OFPG - What New Games Did We Get?! (Tea Garden, Hummingbirds, AND MORE!)
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right about now.
Good morning.
Good morning. Yay.
Happy Sunday.
We're here. We are here. We're here. Yes, we are here.
Yeah.
What you mean? Yeah, we here.
You know, every week is something new.
Always something new in this country. Always.
But you can't internalize it.
No.
Cuz that'll bring you down.
Yes.
And we have to keep going.
You got to find the happy.
Yeah. You got to find the happy.
You got to find the happy.
And you know, this is our happy place here.
This is our happy place.
Come in here every Sunday.
Yeah. The the Olympics is kind of happy.
Well, Olympics are happy, too. Talk about that. Let me kind of say on that one, but
this is our happy place.
It's our happy place.
So happy to see all you guys.
Yes, everybody bouncing through. Y
in the chat, our members with their cute little OPG logos. Yes. I love seeing that. But overall, it's been a It's okay week.
It's been okay week.
I can't complain. Yesterday was Valentine's Day.
Yesterday was Valentine's Day.
It was very nice.
Yes. You had a good Valentine's Day.
Had a good Valentine's Day.
Yes. I'm glad you had a good Valentine's Day. I got some wonderful cards from my two guys here.
Yes. And and and some stuff.
Yes. I got a nice gift, I guess. You know.
Yes. It was a good gift.
If you call a gift card,
hey, I don't know what to get you because every time I get you something for a birthday or or Valentine's Day or Christmas, it ends up going back, don't it?
This is This is 22 years. Still doesn't know what to buy.
It usually go back. still.
I had one good I had one goodbye that I had one goodbye that she hated at first, but then years later it came through. So, you know,
so I I
I wanted to get rid of it and then I'm so happy that I didn't because I I I use it. You need it now. He bought me a Michael Kors bag a couple of years ago. It was huge. I don't like big purses. I like little small purses. If you guys ever see me at a con, you see me with a little cross body, you know, something small, easy to carry, and I'm like, why would you buy something like that?
I thought you like that.
And I didn't like it. And we threw it in the closet. And he was always stayed in the closet.
And I told him I was never going to use it. Yes.
And lo and behold, because I do marketing and I have so much stuff I have to carry around with me. That purse has become my go-to.
It came back out. It survived.
So, it it made it.
It was rescued.
It made it.
But everything else,
I got to do gift cards now. You guys,
I got to do gift cards from here on out. Gift cards.
I you I'm not complaining about the gift card because I'm going to spend it. I'm I'll find things to buy. I actually like buying for myself anyway because I know what I want.
Yes. Let her get her own thing. Let her get her own thing.
Yes, I like buying for myself. But I hope all of you guys had a great Valentine's Day.
Happy Valentine's Day yesterday.
Yeah. Spend it with someone. I hope you spend it with someone that you love or your family and friends or played some games or just had a good time. You know, it's always good to celebrate love.
Yes, it's always good to celebrate love.
But you got you got a gift for Valentine's Day, too.
Oh, yes. I got my watch. Look at that, y'all. I got my new watch band. Watch band.
Yeah, I got a new watch band.
Practical cuz I'm I'm really not a practical and flowers girl. I'm really not that. No, she I do like balloons.
She like balloons.
I like balloons a lot for birthday.
I like Myar balloons cuz they last forever. They'll stay up a whole month. I love them, but I'm I'm not a big flowers and candies person. So, I just I like to give things that are practical that I know you can utilize, and that's the kind of gifts I like.
That's what you like.
And then what we're talking about today could be on someone's gift list.
Yes, that's true. That's true. Games.
Games. Always good to give.
IT'S ALWAYS GOOD. ALWAYS GOOD TO do games.
Yes. For those of you who don't know us, I'm Stara.
I'M DOING HIGH FIVE. WE'RE NOT.
I WAS I WAS LOOKING AT THE I had Olympics on my mind. I had Olympics on mine. They high-fiving.
He always says I forget. I got him.
I I They high five.
Oh, do they? But we But we're not Olympics.
I know we're not Olympics.
Let's try it again. But it's in my head, though.
But we almost made it, y'all. Every week. I try to do this thing so they kind of surprise me a little bit.
I try to be smooth, but we mess up every week. SO, I'M GOING TRY IT AGAIN.
YES. OKAY, LET'S GO.
FOR THOSE OF YOU who don't know us, I'm Stara. I'm
And we are gay. Boom. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we got it now.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Now, let's talk about people in the chat. I see so much stuff going on in the chat.
Yeah. We got to go up, though. We got to go up. We got to go up.
Let's see what we got. Uh let's see what's in the chat.
Let's go up.
Okay. You guys are reading the comments.
If we do Yeah, we go.
All right. I'm going to do first in the chat. If we see some really good comments, I'll make sure I say something about it. Uh the first one I can SEE IS MONICA.
MONICA VIKING FROM NORWAY. HEY, WE GOT TO SAY your team we saw yesterday FOR THE OLYMPICS IN
TROUBLE.
Your team for the cross country skiing relay, they for real.
The women's cross country.
Yeah, the women they were for real. But they but I what they said on TV is that Norway loves cross country skiing. That's they that's their thing. So they came through. They came through.
Was it Norway, Sweden,
and Finland?
And Finland. And then Germany popped in.
Germany. But those three, those three at the top, they they nothing but us snowbound.
Yeah, we we are into the Olympics. Yes. And I'm more into the Olympics this year with the winter than usual cuz we love summer Olympics. We love all the track and field and all that stuff. But I'm telling you, I am into the Olympics.
It's that curling too.
Curling. I'm addicted.
We going to try to find other events with curling. Yes.
After the Olympics, cuz we can't stand that every four years. So, we got to find some more curling events. I know
cuz we like we know how to we know how the game is played now.
That's right. a lot of of members in the chat. If you haven't joined our YouTube membership, please do so. And the first one I see in the chat is Mim Me.
Yes.
See you, Mimi. We look forward to spending time with you, too. Uh, let's see. JJ,
it's not JJ. It's
Oh, JJ comics. Okay,
Jim. Jamie. That's Jamie from Kansas City.
Okay, don't go so fast, baby. I want to read some of the Okay, roll back. Thank you. I want to read some of the comics. Uh, okay. So, Monica, she said hi to Grant. Uh,
who else do we have? Dana,
how are you? Good to see you.
Let's see what we got.
Hey, Red Lover. GOOD TO SEE YOU AS WELL. Oil lamps. That's Dustin. That's Dustin.
Hey, Dustin. Good to see you. N Sali, good to see you. Blaine was telling jokes already this morning.
Bla telling jokes already.
Telling jokes. Uh, hi Ivan. Oh, uh, 01 night Lord. Scott.
Scott Woods.
Hey Scott, my favorite poet and writer. Amanda Panda, how are you? Good to see you. Uh Lori Lens, good to see you as well.
Uh who else we have? Hey, Matthew Rose, another one of our members. Oh, and Ivan's a member, another member. Um today we were supposed to have a members chat after the show, but we haven't got it set up.
We will. We will.
We will. We will.
You got it set up?
Yeah, we will.
Okay. So,
all right. We said we
our production director, uh videographer, uh moderator said yes.
So, we're going to have something after the SHOW.
RIGHT AFTER THE SHOW. RIGHT AFTER the show.
