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Gaming the System

Board game creators from across the Pacific Northwest descend on Portland to test (and hopefully realize) their design dreams.

The board games most of us grew up with aren’t very good. Risk is sloppy, minimalistic, chance based, and it takes too long, Monopoly makes you a slave to dice rolls and outsized punitive nonsense. Battleship is an exercise in profound randomness—less a game than a way for time to structurally dribble away. The modern, […]

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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sat April 25

Portland Indigenous Marketplace Indigenous Come Up is taking the latest in their series of marketplace events online after COVID-19 made going out and doing the in-person shopping thing a health-threatening activity. But they’re dedicated to giving a lot of local makers as big a spotlight as possible, and so they’re inviting you to engage with […]

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