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One thing I'll say about Games People Play over Your Move Games: they know their board games. The kid behind the counter at YMG hadn't even heard of Shadows over Camelot when I dropped in yesterday, but the woman who just now answered the phone at GPP could tell me immediately when they expected their first copy in. (Next week.)

(To be fair, some people at YMG are a little more tabletop-aware. The mohawked cashier complimented my taste when I picked up Memoir '44 from them a few months ago, and another employee cared enough to regularly attend MLGN. But that any person who works there literally said "Uhh-h-h... what's that?" to me about what's surely the most anticipated new board game this year? Buh.)

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I spent much of yesterday editing the Princes of Florence shoot, enough so that I finally have a ~10-minute long draft. It's OK, and no better. The footage is pretty mediocre, along several axes. We'll be that much smarter for next time. Actually, I think the next time will look much better; I'm chalking this one up to practice, even though it's more than enough to earn me my SCAT broadcast certification.

Ahh, next time: I am tentatively planning another shoot sometime on the weekend of July 8. Going to see about equipment availability tomorrow (when I'm also going to submit my finished cert tape, woohoo). I am currently thinking that we will play two different board games, which will let two people swap out between manning the camera and playing. I will probably do camera for at least one of the games.

Will post a casting call with more definite information later.

Quick note about my tag style

For the sake of self-consistency, I am trying to make each of my tags individually fit the template:

This post is about _______.

I dodge the case-sensitivity question (if there is one) by keeping all tags lowercase, as Flickr has trained me to do.

Sometimes I will need to qualify a tag with an article or a possessive in order for the tag to fit the template gramatically, as with "the diesel" or "my beard".

I will generally favor straight-up nouns over gerunds when it's a split choice, even if the noun needs to be pluralized. (See this post's tags for an example.)

Oh yeah

I got my first-ever summons for jury duty recently. I have friends much younger than me who've been hit up multiple times. I don't know what took them so long to pull my name. Just luck?

Relieved to see that it's way the hell off in August. *dismissive wave*

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Rr... I was in a good mood and really wanted to play Hot Shots Golf again, so I did, for the first time in months... and came within a hair's breath of smashing my last unsmashed controller.

I have to learn to accept that the whole genre of high-stakes sports & driving games is closed to me for the foreseeable future. Probably not until a non-neocon is POTUS. I wish I was joking.