All the way to 11. Just couldn't bring myself to go any further.

Damn. This is a really good idea. Think we could get VanDerWerff in on it?

Exactly what I'm getting at; the higher price point tends to reflect, among other things, the quality of the raw materials themselves. As we're talking about a niche product, the end consumer tends to value quality craftsmanship as a function of repeated playability rather than a badge of socioeconomic status. Have…

@avclub-4135e89c3138834f30906c929a4f95c9:disqus So, because it's not a mainstream product and defies neat genre classification (I disagree with this second point, and so do Arkham Horror, Settlers of Catan, and Diplomacy, each of which occupy both a distinct gameplay genre and thematic genre), and despite the…

Plus you get access to the Spy, the most broken character in the game. Seriously, the first time my friend showed me her character card, I collapsed into fits of laughter.

Fun Fact: The Yakuza derive their name from the worst possible hand one can have in Oicho-Kabu, a Japanese variant of baccarat. That hand, 8-9-3 (baccarat aficionados know that this equals 20, or a big fat zero), is phonetically expressed in Japanese as ya-ku-za.

Exactly. You want a game in which luck isn't a factor? Okay, let's play poker. A skilled poker player completely mitigates the random factor of the cards over the course of a game with timely bluffing, tactically sound betting, and the awareness to know when to fold 'em. Of course, there's no aetheric world to immerse…

But when you went to the store to purchase it, did you pay the Iron price?

My only issue with that is that you even admit in the article that the price point isn't that far off of a video game or a night at the movies. When people show off their board game collections to you, they're not showing off luxury goods as a matter of economic station or superior taste; they're showing off a niche…

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I've played the hell out of Settlers, Arkham Horror, and Ticket to Ride, and a little Pandemic. I haven't played Carcassone yet, but have wanted to for a while. In other news, I'm a gigantic nerd.

You ever play Descent, Archmage? You want to talk about a game full of crushing defeats and stacked decks. It's like D&D in a box, with one player in the role of the World's Cheatin'est DM and the others as the Party That Will All Die Relatively Quickly.

Vanilla Arkham Horror has nothing on the expansions. You think that game is hard? Try contending with the Dunwich Horror.

I have no problem with the philosophizing and waxing poetical about the nature of simulation and the appeal of board games as opposed to RPGs and European games filling an in-betweener niche and etc. etc., but I'm gonna have to take issue with your assertion that sticker shock is an intentional point of demarcation…

Why reevaluation? I thought it was universally agreed that Gargoyles was incredible, and that people who think otherwise are stupid.

Is Chip Kelly the Mike D'antoni of football?

EDIT: Beat me by 6 minutes, ya damn carpetbagger.

The fact we got to the postseason at all was nothing less than a revelation to me. Even if we had managed to beat Seattle, there's no way we'd have beaten Atlanta/Green Bay/San Fran/Denver/New England. Baltimore or Houston, maybe…but probably not, not in the postseason. I just hope RG3 learns from this.…

Of course it won't be televised, silly. There's no electricity.

Fuckin' Seahawks. Fuckin' RG3's knee. Fuckin' football. 
*pouts*