Evolution of a Board Gamer | Things Get Dicey - Board Game Sketch Comedy!
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- Everyone knows there are 4 distinct phases of being in the Board Game Hobby. Which stage of evolution are YOU in?
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Written by: Paula & Lawson Deming
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Starring: Paula Deming
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Am I the only person who when they saw the chopsticks thought "that's a good idea"
it worked pretty well with the cheetos!
you've just leveled up!
stealing that for the next boardgame night
My girlfriend invented that technique for us to get around my zero food when playing with cards and cardboard mandate. It works really well in my opinion!
Oh I immediately decided that I was going to enforce chopsticks with snacks when I saw that clip. This bit has created a monster.
"My favourite game mechanism ... Kickstarter FOMO."
*glances at shelf of sha--opportunity*
Now I just feel personally attacked.
😂
Yeah...this is too true
I lost it at that line
Sliced bread WISHES it was this good.
"Who's Rodney Smith?" . . .me=ded
@@mike_heller Yeah just who ARE you anyway?!
My kids totally eat with chopsticks at the gaming table. Their idea, not mine. Couldn't be prouder.
Phase 5 - Eating and drinking banned from the gaming table.
Think I’ll be borrowing this idea...
"The rules aren't printed inside the box cover! How do you know how to play?" The face of innoncence was too good
“Who’s Tom Vasel?” I died.
Went to Midgard and saw him there. My buddy owned a total of none boardgames then and had no fucking idea why I was freaking out and asked him to play.
I then proceeded to humiliate myself in front of Tom Vasel.
She skipped over my favorite reviewers: Shut Up & Sit Down. :(
I had to look up all these references...
@@nstiles42 They used to be funny, but now they are just boring.
I love how you didn't actually being yourself to touch the cards with cheeto fingers, but cut the clip just as it looked like you were about to. Great video! Also, you're not wrong about that BSG insert.
hehehe
That cheeto fingers clip was the ultimate "NOOOOOoooooo" moment.
Going for the card with the Cheeto hands had me yelling "Noooooo!" at the computer screen.
@@damienbarber I was physically recoiling from the screen until it cut away.
I was developing a twitch before that cut...
And then there's the hours spent sleeving cards and coming up with organizational solutions for games you may not play for months or ever
"Liking a game but not liking how it fits in my shelf" hits me pretty hard 😂
“Lacerda games are great, they’re just not heavy enough for me anymore.” Man that had me cracking up.
But have you tried High Frontier?
Very relatable. I did however wait in vain for the sleeves.
I'm at the point where the game I play the most, by FAR, is Shelf Tetris.
Yeah, I'm gonna need a review video on that, did you find that it was too luck based? ;)
@@carla8478 oh, definitely not! I would say it's completely deterministic. My success or failure is entirely based on decisions I've made. :)
What happens when you complete a line?
@@pieterpecceu3720 My downstairs neighbors end up with a half dozen or so boardgames on their kitchen counter.
Initially read this as Shelf Tardis ... which sounded really useful as furniture but pretty strange for a game.
Everyone asks "Who is Paula Deming?" but nobody asks "How is Paula Deming?"
I'll ask you one better, "Why is Paula Deming?"
"Why is Paula Deming?"
@@adamholt5395 WHY indeed!
what is paula deming.
@@PaulaDeming ”Well, Paula… when a man and a woman love each other very much…”
"I like this game, but, I don't really like how it fits on my shelf"
Ouch.
"Who's Tom Vasel?" totally caught me off guard, genuinely did a LOL at that. Great video! (as per usual)
Having gone from “I’ve heard of Catan and maybe Ticket to Ride and I definitely will never play a game that lasts over an hour” to “an engine builder named wingspan? But I’m just not into airplanes... and what’s a worker placement?” to where I am now in a year or so, I love this. Need to add a phase for designer wannabes for those of us that binged Ludology! 😀
Binging ludology is a great rite of passage. Double-binging the Mike era is when you know you're way too into card games too.
Stage 7, it’s living in Carcassonne or Le Havre, or… actually, Carcassonne is my home town, I’m so screwed.
Next stage would be boardgame shop owner.
Alhambra here. Totally know the feeling of delight/dread of your life becoming a boardgame.
You could go full circle with an evolutionary step about culling your games and getting back to only 10, then realizing the value of party games again.
You missed Phase 5 where you have so many games you have to start the cull. You know more games than house your in, selling games in shrink, selling games in shrink because you just got the second edition, deciding if you are going to keep edition one and two/deluxe version, I played half that game that counts as a play I could sell it without guilt.
The answer to this is to buy a bigger house.
And actually knowing who Paula Deming is. Woohoo!! I'm level 5!
Second edition? Please, I'm backing/buying Robinson Crusoe a third time.
