Is the name a play on Goblins and Gnomes, the first expansion?

I figured there was a reason they made Arena more interesting the last couple weeks - definitely a good way to run down people’s gold stashes...

Circumstantial.

Yeah, fearmongering is a good tactic in so many games. Until your friends realize you always fearmonger and turn the tables on you...

Once played a game with base & Intrigue that involved something like Festival, Throne Room, Torturer, and Conspirator. Once I really had my chain going, my friend asked if he could (a) concede and (b) never play Dominion again.

Haven’t been to Chuy’s or Taco Bamba — if I’m leaving DC for tacos, I’m going to R&R. But yeah, District Taco is straight-up mediocre. Even just limiting the list to DC proper, there are at least half a dozen better places: Taqueria Habanero, Pica Taco, Sol, Mezcalero, Taqueria El Barrio, El Chilango, Oyamel.…

“Fiery fanbase”? The Nats? Look, I love the Nats, but they have the most lackluster fans in the majors. I’ve been to pennant clinchers and 14-inning games, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen people stand before the 9th or for an entire inning. The only current tradition is the godawful N-A-T-S NATS NATS NATS chant we…

And R&R in Elkridge. DC Mexican food used to suck (the fact that District Taco is considered good is horrifying), but it’s gotten a lot better.

It’s like a breadbowl, but leakier and made of paper.

And what a delicious soup it is!

A recent tweet pointed out that a vanilla soy latte was a three-bean soup. Mind: blown.

I had the same dilemma when I got a fishtail soup with flies in it. I mean, it was *A* soup, just a terrible one that I couldn’t serve to the people upstairs. I’m not sure it’s a problem, but there’s definitely a tension between “say whether this is a soup” and “say whether you’d serve this to a human and call it…

Best Buy, whose entire business model is “run out local businesses, buy up your competitors, and overcharge your customers.” They’re the best example of why big box stores are worse for competition and the economy than Amazon.

This would be the best piece of investigative journalism I read today, if I hadn’t just read HuffPo’s article explaining that “The Thong Song” was inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov and the Beatles. (And if I wasn’t planning on reading the Harvey Weinstein New Yorker article on the way home.)

Yep. I thought it was just a New England thing until visiting Madison and seeing a t-shirt in the window of the local history museum and learning that Bubbler was a Wisconsin company that, for some reason, only sold in WI, Eastern Mass, and Rhode Island. The Internet says that may not be true, but who knows!

I suspect that how good you think The Babadook is depends heavily on how seriously you’ve considered having kids.

I’m with you on The Descent. A friend stopped letting me pick the movie after we watched that, and I couldn’t blame her.

In their defense, a little later they compared Altuve and Trout heads up and focused on WAR and OPS+, acknowledging that Trout’s OPS+ (196!) is inhuman.

Sadly the accents have been gone all season. With Remy out, it’s just accentless O’Brien and Eck, mixed in with indistinguishable boring journeymen like Mike Timlin and Lenny DiNardo.

I was hoping for a change to jades themselves - make them all 1/1 minions with “+1/+1 and +1 mana for each Jade golem you have summoned.” That gives you the exact same minion, except that it can be silenced, so there’s SOME hope against a druid’s end-game.