Today we will look at one of the most powerful tools in your troll arsenal--reductio ad absurdum, ie, reducing someone's argument to an absurd position. Reductio ad absurdum is an argument technique that basically says …
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Posts written about games: tabletop, war, card, board, computer and others.
Painting in Miniature 2: Up Next, Nurgle
July 16, 2019
Two years ago (February, 2017 to be exact) I boldly went into one of the final unexplored (for myself) frontiers of nerdy-ass hobbies: I started painting miniatures. This series is an attempt to document …
Mini Board Game Reviews 7
July 3, 2019
Here are some quick reviews of all the new games I’ve been playing lately. You can see the full A-Z list of past reviews HERE. I am using the following Board Game Geek rating guide to give …
Each Spring, for a while now, I have gotten together with a group of friends at the Lake of the Ozarks...and proceeded to spend the entire weekend indoors in a flatulent-green hazed cloud of sleep-deprived …
Painting in Miniature 1: Starting out with Skaven
February 19, 2019
I suppose I've always been miniature-painting-curious--even all the way back to my first trip into a game shop in junior high. Unfortunately, none of my friends played games back then, so the cool-ass D&D …
Mini Board Game Reviews 6
February 6, 2019
Here are some quick reviews of all the new games I’ve been playing lately. You can see the full A-Z list of past reviews HERE. I am using the following Board Game Geek rating guide to …
Mini Board Game Reviews 5.5 – Fall Game Retreat Special
December 3, 2018
This fall, instead of heading down to the big Boardgamegeek Con in Texas, my game group and I got an AirBNB in Saint Louis and played all our games there. We figured it would be …
Re-ZORK X: Alicia and Brady’s Halloween Hitler-hunt
October 31, 2018
In the early days of computing, before Graphical User Interfaces were commonplace, nerds still needed games to play on their primitive computers. Thus the text based interactive fiction game was born. While the Zork series …
Mini Board Game Reviews 5
October 30, 2018
Here are some quick reviews of all the games I’ve been playing lately. I will periodically move these titles down to the full A-Z list found HERE. I am using the following Board Game Geek rating …
Mini Board Game Reviews 4
August 31, 2018
Here are some quick reviews of all the games I’ve been playing lately. I will periodically move these titles down to the full A-Z list found HERE. I am using the following Board Game Geek rating …