gromnar

Good job on making the right call and preemptively shutting the server down. Thanks for being alert!

I hope you will enjoy it :-)

One wonders how they market their services : "come to us, we are the best fake reviewers you can find on the web and these 5-star reviews prove it!"

Yes, that is one of the disconnect that I get.

From a variety of sources one can see that many US people are actually quite interested in having a nice kitchen and hosting dinners with friends and family.

But then, when you get exposed to those "American commercials" that get broadcast here on some TV channels, or you see the kind of videos that gain traction on social media, it appears that all those kitchens/appliances are not so needed after all, since in the end one will just "drop every already preprocessed ingredients in a pot and call it a day"... Curious phenomenon for me.

Not being from US there are so many things in this video that don't really align with the way of doing things (in this case, cooking) that I experience in my corner of the world (Europe). Like... Sometimes one has to wonder if it is ever possible to eat something which is not pre-processed/pre-cut/pre-diced? Is this just a bias from the videos that get shared on the web? Unfortunately I have not been able to visit USA so I have never tried it first hand!

Those are all nice things, the last one in particular deserves a lot of praise!

Hey, an entire move by oneself is on my personal definition of "big things"!

Yes, I like that you could think of each game as a "potential alternative retelling" of the story. And if you happen to enjoy RPGs, there is one by one the authors of WoR, which is called "The One Ring". The 2nd ed. Came out a couple of years ago and it's a great game, with gorgeous art and great thematic rules (e.g. for when you are despairing, overburdened by the Shadow). I highly recommend it, you can also play it solo or coop with an expansion by the author of Ironsworn.

I think that the best one is Arkham Horror LCG by MJ Newman. It really blends together game mechanics and narrative feeling (ludonarrative harmony, as she describes here fo example: https://www.bewaretheblackcat.com/post/behind-the-curtain-enemies ). In short, you are not simply moving cards or pulling out tokens, but you are really living an adventure.

Then there is War of the Ring, really conveys both for the Free People and the shadow player a super thematic experience, while being a tight and ruthless wargame.

Those two are the peaks (for us). But I can name many other which we enjoy. Among the new ones, there is a very nice pirate game, ~~forbidden~~ Edit: Forgotten waters (sorry, autocorrector). I also enjoy the games by Jerry Hawthorne (mice and mystics, comanauts, stuffed fables, ...).

And many, many others (dune conquest, for instance, or star wars: imperial assault, ...)

Hi! I play a lot of RPGs (with the exception of DND, for some reasons)... And I mainly enjoy thematic/narrative games (so, no "Germans" for me, even if the distinction is losing meaning day by day!)

It is a really good game. I have an expansion, branch and claws if I am not mistaken, which adds a bit of randomness which I find enjoyable!

Our favourite: Arkham Horror LCG, Hero realms, Lord of the rings Journey in the Middle Earth, seven Wonders duel. We are currently playing Earthborne rangers. I also often propose war of the rings/twilight struggle/ other war games but they are tougher to sell :-)