You would think at this point, people would know better than to draw down in the presence of Rex the motherfucking Wonder Dog. Sadly, however, this is not the case. Not pictured: Rex operating the rifle with his paws to kill three people with a single shot via a richocheted bullet.

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Someone recently asked me, vis-a-vis my previous comments on Kickstarting board games, if there were any Kickstarters I would recommend. And there is definitely one: the Pandasaurus Games reprint of Tammany Hall. For those who are unaware – which is most of you – Tammany Hall was an extremely-small-print-run board game which has become legendary […]

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Okay, so before the nerd hordes charge with their bat’leths held high (or Mjolnir replicas, or whatever), I’m not going to say I didn’t enjoy watching The Avengers. Indeed, I came out of it feeling truly entertained1. On that score, let us be clear: The Avengers is quite successful. I would particularly mention that the […]

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So apparently this mashup of the Hey Girl meme with Paul Ryan is the new hot thing, and I am nothing if not a slave to trends, so I am participating!

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Okay, that’s an attention-grabber of a post title, I will admit. After all, what I want to talk about might not exactly be a problem with Kickstarter exactly, but it’s definitely an issue. Bear with me. So I was talking with a friend of mine who is a retailer of boardgames, and we were discussing […]

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Black Mage: Does Thomas Mulcair have a good shot of winning the next Canadian election? Is it a better/worse shot than any of the other NDP contenders? I would say yes and I don’t know, respectively. I think Mulcair is perhaps better positioned to leech votes from the centre than any other of the NDP […]

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(previously, slightly less previously) supergp: What game would you use to introduce a young kid to boardgames, and at what age? Start them early (and this isn’t just me espousing the hobby, incidentally – any childhood dev expert can tell you that the problem-solving and analytical skills kids can pick up by playing boardgames will […]

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