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John OwenUnited States
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I have ranted about copyright here before.
I don't have much to say right now except that this move by Willingham is so important, and I hope that it starts a precedent.
Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain
But now I will tell the lineage and the names of the heroes, and of the long sea-paths and the deeds
Just another bgg blog about playing games.
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You hate BGG so much, why don't you just go ahead and spend all your time on it???? Huh???
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Sep
2023
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John OwenUnited States
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Sometimes, I complain about BGG.
But it's the only website I check daily (usually many multiple times a day) and it generally brings me a bit more joy than grief on the scales of Internet use.
The past few days, I've had fun throwing together some new geeklists.
Here they are all in one place:
Trawlerman's Top Twenty Trick-Takers Tabled
Crawlerman's Current Climbing Crushes
Orlerman's Other Options Outside of Obvious Ock-Ocking/Ombing (Ome Odding)
Postscript: Do you even OG, bruh?
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Also, it's almost October, and that means Slashing Through Cinema 9! - Class of 1999 (Year 9 of the Annual BGG Horror Movie Watching Challenge!). I don't even consider myself a horror fan, and yet every year I get caught up in the madness. It's a fun way to stretch my (imaginary) cinematic muscles and be exposed to films that I wouldn't normally pick for myself. And I keep going back, because while the trash to treasure ratio is probably higher than usual in horror, when I do find a gem, it tends to shine bright.
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Then, it's Noirvember and maybe I'll get back into BurrEato, which I skipped last year. I'm at this weird moment in which I'm excited for so much BGG online interaction, more so than I've been in a long while.
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Then, maybe an Advent/Christmas break, because as excited as I am now, I also know how fickle I am, how my perception of my online use and abuse can shift suddenly and I can feel a stupid suffocating pressure at being online so much.
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Anyhow, that's it. Enjoy the lists. See you around the 'geek.
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John OwenUnited States
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But you're all invited just the same.
NaNoNeGaMo October 2023 - take the pledge! (an annual celebration of the old)
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I saw this ZV thread (linked below) and my first reaction was that this must be a joke/parody, but I looked it up and "coin capsules" are really a thing and really something that board gamers are doing.
Laurel Size for Coin Capsules
Coin Capsules Sizes for Protecting Tokens and Blinging Out Your Game
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Today, I found out that it is common where I live for a tied Tic-Tac-Toe game to be called a "cat's game". Common to the extent that six people in the room knew about this and only two of us had never heard the term before. Neither one of us grew up in upstate NY or had parents that grew up in upstate NY. So, I'm convinced that this is a widespread regional thing, to call a tie a Cat's Game and to draw a 'C' over the board.
Poll: "Kit-Cat-Cannio" Trying to figure out how widespread this thing is.
Edit: If you answered cat's game, I'd love it if you also comment and tell me where you're from!
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Then blockishly mumbling with a set on countenance a piece of scurvy grace, he washed his hands in fresh wine, picked his teeth with the foot of a hog, and talked jovially with his attendants. Then the carpet being spread, they brought plenty of cards, many dice, with great store and abundance of chequers and chessboards.
There he played.
At flush.
At primero.
At the beast.
At the rifle.
At trump.
At the prick and spare not.
At the hundred.
At the peeny.
At the unfortunate woman.
At the fib.
At the pass ten.
At one-and-thirty.
At post and pair, or even and sequence.
At three hundred.
At the unlucky man.
At the last couple in hell.
At the hock.
At the surly.
At the lansquenet.
At the cuckoo.
At puff, or let him speak that hath it.
At take nothing and throw out.
At the marriage.
At the frolic or jackdaw.
At the opinion.
At who doth the one, doth the other.
At the sequences.
At the ivory bundles.
At the tarots.
At losing load him.
At he’s gulled and esto.
At the torture.
At the handruff.
At the click.
At honours.
At pinch without laughing.
At prickle me tickle me.
At the unshoeing of the ass.
At the cocksess.
