My kitchen’s mostly fine, but I’ve got three little problems:

You know, as much as the Disney theming largely made me think “probably a Candyland-level low-complexity game,” the Villainous box is attractive. I’ve eyed it every time I’ve passed it at Target or, more recently, in Amazon board game searches. I hadn’t quite put the minimal effort into looking up the core mechanics…

Louis CK was on the Late Night with Conan o’Brien writing staff? Huh. I never realized Masturbating Bear was based on a true story.

I know plenty of people with similar backlogs, and I get it. It’s so easy to buy games faster than you’re playing them if you’ve got the disposable income and they’re all so cheap.

Sweet. I may not be able to make a bloomin’ onion at home, but now I can make a wiltin’ onion!

How big’s that list of games? Now a couple years into my long backlog cleanup project, I’m at the point where I could do 5 minutes of each unfinished game in a single afternoon. I’m imagining your queue is quite a bit longer than mine, and I’m curious how many orders of magnitude we’re talking about.

... and turnips dropped to 62. I lost this gamble.

Also, Vegas Stakes. It’s right there in the title!

Man, I’m trying not to get too exposed to FF7R, but it’s such a big phenomenon right now, and I travel in retro and RPG circles, so if I wanna talk about video games with people, I’ve gotta learn a little bit about their experiences playing it. I don’t feel like it’s getting spoiled for me or anything... I just know…

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Sadly, this is the most use I’ve gotten out of my math degree.

I cut up some Crab-Flavored Seafood™, shredded some red cabbage, minced some jalapenos, tossed it all in a saucepan with melted butter, and added some hot sauce and scorpion pepper chili powder. This all started with me wanting buffalo shrimp and making like 8 compromises, leading to... what would we even call that, sp…

I was pretty well set up before this all started, so no improvising necessary. I’ve got a top-quality plexiglass and steel Dance Dance Revolution platform with 9 titles, an Xbox 360 Kinect with 4 compatible games (and, I assume, more I could buy digital copies of), and Ring Fit Adventures for my Switch.

I also owed money, and I just had to do the same. A co-worker got her deposit on Monday, so I’d assumed I’d have mine by now, but... nope! I’m glad I checked the status, in any case.

I figure I’ll eventually play FF7R, when it’s on something else. I can’t quite justify a new console purchase just now. It’s not like most games I’m avoiding, where I’m try to do a media blackout so I can be surprised by the plot. It’s more like, I don’t want to be ruined on good ways to handle individual bosses, or…

Alternately, these are not the snacks I’m looking for.

If you want to expand Pandemic, I’ve heard overwhelmingly that On the Brink is the way to go, so it’s the one I picked up. It gives you 6 new co-op roles plus an adversarial character who turns the game into competitive 1-vs-2 or 1-vs-3 versions. They added a bunch of new event cards and made modificiations to the…

I’ve been playing original-flavor Pandemic with the On the Brink expansion on my lunch break at my medical job nearly every day for the past two weeks. The game length for soloing a 3-character game is really just right to fill an hour where I probably don’t want to go on a walk, and with all the stuff On the Brink…

Separated at birth?