J from 3 Minute board games
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Pakeha, Martian, Reviewer, (He/Him) Aotearoa! COIN Wargame Designer - Red Dust Rebellion. https://www.youtube.com/c/3MinuteBoardGames
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Vantage in about 3 minutes - Board game review
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Today's review is Vantage. A big open world sandbox game from Stonemaier Games. How does it feel to explore an alien planet, find out here. youtu.be/wD2vAFuLuQY
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Well, this story just got a lot fucking worse. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
Police bosses ignored sex complaints against top cop, charged woman for 'revenge' emails instead
Suppressions fall away to reveal full story about the downfall of deputy police boss.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Well, this story just got a lot fucking worse. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
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No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
I had a weekend where I did no work for the channel :)
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I had a weekend where I did no work for the channel :)
Just scrolled through a games kickstarter that is using terrible Midjourney generated art. And it has so many videos from board game influencers.
Big names as well as smaller ones.
So incredibly disappointing to see a lack of ethics and even a lack of self interest from so many channels.
Big names as well as smaller ones.
So incredibly disappointing to see a lack of ethics and even a lack of self interest from so many channels.
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Just scrolled through a games kickstarter that is using terrible Midjourney generated art. And it has so many videos from board game influencers.
Big names as well as smaller ones.
So incredibly disappointing to see a lack of ethics and even a lack of self interest from so many channels.
Big names as well as smaller ones.
So incredibly disappointing to see a lack of ethics and even a lack of self interest from so many channels.
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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The Art and Making of Dune Awakening Review — The art must flow gamingtrend.com/previews/the...
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The Art and Making of Dune Awakening Review — The art must flow gamingtrend.com/previews/the...
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Remember the 'nice to haves' line govt Ministers used to roll out regarding 'wasteful govt spending'?
Could someone with a microphone ask them specifically if 'Michelin stars are a nice to have'.
Could someone with a microphone ask them specifically if 'Michelin stars are a nice to have'.
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Remember the 'nice to haves' line govt Ministers used to roll out regarding 'wasteful govt spending'?
Could someone with a microphone ask them specifically if 'Michelin stars are a nice to have'.
Could someone with a microphone ask them specifically if 'Michelin stars are a nice to have'.
Today's video is Skyrise. Skyrise is one of the best auction games I have ever played and has an innovative approach to auctions that will make your brain spin its well calculating all the possibilities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Dv...
Skyrise in about 3 minutes
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November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Today's video is Skyrise. Skyrise is one of the best auction games I have ever played and has an innovative approach to auctions that will make your brain spin its well calculating all the possibilities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Dv...
I am clearly on some kind of board game spring cleaning thing, because i just went through my x-wing and culled a ton of the superfluous tokens and cards that are just taking up space.
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I am clearly on some kind of board game spring cleaning thing, because i just went through my x-wing and culled a ton of the superfluous tokens and cards that are just taking up space.
So sweet seeing my local book store do a promo for my book now that it has arrived in New Zealand!
101 board games to try before you die (of boredom) is a whistle stop tour through modern games that are both visually appealing great looking games and great games to play as well.
Do buy it :)
101 board games to try before you die (of boredom) is a whistle stop tour through modern games that are both visually appealing great looking games and great games to play as well.
Do buy it :)
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
So sweet seeing my local book store do a promo for my book now that it has arrived in New Zealand!
101 board games to try before you die (of boredom) is a whistle stop tour through modern games that are both visually appealing great looking games and great games to play as well.
Do buy it :)
101 board games to try before you die (of boredom) is a whistle stop tour through modern games that are both visually appealing great looking games and great games to play as well.
Do buy it :)
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Hey look, another big reprint! This is one that I like but don't love. I'm not a huge worker placement fan (they often end up devolving into turn order battles I think) but this is a great first step into that genre.
