Alternatively, I could just be Efka of NPI of board game criticism ;)

三年後才看到超粒方留言😂😂

Table 53 I must admit, I’ve always had really close games of star realms (I say close when you get to 20 authority the next turn would wipe you out). But it’s always fun to discuss what that round made the other player snatch it. And then go for another round, it be completely different and try to figure out the puzzle of how not to die first. It’s always exciting playing it.

@@gormenghast8858 The turns when you're down to really low health can be some of the best. Like if you're on 15 Authority and you go "right, I'm scrapping this decent card to draw a card, and I'm scrapping that one to make you discard 1 more" And you know it makes your deck overall weaker, but you're pushing to try to survive just one more turn longer to hope you get a bit of luck and a nice combo that might be able to bring you back into the game And if you don't... damn, did the best I could. Want another game?

Try Shards of Infinity. The combos you can do there are ludicrous, and it's very close to Star Realms. For me it's clearly the better game, and I have played them both for hundreds of hours. Beware that the digital version is worse than Star Realms unfortunately, especially because it doesn't have matchmaking.

@@RaidenFreeman I will check it out

That doesn't really solve the problem that NPI has with deckbuilders. You can't really interact with your opponent's combos. The only interaction you have is whether to point your damage at an opponent's non-outpost base or to their face.

I do remember this. At the Motel One lobby, right? I think it was my second year at Spiel. I don't remember much about our conversation but I do remember it being very pleasant.

I had wooden coloured blocks and LET ME TELL YOU, best toy ever.

Exactly the comment I wanted to make. However, while we didn't have pizza and had limited toys - that forced us to be creative with them? And building forts was a manifestation of this creativity.

I had wooden toys nailed to the floor

@@goblingon yeah, and hairy hands of nanny

@@goblingon I understood that reference.

Did you mean Legendary (the Marvel one) or the first of the Legendary Encounters series (the Alien one)? The two series are from the same publisher but are subtly different in that Legendary Encounters games are pure cooperative* while Legendary are "semi-coop" since you accumulate a personal victory pile. *) LE: Predator has a competitive mode where you ply as predators hunting humans for points.

@@TorIverWilhelmsen The first Legendary Encounters (Alien). I haven't played Legendary (Marvel, Buffy, Big Trouble, etc.) but I was told it's not as good for some reason. Don't know why.

To be fair, it was orange juice with an added splash of oat milk.

@@NoPunIncluded That might be worse than raw egg...

@@mahna_mahna couldn't really taste the oat milk.

@@NoPunIncluded Didn't it curdle?

Same, it's so good! I love how different all of the characters are, I've come to really enjoy each of them. I don't like playing on PC, especially now that I'm working from home, so I only play on the Switch, but I really hope to see more games like it ported over. In particular, Dicey Dungeons looks like a cute dice variant and should be ported later this year, and I hear Monster Train is really good, though who knows when that'll be ported.

I think it's also out for IOS and coming soon to Android. I've been having a lot of fun with it on XBone via Gamepass, but I don't doubt that having a mobile version would be very good (and simultaneously very very bad).

@@shelby142 Dicet Dungeons is a really neat dice placement game. I got it recently too. You also have to balance inventory space (certain abilities take multiple spaces in your inventory and they have different shapes so you need to make them fit)

He was a great deckbuilder on HS, one of the best. It seems he stopped playing right now. It was really memorable that he and his team won HGG.

@@Reggie1408 - I thought that was pretty clear... I mean, sure, anything can be art. I just never specifically considered that fact in relation to boardgames.

I would like to encourage people to de-escalate their replies. Everyone is on their own journey, discovering things at their own pace.

@@stephenspackman5573 - This is a very odd reply by you. Novels (i.e., writing) are among the things traditionally considered art. So, no, it's certainly not like "never having considering novels (writing) as an art", because even the most uncultured person knows that novels are generally considered art. Then you go completely the opposite direction. Taekwondo, despite being what is referred to as a "martial art", is not a thing that I think most people could even be convinced is an "art" in the sense that one calls writing a novel "art", much less do they consider it such by default. *Art: the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.* One traditionally does not practice taekwondo "primarily for it to be appreciated for its beauty or emotional power". Taekwondo is an "art" more in the sense of... *Art: a skill at doing a specified thing, typically one acquired through practice* ... Which is a very different definition. So I don't really think that you've got any intellectual high ground here considering the fact that you are muddling (intentionally or not) various unrelated definitions of "art" in making your criticism of how I have thought (or haven't thought) about what meets (or doesn't meet) *one of* the *particular* definitions. Because it's hard to imagine that you've given the topic as thorough consideration as you pretend when you can't even parse which definition of "art" you're trying to apply to boardgames.

@@stephenspackman5573 - Also, I'm happy to clarify my thinking for you considering your reply to the creator's comment... Most people don't go around asking themselves, "Is this thing art?", whenever they come across some new thing that some other person has done or made. Usually this requires either a powerful personal experience that makes it obvious to them that this thing is art, or for someone else to suggest to them that this thing might be art. Well, I have had no such powerful experience with a boardgame. And until I had to formulate my original comment here, nobody (including No Pun Included) had ever talked about boardgames in a way that really made me think "art". Honestly, it was my own choice of the word "deconstruction" that made me think of "art" at all. Which is a term implied, but not actually said (that I remember) in this video. And it's not like I rejected the idea. I accepted it immediately. "Oh, yeah, never thought of that. But, sure, that makes sense."... I literally don't know why that response is so scandalizing. Like, if I had denied that boardgames could be art I would get why you would be shocked. But considering that I immediately accepted the premise once it was introduced... Not so much.

@@stephenspackman5573 - I assume you were writing this before you saw my previous reply, but... *I never claimed boardgames weren't art. I simply said that I hadn't really considered the idea until I was writing that comment.* It seems to me that both you and the person who originally questioned me were misreading "had not *considered* the idea before" as "will not *entertain* the idea now". But now that it has been suggested to me I am perfectly fine with the idea of boardgames as art, and I don't think that I ever so much as implied that I was not perfectly fine with that idea.

It's really amazing how much better it works. I didn't properly learn this until I was an adult. And then I see the occasional professional TV/internet chef do it the "wrong" way and I wince. Maybe they've just perfected the edge crack, like they have the one handed crack. Or maybe they just like the crunchy bits.

the BGG store

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There's a lot we don't know about... Edgar.

He's Lithuanian and we were part of the USSR for a long time sadly...

They're GeekUp bit bowls from the BoardGameGeek store

Yes. Neglect.

@@NoPunIncluded That shouldn't have made me laugh, but it did. Now, I have to go catch up on some quality NPI content 😁

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Fort was originally self published by the designer and it was called SPQF. It had a different theme of Roman antropomorphic animals.

@@NoPunIncluded Thanks so much! Love your work.