Invisible Geeklist
Darrin Williams
United States
Allen
Texas
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Welcome to my invisible geeklist!
Occasionally, I'll get an idea for a geeklist without really getting an idea for a geeklist.
Well, this is one of those times. I've wanted to do an invisible geeklist for a good long while now, but couldn't come up with a topic. Then it hit me.
The topic is:
“Things you hate to see in a game”
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Edit: #DDDDFF is the color for quote boxes. Thanks Aramis.
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Darrin Williams
United States
Allen
Texas
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Shapes that don't have obvious names
(I made the invisible letters big so you can read them.)
This game has two shapes that I want to call Stars. The only way I can differentiate them is by calling them “The Star” and “The Other Star”.
Maybe, I just need to brush up on geometry, but I don't think repeating 8th grade (again) should be a pre-requisite for playing a board game.
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Darrin Williams
United States
Allen
Texas
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Small Fancy Fonts
I don't want to have to wear my glasses to play your game.
Well, actually, it's gotten to the point where I have to wear my glasses to play almost anything, but there's no reason for you to rub it in.
This game is the worst culprit, because after putting on my glasses and holding the card up to the light, I usually find that it was just flavor text and I didn't have to read it at all unless I want to know that “Luther Martin never speaks without trying the patience of all who hear him.” Hey, that's My specialty!
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Darrin Williams
United States
Allen
Texas
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Halflings
I just don't like Halflings.
I know it'll kill what little geek cred I have, but I don't really like Hobbits, either.
I have no good reason for disliking them. I just think they're over-rated.
If I had hairy feet (and for all you know, I do), I'd wear some shoes.
Or maybe get a wax.
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Darrin Williams
United States
Allen
Texas
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The D4
Calling this a die in an insult to all the other upstanding dice in the world.
It doesn't roll well and it just looks silly. Not only that, but it's potentially dangerous. It's always got a pokey end pointing up.
If I ever pass out on the game table, I just hope there's not a D4 there, waiting for me. In the mean time, I'll be wearing my safety glasses, just in case.
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Darrin Williams
United States
Allen
Texas
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Round Markers
I don't want to get mixed up in the whole "Colonist" vs. "Slave" debate that seems to follow PR around.
My only problem is that the slaves keep rolling off the plantation. My great grand pappy had a similar problem and he eventually had to hire a
I'm not saying that you should pimp your Puerto Rico game like that, but if you do, geekmail me for the variant rules. They keep getting flagged online.
* Portions of this item have been rendered "extra invisible" to avoid the RSP thread. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Board Game: Feudal
[Average Rating:5.92 Overall Rank:2541]
Darrin Williams
United States
Allen
Texas
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Multiple Shades of the Same Color
Feudal has 3 blues and 3 browns. Seriously!
"Blue's turn!"
"No, not Cobalt blue, Sky blue!"
"OK, now Khacki. Oops, I mean Tan."
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Ben Lott
United States
Mason
Michigan
It's a gift...
...and a curse!
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Rules that don't include a goal
This has been a pet peeve of mine for years. I hate when the rulebook tells me "The goal of the game is to have fun" or something retarded like that. I'm sorry, but if your game is good enough I'm going to have fun without being told to, so let's get to the point. How does someone win?!
Even worse are games like the Great Dalmuti where there is no overall reason to play the game. You can't win or lose, you're just playing to play. So you could still be playing 3 months later and no one has won, because you can't win! Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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I am glad that Johnny Jaws is my friend.
United States
Enumclaw
Washington
I know who I am. I'm the ant playin' the ant, disguised as another ant!
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Svetlana
Russian Federation
Moscow
If you are lost, I'll be there to break your trust and ravage all your lust for life.
In the confusion and the aftermath you are my signal fire. Hold me close, 'cause I need you to guide me to safety. The only resolution and the only joy is the faint spark of forgiveness in your eyes, I don't want to wait forever...
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I don't like a very big box for a little components.
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Shane Larsen
United States
Salt Lake City
Utah
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I know Z-Man fixed this problem, but I have the German edition. Not only is it difficult to pronounce the names of the towns, but even more difficult to read them with the white-on-white palette.
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Carl Parsons
United States
Carrollton
Texas
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Of the male variety
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Jody Morgan
United States
Fancy Gap
Virginia
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Goals that don't make sense.
I mean, really, what does it matter who cleans up the most dog poop as long as all the dog poop is cleaned up?
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Subhan Michael Tindall
United States
Portland
Oregon
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Illinois Nazis - I hate Illinois Nazis
BTW, How can there not be a Blues Brothers game?
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Joe
United States
Maple Valley
Washington
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Item is no longer in our database
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United States
Saint Louis
Missouri
"No matter where you are in life or what you have on your plate, never lose sight of the importance of play in your daily life." - Matt Robertson, BGG user: Bixby
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
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James King
United States
North Central Louisiana / No Longer A Resident of the Shreveport/Bossier City Area / Currently I sponsor gaming groups in Monroe & Alexandria, LA.
Louisiana
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'A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.' -- Victor Hugo
'And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.' --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
'As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed. -- Actor Terence Stamp
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
'But now having seen him which is invisible, I fear not what man can do unto me.' -- Anne Hutchinson
'Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.' -- Ambrose Bierce
'Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.' -- Roger Ebert
'Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.' -- Michael Harrington
'Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.' -- Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
'Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.' -- Chuck Palahniuk
'Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.' -- J. G. Ballard
'Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.' -- Ralph W. Trine
'He felt like the invisible boy: When he got to be part of the Mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.' -- Kel Mitchell
'How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?' -- Michael Ignatieff
'I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.' -- Ralph Ellison
'I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.' -- Max Beckmann
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.' -- Jonathan Miller
'I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.' -- Actor Ben Kingsley
'I like music because it's the only invisible art form.' -- Sean Lennon
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.' -- Actor Bruce Davison
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Leslie Taylor
United States
Florida
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I hate when someone gets the rules wrong, and then insists that you explained it wrong and want it to be played that way. Wait... OOPS!
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Board Game: Clear!
[Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
Was George Orwell an Optimist?
United States
Corvallis
Oregon
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I'll just have water, thanks.
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Board Game: Chess
[Average Rating:7.10 Overall Rank:251]
Grant Fikes
United States
Abilene
Texas
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Garry Kasparov as my opponent in an abstract strategy game with no randomness, which he's spent decades devoting his life to in order to get good at it (whereas I've had better things to do with my time, like play New Super Mario Bros. Wii and solve logic puzzles from Japan), while a masked figure tells me that I must win the game in order to live, and if I lose, I get crucified, and if I draw, I get killed quickly and painlessly. Wouldn't you hate to see that, too?
On a more serious note: Eugene Varshavsky.
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Darrin Williams
United States
Allen
Texas
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Thanks, everyone, for keeping this list wonderfully invisible.
It worked out much better than I expected.
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Board Game: Shogun
[Average Rating:7.69 Overall Rank:45]
Jeff Suderman
Canada
Olds
AB
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Box lids that won’t close after you’ve unbundled all the components! I’m tired of pregnant boxes on my games shelf!!
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jack constance
United States
California
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patrick stevens
United States
Los Angeles
California
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patrick stevens
United States
Los Angeles
California
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