Japan's oldest professional player of the board game go retired at age 98 after saying she can no longer handle "six hours without a break." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/japans-oldest-go-player-retires/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #boardgames #kazukosugiuchi #go
#QuestionOfTheDay what's a piece of media you like that for whatever reason (hasn't aged well, problematic, disturbing, offensive, very niche, pornographic, creator sucks, etc) you basically can't show anybody?
(For me it's the movie Major League)
#fiction #movies #film #videogames #games#TV #television #manga #anime #boardgames #ccgs #ttrpg #comics #comicbooks#musicals #books
Jess Mahler
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Ages ago, I Kickstarted the deluxe edition of this game for my partner, and it finally arrived yesterday! I had the chance to play it with her and her husband tonight. It was a VERY close game, as you can see on the final score sheet. :)
The game was very cute, and I can imagine people from Mastodon relating to it. The basic cycle is puttering around your house littering your apartment with stacks of books and recharging your social battery until you have the spoons to leave the house, at which time you go into town and visit the used book store, the library, the book exchange, and the shops to pick up more books and neat things. When your social battery is depleted, you head home, unload your backpack, and putter around again.
You win by arranging your book stacks to complete certain goals, collecting lots of books, and collecting neat trinkets and stuff at the shops.
It's got a very cozy vibe, and the production value is quite high. Although we had the deluxe edition, I get the feeling that the same will be true for the retail edition as well. It moves pretty fast, but optimizing things takes a fair bit of planning and thought. Overall, I quite liked it and am looking forward to trying it again sometime.
The game laid out on the table, with each player having a player mat with their stacks of books, their collected Neat Stuff, and so on, as well as the central Town board showing the shared area.
A score sheet showing Kim winning with 79 points, Theresa coming in 2nd with 78 points, and Anthony coming in 3rd with 76 points.
The box art for A Place for All My Books, which depicts a cartoon woman reading a book surrounded by stacks of books with a cat sleeping on one stack, a coffee on another, and a semi-full bookshelf in the background.
Ages ago, I Kickstarted the deluxe edition of this game for my partner, and it finally arrived yesterday! I had the chance to play it with her and her husband tonight. It was a VERY close game, as you can see on the final score sheet. :)
The game was very cute, and I can imagine people from Mastodon relating to it. The basic cycle is puttering around your house littering your apartment with stacks of books and recharging your social battery until you have the spoons to leave the house, at which time you go into town and visit the used book store, the library, the book exchange, and the shops to pick up more books and neat things. When your social battery is depleted, you head home, unload your backpack, and putter around again.
You win by arranging your book stacks to complete certain goals, collecting lots of books, and collecting neat trinkets and stuff at the shops.
It's got a very cozy vibe, and the production value is quite high. Although we had the deluxe edition, I get the feeling that the same will be true for the retail edition as well. It moves pretty fast, but optimizing things takes a fair bit of planning and thought. Overall, I quite liked it and am looking forward to trying it again sometime.
The game laid out on the table, with each player having a player mat with their stacks of books, their collected Neat Stuff, and so on, as well as the central Town board showing the shared area.
A score sheet showing Kim winning with 79 points, Theresa coming in 2nd with 78 points, and Anthony coming in 3rd with 76 points.
The box art for A Place for All My Books, which depicts a cartoon woman reading a book surrounded by stacks of books with a cat sleeping on one stack, a coffee on another, and a semi-full bookshelf in the background.
Jamey Sharp
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The board game publisher CGE, recently put out an announcement for their upcoming Codenames Harry Potter edition.
It’s incredibly disappointing that they would choose to collab on a project that would actively support and give money to the transphobic bigot, JK Rowling.
It was an easy decision for us. We will not be buying, reviewing, or recommending CGE games going forward.
Trans rights are human rights, simple as that.
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Here are some links as a rough timeline of events, which started with their announcement post on Bluesky.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/codenamesgame.bsky.social/post/3lul7oqmuws25
Their response after pushback: https://www.czechgames.com/news/why-we-created-the-new-licensed-version-of-codenames - Please note how they avoided saying the name of the game or franchise. Comments are turned off.
Them blocking en masse (Including some trans game designers): https://clearsky.app/codenamesgame.bsky.social/blocked-by
Again, Trans rights are human rights.
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The board game publisher CGE, recently put out an announcement for their upcoming Codenames Harry Potter edition.
It’s incredibly disappointing that they would choose to collab on a project that would actively support and give money to the transphobic bigot, JK Rowling.
It was an easy decision for us. We will not be buying, reviewing, or recommending CGE games going forward.
Trans rights are human rights, simple as that.
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jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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Burning out my fragile little brain this evening with a game of Dominations 🤯
Burning out my fragile little brain this evening with a game of Dominations 🤯
jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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This is where I really get value out of 3D printing: I love Palace of Mad King Ludwig, but I hate the stacks of tiles; I'm too prone to knocking them over!
A few minutes with my callipers and some time on Tinkercad, followed by half a day of printing, and now I have perfect tile holders!
Printed in marble filament. Files available here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7024898
The board game Palace of Mad King Ludwig, with marble coloured tile holder holding all the tiles (viewed from the front)
The board game Palace of Mad King Ludwig, with marble coloured tile holder holding all the tiles (viewed from an angle)
This is where I really get value out of 3D printing: I love Palace of Mad King Ludwig, but I hate the stacks of tiles; I'm too prone to knocking them over!
A few minutes with my callipers and some time on Tinkercad, followed by half a day of printing, and now I have perfect tile holders!
Printed in marble filament. Files available here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7024898
The board game Palace of Mad King Ludwig, with marble coloured tile holder holding all the tiles (viewed from the front)
The board game Palace of Mad King Ludwig, with marble coloured tile holder holding all the tiles (viewed from an angle)