If you are a member of YouTube, our YouTube membership, you will be able to join that and talk with us. Okay?
Yes. 30 minutes after. So, if you're not a member, go ahead and become a member now.
We got things to talk about.
30 minutes after we talk privately with our members. So, you need to come on over.
Not 30 minutes after the show, right after the show, right after the show. And we're going to be once a month. So that way you guys can come in every month, save up your questions that we didn't get a chance to cover uh on the show and we can talk about that and any other things you guys want to talk about just to kind of get to know you guys better. Yeah.
Uh good thing is a lot of our members we met which is great. So we talk to them. That's awesome. That's true.
Uh who else do we have in here? Is that everybody? All right, that's everybody. Okay,
that's everybody.
All right, so I talked about Oh, I didn't talk about topic of the show.
Yeah, topic of the show.
What did we get?
We got a lot. We got a lot. We got a lot. And one strange item. Ha. YEAH. WAS REAL SHOCKED by that one.
WE WERE SHOCKED by that one. One strange item came through that we didn't know. Well, we were warned about it, but we didn't know what it was until it came through. We like, "Oh, okay. Yeah, it's time to join." That's right, Matthew. Time to join. You better get with us.
I've been saying uh as Bad Bunny had a sign at the Super Bowl, the only thing stronger than hate is love. Exactly. That is so true. That's right. You know,
that is so true. We have been I've been listening to Bad Bunny stuff
a lot cuz I got two songs now. I had one song.
He can't pronounce the name of anymore.
I can't pronounce No, it's unforgettable dance. I know that's right. It was one song. Then the second song, I don't know how to say it, but it was cool because we saw it on when he was at uh on art NPR Tiny Desk. He did a Tiny Desk
all in Spanish cuz he don't do no English, but it was all Spanish, which was cool. And he did this song that I was like, "Oh my god, that was so cool." So I found it. So, I got two songs from Bad Bunny I love. So, that's that's all good. It's all good.
And and Sali, I I love that. He said, "Uh, Grant, I'm going to change my nickname so your mother can say it." Thank you.
Thank you.
You know, when YouTube changes to where we can't see your names, it is so hard for me to remember. Hey, Scott.
Scott member.
He's a member. Thank you so much. It's so hard for me to to remember who's who cuz I'm looking at these, you know, uh, YouTube names and it's confusing me and I hate that cuz I want to call everybody by their name and welcome them, you know.
Cody's here. Cody,
welcome, welcome, welcome everybody. Thank you so much. All right, so we're going to talk about what did we get. Yes.
Uh, we're going to talk about some more things in the news.
Breaking news. BREAKING NEWS. BREAKING NEWS. BREAKING NEWS. BREAKING NEWS.
And
breaking news. And we're going to talk about breaking news.
Our ode to black history this month. I'm not going to do a talk today, but we decided to wear some shirts.
Oh yes, I did. Yes.
SOUL TRAIN.
SOUL TRAIN.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT SOUL TRAIN,
SOUL TRAIN. IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT SOUL TRAIN, YOU BETTER GOOGLE IT.
ICONIC.
YOU better Google it.
SOUL TRAIN CHANG.
PEACE AND SOUL.
THAT'S WHAT WE always heard at the end of the program. Don Canelius, the great Don Canelius. That's right. would always say those three things.
Matthew said Mick IS PRONOUNCED TUPAC.
TUPAC.
TUPAC.
IT'S TUPAC.
THAT'S RIGHT.
HEY, LET ME TELL YOU. TUPAC. YEAH. He was a wild dude, but he loved his people. That's the one thing. He loved his people and he fought for his people and I loved him for that. Yes. He was a little wild, but you know, it's all good. It's all good.
All of you who are not in America, go check out Soul Train.
Yes. And
Monica. And if you don't know what Tupac was or who he is, Google him, too.
Oh, Dana became a member. Thank you. What's up, Dana? Thank you so much.
Oh, Cody loves my shirt. Soul Train.
Soul Train. That's Soul Train. All right. I got some real breaking news.
What?
Real breaking news. You ready to go? You ready to go for it?
Yes, I'm ready.
You ready? Okay, let's do it.
Let's do it. Okay. So, last week we talked about Watch It Played. Yes. how they broke up and it was really no kind of ex, you know, it wasn't really no explanation of why they broke up. Well,
Rodney Smith, the founder of Watch Your Play, kind of publicly let us know why they kind of broke up.
Well, it started off in a private message.
Yes. Yes.
And then everybody got a hold to it. It started spreading and then next thing you know,
and the video, he had a, you know, a video. Then he had a, you know, a statement and it says he broke up his relationship with Chaz Marlor, uh, who runs a game night picks and also Paradise Paradise. Paradise. Paradise. Paradise.
Uh, of dice.
Yeah. Paradise.
Paradise.
Yes. Paradise. Yeah. And he cut ties with him because he accused uh the channel of unethical practices toward publishers. Mhm.
And Smith says that game night picks Chaz Mara use YouTube paid promotions advertising tools to massively inflate views and subscribers in late 2025 while running a payer view pricing model for sponsored ads. But that attendance retention reportedly fell off a cliff over 90% of the viewers leaving within the first minute
before sponsor ads would typically roll. So now Chaz has said that he tested YouTube promotion tools, says the results didn't create quality or lasting engagement and says they stopped using them and he told his, you know, publishers, but we don't know that for sure. But uh Smith says the situation also pushed him to simplify, you know, watch it played back towards being fully under his control where he can he can run it and primarily just focused on tutorials that he's done since the tutorials that he done from the beginning.
So you know so that Paula Demi went on on her way
and Matthew Jude went on his way and Mon'nique and Naen of Before You Play went on their way.
So that's that's the situation now. Yeah.
And you know, Stallie, I think you want to say something.
You know, I understand where, you know, Rodney was a little upset with the way uh Chaz was running the advertising with publishers. Now, we all have advertising on our channel.
Um, we employ a flat rate with publishers. Flat rate. It doesn't matter how many people look at our show, whether it's one or whether it's 10,000,
the rate is the same because we're offering publishers an opportunity to get in front of our audience. But I think what the unethical part was with Chaz was that he was doing a pay per view. Now we all also at least I can't speak for everybody else but for a lot of publishers and I as a marketing person I employ this tactic with all of my clients. We utilize YouTube advertising, Facebook advertising, Instagram advertising. That's the only way you can promote your post and promote your videos by paying for Facebook and them to put that stuff out there. They don't guarantee views. they'll just tell you, hey, if you pay so much, this many people will possibly see it. And it's up to your content to make those people, you know, subscribe or come on board or whatever. But if you do something like that and you tell the publisher that, hey, I'm going to guarantee you a thousand views and then you keep paying so much money to make sure that those people see it and they just click on it and and and you know, inflate your views, then yeah, I think that's wrong. We just charge
flat rate. This is what you're going to get. Doesn't matter who sees it. the numbers fluctuate. We have a core, you know, number of viewers that we know are going to hit every week, but that's not how we charge. And you I don't think you should do it by view.
No, you shouldn't because we can't you can't guarantee who going to look at you or not. And we that's that's the one thing we do is that, you know, like, hey, we going to put it out there and some of our view some of our, you know, our YouTube videos, they do good, some of them do bad, but that's how it go. It's on on us to get you to watch and that's what we try to do. Oh, okay. Uh, can uh Matthew Rose said, "Can someone please explain to me how this is possible? I watched the video and didn't understand what was going on. I'm not smart in tech, so this might be over my head."
