Day 8

Mixed it up today with a brisk walk down by the river.

Won #boop on 2026-04-18 with 2 players #bgstats

Two games on the new app. The app does a great job recreating the physical version.

Day 7

One week in and looking forward to when this starts to feel good and I see results.

Almost accomplished.

I'm missing the bonus audio for episode 296.

Sean should have it but work has him out of town.

Everything else got done.

The Golden Geek Nominations are open over at Board Game Geek.

Go nominate your favourte games, and while there maybe nominate a podcast or two. I can think of one I would love to see get nominated :D

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We ask and trust that what we are told is truth.

We also ran into a situation where we thought a game had AI art and were assured it wasn't and at that point we were fine to cover the game. We trusted the publisher.

Sure maybe someone will lie, and when that's found out that's on the pub. not us.

I recommend against AI detectors. They are terrible for false positives. Absolutely terrible. I know multiple artists who have had witch-hunts launched against them that have never ever used AI (heck one person hand draws all their stuff, no digital tools) who's stuff comes up as AI on detectors.

Who does great graphic design and layout for HORROR? You can shout out yourself or someone you know.

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The Golden Geek Nominations are open over at Board Game Geek.

Go nominate your favourte games, and while there maybe nominate a podcast or two. I can think of one I would love to see get nominated :D

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The president of hobby games trade organisation GAMA, Nicole Brady, has failed in her bid to be re-elected to the role, with vice president Meredith Placko instead being voted in by the board of directors:

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Today my goal is to catch up on Patreon content we missed while we were ill.

Uploading bonus audio and show notes for recent episodes, providing links and summaries for our latest blog posts, embedding versions of all of our latest videos, etc.

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Day 6

Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022

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For those who don't need a D20 with their Free Trader Beowulf.

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So how long after finishing Agatha All Along does it take to get Down The Road out of your heaad?

Day 5

Late, but got it in.

TIL that Tim Hortons in South Korea has an anime style mascot.

That mascot is Anne of Green Gables.

Picture from a friend who just arrived in Gangnam

Lots of thunder and some rain here. Probably didn't need to head to the basement but better safe thean sorry.

Okay three emails in less than 24 hours from one Backerkit project (not even one I've backed) is a bit much.

I think we are ready to record!

I've done a few different things in the new space with lights, and we're trying something different for audio. Hopefully that will lead to better quality than last time.

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That was fun.

I thought we were going to get another one around 3 today.

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Featured Reviews: Goats & Goblins from B.A. Games and The Bears and The Bees from Grandpa Beck's Games

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Won #GoatsAndGoblins on 2026-04-15 with 3 players #bgstats

We are reviewing this one on our live stream tonight.

Day 4

Okay that's odd, I posted this based on an email I thought I got today.

Sorry about that.

In this case I have a set regime I'm supposed to follow from physio, but yeah adding in fun active activities is what worked great before COVID when I was actually doing good.

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