And would add about a zillion dollars to the sales tax revenue.
A balanced budget at last!

That picture at this resolution looks like Bob Costas in drag.

But productivity would be at an all time low...

Wow. I didn't realize that Bob Costas and Richard Garfield were the same person!

Why buy a chair for every room, when you've got plenty of sticks and pillows lying around?

So, you've seen my family room then?

We already have some companies doing this...like LoveSac with their Sactionals Modular Furniture.

Hey! I do that all the time.

Just Google on "IKEA hacking"

Not to mention it would be perfectly legal to not pay any of your "colonists" for the work they do.

This bandwagon has become grotesquely full.

Grotesque political correctness needs grotesque bandwagons to be countered.

It's called "growing your career" at the place I work at.

As a retailer, I can attest to the fact that most customers already think you can barter for the vast majority of goods out there. The other customers usually just steal what they want.

Edit: Yes, I did use "barter" when I should have said "haggle." However, I have had customers try to barter as well. It's not uncommon for customers to bring in items from other retailers and want to use them to "exchange" for something we sell. Amazing.

One of my former employers bartered off lightly used copier and color printers to restaurants for food and drinks credits. Once when a fancy joint was going out of business he had about $400.00 left to spend. He and I tried to do it in one evening. We ate like kings and still didn't get it done. I was with him the night he traded a color lasr printer for a $1200 bar tab.

On a much smaller scale, I used to print menus in color for a local Greek eatery for food credits.

Who run Bartertown?

We run and arts & crraft store in Costa Rica and so many people ask for a discount, we always say no because we have items that are over $4,000 and it is hard to give a discount on small items. I understand when backpackers ask for a discount and every once in a while I give a person a little break, but it amazes me that a family that is at a Eco-lodge that is $350/day/person not incuding tours or booze asks for a discount on one of the cheapest items in the store, or they may buy 2 and ask for it. I say no, but I really want to ask if they ask for a discount at McDonalds when they buy 2 hamburgers?

Do you mean 4000 US DOLLARS or 4000 COSTA RICAN COLONS? (the equivalent of $8)

If the former, then your attitude is, shall we say, surprising.

If the latter, then yeah, it's tacky on their part.

That's not necessarily a bad idea...depending upon what you take.

Wow, that almost goes along with MLK's beloved community formula.

A nation's health is measured not by how the wealthiest among them fare but rather, how the poorest fair fare. (paraphrased)

We shall call it, Knizian Justice.

. . . and our numeric system would be Base 5.

Fare.

Sorry, Preston, I know that's twice in one week. Great quote, concept and boardgaming tie-in, though.

Great. Now we all fail everything because Preston can't spell.

What happens when you mix dyslexia, with fast typing and talking to people while typing on the geek? You get me in all my spilleng blunderz.

This is always the way I cross the street...but I've played this game often enough that I rarely have to refer back to the rulebook.

Luckily whenever I cross the road there is no opposing endpoint. That could be tricky. I walk swiftly and without opposition to the opposite endpoint, whereupon I consider my crossing complete.

I'm trying to imagine what an opposing endpoint would be like. Maybe it would have spikes.

" to place opposite or against something"

Just watch out for the crossing guards, they have zones of control!

5.32.3) A pedestrian unit less than eight years old may enter a road hex provided all of the following conditions are fulfilled:
a) It is at least seven years old;
b) It is stacked with a female pedestrian unit which fulfills the Retirement Conditions (see 65.2.3);
c) It is flipped to its Scout side;
d) It has a good deed marker stacked below it;
e) It does not have a good deed marker stacked on top of it.

Not if someone else gets there first!

He would be a horrid director of Transportation. People would be required to ride elf carts, clouds and unicorns.

It would be legal to put trees in the road to block traffic and perfectly fine to make a short train ride from Boston to DC go all the way to San Fran down to Little Rock and back up through Atlanta before it got to DC.

I refer you to John Varley's description of Titantown, in his trilogy starting with Titan.

Thus earning you the longest route bonus (a slightly better chance of coming out ahead) and taking the chance of running out of the means to get you there.

Except if you wanted to go to Duluth but ended up in St. Paul.

A slight caveat to that - "Thou shalt use thy imagination, until the market can no longer bear it."

Which will no doubt put me on any number of Public Enemy Number One lists.

Given how Gygax kept changing the "Official Rules" during the days of AD&D, I think this would be more appropriate...

There's also the advantage that the best way to advance your career is by killing things! In addition to XP, you also get to take whatever random treasure they have.

Heh. "Thou shalt use my imagination" sounds more like Gygax.

F! that.





Punko

They already are.

Sorry, already taken. http://en.wikipedia.org/Libya

If you don't FFFollow the law you will be:

FFFined!

amen brother

Or the designer blame the publisher, claiming they modified completely his law project.

Unless the Space-Time Continuum is destroyed, and everyone loses.

Not necessarily; Crazy Joe may still win

Unless there's a city in the region. In which case, the entire city must be disassembled and its citizens allowed to starve.

So Tresham's responsible for Gaza!

I exchange four marshmallows for a new sportscar.

How big of a structure does something next to a body of water need to be to be considered a port? Would a camper and an inflatable raft work? That two for one exchange would be sweet.

That would be five, actually. Sheep, Ore, Grain, Brick, and Lumber.

Or Lumber, Ore, Grain, Oil and Diamonds.

I dunno. Whenever I play, whatever is in my hand is usually worthless - I don't need it, and nobody wants it.

What an appropriate comment for the game that celebrates the phrase "wood for sheep".

Dice can never be the same color.

Or:

In all conflicts between first-world powers, every other first-world power shall be required to fight in the conflict; neutrality is not permitted.