Yeah. I mean, that this is what we think. I just gave you an explanation. I don't know if that's the deal cuz again, we don't know, but I know that, you know, advertising, you have to advertise your channel. If you want it to grow, you advertise. We always ask you guys, hey, subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. But it's so much our audience can do. So, of course, we're going to utilize YouTube and Facebook and Instagram to try to help us grow the channel. So,
yeah. And just use our own, you know, personality and our content to get out there in front of you. So, you know, like, hey, maybe I'll I'll deal with, you know, you know, some of these publishers that we advertise for. Yeah. You know, but it's it's all just hoping that you love us and like us and want to view us. So, you know, and then we give you content of like the games and stuff that we're previewing and hope you like it enough to come see it. Yeah, Matthew, I don't know how advertising is a bad thing. Again, this is just our opinion on it. Yes. U again, we don't know all of the inner workings of what happened on that's what we got from the videos, but we just wanted to give that explanation. Uh thank you board game wagon. How welcome to the show Matt. Uh Logic Lust, thank you so much for coming. Hey Arin, what's going on? Uh uh she said that hey family, Rodney was an absolute class act in how he handled the situation. Yes, I agree. I mean, he came out and just said, "Hey, I don't like this situation, and I just want to let you know that, you know what's going on."
Uh Blaine said, "Rney also said that the other participants in game night picks, uh, namely Paula, Matthew, Mon'nique, and Naveen were innocent and not deserving of any blowback." Okay, that's good to know.
That's good to know. But, but we watched the video.
Watch the video.
Ronnie was he was very direct on where he was placing blame for what had happened with the situation. And again, I'm g say again, we don't know the exact inner work is, but just from what we could gather, we thought that that was the problem.
And and uh you know, uh Amanda said Massie Rose, he's charging for bot subs and views.
Oh, okay.
You know, and if he's doing that, that that's totally wrong, too.
Again, charging by the view.
Yeah. Charging by the view
instead of just saying, "Hey, you know what, publisher, to my channel, here's a flat rate. Whoever watches watches. Whoever doesn't doesn't." That's a more honest way to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We just put it what we do. We just put it out there and say, "Hey, I hope you watch it.
We hope you watch it."
Yeah. Scott was that the video was a good front to back explanation on the watch it play situation. I totally agree. I totally agree. Grant, could you scroll for us, please? Because I think I missed something uh before. Go up. If you go up for me, please.
Um
uh one more.
Oh, okay. I was looking at um N I'm changing the subject.
Okay. Okay. NN E Salki says, "Who doesn't know Tupac? It's cultural." That's true history. You missed it, baby. Go back up. Still looking. And then right after that, Blaine said, "I watched Hidden Figures yesterday. What an uplifting film." Yes, it is. And Adana said, "Have you watched the six triple 8?"
Yes, we have. Yes, we have seen that.
Watch it, Bla. That's a good one. All right, let's watch the chat and miss those comments about uh that.
Uh uh let's see. Uh
no, go back down. Go back down.
I think we got it. We're good.
We got it. We got it. Got it right there. So, that's it on that situation. We just wanted to report that to you guys cuz that is news right now.
Um, that's it.
Yeah, you got go back down, Greg.
I think that's it. He's at the bottom.
Oh, he's at the bottom. Okay,
that's it. That's the last one.
All right.
Yeah. So, yeah. Uh, Panda, I do agree with Arwin. That was really good. You know, how Rodney came through and said it. And, you know,
you know, we don't know what Chad's going to do. He, you know, his explanation back was kind of,
you know, kind of, you know, very foggy. But, you know, we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens, but we'll see. All right, so my next thing is Sean. I think Monica did talk about Sean. Yeah, there is so much drama all around. Some Sean Rubers, too. So now the publisher Sean says it raised about $1.2 million in a new share sale, you know, valuing the company around 7.5 with most of the money earmarked for game development and additional funds for marketing and events. all as the company continues to work through major financial loss and backlog of undelivered uh uh crowdfunding projects. So they saying they trying to sell off everything to get stuff out there. And I don't know what they trying to develop. They need to stop all that and just get the games out that they got. That's just all it is. That's all it is. But they are crumbling, y'all. They are crumbling.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's a shame. It's shame. Um,
uh, Matthew said, "Please excuse me, but I still don't understand why making money off bots is a bad thing when bots try to ruin everyone's channel." Um, I think the problem with it, Matthew, was the pay per view.
Yes.
You know, if you want to use bots to and, you know, to grow your channel, that's fine. But if you're charging someone to pay per view and you're using bots to increase the views, that's where the problem is. If he, like, again, if he had just charged his publishers a flat rate and said, "Hey, this is what it cost to be on here." I don't think that would have been a controversy, but the fact that he was charging pay per view is the problem.
Yeah. If you're able to promise 10K views and your channel doesn't normally come in with 10K views and then you suddenly get 10K views for this one video and
you promise. Yeah.
You've never done 10K views before. That's very strange.
That's very strange.
I've been quiet the whole time, but it it's very strange if you check it out.
But but again, it's the pay-per-view that's the problem, you know, and then increasing the views so that they can pay more. And we we never came to that. We did not want to be
It's always been a flat rate.
Yeah. It's always been a flat rate. If you come, we going to flat rate you. We going to give you a flat rate. You know, that's it. Uh what said
Blaine said, "I feel bad for publishers being charged for views when a book of those views left the stream before the publishers ad played." That's true. Oh, okay. That's true. That's true. That is true. Um OML Studios rightly felt that Chash should only charge for viewers that made it to the end or at least at least the ad. Okay. Okay. So, maybe that's they didn't stay long enough. Yeah, those people are just popping in and popping out. They don't get a chance to see it.
And it says Amanda said, "The publishers are charged extra for views that didn't translate to engagement or purchases." That's That's bad. That's bad.
And then Scott said, "If I'm a publisher, don't charge me more if the viewers
are just bots." See, that I think that was the problem right there. That was the problem.
Yeah, that was the problem. Inflated views that really weren't views. And then you're charging more money for that instead. Again, flat rate and be done with it.
Be flat rate. Cuz when a publisher come in, it's we want to do something like we got a rate sheet for you. Here you go.
You know, we get a lot of people that come to us saying, "Hey, can you guarantee me this many views?" And we're like, "Nope, we can't work with you like that." Cuz we can't guarantee it.
We can't guarantee nothing.
We don't guarantee other than people are going to look at it. And another good thing about YouTube, I always tell publishers that even if you got low views on this video, it's out there.
It's out there forever.
Forever. And we have people that will come back. Yeah,
you know, we may have 300 people next week that went back and looked at a video we did 100 I mean, not 100, a year ago.
100 years ago.
A year ago. And get comments cuz we had a comment from Yeah. We had somebody inspector.
Yeah. Inspector and told us we did a rule wrong. Yeah.
From four from what? TWO YEARS AGO.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS AGO. SO,
IT WAS LIKE TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO.
THAT'S THE GOOD THING ABOUT our videos. And when we do get new subscribers, a lot of those subscribers will go through and look at a percentage of our
would be potentially either three or four years old now. Now, we just we just got a comment.
