This is what the internet looks like. Like an episode of that old TV show Reboot apparently. Saturday, April 28, 2012 | comments
Nerds, let's get it together - Lords of Waterdeep Inevitable Betrayal Promo Card | comments
So there's this game, Lords of Waterdeep. Good game. And in this game, there's a common deck of cards that you use to affect your opponents. There was recently an auction for a promo card that cost this much
So here someone's paying $33.36 for an single card that will go into a deck of 60ish other cards and in barely have any effect. And this isn't a buy-it-now listing: this is an actual auction and someone bid that amount. $33.36, by the way, is more than the game itself costs. But because this one card is so hard to get, people will pay crazy amounts to get it/
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Also, the game has a really cool box. It's really well designed. But it's not this cool.
Also, why are you chopping down trees while you open up games.
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Previous post on a similar topic: Dixit Promo, Arkham Horror Expansion
How not to put in eyedrops Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | comments
Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos of an Iraq War Vet with PTSD Monday, April 16, 2012 | comments
That's just one photo. See the rest. Amazing photojournalism
http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2011/12/special-project-welcome-home/26786/#name%20here
Caption to the photo above
"Scott Ostrom said many times he should have died overseas, and during a fight with his girlfriend, she agreed. 'I just grabbed a pair of scissors tried jabbing them into my neck, but they were closed,' Scott said. 'So I grabbed a nice kitchen knife and cut my wrists.' He said he believes every combat vet struggling with PTSD has a contingency plan. 'Every one of us has a suicide plan. We all know how to kill, and we all have a plan to kill ourselves.'"
Picture of Scott now and condensed slideshow here
http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/heartbreaking-photos-of-a-troubled-iraq-war-vetera
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Related: To Write Love On Her Arms is a great organization
Kid builds his own arcade out of cardboard and goes behind each game to hand out tickets Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | comments
I'm just going to share this before I see this on every single other site I follow. See Caine's Arcade for yourself here:
http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/98FS4Y74_Nw/9-year-olds-diy-cardboard-ar.html
Here's a quote:
http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/98FS4Y74_Nw/9-year-olds-diy-cardboard-ar.html
Here's a quote:
"One day, by chance, I walked into Smart Parts Auto looking for a used door handle for my ’96 Corolla. What I found was an elaborate handmade cardboard arcade manned by a young boy who asked if I would like to play. I asked Caine how it worked and he told me that for $1 I could get two turns, or for $2 I could get a Fun Pass with 500 turns. I got the Fun Pass."