At hari hohi.
At I set me down.
At earl beardy.
At the old mode.
At draw the spit.
At put out.
At gossip lend me your sack.
At the ramcod ball.
At thrust out the harlot.
At Marseilles figs.
At nicknamry.
At stick and hole.
At boke or him, or flaying the fox.
At the branching it.
At trill madam, or grapple my lady.
At the cat selling.
At blow the coal.
At the re-wedding.
At the quick and dead judge.
At unoven the iron.
At the false clown.
At the flints, or at the nine stones.
At to the crutch hulch back.
At the Sanct is found.
At hinch, pinch and laugh not.
At the leek.
At bumdockdousse.
At the loose gig.
At the hoop.
At the sow.
At belly to belly.
At the dales or straths.
At the twigs.
At the quoits.
At I’m for that.
At I take you napping.
At fair and softly passeth Lent.
At the forked oak.
At truss.
At the wolf’s tail.
At bum to buss, or nose in breech.
At Geordie, give me my lance.
At swaggy, waggy or shoggyshou.
At stook and rook, shear and threave.
At the birch.
At the muss.
At the dilly dilly darling.
At ox moudy.
At purpose in purpose.
At nine less.
At blind-man-buff.
At the fallen bridges.
At bridled nick.
At the white at butts.
At thwack swinge him.
At apple, pear, plum.
At mumgi.
At the toad.
At cricket.
At the pounding stick.
At jack and the box.
At the queens.
At the trades.
At heads and points.
At the vine-tree hug.
At black be thy fall.
At ho the distaff.
At Joan Thomson.
At the bolting cloth.
At the oat’s seed.
At love.
At the chess.
At Reynard the fox.
At the squares.
At the cows.
At the lottery.
At the chance or mumchance.
At three dice or maniest bleaks.
At the tables.
At nivinivinack.
At the lurch.
At doublets or queen’s game.
At the faily.
At the French trictrac.
At the long tables or ferkeering.
At feldown.
At tod’s body.
At needs must.
At the dames or draughts.
At bob and mow.
At primus secundus.
At mark-knife.
At the keys.
At span-counter.
At even or odd.
At cross or pile.
At ball and huckle-bones.
At ivory balls.
At the billiards.
At bob and hit.
At the owl.
At the charming of the hare.
At pull yet a little.
At trudgepig.
At the magatapies.
At the horn.
At the flowered or Shrovetide ox.
At the madge-owlet.
At tilt at weeky.
At ninepins.
At the cock quintin.
At tip and hurl.
At the flat bowls.
At the veer and turn.
At rogue and ruffian.
At bumbatch touch.
At the mysterious trough.
At the short bowls.
At the dapple-grey.
At cock and crank it.
At break-pot.
At my desire.
At twirly whirlytrill.
At the rush bundles.
At the short staff.
At the whirling gig.
At hide and seek, or are you all hid?
At the picket.
At the blank.
At the pilferers.
At the caveson.
At prison bars.
At have at the nuts.
At cherry-pit.
At rub and rice.
At whiptop.
At the casting top.
At the hobgoblins.
At the O wonderful.
At the soily smutchy.
At fast and loose.
At scutchbreech.
At the broom-besom.
At St. Cosme, I come to adore thee.
At the lusty brown boy.
At greedy glutton.
At the morris dance.
At feeby.
At the whole frisk and gambol.
At battabum, or riding of the wild mare.
At Hind the ploughman.
At the good mawkin.
At the dead beast.
At climb the ladder, Billy.
At the dying hog.
At the salt doup.
At the pretty pigeon.
At barley break.
At the bavine.
At the bush leap.
At crossing.
At bo-peep.
At the hardit arsepursy.
At the harrower’s nest.
At forward hey.
At the fig.
At gunshot crack.
At mustard peel.
At the gome.
At the relapse.
At jog breech, or prick him forward.
At knockpate.
At the Cornish c(h)ough.
At the crane-dance.
At slash and cut.
