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Major Butt Kissing delivered to Michael Barnes
Recently, at my friend's house whose game collection is stuck in 2007, we brought out Top Race and I got my first play. The components were a tad dated, but the bluffing during the auction was top notch and the play so streamlined that the game just stole the table with much cursing and shouting.I was super excited to find your review of Downforce in my inbox (I will admit it took me a jump to BGG to figure out it was nearly the same game).
In other words, thanks, and you and your team keep up the great work, the side of the hobby more focused on gaming than collecting needs it.
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Colorcrayons wrote: Barnes' mom has an interesting user name.
If you look through my post history, you will definitely see that I am most definitely his mother. The name roughly translates from the armanian word for "mother of animal houses."
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I certainly can't take all the credit. Charlie is responsible for setting up the whole thing with MM, and his writing has just blown up over the past two years. So happy to see him doing so well with it- he's come along way from sending me a geek mail asking for reviewing advice!
We also have some top notch writers and I am super proud of what they all do. If you haven't read any of Byron's work, he does an excellent job of reaching deep and approaching games with a multi-disciplinary view. Kyle can handle the classic Euros and wargames equally well. Grace is funny and brutally honest. And we've got FAT's own Nate Owens (San Il Defanso) and of course Pete Ruth. Dan Thurot pops in from time to time and usually blows me away with a great piece. And we are always looking for new folks to write, suggestions always welcome!
Anyway, thanks for reading...it is something I am very proud of and I'm glad it is appreciated.
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I don't actually oversee any of the video stuff. There have been a couple of folks that don't care for them. To be honest, I never watch any of them.
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As a separate appreciation note... when I first started reading MB's reviews, I was thinking: "this guy so gets boardgames, I wish he would design one". Now I am glad he didn't ever feature in any kickstarters, or stuff like "co-designed by", etc. Something about professional integrity, I guess.
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I do check in and read stuff though. It's consistently good work.
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Michael Barnes wrote: Written reviews, come to find out, are also more widely trafficked. You can read a review anywhere, any time and at your own pace. Video reviews you can't.
I don't actually oversee any of the video stuff. There have been a couple of folks that don't care for them. To be honest, I never watch any of them.
As long as the video reviews do not dilute the written reviews, I don't really have an issue with it, but if it turns into Game Boy Geek's youtube feed as it has on occasion, then it's annoying. I'd almost like to see video reviews filtered out by default unless the creator is also including a text review. It's like they are filler when filler is not really needed. I don't really understand who is benefiting from the having the video reviews listed in the "review corner." I get having them attached to the game's detail page so that customers have something to reference, but not in the aggregate original content area.
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