Very Short Week
Sorry guys... nothing much from me this week. All keyed up for our trip to Vegas (we leave in 15 hours - woohoo!) and don't really have anything prepared.
I was going to make some comments on the controversial Essence of Euro-Style Games essay published a few days ago by Lewis Pulsipher (designer of Brittania, among others) and how it relates to my eurogames vs. wargames post a few months back. It's a topic I've been meaning to return to, but now I'm not entirely sure I want to tread on those waters. If you're on the spielfrieks mailing list, you know exactly what I mean. Next week is Question of the Month week, so I'll save it for later.
For now, I just have the following quote about that article: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." (Inigo Montoya, Princess Bride.)
I also have a comment about the local auction KC blogged about on Saturday. Let's just say it's not the most monetarily efficient means for disposing of unwanted games. (I sold 7 games, all but one in print and 3 of them in shrinkwrap, for a total of $45.) And I've got about 23 suggestions on how it could be better run.
I'll be writing next week's column in a post-Vegas haze, so I have no idea what you'll get :) (Anybody know of any decent game shops down there? Can't hurt to take a look.)
I was going to make some comments on the controversial Essence of Euro-Style Games essay published a few days ago by Lewis Pulsipher (designer of Brittania, among others) and how it relates to my eurogames vs. wargames post a few months back. It's a topic I've been meaning to return to, but now I'm not entirely sure I want to tread on those waters. If you're on the spielfrieks mailing list, you know exactly what I mean. Next week is Question of the Month week, so I'll save it for later.
For now, I just have the following quote about that article: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." (Inigo Montoya, Princess Bride.)
I also have a comment about the local auction KC blogged about on Saturday. Let's just say it's not the most monetarily efficient means for disposing of unwanted games. (I sold 7 games, all but one in print and 3 of them in shrinkwrap, for a total of $45.) And I've got about 23 suggestions on how it could be better run.
I'll be writing next week's column in a post-Vegas haze, so I have no idea what you'll get :) (Anybody know of any decent game shops down there? Can't hurt to take a look.)
posted by Eric @ 8:23 PM
2 Comments:
At 8:41 PM,
Chris Brooks said…
This thread on BGG is worth checking out re: the auction:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/101239
At 9:55 PM,
Eric said…
Made my addition.
They want to run another auction in September, but unless they've stated they're changing the way things are run, I won't be selling anything and will only think about buying if there's more appetizing selections.
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