Joe
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occasional co-host for The Train Rush, an infrequent outlet of train game media https://thetrainrush.com/
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%. phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
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UK Age of Steam Con day 1: England, Powerhouses of the North (con map), Aiaia.
Step into the Nineties! Highest Klaxx score on this machine in the world ever.
I've heard so much hype for this from various social circles over the past 10 years, I'll finally give the new edition of this game a chance. (And probably sell it when it doesn't live up to expectations.)
And she was awarded 2nd place in the National Best Hat Awards.
Happy 38th birthday, KNIGHTMARE, the hardest game show on television! In 1987, Treguard the Dungeon Master welcomed the first team of adventurers to his blue screen labyrinth. Losers didn’t just fail, they 'died': blades, spikes, and bottomless pits abounded. "Ooh, nasty..."
Stopped this "classic" by "Martin Wallace" from being sold too cheaply on eBay by buying it myself. There's some logic to this, I'm sure. At least it encouraged a post-storm walk to the post office in the sunshine.
The 'new' game from Francis Tresham. I'm hoping it's as ridiculous as it sounds. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26...
"I'm sorry, Charlie Brown, but I guess I'll quit, too. It's hard to play on a team that always loses. It's depressing. I'm the kind who needs to win now and then. With you, it's different. I think you get sort of a neurotic pleasure out of losing all of the time." Charlie Brown's All Stars! (1966)
Lots of people complain about the size of the Chicago Express box, but it has enough empty space to store a few extra cube rail games inside.
Summer's here and what better time to promote the PnP files for Santa Claus Takes the Intercity? It’s a fast, fun, and free card game the whole family can enjoy, using the board from Dutch InterCity—that cube rail game no one ever wants to play with you.
Available as a PnP expansion to Dutch InterCity | Santa Claus Takes the Intercity
Han Heidema's daughter has generously agreed to the rules and cards necessary to adapt Santa Claus Takes the InterCity to play with a copy of Dutch InterCity being released as print and play files. Yo...
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Once again I have ordered a bunch of cubes and can no longer remember what they were for.
I pulled off 3rd place in Giro Galoppo. Look at my cheery face.
Made it to Origins and got in a game of Power Grid. It was close with a 4 way tie powering 14 cities, but Craig got the win with the most money.
But I'm not shutting down, I'm shutting up. So you won't hear me when I say, "Everything's okay, I'll see you around."
Programmes for Schools and Colleges brought the fear in the Scarred For Life era. BIOLOGY (1975) gave schoolkids the ominous intro from Pink Floyd's 'Time' before confronting them with their own mortality, all in 60 seconds flat.
All the Cool Kids are wearing an Arado 234 from the hot card game, Panzerzug. Are you?