At bobbing, or flirt on the nose.
At the larks.
At fillipping.
After he had thus well played, revelled, past and spent his time, it was thought fit to drink a little, and that was eleven glassfuls the man, and, immediately after making good cheer again, he would stretch himself upon a fair bench, or a good large bed, and there sleep two or three hours together, without thinking or speaking any hurt. After he was awakened he would shake his ears a little. In the mean time they brought him fresh wine. There he drank better than ever. Ponocrates showed him that it was an ill diet to drink so after sleeping. It is, answered Gargantua, the very life of the patriarchs and holy fathers; for naturally I sleep salt, and my sleep hath been to me in stead of so many gammons of bacon. Then began he to study a little, and out came the paternosters or rosary of beads, which the better and more formally to despatch, he got upon an old mule, which had served nine kings, and so mumbling with his mouth, nodding and doddling his head, would go see a coney ferreted or caught in a gin. At his return he went into the kitchen to know what roast meat was on the spit, and what otherwise was to be dressed for supper. And supped very well, upon my conscience, and commonly did invite some of his neighbours that were good drinkers, with whom carousing and drinking merrily, they told stories of all sorts from the old to the new. Amongst others he had for domestics the Lords of Fou, of Gourville, of Griniot, and of Marigny. After supper were brought in upon the place the fair wooden gospels and the books of the four kings, that is to say, many pairs of tables and cards—or the fair flush, one, two, three—or at all, to make short work; or else they went to see the wenches thereabouts, with little small banquets, intermixed with collations and rear-suppers. Then did he sleep, without unbridling, until eight o’clock in the next morning.
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Sam's latest post had me reflecting on the purpose of this blog.
I'm mostly just rambling along in an attempt to understand my own thoughts and emotions. I think about play and about games a lot, and it helps me to write things out sometimes.
But I also mainly started this blog as a place to write up Mancation "After Action Reports".
My very first post here was a write-up of Mancation 2018 - You guys really call it Mancation? And you just live on beer and board games for days?
I've continued to write about getting together with friends every year since.
2019 - Wayne Wins the Poconos Push It Championship Cup
2020 - Just Another Manic Mancation (2020 Edition)
2021 - Mancation 2021
(and I've written and posted a handful of other reports about similar smaller made-up "events" with the same friends, like PartheCon and Wet Saturday Meatfest, etc.)
I'm extremely late in posting any sort of Mancation 2022 Report so I'm not going to write anything. I'm not going to write about the games (though I already did if you look back through last year's new-to-me list). I'm not going to include thoughts on thoughts on food, activities, etc. I'm just going to post a lot of photos. Here goes.
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Seeing this made my day. I would have been happy with any new rating, but an 8! An 8! Derek (someone I don't think I've had any previous interaction with and don't know how he found the game) has logged 5 plays and rated my game an 8! Thanks, Derek. I'm glad that my little game found its way to you and I'm even more glad that you and your wife are enjoying it together.
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Ratings are stupid. Here's my proposed new personal rating system. It's just as stupid as the rest.
29
Jun
2023
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John OwenUnited States
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I recently rated my 1,000th game on boardgamegeek.
To celebrate, I'm going to slowly re-rate all of the games I've already rated according to the following scale:
10 - I love this game and want to keep playing it for the rest of my life. I've also logged at least two dozen plays on BGG.
8 - I love this game and/or am currently infatuated with it. I still haven't played it at least two dozen times. I want to get to know it better and I'm probably the one suggesting to play it.
6 - This is a good game and I like it. I could easily be talked into playing it.
5 - This is a good game and it's not for me. It would take a little work to convince me to play, but most of the time I'd still say yes to a play.
3 - This is not a good game and not for me, but I could probably still be talked into playing it because I'm a sucker. Even so, you'll probably have to beg or the circumstances must be exactly right.
1 - I hate this game and never want to play it again.
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This six point system seems to make sense to me and tracks onto how I've already been thinking about games.
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