Games
The Art of Trolling 4: Reductio ad Absurdum with Games Workshop Superfans
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 “if you believe X, then this totally absurd thing Y would logically follow, so, stop believing X.” This doesn’t necessarily…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 2: Up Next, Nurgle
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 the end results of the endless streams of time, effort, and, I suppose, cash that has gone into this hobby to…
Read MoreMini Board Game Reviews 7
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 these a score on how much *I* like these games, but all this is just, like, my opinion, man:…
Read MoreMini Board Game Reviews 6.5 – Indoor Survival Summit 2019
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 board gaming. This year we stayed at a new, ridiculously huge, airbnb that was right on the water…but we still…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 1: Starting out with Skaven
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 manuals, ASL expansions, and metal minis waiting for a coat of paint would have to wait till adulthood. When I finally…
Read MoreMini Board Game Reviews 6
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 these a score on how much *I* like these games, but all this is just, like, my opinion, man:…
Read MoreMini Board Game Reviews 5.5 – Fall Game Retreat Special
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 just as good as we only play games with each other when we go to the cons anyway. Due to…
Read MoreRe-ZORK X: Alicia and Brady’s Halloween Hitler-hunt
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 wasn’t the very first instance of such a game, it was unquestionably the first success in interactive fiction, and phrases…
Read MoreMini Board Game Reviews 5
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 guide to give these a score on how much *I* like these games, but all this is just, like, my…
Read MoreMini Board Game Reviews 4
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 guide to give these a score on how much *I* like these games, but all this is just, like, my…
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