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So this week I have binge watched Jack Ryan, season 3, like most of these it got very predictable, hope there is no Season 4!!!
Also watched the film United, not really a big fan of Man Utd, but found it a good watch to be honest.
Tonight's watch is Mayflies.

Richard Latimer

@keith-anderson said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

I usually hate reality tv (or most if it) with a passion but has anybody seen 'The Traitors'?

What a show!!

Shouting, backstabbing, crying, missions, banishments, murder, twists, turns!! What an amazing concept!

Would be great to play although I'd probably be murdered on the first night haha!

Superb show!

Not sure how long it'll last (3 series at the most). People will now go in with gameplans. Brilliant TV though, presented superbly by Claudia

Yeah, I already thought...it will be like Big Brother. Maybe 2 good seasons and then you'll get the most over the top pricks ever going in and it will go from being must watch to must avoid TV!

Akiva Anderson

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

I usually hate reality tv (or most if it) with a passion but has anybody seen 'The Traitors'?

What a show!!

Shouting, backstabbing, crying, missions, banishments, murder, twists, turns!! What an amazing concept!

Would be great to play although I'd probably be murdered on the first night haha!

Superb show!

Not sure how long it'll last (3 series at the most). People will now go in with gameplans. Brilliant TV though, presented superbly by Claudia

Richard Latimer

I usually hate reality tv (or most if it) with a passion but has anybody seen 'The Traitors'?

What a show!!

Shouting, backstabbing, crying, missions, banishments, murder, twists, turns!! What an amazing concept!

Would be great to play although I'd probably be murdered on the first night haha!

Ryan

@richard-latimer I loved how it ended, always really hard to wrap up a show they did it well.

Martin

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

My wife and I love a board game (Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and Horrified to name but a few). She bought me The Quacks of Quedlinburg. What a great little game. Watched the How to Play on YouTube and it’s great. We’ve got the expansion packs as well

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/quacks-quedlinburg

Any other board gamers on here?

Yes! I like the campaign games they make now. Mind you I hardly ever get any to the table...

I own: Gloomhaven - Jaws of the Lion, Tainted Grail and Sleeping Gods

I've got ISS Vanguard on the way sometime next year too.

Richard Latimer

I prefer party games to out and out board games these days. If they have a board too then fine

This https://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Fame-hilarious-party-board/dp/B004FBMV5W/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=1C874LBJ26WSZ&keywords=game+for+fame&qid=1672450098&sprefix=game+for+fame%2Caps%2C102&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1&smid=A3B5SBSE448BFX is brilliant!

I would recommend to anyone. So much fun and completely appropriate for kids as well! Whenever I've played it we've all been in stitches at some point during the game!

John Folan

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

My wife and I love a board game (Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and Horrified to name but a few). She bought me The Quacks of Quedlinburg. What a great little game. Watched the How to Play on YouTube and it’s great. We’ve got the expansion packs as well

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/quacks-quedlinburg

Any other board gamers on here?

Never tried Horrified, any good?

Terraforming Mars is excellent. Everdell is a good quick little game. Hive is a great chess alternative. Roll for the Galaxy is pretty good if you can get hold of a copy at a reasonable price. Dominion is always a great card game.

Horrified is brilliant. So playable and the different monsters change it up every time.

Thanks for the additional recommendations

Matt Wood

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

My wife and I love a board game (Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and Horrified to name but a few). She bought me The Quacks of Quedlinburg. What a great little game. Watched the How to Play on YouTube and it’s great. We’ve got the expansion packs as well

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/quacks-quedlinburg

Any other board gamers on here?

Never tried Horrified, any good?

Terraforming Mars is excellent. Everdell is a good quick little game. Hive is a great chess alternative. Roll for the Galaxy is pretty good if you can get hold of a copy at a reasonable price. Dominion is always a great card game.

Richard Latimer

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

My wife and I love a board game (Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and Horrified to name but a few). She bought me The Quacks of Quedlinburg. What a great little game. Watched the How to Play on YouTube and it’s great. We’ve got the expansion packs as well

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/quacks-quedlinburg

Any other board gamers on here?

Love board games and party games. Just discovered a number of spinoff cards against games which I'm going to have to try

Generally seems to be a christmas thing though.

Try Muffin Time. Very exploding kittens.

Exploding kittens is a great little game. I had something called big bucket of doom as well but I lost it. That was good. Think it was utilising items in your possession to save you from situations resulting in certain death!

John Folan

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

My wife and I love a board game (Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and Horrified to name but a few). She bought me The Quacks of Quedlinburg. What a great little game. Watched the How to Play on YouTube and it’s great. We’ve got the expansion packs as well

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/quacks-quedlinburg

Any other board gamers on here?

Love board games and party games. Just discovered a number of spinoff cards against games which I'm going to have to try

Generally seems to be a christmas thing though.

Try Muffin Time. Very exploding kittens.

Richard Latimer

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

My wife and I love a board game (Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and Horrified to name but a few). She bought me The Quacks of Quedlinburg. What a great little game. Watched the How to Play on YouTube and it’s great. We’ve got the expansion packs as well

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/quacks-quedlinburg

Any other board gamers on here?

Love board games and party games. Just discovered a number of spinoff cards against games which I'm going to have to try

Generally seems to be a christmas thing though.

John Folan

My wife and I love a board game (Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and Horrified to name but a few). She bought me The Quacks of Quedlinburg. What a great little game. Watched the How to Play on YouTube and it’s great. We’ve got the expansion packs as well

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/quacks-quedlinburg

Any other board gamers on here?

Richard Latimer

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

@ryan said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

@richard-latimer I loved suits, great show.

On last 3 episodes ever.

It's not often a good TV series will end perfectly. This did. Wrapped up every single loose end in an emotional last episode.

I'm a sensitive soul

Richard Latimer

@ryan said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

@richard-latimer I loved suits, great show.

On last 3 episodes ever.

Ryan

@dan-mackinnon yep cracking book that

Ryan

@richard-latimer I loved suits, great show.

Dan MacKinnon

I think @Adam has recommended this book before. I read it earlier this year and would say it's one of my favourite books. It's on sale for 99p.

It's basically a look at how we have a fixed amount of time and how you deal with it. It's not as morbid as that description makes it sound!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Time-How-ebook/dp/B07X3DH41F/ref=lp_5400977031_1_1

Richard Latimer

Currently watching season 8 of Suits. So very watchable, great characters - Perfect netflix binge material!

So strange to go from goddamn everything to effing and jeffing now it's a netflix show rather than a network one!

Richard Latimer

@chris-osborne said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations:

I think it's high time we abolished the monarchy personally. Time to move on.

Will never happen brings too much money into the country from foreign tourism.

Taxes are high enough as it is will see them rise significantly if it happens

I used to think the same but how much do we pay them to make us all this money?