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  1. BoomMF

    Ace Frehley - RIP

    I have Kiss Meets the Phantom on laserdisc. Have come dangerously close to mounting it on my wall over the years.
  2. Pretty much agree. And I can list about 10 BB pedals that deserve a spot on a pedal board. In 2025, weve nailed BB alts, you dont need a boutique solution. (But I love boutique solution culture for a lot of other reasons.)
  3. Way back in November of 2016 I put myself on the wait list for an Analogman King of Tone. My number cam up and I ordered it in February 2019. When you order and clear your name from the wait list, you have the option of going right back on and ordering another. I had forgotten I did this and last month Analog Mike let me know my name is at the top again, so I ordered another and it arrived last week. So that ridiculously long initial wait time of almost two and a half years has become almost seven. Bruh. CSB
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    Ace Frehley - RIP

    RIP to the goat. Damn.
  5. Twilight Imperiumn, is like a Mt. Rushmore game but I've never played it. I'm not avoiding it, it just hasn't happened. This news might remedy that. (I'm not saying digital can replace the tactile experience of board gaming on a table, but at least I'll know better what people are talking about when they mention it. And they ALWAYS mention it.)
  6. I cannot get my head above water. A Kickstarter from 3+ years ago arrived out of nowehere, Kingdoms Forlorn. The box is ridiculous. Galactus for scale: Hopefully it will fill the hole left by Oathsworn...
  7. Four year update: System is still has basically the same foundation (Fanatec DD2, Inverted Clubsport pedals), but I've picked up a bunch of wheels (A body can't drive a truck with an F1 wheel, and a body shouldn't even want to try.), including the Bentley wheel with the gyroscopic self-levelling center display. The rig no longer runs on a laptop, but a dedicated Alienware i9 with an Nvidia 4080. I think I'm going to move over to 3 TVs instead of the Samsung G9 49" flanked by 2 1440 27s. Three like TVs sets up much easier across more games than this current setup with its odd dimensions. Also, American Truck Simulator is the tits. Brother-in-law came over to check it out:
  8. Some recent plays: Senjutsu: Battle for Japan is a quick little PVP game set in medival Japan, a theme right up my alley. (I can't recall if I've posted this one.) More Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Seconc Era. This one is weird - I can't tell if it's really good or if it's great. Some clunk, as you get with every Chp Theory Games production, but the high points are so damn high... SETI is a game fo the year candidate, imo. I added a little LED light to the sun because of course. Another game we keep going back to: Retun to Dark Tower. I STILL haven't played it with the latest expansion. I wonder what that means... Dark Quarter is a Chronicles of Crime-type whodunit with excellent app integration. The player characters here are more developed than CoC, which isn't saying much, and has more mysticism and voodoo in the stories. Not much replayability, but that's fine. I have officially run out of room. Next step is to do like Tokyo and build up.
  9. All good points. I think another aspect is that a bunch of these companies got too big too fast, and/or helmed by artists with no real business acumen. Add to the perfect storm a rough economy over the past 5 years and we're seeing a thinning of the herd. It's not like board games are the only entertainment segment feeling this retraction. Hollywood, with a lot of board game parallels, and a whole host of other entertainment markets are shrinking at historical rates. Entertainment is going to look almost unidentifiable in 5 years. And Tanuki Games must be protected. Chris has hooked me up too many times. Tanuki till I die.
  10. 9/10 for the first season. Thoroughly enjoyed, even if Brosnan and Mirren acted like comic book villains. Paddy never misses.
  11. "It's dead, Jim."
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    Vinyl

    My vinyls collecting might have jumped the shark. I haven't listened to Load since its release day in 1996. It didn't click with me. But I have all the other Metallica super deluxes so this seemed like a good time to give it another shot. Honestly, it's not as impressive technically as real Metallica, but it's also more musical. James's lyric writing is more in the Of Wolf and Man vein, but it's just lyrics and who gives a shit about lyrics if the music is good, and the songs here take a lot of chances and might even stick the landing on several of them. Don't really care, though, since I was more into the retrospective book with letters from all the major players, including Jason. The music here never raises my pulse, even if I did enjoy the listen more than I thought I would, but hearing stories of the making of the album I found very interesting.
  13. I wonder what this says for the future of the hobby. After a pre-order shitshow, Nintendo drops a portable console with a screen downgrade from the last model and a sole first-party title that's also scaled back and won't be realized until a few rounds of paid DLC drop, all with a hefty price increase, and goes on to sell more than any console has in this time frame. Hold onto your butts, the lessons they've learned from this pobably won't benefit the consumer.
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    Metallica

  15. This has to be the new bar for most disappointing console launch. Gamecube is looking like roses now. The only title I was excited about is Mario Kart World and now that I've played it, 8 is superior in every way that makes Kart games fun. Sales are great, but big whoop. This lineup would get Nintendo murdered a few decades ago.
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