Well, that's me at the end finding out who Paula Deming is and how good her sketch comedy is
I LOL so hard about the "comedy in board game videos." BRILLIANT
hehehehe
Was a great touch
From listening to a recent episode of Sporadically Board featuring Matthew Jude,
I gather that this was inspired by actual comments on TH-cam and/or Facebook.
These aren't jokes, so much as they are documented steps in addiction.
Shh, I'm not ready to deal with it
"Kids, we're going to spend this summer playing every game we haven't played yet, in case they suck, so I can clear some shelf space for new games. What's that? No, we'll have time! Wait, you go back when? Okay, we might not have time."
How you can both effortlessly deliver a self-own about comedy in board game videos AND accurately predict the future (a world where Paula Deming is known and loved by every hobby gamer) is a triumph my friend! Amazing as always.
this is very kind.
and honestly, I'm always surprised anytime anyone knows who I am!
I only discovered @@PaulaDeming yesterday.
I was today years old when I learned FLGS stood for “Friendly Local Game Store”. 🤣🤣
Welcome. :)
Same here.
The way the napkin dabs were synced to the music was magnificent.
That Dominion moment is absolutely on point! Though it gives you enough opportunity to go to the bathroom or cook a delicious meal. Or give you a depression how bad you are in this game.
"Who's Rodney Smith?" - awesome
This is one of those channels where I like the video before it loads
Lvl 5. Making your own inserts on CNC machine, printing your own 3D figures, painting them, molding your own tokens, making your own expansions, making your own cards, boards, home rules for BGG (they're better than origin ;). Finally playing with all expansions so long that nobody wants to play with you anymore...
"Who's Rodney Smith" had me crying!
You missed the "that game is so broken" phase...
I love the shout out to Board Game Stats. I use that app to track all my plays ... lol
One of the people I play with got upset that I track my plays, so now I have to track them in secret... I may have a problem.
When you get your first Kallax shelf, you know you've finally made it a gamer. Huzzah!
When you buy your _third_ Kallax shelf, when then you know you have a problem...
;-)
Well done!
My favourite hobby is playing games. With little children and a busy life and teenagers who are being less involved and generally being tired I've found that my family has slipped a bit lately in that regard. And when that happens I tend to drift towards my second favourite hobby - buying games. And in that regard I am doing well and don't really need other players to make it happen.
I'm in the same spot myself.....
I really wish there were an alternate "Chapter 4" for "designers"
--"Oh, these games I bought from Good Will aren't for playing. I'm just going to cannibalize them for dice and minis."
--"I idolize Cole Wehrle...What do you mean, 'Who's Cole Wehlre?'"
--"I'm totally down to learn a new game. I've only learned seven so far this week."
--"Oof...that was a feel-bad moment."
--"I was just reading Jamey Stegmaier's blog, and he says..."
--"ugh, I wish I had time to play this, but I'm booked for back-to-back TTS sessions every night this week"
and so on...
Wow... this was like watching my own biography and then a seance of my own future. I'm in step 3 now... great video!
While I think that many videos in the board game space that try comedy are cringe-worthy, Paula is just so completely clever and I cannot help but laugh every time. Seriously, her writing is top notch and her timing is excellent.
"Can we just put it back in the box?" I might have died at this point ^^
Sitting here, opening a Kickstarter game that arrived today, nodding along at every single part of this & fondly remembering my descent into madness, buying expansions for games still on my “shelf of opportunity” & FOMO all-in nonsense.
I missed the stage where you refurnish your house to fit your dedicated gaming room with gaming table and wet tissue dispensers-
"Who's Tom Vassel?"
GOLD.
Sleeves, Paula, sleeves! We're not animals. :-)
Still watching this 2 years later and laughing every time :D you're gold, Paula.
This might be my new favorite Things Get Dicey video!
yayyyyy
Until the next one... then the next one... etc. etc.
@@Subangelis facts.
Her eating and then about to touch the card made my hair stand up like when a girl in an anime gets angry! Haha why isn't Paula super famous???? She's hilarious!
Very much identified with the chopsticks. I have “finger chopsticks” that I bring whenever my games leave my house and I won’t be in charge of the snacks. 😂
Ok no joke this is instantly my favourite video on the internet hands down
Phase 5 is when you see a TH-cam board game video with Paula, so you just to go the video and click "like" automatically.
Cuz, you know you're going to, anyway... and I've never yet been wrong about that.
Phase 6 is when you see a TH-cam video of Paula endorsing the greatness that is... meatloaf.
"I have one of each kind of game, I don't know why you'd need more than that"
Oof.
"I wish people would stop trying to put comedy in their board game videos" Bravo
I basically went from Risk/Monopoly straight to Twilight Struggle at 25 years old with no intermediaries, and goodness I still love that game. Six years later and I've played and bought a bunch of titles. Using sleeves, backing games, providing playtesting support, working with designers to port their titles onto TTS. It's a rabbit hole.
I feel attacked!
Things are immediately better when you take out the insert.
