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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · Oct 18

Gosh, so many folks joining beeskee, hello all! We're NPI, independent board game reviews and here's our own NPI starter pack:

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 3h

REAL people never retire

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 12h

the amount of American people that are incensed with the video because I said you don't have Kinder Eggs is hilarious

let me repeat that - you don't have Kinder Eggs. you have a legal compromise that is bad.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 12h

hey, don't blame me, you brought this on yourself.

No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 20h

Amabel needs to familiarize herself with pickles, kimchi, etc.

whole world of preserves that anyone can decide to make

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 20h

"echo chamber" is nonsense, sorry.

No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 21h

The quicker you establish boundaries, the better everyone who respects each other feel. Lay the groundwork from the getgo!

No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 21h

I just want any space that we're in charge of to feel good to visit. It's such a key thing in community building. I think a lot of people trip up here because they want to feel a good host to anyone who comes in. But it's the rule of tolerance that applies here - it is never universal.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 21h

We use this feature aggressively. If there's even a whiff of hostility or bigotry - you're out. And I gotta say, feels nice to know that if I need to, I can take my hands off the wheel now and it'll probably be fine for a good while.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 21h

I think one thing I'm really proud of is that over the 12 years of curation on our little youtube channel, the comment filter is really working. Lots of people with different opinions, but 99% are people just talking to each other.

"Hide user from channel" is the greatest gift youtube gave me.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

hey everyone, this video features a spaghetti ball and also a kinder egg, what more can i tell you to convince you to spend 27 minutes learning about why i didn't like a good board game

No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

Vantage is a perfect game. Naturally, I had to find problems with it.

thumbnail for a video review of a board game called Vantage. It features the game box, me looming from the side of it. the caption reads NO* NOTES and then in a smaller font *some

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

youtu.be/ETyMug9k0yE

Vantage is Perfect. I Don't Like it.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

Vantage is a perfect game. Naturally, I had to find problems with it.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

they're just very neo-liberal

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

oh the bird people have been hated for some time now

No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

like, fuck AI but these dipshits are a one step away from being just as brainrotted as AI

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

okay boomer

a screenshot of a video on youtube from Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.

the title is AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel and it has 3.9 million, I REPEAT, million views in 21 hours geeeeeeez

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

so you just happened to have been recording when the deer jumped out? we all know what's going on here. how much did you pay this deer?

No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

"You've been quoted by Eize"

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

I can absolutely get behind someone just making marketing videos where they play the game and have fun with that. But when it enters the "here is what I think of this game" territory, it kinda muddies the field for everyone else.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

It is incredibly self-serving advice. I wish that we moved away from the paid opinion industry default and the only way I see it happening is if publishers make it less classy themselves.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

I do differentiate yeah. I am all for people getting paid for playthroughs! I think that's great.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

This is not to exclude people who do unpaid previews, and those folk do the lord's work. I think this would benefit them too because in the end their work would be less sullied by all the paid for opinions.

No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

It comes from a place of sincerity and you literally can't put a price on that. In a (Efka's) dream world, publishers would tout the fact that they chose to not include paid crowdfunding previews.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

I think you are right to highlight playthroughs. It is a more ethical and less predatory way to create marketing buzz for your campaign. And I think the "value" of a review only manifests when someone actually feels compelled to speak about your game.

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

I guess my input would be that it is mutually beneficial for everyone (audience, publisher and reviewer) to not pay money for Kickstarter previews. The audience knows the gimmick by now and they don't care for it, the publisher spends money needlessly, and the world of reviewing games is stronger.

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