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Monday I played Dragonwood and Citadels.

I really enjoyed Citadels! I’d enjoy playing it again!

It’s easy to see why I didn’t like Dragonwood. Thinking back…

• It was all about getting victory points (I find them to be rather artificial because… well, they are)
• I was rolling D6’s that only has numbers 1-4 on it (1,2,2,3,3,4) that hurts my DnD soul… and I totally didn’t realize that nuance for a while, until I was crazily not rolling an average of 3.5 but an average of 2.5, which was a VERY important detail!).
• The creature cards were pretty and kinda cute, which was.. cute I guess
• The players didn’t much play against one another. There are cards in the center that we’re all trying to compete to get, which was most of the interaction
• There was a lot of waiting around trying to get lucky with the cards (finding straights, flushes, and of-a-kind matches), and with the dice

Cunk on Life is so funny!

Tonight at Juku’s monthly gaming night, I played The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, a rather fun trick-taking game!

Moreso, Abigail came and really enjoyed playing with the other kids there!

It was a win of a night!

At Monday gaming I played Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game for the first time. It felt like I was almost entirely playing my own game of building and only occasionally interacting with the other players. The cards and dice and such are fun, with nice quality images and such. It felt like there was a bit of slightly clunky artifice built into the game, scoring points for various things, but still it was fun learning the game. And it was certainly fun playing with friends.

I’ve been playing board games with a new group of friends lately. It’s been great!

Last night, we played:

The Mind – Cards are numbered 1-100. Players have to wordlessly try to fill the discard pile in the proper order. Fun and so easy to learn.

Love Letter – Card game with about 10 characters, each with a power. By carefully noticing what’s being played by others, you try to guess what card they have in their hand and knock them out. Mix of luck and careful observation!

Captain Sonar – a 4 player vs 4 player game where 2 submarine crews try to destroy the other sub. Thrilling, and a little complicated in how the players have to work together to drive the sub to victory.

Here’s a fun retro movie review site run by a friend: Will Turntale

He reviews in print and audio flix like the 1990 Robot Jox and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Fun stuff!

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I rewatched Avengers Endgame. When I first watched it in the theaters, I thought it was fun and my buddy really didn’t like it. I rewatched it recently and, yeah, while it’s easy to get wrapped up in all the fights and explosions, it’s got lots of holes and incomplete, messy writing. Since they had total freedom to do ANYTHING, like kill off any characters, break timelines and such, it could have been so much better.
Darn, I thought I was going to be treating myself to the pinnacle of the Avengers series and instead I kept grumbling “Ugh, another sloppy bit?”

The Murderbot Diaries is a really good book series! I just finished the second of six books. I picked it up because I saw it won some awards and, yeah. The NPR review captures the essence well but is a tiny bit spoilerish so I’d say to just dive in, or read the review

Two words: Cunk on Earth!
First I thought it was silly, then kinda fun, now my sides hurt!

I’ve just got to say that Ryan Reynolds’s Free Guy is my kind of movie! I saw it on the flight back from Florida to see my folks.