We got a comment. So, yeah.
And and the Scott said, uh, and hey, if your channel raises in popularity, you can always raise your rates. And we have done that. That's true. Yeah, we've done that. Yeah. But again, flat rate, not by views, cuz we don't know how many people going to look. Um, so anyway, let's see.
It says, Matthew said, who is paying that? That this is unheard of. I wanted you to start your membership and you did it right. Who is paying this this month? Yeah.
Yeah. Again. Yeah. Who knows? I don't know. Who knows? And we did decide decide to do the membership.
Matthew been talking about membership asking about membership. And we said, "Okay,
it took US A LONG TIME.
LET'S DO THE MEMBERSHIP. We'll do the membership."
A long time to do it, Matthew.
Yeah, we'll do the membership. We said, "We're going to do that. We're going to try to see if we can do that."
Said, "I was a big fan of Chaz's channel, so this is something I had a hard time reading. But if you have to accept facts and change your views, but you have to accept facts and change your views as necessary."
Yes. Yeah. You got to do that cuz you know I was a big fan of Chaz too and you know he was on our channel for you know what uh watch plays.
Yeah he did he did I mean I watch
he was on voices he did a segment which was great. He did play chat.
Yeah he he also was on our channel I believe or something else was he? I don't
No I think we were on his channel cuz we did watch it. No we were on watch play. Yeah.
I mean people work together in the work together. People we invite people to come on our channel. They invite us to go on their channel. We've met Chaz. We've played a game with Chaz. We've met Rottney. We've played with Rottney. We like them both. So, again, that's their internal thing, but we only talking about it because it is news and it is something that we wanted to try to explain uh to our audience. But yeah, uh we we like them both and I'm I'm sad that both of them had to break up like
I'm sad sad the whole situation happened. You know, whole situation, you know. I hate that. Now, next one is on the hype side. Restoration Games.
Okay.
Is bringing the mayhem back to Thunder Road Vendetta.
Yeah.
They're making a whole another game on the side called Thunder Road. Uh uh what was that? Inter Hold on.
You can't ignition. Yes, Thunder Road Ignition. Sometime these words get me, you know, but Thunder Road Ignition. It's a smaller standalone spin on the Thunderro Vendetta and it's coming to Gen Con 2026 with a lower prize and faster play. Yeah.
So, you know, like uh Thunderro Vendetta is humongous. It's a big one and a lot of stuff going on with that. There was a lot of stuff. So, in so in uh so ignition is a little bit smaller. is gonna be able people because you know like I had a friend of mine that said I would love to get vendetta but it's so expensive
you know because even like you know she don't want the $100 one but the next one down is like almost like 60 70 bucks and she said I wish it you know I love the game but I wish it was cheaper now with ignition maybe that she can do that you know it's a little bit you know little bit smaller and it's going to be you know it's going to be a tighter box it's going to be streamline chaos new cruise and new like uh curved curved roads. So to kind of fit all that stuff in there. So I think that's pretty cool. So they're going to give them a chance so people can play thunder road which is crazy.
Yes, that's cool.
That's good.
Yeah, that's cool. Now and then also a wild history meets hobby moment.
Okay. Researchers used AIdriven simulators, another controversial thing,
and wear patterns analysis to reconstruct how a ancient Roman era board game may have been played.
They use that. And then this is showing how modern tools can help revive lost games into something that we can actually play today.
So that's what they did. I like that.
Yes. And maybe that's a good way to use AI. That's a good way.
Yeah. Um Scott Wood is accusing us of of being mean to to to Rodney. We did not strangle him with that shirt. Scott Wood.
Oh, WAY BACK IN THE DAY.
HE SAID SCOTT SAID, "LEST we forget, y'all. Almost strangled."
No, he did not. HE BOUGHT THAT shirt at the wrong size.
Too small. Way too small.
He He wrote He He got that shirt at the wrong size.
He wore it.
That was not our thing. That was a child's shirt.
That was a child shirt thing. That looked That looked crazy way back in the day.
Little Scott would remember that.
That That was That was bad back in the day. That was bad. Okay, that's my news. That's your news.
That is my news.
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What's going on with you?
Now, Lucky Duck Games. Now, someone just said they bought a Lucky Duck game this week. U that's great. We love their games. Oh, that's Bla. Thank you, Bla. I mean, it's scrolling. I don't see it right now, but thank you so much, Blaine. I'm I'm sure that Lucky Duck will be happy to know that you're buying their games. We're happy. And and uh Mimi said I uh
I
Yeah, it looks it is Mimi.
It is beautiful.
You will love it.
Beautiful.
I actually playing as a two-player. It was great. Mick and I play it over and over. It is a great game
and and and you know it is a real fun game and and also it comes into you know the afroofuturism. So that's really close to our heart cuz that you know afroofuturism is really cool and it's in there. I mean there's a lot of history about you know some of the writing on the cards you know it's beautiful and it's a mcala game
it's a mala game and I love the way a weird mala game weird
but I love it though
it's cool it
it works well they did not make any mistakes with this using cards and using the little tokens which are seeds and all this it was just great
and what's so crazy this is a reprint
and and I'm I'm so mad that we didn't see find it before cuz it's so fun
but I'm going to tell you Now, go to that campaign. Yes.
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Hello, Chuck Frank. That's uh Charles Franklin, right?
Yes.
Great. Okay. Chuck Frank. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Uh we got a lot of contract going on right now. Um Matthew says, "But the contract doesn't specify. I don't see anything wrong with this. People are saying it's illegal. I disagree. If you don't like it, then pass a bill or keep quiet." Hey, you know what? That's that's your opinion. Opinion. That's I mean I think that was just you know Rodney just didn't want to be associated with the way he was doing it and you know
he didn't agree with what he was doing. Yeah.
Arwin said agreed Mimi IA looks pretty cool.
Looks really it plays cool too. Arwin check it out. It's really good. True play is really fun. True player is really fun. It is really fun. Yeah.
All right. So are we ready to go to what WE TALKING ABOUT?
LET'S talk about what did we get?
What do we get? All right. So first off is from Osprey Games. They gave us a few games. Now, some came in 2025,
you know, and the first one up is General orders uh Suku
Senoku Jai.
Yeah, Senoku Jedi.
And that's the Japanese frutal uh war game, very small, two-player that just go back at it. Now, I have the they also sent, you know, a long time ago the general orders uh like kind of like World War II game. Yeah, World War II, which is really cool. Two players going back, you know, uh with the World War II type, you know, uh with tanks and, you know, like with with infantry, with air force and with ships. Really cool. Love that. It was really fun. So, now we're in feudal Japan. I'm excited about that.
So, it says it's going to pit competing feudal lords against each other in a fight for control over crucial battlefield. No, crucial battlefields in 16th century Japan. I'mma pass on this one. Yes, but
but I'll find other folk to play with.
They really like it. This is just not my thing.
No, that's not her thing.
Not my thing.
The other general orders World War II wasn't her thing.
That's not my thing.
That was not a thing.
But some of you guys
I played that with somebody else.
Mick is excited about it. So
I'm excited about it. I love it. I love this stuff. The next one she ain't going to play either. But this is uh Lime of Fire burnt moon.
This is like a line game. This is a line game. So Line of Fire. This is another one. This is really cool. is made by the designer David Thompson that did my favorite series in Osprey games is the Undone series. I love the Undone series. Now the space version undone it.
