The Solved Games
Where enough experience leads to almost certain victory.After numerous play throughs I'm finding that a few of my cooperative board games have reached a "solved" status - where repetitively using the...
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Chocolate (2008)
A Thai movie that states "Disabled kids kick ass. Literally."Born from forbidden love, Zen (played by Yanin Vismitananda) is a mentally handicapped girl who happens to be a savant at physical reflexes...
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Forbidden Island
Cooperative Greed!Inspired by my board game collection, one of our June guests decided to get Forbidden Island and got us all to try it out. In this prequel to the Forbidden Desert, players are trying...
View ArticleDo you blog or want to blog? Join Blaugust Reborn!
Belghast has revived Blaugust this year, a blogging event that I have always found handy for tips, tricks, content generation, and simply interacting with other bloggers. If you blog or are interested...
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Lords of Waterdeep VS El Grande
Who is the Grandest Lord?In the battle between these two board games the similarities are plenty: both are competitive, both require tactics, both play the same number of players, both take a similar...
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Ong Bak
Aka, this is Tony Jaa.The plot of this Thai film is much a fetch quest: A small village sends their best fighter (Tony Jaa) to retrieve a part of a relic that was stolen from them by some random goon....
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Review of Air Supplies
Since I review almost everything else on this blog, I figured why not some of the actual products that helped us get through last June when we squeezed 8 (sometimes 9) more people in the house? My...
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Batman Begins
Currently the best Batman origin film.Opening with Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) in a foreign prison makes for an interesting start of this superhero film. Indeed, the first act which deals with his...
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Hyperlight Drifter
Where "WTF is going on?" is never quite answered.In a strange world full of talking animals, you play a wandering sword/gun slinger who is following visions of a dog to unlock diamonds. What? Yes. The...
View ArticleBlaugust Prep Week: Time Allotment
Today is the start of the Blaugust Prep Week so for the next few days I thought I'd share some things that I try to do. Today's tip: Try schedule a time to post on your blog everyday (if you are...
View ArticleBlaugust Prep Week: First Words
Always make your title and first sentence great, catchy or interesting. It's usually only these that display on automatic feeds or search results, and is your hook to gaining readers so spend some time...
View ArticleBlaugust Prep Week: Build Bridges
Most blogs have some sort of number tracker on the back end that give bloggers an indication of how many readers their site is getting, but more inspiring is getting comments from readers on your...
View ArticleBlaugust Prep Week: Picture Editing
Pixlr is still my photo editing tool of choice for blog pics. It's online, it's free, and it has a decent tool kit which makes it accessible for scrooges like myself. The main purpose of my editing is...
View ArticleBlaugust Prep Week: Word Killer
This next tip is focused on writing technique and editing; one I find challenging:Lower your posted word count. It sounds counter intuitive but it makes for a cleaner and faster read. This depends on...
View ArticleBlaugust Prep Week: Listen to Advice
This is very fitting being the last of my Blaugust Prep Week series for this year. There's already a ton of good advice out there, most of which you can find in the Blaugust Discord channel.I'm going...
View ArticleBlaugust Topic Idea: Specialized Skills
Blaugust Reborn has now officially started, (you can still click the link to join though!) and according to the structured format this week should be one of Topic Brainstorming and suggestion so I'm...
View ArticleAugust 2018 Status: Blaugust Reborn!
Not really a Blaugust related post today but I just wanted to keep this status thing going to see how I'm progressing with my task list. Apparently I'm not. That's what happens when you prioritize...
View ArticleBlaugust Topic Idea: Pet Peeves
Sometimes a rant makes for a good post, but be careful not to go over the top in weight or in frequency as it will foster general negativity. Griping about unskippable cutscenes in a single player game...
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Blaugust Topic Idea: Future Tech
I am always interested in learning about new technologies and devices, hard ware in particular. So while you can talk about the new OS of your phone, I'd be much more interested in hearing about...
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