Gloves

April Fool's traditionally ends at noon.

It's definitely not the ideal way to play, by far. That said, if you have no other option, I'd opt for joining us over not.

We are on the same page, you and I.

Oh, and a suggestion, one of my favorite books, the first in a series of 4 (though you could easily just read the first 2, there's a few hundred years gap between book 2 and 3): Hyperion!

You're telling me there's a series of 44 (and counting) books wherein likely every single page contains some manner of silly pun?

I prefer the Japanese box to the NA box at least half the time, and it's legit something I might pivot to at some point is grabbing the CIBs for games I like the art for. So I do hope that there's not some sudden jump in price for them. I know there's been a few and I'm already late to the "get em cheap" party, as it were, but as it stands a Super Mario World CIB for instance is easily had in JP compared to here, and it's a decent example of just straight up better box art.

Wait, are you telling me they don't grade everything?

For some reason stickers also don't seem to impact grade as much as I'd thought they would (if at all).

Thanks again @Deadeye for hooking me up with Hades! Came in today, along with some random things I don't recognize from some stranger I don't know who it was. Just kidding, thanks @Jeevan (I assume) for the really cool cross stitches! I love em!

Obviously a 10.

Yeah those records are so easily and routinely beaten that it's basically a running joke. And it's far too much effort to submit your scores to them, it's not even worth the time.

Happy birthday!

Neither site is particularly accurate these days.

I heavily researched the company before making my pledge, personally. They've released plenty of board games on Kickstarter before so I was pretty confident. Without doing such research my personal ceiling for acceptable kickstarter pledges is $100.

Sadly I ordered it pre-covid with the intention of playing it with a small group of local friends. See: So yeah, then covid hit and the delivery date was pushed back a year. I'm going to have to wait a bit to play with those friends. I could play solo but I'd like to save it for when I can get the gang together.

The most I've spent on a Kickstarter: Happily I received my pledge in full:

There's a bunch of games I played on a site called CoffeeBreakArcade (a site which still exists to this day, though it looks like nothing on the site is functional anymore) when the internet was still young. Many to possibly all of those games are lost forever.

I mean, what're they gonna do to stop you, really? If they're dicks about it you can easily go in, see what you're interested in, pop over to the nearby coffee shop and look up prices, then go back. I do understand their frustration, mind you. People think they can walk into a store and expect to get online prices, they're completely ignoring that this place has to pay rent and employees, as well as that they are providing you a valuable service of seeing, touching, and even TRYING the game(s) before making a purchase. Buying a game in a store is not equal to buying a game online, period.

I didn't enjoy Splatoon, but I play ACTUAL shooters, so...

I don't own Splatoon anymore I don't think. Didn't enjoy it.

Nope.

I've tried every mainline MH game and while I love the look of them (intense combat vs giant dragons/dinos/etc.), they really don't advertise that it's hours and hours of laborious grinding. I've not played any offshoots and maybe Rise will be different, but I'm not holding my breath.

I really like this game personally, but it's pretty objectively unfair from around mid-game on. Mmmm, a bit hard to rate this one for me.

Sigma Star Saga is pretty fun, I'm still looking for a nice CIB myself.