They need to go back to World War II. They need David, you need to go back to World War II. I love that.
Well, this one's also sci-fi.
Yeah, but this is sci-fi because it's based on the last undunt that they did in that world. It's in that world. a two-player deck building card game of machines waring across the volcanic surface of Io. Whatever Io is. Is that planet?
I think that's one of the planets for Mars. I think that is. I think
you mean moons.
Moons. One of the moons. One of the moons.
That's That's the This I'mma pass on this one too.
She going to pass on that to y'all
because again, this is not my type of thing. Monica's making fun of me. What?
She said, "Get your lady glasses on, my lady." Yes.
Got a lady.
I had to get some new ones. So Grant and I both went last week to the eye doctor and we've got new glasses now, but mine won't be in until next week. Uh Grant came in and we're going to pick those up tomorrow. So I'll have some new glasses hopefully next Sunday.
Oh, what is what is Panda? Panda said uh Mick, you need to do a top 10 uh games you like that Staller will never play. That's a whole bunch. I CAN DO A TOP 30, top 40,
top.
That might be good though. I might do that.
I MIGHT DO THAT. The games that Star will not play. Will not play.
I got plenty of love.
Thank you, Chuck Frank. Love the Tupac is so Tupac forever. Yes, forever. Tupac. All right, so the next one. Uh oh, this is heavy. I didn't know it's that heavy. It's by David Thompson, too. They I mean, Ostri Games love David Thompson. They love that dude. Okay, this is called War Story Occupied France. Now, I don't know much about this. I heard a little bit, but it's kind of like, no, this is might be cool. You might like this one. Now, see the World War II
war stories occupied France. That's a no.
I'm a World War II. I'm a World War II nut. I I love World War II history. I loved it when I was since I was a kid. So, this is up my alley. So, Occupy France where you kind of dig in and kind of like try to find out what's going on in Occupy France. I love that. So, it's really cool. Yeah.
Uhhuh. Uh, let me
about resistance and warfare. I like that. Yeah, I like that.
It says, "Choose your own adventure board game." I love that. in World War II occupied France.
That's mine right there.
They lost me on line one.
I know. I know.
But again, I don't have to like it. So, you may like this game and there's a game out there for everybody. So, there you go.
That's mine right there. That's mine right there. Now, this next one is brand new from Osprey Games. These are 2026. Now, these are 2025. This was 2026.
Okay. So, Osprey lost me on these. I'm going to push these over. They lost me on these. All right, let's see the next one.
Okay, next one. Next one is called Flip Pick Towers.
Oh,
this is 2026 is coming out and it says it's uh Oh, it's a Oh, it's a writing game. It's a draft and write. It looks like it's a flip and draw game. That's a flip and draw. It's a flip and draw game by creating spectacular castles to please fussy nobles while dashly dragons try to throw thaw your plans
your plans. Let me see
what Okay. So, uh that's uh Oh, okay. That's you're writing stuff.
Oh,
yeah.
It says, "Can you outdesign
your competition to claim the title of the most magnificent magical architect?"
Ah, okay. Yeah, you're drawing some stuff.
Yeah.
Okay. Osprey.
Osprey, come on. WHAT? WHAT Y'ALL DOING?
HEY, you know what? Again,
WHAT'S OSPREY DOING?
WHY DON'T YOU JUST DO IT UNDUNTED, OSPREY? Do it undunted. That's all I want. That's all I want. Maybe another Imperium. I need another Imperium. Why you not doing that? A flip tower. They do a flip and flip and draw.
Scott Wood said, "The footprint on War Story is interesting. Looks small and tight." Yes.
Uhhuh. And then Monica said, "The most special experience I I've had with World War II history was visiting the Sashin housing as a as teens uh on a study trip. My group had to make a presentation presentation on it and we had to especially pay attention." Okay,
that's cool.
Okay,
that's cool. Yes. And Dana uh Skywoods is coming to the He's coming.
Yes, he's coming to the con. Yeah.
Uh Dana had a question for the group. She said an opinion question for the group. Do you count games played in board game arena in your games played count? If you like if you track your board game what is that?
Like if you track your board game stat games in that Yeah, that was in the way.
Yeah, it was in the way. I got it.
Now I do not count BGA games as uh in my stats. I do not do that because I only count what I have on the table on the board that that's what I play. I don't count VGA games. That's uh that's almost like video games to me. M Matthew said, "Board game designers, just add a Stara character in there. She will play." Here comes Dungeon Crawler. Stara, I don't like dungeon crawlers.
She ain't going to do it.
Except I u Clank.
Is that a dungeon crawler?
Yeah. No, not really. Not sort of. Not really.
Okay.
Clank. No, that's No. No. That That's really just a That's just a work just a worker placement slash uh you know. Yeah. Kind of like a drafting game.
Okay. I don't know which one Blaine is talking about. He said, "Too much alliteration for my taste."
Yeah.
What is that? Whatiteration words? That could be war story,
maybe. So, could be war. Uh Dana uh was saying, "Different strokes for different folks. Not all games are for everyone." That's true. And that that's my belief, D.
That's true. That is true.
That is my belief.
That is true. Now, here's uh some from uh 25th Century. I want to thank Osprey Games for sending that.
Thank you, Osprey.
Lovely folk. Love those folk. Love them. Love them. Cuz my cuz Undunted is always close to my heart. And Imperium. Imperium is very close to my heart, too. Love those things. Now, the next one from 21st Century Games is Red Letter, Yellow Letter. This is back in 2025. Let's
see.
And this is interesting. It look like almost like a Let me see how many people play this.
Oh, two to 12 players. It's a party game. There they go. It's a party game. Two to 12.
Uh, it says a really vocal party game with hardly any spelling.
Was it what?
It It says hardly any spelling. Really? It says just say what the cards tell you to say. A thing that starts with the yellow letter and doesn't have the red letter. Oh,
then change one of the cards. Now say the new thing.
You can't spell fun without letters.
Oh,
okay. That's interesting though. I like that. That's interesting.
Okay.
Okay.
Push that over here.
Why? It's a party game. Staller party game.
I like some party games.
It's a party game. We got to try that one. party game. At least we got another party game in there. That's right. Now, the next one is three to eight players. Now, this is brand new. This is 2026. It's called Bullseye.
Bullseye. Oh,
do I need to read it?
No. Let me see what it says.
There you go. Read it.
Okay.
Is this by the same publisher? 25th Century.
Yes. 25th Century.
25th. Oh,
okay. Bullseye. A cooperative party game
for three to eight players where everyone works together to build clues about a word or phrase one letter at a time.
Choose the target.
Yeah.
Select a target category from dozens of subject cards.
Take aim. Yeah.
Add a letter to the clue on your arrow board.
Yeah.
Let's uh let your guesses fly. Make your guess from the clues in front of you.
Yeah. Yeah. WHY GOT WHY IT'S PUSHED OVER THAT QUICK? WHY IS IT PUSHED OVER THAT QUICK?
You know what? Party game. If you guys got a lot of people want to play. There you go. Why you got to push it over there? YOU MIGHT LIKE IT. It might You might like it. It might be fun. It says choose. It might be fun. It Oh, yeah. Oh, eight dry erase markers. Uh oh. Uh-uh. Okay. Yeah. It might be fun though, Star. It might be fun. You never know. It might be fun.
