I make it happen myself.
I have been thinking this forever but this morning it really hit me.
@stephenking is a badass.
Just a combustion engine. Love that guy.
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There have been a dozen times where the thing getting me through a tough time was simply having a Stephen King novel or anthology or movie adaptation to enjoy.
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When I was a kid, the very first novel I ever read (I was probably a little young for it) where the cast was all female and took all roles from villain to tragic hero and everywhere in-between was Carrie. To this DAY, I still haven't read many novels that can make that claim.
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I hear all the time, and have thought it myself, why does the world fear and hate mutants, but love the scary-looking oddballs in, say, the Fantastic Four?
Here is a thought about that.
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The Fantastic Four comes to save you.
You look out, and you see standing around you;
A woman who disappears
A man on fire
A rock-like golen creature
and the ultimate stretchy body horror.
OR.
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You look out and see
A great-looking guy with sunglasses
A beautiful woman with a cool fire bird effect
A goddess controlling a storm
A slightly hairy Canadian.
Why are citizens afraid of THIS four, and not the others?