3:23 Oookay - Backing away and doing a subtle look around for possible exits:)
Chopstick snacking is where it's at! And I loved this video! 😍I thought I was a gamer but maybe I've sadly gone into collector mode. 😂
Its like a window just opened illuminating the world around me I love seeing people as devoted to this hobby as I
There is another stage, After collector, Married, and here go all your games
There’s actually one more stage, kids. Then you don’t even get to play the ones you have left. 😉😢😭
Hilarious!! From entering the hobby in just under a year, I guess I still have to be a casual player. But, quickly heading to Gamer..... with a touch of collector.... it's in my DNA. Who's Rahdo?
4:59 never agreed with something more. That was satisfying.
I don't play that many board games but even I flinched when she touched that card with the cheese fingers...
THOSE CHEETO FINGERS GOT ME! LOL! I nearly shouted when you almost touched the (unsleeved) card
15 years later:
- PPC.. not there.
- Heavy Gauss.. hit!
- Where?
- Left torso.
- Roll for crits.
- Two.
- SRM ammo detonation, you won.
I love these videos... a couple of moments that resonated with me...
1. The cheeto hands, I was dying watching her reach for the card
2. Destroying components, I am not a legacy gamer and it tore my heart open
3. METAL COINS, I MUST HAVE ALL THE METAL COINS!
This video is way more accurate than I want it to be! Brilliantly done.
I've added metal coins to my collection and now any game that comes with coins plays at least 1.5 better on the bgg ranking scale.
This video captured so many moments of undeniable truth that made me smile. I only just discovered this channel but am rapidly becoming a huge fan!
This video was really well made and very funny!
Although I saw the bit about taking the insert out and I did that, and now everything actually fits into the box . . . OH NO WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME?!
How to hide information:
1:13 The Casual
2:35 The Gamer
5:12 The Collector
A true collector knows who Paula Deming is
Phase Five:
"Watch Paula Deming Videos"
Brilliant, Paula!! You absolutely nailed every phase! Great writing and incredible delivery! Well done!
Missed opportunity in not mentioning card sleeves. But still hilarious
Paula - you are awesome… your great videos and really great ideas in having a little fun with this nerdish hobby are a blast!
Keep up the good work and stay healthy!
Absolute gold, I don't know how you keep outdoing yourself each time but you do. Love your stuff, keep it up!
The prequel to Culling Day. Brilliant as always.
That was awesome Paula. I think I laughed the whole video through. Great job once again!
This was absolutely great! Love your various facial expressions. As a confirmed addict, the Lacerda comment realty made me laugh.
Although I've found that since COVID, my brain isn't used to them anymore and I struggle!
My fav part is the order of the youtube content creators mirrors my own. First, I consumed a ton of Tom Vassel content in 2016-17, and then Rodney soon after, and then Paula!
"Who is Paula Deming?" was the perfect joke to end on for the Collector! Great video! Well done!
I love it where you can't bring yourself to touch the cards with cheeto fingers
My favorite video of yours so far. Funny and so relatable. Thanks for doing these videos!
Brilliant work! Love how the jokes totally land for anyone in the hobby, and doesn't make sense to everyone else.
Your videos are the best, so funny and so on point. Every one hit the mark. It's always a joy to see a new one hit my feed.
You knocked it out of the park with this one! Well done!! I was in stitches. :P
Thank God you cut away before the Cheeto fingers made contact. You did a number to my heart rate there...
Bravo! I could feel myself going through all those phases :) Love your videos Paula keep up the great work.
This was my life...literally down to the games she used...Paula just gets it
I enjoyed that was included in the board game genre's. Those are definitely the games I play the most.
This video had me in tears. Also if that wall is any indication, your house is absolutely gorgeous!
I have personally gone through these stages of the boardgame hobby and you captured each one perfectly! Excellent video as usual, your work is exceptional!
Thanks Kent!
I didn't realize how this is the natural progression even without any external influence.
This was perfect! Thanks for making my weekend!
Paula you are amazing in all your sketches. They bring a smile to my face every time. Thank you.
thank you, this makes me smile as well!
Haha!
"I have to buy this again?".. way too real..
This is just brilliant! Thank you!
Absolutely amazing video, wonderful work
Nothing hides your cards quite so well like reflective sunglasses
Betrayal is still one of my absolute, all-time favourites and I don’t care who knows it.
Have you looked at Betrayal Legacy? It's not very Legacy, but significantly upgrades the Betrayal rules, reducing the number of games where you need to guess at how parts of the Haunt are meant to work and getting rid of a couple of exploits.
@@rmsgrey Betrayal Legacy is one of the best board game experiences I’ve ever had. 😊
That, and Terraforming Mars form my #1 spot atm.
Such an amazing video, as ALWAYS!!
Really one of the best videos about board games on the internet. That is not hyperbole! so good
And subscribed! LOVED the fingers almost touching the cards 😂