Um, NE Salaki did the name change to Sali. Okay.
Okay.
I'm just going to say Salucky. That's right. You happy with that? And you did. You promised a name change and you did a nickname change. Thank you so much.
All right. So, now we got uh the OP games. Okay. We got the Right. Put those down cuz we got What did the OP do? What did the
We got more coming. I have faith in the OP. You got one.
I have faith in the eye.
Oh, well, okay. You name. Okay. Now, this one is an interesting game. It's 2026. Now, everything I show you is 2026. There's a brand new stuff.
Now, this first one,
now it's going to be interesting. It's called Hummingbirds. And it's um kind of dexterity kind of sort of cuz you got little timers,
little sand timers that you got to work with. So, it's going to be some like you got to do some fast moving and stuff, but hummingbirds look really strange.
Okay.
Looks strange.
Okay. Hummingbirds. This game will turn your sense of time. Yes.
Upside down.
Yeah.
Hummingbirds have an incredible memory and perfect timing, knowing exactly when to visit flowers to get the most out of every blossom.
Yes. Test your own timing and collect the most nectar in this engaging game of estimation and participation.
Yes.
I'm a little confused by uh the artwork. I don't know if Grant's going to show it, but I can show you this. Show it. Show it.
Um they've got these little sand timers that I guess you're hiding inside these tubes and you can't see them. But I'm I'm not opposed to it. I would want to try this before I say I'm opposed to it. It seems interesting.
Yeah.
Um
you put them in like little caps. It's like uh
they're little tubes that you're hiding. Yeah.
Yeah.
It says, "Look, place your hummingbirds a top hidden sand timers." Hidden.
Hidden.
Yes. You hiding them?
Yeah. Maneuver for position and check for nectar. If the sand timer has run out when you check, you gain a token. So anyway, so so you don't know you don't know if the sand timers are going or not. You you just gonna just try and you put one there and like if you lift it up like oh sand time still going. You don't get you don't get something cuz it says the longer you wait the sweeter the reward. But be careful if the timer is still running when you check you lose a token.
Oh, you lose a token.
Oh.
Oh,
okay.
That's weird.
Here's here's at the bottom. He said you, it says you may think you know how long 30 seconds is.
What
you may think that
Yeah, that's true.
It says a minute or two minutes is, but once the hummingbirds start hovering back and forth, you're in for a sweet surprise. So, in other words, you don't know time. You got to you got to be able to manage that and say, "Okay, I think it's been 30 seconds or longer." That's I I want to try that. That seems
Now, I don't think Stall going to do this one, y'all. This is from the Ou brand new. I don't think Stala gonna do this
cuz you know we were talking to you know the you know and Stall's like I don't know about that one.
It's called cats knocking things off ledges. Literally you're knocking THINGS OFF LEDGES. WHAT? NO. Why go away that quick?
I'm not even gonna read that. It's a game of balance, balance, mischief, and perfect positioning. And Grant got to show this one cuz you're actually knocking things off ledges.
Uh, one of our our friends in the hobby, Steph from All the Meeples of the Rainbow.
She put out a little short showing this game of her knocking stuff off with a little stick for the cats. That's all I'm gonna say. She's not gonna say anything else.
It looks interesting though. Place a cat. Bat a toy. Place a cat. Knock something off. It might be fun, you know. It might be a little fun knocking. Okay, there you go.
I'm not even going to talk about that.
It might be fun. It look a little different. It looks different. It does.
It looks It does. What is that? Uh uh let's see. Chuck Frank said, "Sand timer scream anxiety." Yes, it does. Yes, it does. Hummingbirds with timers. Yes, Monica. That's what we got. That's what we got.
You know, said uh she said, "The sand timers remind me of kites."
Yes. Oh, yeah. It does. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.
It does. From uh That's from I think Flatout Games. Yeah.
Uh Blaine said, "This week I got small islands from Lucky Duck Games. Tile laying and scoring like Carcazerone. I like it. Dreamy theme and zen-like play and fun. I lost my first solo game 38 to 58. So, I have a challenge.
Okay.
No. Floodgate Games did uh kites. We never got that one.
Yeah.
We never got that floodgate. No, we didn't.
Yeah. Uhoh. Scott says when Mick says interesting. NO. NO. THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD INTERESTING. THIS MIGHT BE A good interesting.
Interesting. Has a lot of meanings.
Yes. This one is It might be a It's cool. Interesting. It does. It's cool. Interesting. I want to give it a try.
Can we not say Can we not say that?
Yes, we going to say that word. No, no, no. We're going to try that out. No. No. We're going to do that. Okay. Unique. That could be unique. Yeah. Now, this next one has the game has proven that it's a good one. It's proven.
Okay.
Now, this next iteration of this game is going to be it's going to be wild. It's going to be wild. And this is flip seven with a vengeance. Flip seven with a vengeance.
So,
yes.
Um, again, Mick was saying we had a meeting with uh the OP and they went over their catalog and stuff and we they explained this game to us. This is the meaner
Yes.
version of Flip Seven.
It's mean, y'all.
It's mean. Now, the other Flip Seven, you know, yeah, you can do some little take that, you know, by freezing somebody or making them flip three cards, but it's a fun, you know, way to play. This one is downright mean.
I'm going tell you off this top star. It's no second chance cards in here.
Downright mean.
There's no second chance cards at all.
Mean.
And then what they throw in there is negative score modifiers. You know, like you have like positive score modifiers in the regular one. This one gives you negative score modifiers.
I'm going to say this. I am ready to put it on the table. We are going to have a hilarious good time. This game is cutthroat.
I can't wait.
They have one card in here that divides YOUR SCORE BY TWO.
OH MY GOODNESS.
IT DIVIDES YOUR SCORE.
I am ready.
And then they have they have from It used to be 0 to 12. Now they got 0 to 13.
Well, you know, you're going to have a good time with this game.
Yeah, cuz I might win it.
No, because your score is usually zero. So, you have nothing to lose. So, you're good. You are good. You're going to have a good time with this game. We don't have to worry about you.
No, this is what I might win. No, cuz I I'mma go against some folks. This one I might just win.
We had so much fun. We were at Meeple of Thon. I think we played Flip Seven twice and Mick wound up with zero both games. How you How do you do that?
Yes. Yes.
Cuz he was pressing his luck to me.
I pressing my luck. Just doing too much.
You know, in Vegas, I had Vegas talking to me. I had Vegas talking to me and Vegas said, "Push. Go. And you know Vegas do that to you.
You know why Vegas does that?
Vegas. Why?
The house always wins.
Yeah, that is true.
Yeah. The house always wins.
The house always wins.
So they want you to push your luck. Press your luck. Yeah, that's there. So
the house always Vegas was in my ear. You know, lady luck was in my ear. Lady, you know, lady be a luck tonight.
Luck be a lady.
Let luck be a lady tonight. There we go. Luck be a lady tonight. And it was all luck was all in my ear.
The only thing
luck was all up in my ear. The only time Vegas was really good to you and gave you something really nice.
What?
That was when we got married.
That's when we GOT MARRIED. DAY TWO. But see, look was all in my ear AND PUSHING ME. LUCK WAS PUSHING ME.
YEAH. You went to Vegas and came back a winner.
