The best thing about board games, hands down, is the people. I don’t just mean the sorts of people who play board games, I mean that more broadly: Playing a tabletop or board game means spending time with your friends, your family, your loved ones. Board games are about people.
This video, from Shut Up & Sit Down editor and sometime Kotaku board game columnist Quintin Smith, is beautiful. It’s also very sad. In it, he takes a pause from his site’s usual run of (excellent) board game reviews and reflects on the recent passing of his father, as well as his favorite gaming memory.
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If you wanted to share your own favorite gaming moment below, I wouldn’t hold it against you. Be excellent to each other, y’all.
