Recent content by Jesse Custer

If you were offended: 1. You're the fan-boy. 2. You're too sensitive. And even if it was "unnecessary", it was (mildly) funny and that's all that counts. Toughen up kid.

I suspect that the grand majority of people in the "I wouldn't pay for any of these. 79.4% (100)" are TF2/Valve players/customers (I was also a big lover of the UT series, until 2004). I shake my head in disbelief when people pay for map packs.

If they did, then you (or some equivalent) would come here and whine that your team decimated the other team (with you as the primary reason for the eventual victory), two of them ragequit before the end, and then you were auto-balanced. So unfair, you were the linchpin to your own defaat...

Actually, my last post was We-Go tactical, RTT, RTT and FPS... Anyway, the whole point that people are trying to put across is that board games are not just for power-less, rainy nights.

Knizia makes a lot of very good games (works of art, some) - but the theme is nearly always lacking. You have to like abstract games to like them. Which is fine sometimes (Chess, Checkers, Go, Poker - all pure abstracts) - and other times I want to crush the silly Scottish rebellion into the...

Yep. In addition, in many euro-style board games, you don't even know who's going to lose (or even win, in some cases) until the game is over. I remember getting that feeling in some video games: Combat Mission [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Mission_%28video_game_series%29], Myth: The...

I agree wholeheartedly! I just went to visit the country of my birth (Uruguay), for the first time, a couple of months ago and I wanted to buy Carcassonne [http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne] for my cousins and The Kids of Carcassonne...

I like to introduce people with this: In Puerto Rico you can only do the action described on your chosen role card (the Builder role allows everyone to build buildings, the Trader role allows everyone to trade their goods in for money) and you get a special privilege for choosing that role...

I'll assume you're in the US (I rolled a die and it came up US) and suggest the sponsor for a good podcast I listen to (The Dice Tower): Funagain Games [http://www.funagain.com/control/main/~affil=DICE]. Of that list I haven't yet played Battlestar Galactica, Pandemic, Small World and Power...