I came back a winner. Yeah. That's came back a winner. There you go. There you go. Now, in this in Flip Seven Vengeance, they have uh several uh evil action cards. New action cards.
I'm looking at them. There's swap, there's steel, there's flip four, discard.
Just one more.
There's negative 10, there's divide two, unlucky seven, and lucky 13.
Yes,
I am ready.
Yes,
this is going to be hilarious.
It's going to be hilarious.
I am ready.
It's going to be hilarious. So, now we have flip seven vengeance.
Yep. Yep. Yep.
So, you ready for that one?
I'm ready. Oh,
you ready for that?
Let's do it. Let's do this.
Here we go. Now, here here is Capstone Games. Love Capstone. They gave us some good ones. Uh let me see. Let me go get put that down here. Now, this came in 2024. And that is and I heard a lot of good things about it. And that's tea garden.
That's tea garden.
I got some flip seven comments real quick. What is that? Um Allison said oath of vengeance flip seven. Yes. Um Arwin said Ally Ally said don't add division into flip seven. We can't do math.
It's there. Can you mix two decks?
I don't know.
I don't know if I don't know if you can mix two decks.
That'll be a crazy game. I think all of what Flip Seven Normal has is in this one, too. But I'm not sure.
But it doesn't have any second chance cards. I don't think I don't think they want you to have a second.
Throw that in there, though.
Yeah.
Uh and Bla said it it is chaotic evil.
Yeah. That's why Alice has said Oath of Vengeance. It's a joke about the paladins from Dungeons and Dragons.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then um but there was another one up there. Grant, can you scroll? Um
Oh, okay. No, no, that was you saying that his signature word is crazy. All right. So then um the next thing on Flip Seven, Dana was saying, "Mick is a scorekeeper." Um and then Allison said, "I had so much fun playing and winning Flip Seven with you all at Capital City." Yes, Allison. Uh, and then uh Blaine said the most gamer version of Uno.
Now Uno does have a bad one. They do have a bad one because I think it's Uno Revenge or something like that. They have a bad one. They do.
And then Amanda Panda said, "I asked the op. They said you cannot mix two decks. So there you go. Can't do you can't mix them. They're they're all separate. It's all separate."
Maybe I'll be nice and throw second chance in there, though. Who knows?
We can't throw it in there. Can't throw it in there. Now, uh, Arwin said, "The tea garden is a perfect 2 a.m. mediumheavy MC game. Love it a lot." Okay, 2:00 a.m. There we go. 2 a.m. We got one. Thank you, Arwin. Thank you. Uh, it says, "Oh, let's see. What is that?" Jamie said Jamie said, "Great game, Tea Garden." Okay.
Okay.
And then, uh, what was that? So, uh, the new flips have been going retail. Have your plans on it?
Yes, it's going retail. It's going to start off exclusively at Walmart. It's going to start to love this one. I think you're going to love it.
Yeah, it's going to be exclusive at Walmart for a short time that it's going to go out, but it's going to be at Walmart. So, it's going to be there.
But as for tea garden, guys,
my tea garden,
you know, this is uh from the uh Capstone Games. I heard it was good in 2024. We didn't get it, but I heard a lot of good things about it about it. So, here's a they gave us a promo, too. So,
uh all I can say is I'm already in love with it.
Really? Why?
I'm loving the box art. I think it's beautiful.
It's a Euro. It's a Euro game. Yeah, it's beautiful. I'm looking at the back of the box. I love the way the board and the components look. But I'm going to give you a quick synop synopsis of this.
Uh tea garden is elegantly and organically combines the game uh mechanisms of deck building, resource management, and action execution.
Okay,
you're using cards and you will build tea gardens in different provinces. You'll study, harvest, and ferment tea. Okay.
And sell it to caravans or sell it down uh the Yansy River.
Uhhuh.
Um I'm loving this.
Yes. I think it's your game. It's one of
I don't know what you see, but let me tell you guys, I love it. I love the way it looks. I mean, it's got some table presents. If I saw someone playing this, I would want to know what it was. I'm Amanda said, "TeR will also have an expansion." That's cool, cuz we late to the party, y'all. We late to the party on that one.
Hey, um Asha.
Hey, Asha. HOW YOU DOING? HE SAID, "BULLY IS A great party game. I hope it gets a lot of attention."
Yes. Okay.
Okay. I'll take your word for it.
We going to do uh we want to say, Ashwin, we got your game and we're excited.
Yep.
Excited to show it off. And that's chicken fried dice.
Yep. It's coming up.
Yes, it's coming up. And we love that game. We love it. We love Well, me and Grant do has a stall gonna play it cuz me and Grant, we love it.
I've heard nothing but good things.
Yes, we love it. I love it. Put this All right. So that's tea garden with it's promo. So put that over there. Now the next one. Now we've been waiting for this. Yeah. I've been waiting for it.
And that's a let put here. Now this just came out in Essen last year. So it's kind of sort of kind of still new. And that's Aquaria.
Yep.
That's Aquaria. Now I've heard a lot of good things about this one where you're building your own fish tank. I'm excited about this. It just came out just last year in Essen. A lot of people it was it was on a lot of people's anticipation list. Yeah.
And I definitely it was on mine too because I want to definitely check this out. So we did get it and I want to play it. Now the weird thing they said they gave this out this little card that said stop. Please ensure your copy of Aquarius sits flat. The small plastic buttons have a side which is flat and a side which is rounded. By assembling it as shown here, your game will sit flat.
Okay,
so you gota sit it flat. That's wild. I've never seen a, you know, tell you sit it flat.
Hey, Blackboard Gaming. Welcome. He said he's been watching, but he's not driving right now. So that's great.
And then they gave us a little promo right here. So we got a little promo. So that's really cool. That's really cool. So you're making your own aquarium.
Yep. So, it says that in Aquaria, your friends have challenged um your claim of expertise at creating a thriving aquarium.
I'm excited about that.
They suggest a little competition to see who can build the best aquarium ecosystem from scratch and you accept.
Oh, is uh let's see. Oh, who's that? Is Amanda gone? Oh, okay. Amanda gone.
Did she leave or say you soon? Okay. No, that's I think she talking to Arwin. I mean talking to uh Ashwin. Yeah, I think talking to Ashwin. But yes, so uh aquaria, I'm excited about that one.
So, okay, you're gonna strategize to acquire the exotic species for your aquarium, maintaining
talking about upcoming con. Yes. Oh, yes. Oxygen levels as you go. Yes. Each species has unique needs and offers distinct benefits to your ecosystem.
So, you got to take a deep dive into the encyclopedia to gain an edge with what you find. So, you got to de uh design harmonious habitat uh and curate your aquatic collection to surpass your rivals.
I'm excited about that.
I mean, I I can't say it's not interesting.
And it has it has I mean I'm I'm thinking I may like it.
I've heard nothing but good things about that stall. A number of good things.
And and believe it or not, this this box would have got me too cuz I want to know why are they all looking at a fish tank?
WHY ARE THEY IN THE TRYING TO BUILD ONE?
WHY ARE THEY LOOKING? WE GET THE BILL ONE.
YEAH. SO, YEAH. YEAH,
we get the bill one.
Kind of an old retro look to it.
Yeah. Retro50s. Yeah. 50s60s.60s. Yeah.
Yep. I I would pick this up and look at it. Yeah. Let me not do that. Okay. There's a card.
