Yeah, exactly! And it's not like, a forbidden well, do it if you want to, but when there's a dearth of this happening right before board gaming's biggest shopping spree, it's not the best thing.

And look, some people are marketing tools, and really good ones and I value their contributions a lot. But if you review, if you're a critic but also do this kinda thing, like, there's a disconnect there.

There's a line between critic and marketing tool and it's not a fine line.

A video where board game media folk talk about the games that will come out at Essen Spiel later this week

Once a long time ago I made a video like that and it was miserable, I was just making random vibes based guesses.

Look, I'm not poopooing anyone cause literally everyone is doing this, but imagine having your Essen video after you actually played all them games?

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Took the dogs for boarding and apparently Sidney "scentmarked" everything within the first 15 mins, which is fun fun, fun fun fun, good to know we can take him places.

Yes

Thanks, I'm sure I'll have questions but I feel like I got this down. It was a long read, but none of it felt particularly complicated or novel.