Lords of Waterdeep coming back from a new publisher. It's now with @renegadegamestudios.com
You can pre-order it now:
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You can pre-order it now:
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Lords of Waterdeep PRE-ORDER
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November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Hey look, another big reprint! This is one that I like but don't love. I'm not a huge worker placement fan (they often end up devolving into turn order battles I think) but this is a great first step into that genre.
Earlier this year I traded my collectors edition of Auztralia for a regular edition of Auztralia.
And I have zero regrets about that TBH.
Made someones day and i just didnt use the collectors add-on stuff
And I have zero regrets about that TBH.
Made someones day and i just didnt use the collectors add-on stuff
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Earlier this year I traded my collectors edition of Auztralia for a regular edition of Auztralia.
And I have zero regrets about that TBH.
Made someones day and i just didnt use the collectors add-on stuff
And I have zero regrets about that TBH.
Made someones day and i just didnt use the collectors add-on stuff
It is my parents 61st wedding anniversary today.
Sometimes love really can last a life time.
Sometimes love really can last a life time.
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It is my parents 61st wedding anniversary today.
Sometimes love really can last a life time.
Sometimes love really can last a life time.
Finally got over my hangups about not chucking out stuff from a "collectors edition" and got rid of the awful trays in suburbia collectors edition. These terrible things actively get in the way of you setting up and playing the game.
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Finally got over my hangups about not chucking out stuff from a "collectors edition" and got rid of the awful trays in suburbia collectors edition. These terrible things actively get in the way of you setting up and playing the game.
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Yikes, what a screen grab
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Yikes, what a screen grab
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I dont think people understand how insane a 50% rise is, in just 2 years. Nicola Willis is so bad at her job she's destroyed her own electorate. NZs Capital City is dead.
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I dont think people understand how insane a 50% rise is, in just 2 years. Nicola Willis is so bad at her job she's destroyed her own electorate. NZs Capital City is dead.
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ok this is what a bunch of sesame street characters would look like without their fur
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ok this is what a bunch of sesame street characters would look like without their fur
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Ooh, can I push you into writing a story about the MPs (especially the opposition MPs) who clearly think New Zealand law is perfect and needs no updating or changing because they almost never have a members bill proposal in the ballot?
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Ooh, can I push you into writing a story about the MPs (especially the opposition MPs) who clearly think New Zealand law is perfect and needs no updating or changing because they almost never have a members bill proposal in the ballot?
I lived in and around New York for only 5 months. It was an amazing, fascinating, scary and weird place. I'm happy they have a decent mayor now
But i'm mostly amped about what his campaign did and how we can use those tactics all over the place to make the world just a little bit better
But i'm mostly amped about what his campaign did and how we can use those tactics all over the place to make the world just a little bit better
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I lived in and around New York for only 5 months. It was an amazing, fascinating, scary and weird place. I'm happy they have a decent mayor now
But i'm mostly amped about what his campaign did and how we can use those tactics all over the place to make the world just a little bit better
But i'm mostly amped about what his campaign did and how we can use those tactics all over the place to make the world just a little bit better
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
Today's video is Azul Queens Garden, the 4th and most complex game in the series. And the one that is least like the original. How does it it play, find out here. youtu.be/zwPjR7Kq9bQ
Azul Queens Garden in about 3 minutes - Board game review
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November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Today's video is Azul Queens Garden, the 4th and most complex game in the series. And the one that is least like the original. How does it it play, find out here. youtu.be/zwPjR7Kq9bQ
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*new follower alert*
I wonder who they are as a person
*scrolls through blue sky feed for 20 seconds*
"And that's why serial killer X is a hero"
*Smashes block button until it explodes*
I wonder who they are as a person
*scrolls through blue sky feed for 20 seconds*
"And that's why serial killer X is a hero"
*Smashes block button until it explodes*
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
*new follower alert*
I wonder who they are as a person
*scrolls through blue sky feed for 20 seconds*
"And that's why serial killer X is a hero"
*Smashes block button until it explodes*
I wonder who they are as a person
*scrolls through blue sky feed for 20 seconds*
"And that's why serial killer X is a hero"
*Smashes block button until it explodes*
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.