So, so that's cool. That's cool. All right. All right.
And then the next one also came out in Essen and I'm excited to play it. Now, I saw that Amanda Panda did play it on her channel not too long ago and this is from uh Capstone Games. Uh Podscape. Pawnscape.
Pawnscape. Excuse me. I say PC. Pawnscape. Pawnscape. And I'm excited about this one. I heard a lot of good things from Essen about this one. It was This was also on a lot of people's anticipated games list for 2025. So, I definitely want to check it out.
Was that 25 or 26?
No, 2025.
Okay. It came out last year.
Yeah, they came out last year. This was at Essen. Okay. And a lot of people was really excited about this one. So, I definitely want to check this one out.
We got some comments here. Um, Matthew Rose, he said, "All my fish died. Do I lose? Yes.
Yes. Probably. So,
if you don't take care of those fish, yes, you're going to lose cuz you got to have the best aquarium. Yes. Uh,
and we also got a promo, too. Really cool promo. Yeah, for that one.
Arvin said, "I definitely would like to check Aquaria at some point. Looks pretty good." Uh, Tom Holic has been putting some good stuff out lately. Yes, he has. Yes, he has. Uh, Black Boy Gaming Star, you will love Tea Garden. Alicia likes it. Okay, great recommendation. Thank you.
Yeah, I saw that Dwayne did play Te. He said some good things about it. Yeah.
He said both Tea Garden and Aquaria are the same designer. Okay.
Okay.
Bla said better than pun scum pun.
That's true. That's all. That's true.
Uh Dana said that looks interesting. For real interesting.
Yes. For real interesting. Oh,
let's see. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah. So the guy uh that Tom guy, he did all three of these. So he did all three.
Said look at that frog. Yeah. It's a frog.
That's a frog. It's a frog. Yeah. So he did all three of those. Aquaria, tea garden, and also pond frog. That's a frog. I'm dropping.
Yeah, he's dropping it out all over.
That's a That's an interesting frog. Yeah. And then there's another one.
Yeah. So that we got that. I think this is
That's a frog.
That's a frog.
That's a frog. He's catching something.
He's c Yeah, he's getting a little bug. He's getting a little bug.
So we got that. So yeah. So I'm excited to play these especially Aquaria and Pawnscape cuz they did come out just like late.
Oh, that's not the last thing.
No, that's the last thing. So they did come out last year at the end of the year. So I just want to check it out. They almost like 2026 to me.
I'll give you these to put on there.
Okay. But
yes, put just I'll keep the others, but I was just in the way. All right. All right. So, put the little frog here.
Put a little frog there.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, I'm definitely going to play those two.
And now the last thing,
the last thing is a weird one. It's a very weird one cuz we were contacted by Aldi who runs BG and he said, "Hey, somebody want to send you something." I'm like, "What? What they want to send?" But he wouldn't tell me. But so we got this a little bit later
because I remember we were talking to uh some folk at you know BGG.
You were talking
I was talking it was Michael and Christina you know good friends of BG you know of Aldi and BG and they
volunteer for volunteer every year we was talking to them. They were talking about some wood a neighbor next to them son who's in school does woodworking.
Yeah. and they showed me some of the woodworking stuff that he did for them board game related. And I said, "Oh, that's cool. That's really cool. I wish we he could do something for us, but that's cool if you can. You know, y'all far away. They in Ohio." So, I'm like, "Oh, that's cool." So, all of a sudden,
we got something. And here we go. cuz uh the lady named Kim, her son, she said, "My son finally got back into the wood shop this semester. Hope you enjoy them." What did we get was them?
Wood coasters.
Yes.
With our with our logo on it. And it's so cool.
And we we needed some coasters.
We need some coasters for our game room. So, we got four of them. So, it's really cool. I I love them. Yeah. They're really cool.
Yeah. So, thank you so much, Kim. Thank you so much, Kim, and your son for doing this for us.
And I also want to give appreciation out to Michael and Christina cuz they heard it and they I guess they, you know, initiated. So, love them, too.
Thank you guys so much.
Thank you so much. We are excited for it.
So, is that it?
That is all we got.
All right. So, one thing I haven't talked about yet is the Omaha Gaming Convention.
Yes,
we have a convention coming up that is July 10th to the 12th. Uh we have a hotel block at the Even Hotel. Yes,
from the 9th to the 12th. Uh we are planning to take a quick little tour on the morning of Friday the 10th. Uh so if you get here on the 9th and that morning we're going to take a tour of Omaha and you know go to Spielbound and go through Midmarket and Midtown and all I mean Old Market and Midtown and go to the bridge all those little things a couple hours out on the road so you get a chance to see Omaha before you get down into some serious gaming. Yes.
But if you haven't gotten a ticket yet,
get your ticket. Tell a friend, come to our con. Yeah, we are so excited about it. Yeah. And we can't wait to see you guys and play games with you guys and just, you know, have a really good time. It's a very intimate convention, not very big. Um, we're happy about that so we can get to know people and see everybody. But we are so excited and we hope you guys are excited, too. A lot of you on the call have already gotten your tickets and we appreciate that. But tell a friend, bring a friend, come to the con.
Yeah. cuz it's going to be diverse.
Yes.
Inclusive. Yes. And we do love that. We are striving to have that being diverse and inclusive cuz a lot of cons nowadays are not that. Yes.
Not that. So, we're definitely going to do that.
Now, Mimi said those co coasters are awesome. Yes. Mimi. Yes, they are. Mimi also did coasters for us a couple of years ago, which we use all the time.
We use the cloth. Yes. They're upstairs though. She put she put our names on the coasters and we use those upstairs.
You use those upstairs?
Yes. All the time. So, thank you for those. We You can never have enough coasters. So,
but these are going to be downstairs in the game room. So, it's really cute.
Yeah. This is great. Thank you so much. She likes these
cuz we had our friend and designer Marcus. He came over to the house and he asked he said, "Where's your coasters?" And we're like, "Oh, okay. We don't have coasters." So, now we do. Yeah.
So, now we do.
We have some for the game room cuz again, the ones that Mimi did for us, they're upstairs. They're upstairs. They're They're permanently upstairs all the time.
All the time.
Um Dana said, "Cute coasters." Yeah, we like
Thank you so much. They're cool. They're cool.
Yep. Yep. Yep. Uh Blackboard Gaming. Oh, he's talking to Amanda about Thomas.
Yeah. About Thomas Holic.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. He said about the park. I totally agree with you.
We'll see cuz I haven't played none of his stuff. So, we're going to play it. So, you you you that's a good suggestion cuz we got to check it out. We got to check it out. I can't say he put knocked it out of nowhere. So, I'm going to check it out. See what he did.
Yes. We are coming to the end of February. We got one more week. One more week.
One more week of Black History Month. Last I think next Sunday is the 22nd and then we'll finish up.
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Dad joke. It says, "What's the difference between bird flu and the swine flu?"
Okay.
Okay.
One needs tweetment and the other needs oinkment.
Bird swine.
Okay.
Blade was telling jokes earlier. Yes. Uh in the in the uh chat. It was something about axe spray and that he sprayed it in his mouth. Oh.
And that by accident. And he now he has an axe scent. I thought that was
That's a good one. That is a good one. That is good.
That was a good one.
That's a good one.
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