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Ray Bonilla
@oldmanmerton.bsky.social
New site, new profile? I love board games. I pretty much live and breathe 'em. Amateur miniature painter. Wife and kid are awesome. Consummate hermit. Fuck AI and fuck you if you defend it.
I suppose I can behind this.
November 3, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Ray Bonilla
I run the academy where we teach right wing influencers how to stand normally and these are my two best students. Very proud of them
October 24, 2024 at 3:45 PM
AdmiralCrunch gave Power Grid a 1 too, so you keep prestigious company!
October 23, 2024 at 5:24 PM
My ratings skew very high (at least I assume most people would see it that way) because the way I see it: why hedge on things that bring you joy?
October 21, 2024 at 4:47 PM
With over 600 ratings I've given two 3s, one 3.5, and one 2 in all my years. I hated that 2 with the fire of a thousand suns, but even then it didn't get a 1 from me!
October 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Bit messy because I'm prepping for a massive re-arrange, but I'm a sucker for space/space-adjacent games.

The rest of my collection is color coded or designer based, but space games get their own spot.
October 19, 2024 at 10:29 PM
It's a whole thing. >.>
October 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
I slept on Blasted Wastes a long time because it *looked* boring compared to the other worlds. I'm glad I finally bought it though. It adds so much cool stuff. The enemies aren't my favorites, but everything else it brings to the table is pretty cool.
October 12, 2024 at 4:29 PM
I love the vibe of Trederra, though keeping track of patrols is a little fiddly. Great encounters, enemies, and loot though. Minefields are cool too.

derelict ship remains my favorite, though.
October 12, 2024 at 5:04 AM
The unpredictability of paints can be annoying. I have paints that have been with me since I started 2 years ago and I have paints that have dried up or split with just a few months of disuse.
October 1, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Chrome has been getting consistently worse. It's kind of Google's brand.
September 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Back before I went full atheist I actually ran the youth group with my wife for a tiny Lutheran church in NC. 20 yrs ago or so. The board booted our amazing pastor there too because he taught love as well and had no fire and brimstone in his repertoire. That was possibly the final straw for me.
September 23, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Fair points! I suppose my highest ranked games I consider "light" are:
Azul - 9.9 (my #15)
dixit - 9.3 (#34)
6 nimmt - 9.2 (my #40)
Vegas Showdown - 9.2 (#45)
Bottom of the 9th - 9.1 (#54)

Everything around them is at LEAST medium if not heavy...or at least hard to get to the table for reasons.
September 22, 2024 at 8:49 PM
City of Remnants is a sleeper hit for me. It got reprinted as Neon Gods or whatever, but I'm happy with my og version. It's unique and weird.
September 22, 2024 at 4:10 PM
As a former kid back in the 80s and 90s that read a thesaurus for fun, this makes me so sad I'm not even gonna bother to use a flashy synonym for sad. 😞
September 21, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Yes! This is a hill I will die on. Kill big trucks!
September 19, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Omg I have been wanting this to happen for years. It probably won't happen, but good to see it's becoming a bigger topic of debate.
September 19, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Woo! Welcome Joel! I didn't follow THAT many people on Twitter, so always nice to see a new old face migrate over here.
September 17, 2024 at 6:48 PM
21....that would be 2000 for me. And while there are some years where picking just one album would be hard. 2000 isn't one of them for me.

Poe - Haunted. By a mile.
September 16, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Me: a nerd
September 10, 2024 at 3:32 PM