WizarDru loves Boardgames

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Gamer, Father, old school nerd. Lover of Boardgames, Tokusatsu and goofy stuff. He/Him.

George Clooney as Ulysses Everertt McGill from "Oh Brother, Where art thou", the Coen Brothers movie re-imagining the classic poem 'The Odyessy' as a Depression-era travel movie. He is standing in a barn, looking out at police pursuit (he is at that moment a fugitive from a chain gang) and saying 'Damn! We're in a tight spot!' - a phrase he repeats several times during his adventure. He is a Dapper Dan man.
The statue 'Fearless Girl', a bronze statue placed on Wall Street in front of it's famous Bull Statue, to promote gender diversity within the financial world, commisioned by State Street investment. It's surprise appearance made a lot of news stories. It was moved when the Bull statue's sculptor complained that it had made his statue 'a negative force', so it was relocated further down Wall Street. State Street backed away from it along with its other diversity efforts and there is concern about it's future.
A picture from Galaxy Express 999, featuring a cowardly king who warmly greets our main characters, but only after he’s killed every other person in that planet and wants to steal our heroes body to rejuvenate himself.
Pictures of a passion fruit whiskey sour in a Nick and Nora glass on a nerdy coaster on a too crowded coffee table
From the Shadowdark manual: "THE PACT -You and your players are gaming together to have fun, prop each other up, and strengthen bonds. This is The Pact. The Pact is often unspoken and unseen, but it is always felt. It is based on goodwill, respect, and fellowship. Its enemies are selfishness, antagonism, and arrogance. Decisions made to defend The Pact are always good ones."
A picture of two planes from Lavender Jack volume 1, showing Detective Madame Ferrier looking at a painting by her wife.
Cartoon by Nathan Pyle - Two eagles discuss if a the owl, another bird not present, is a predator. Both agree that he isn't, as he's never bothered them. Then after a quiet moment of reflection, the first eagles says "No idea what Mr. Mouse was going on about."
Mock up of the opening title sequence of Tom Baker's Doctor Who, listing a fake episode called 'The Tibia of Hate'.
A comic strip by Katen Beaton from her 'Hark, A Vagrant' comics. A monk is talking to a Edward, the Black Prince after the Battle of Crecy. The monk asks how Edward is feeling, to which he replies "BRO I AM STOKED" and 'Those French Guys were like WHOOOOAAA', to which the monk, who is recording the event for posterity says "I keep forgetting you are Sixteeen" and Edward yells "and my army was like 'EAT IT'! KA-CHOW!"
Terrible AI-scraped picture of boardgames designer Rudiger Dorn with some AI generated images of what are probably meant to be sooner or his games but tacky just look like random graphics.
Graphic from the Wall Street Journal of user accounts in Polymarket and showing that only 0.1% of accounts earn 67% of the profits on the predictive markets they host. The remaining 33% of the profits is dividied up through about 25% of the remaining users.
CLose up picture of a Dead of Winter character card featuring boardgame rulesbook explainer Rodney Smith, who is Canadian, dressed as a Canadian Mountie.
Screenshot of a famous 1980s anti-drug TV public service message, with an upset teenage son telling his father he learned how to take drugs by watching him.
A panel from the Berserk manga, showing a close-up of the face of Inquistor Mozgus, infuriated at the words of a commoner and suddenly having his face consumed by veins and wrinkles in a threatening grimace. DUDE IS TERRIFYING
An advertisement for the 1981 video game Tempest, showing a series of vector graphics (lines drawn between points to make shapes) where a ship on the outside shoots into a generic shapes where monsters are emerging from.
A picture of a table in a front porch with a cocktail glass sitting on the table containing a Tom Collins. Next to it is copy of Lavender Jack, a graphic novel from Dan Schkade.
A screenshot of a configuration screen for a Dell desktop showing the process of memory, with 6x256GB memory modules being $160,920.
Picture of a game of Hercules and the 12 Labors in progress on a game table, with dice and cards laid out showing a battle with the Ermanthian Boar.
Stegron, a Marvel comics character who is a human-dinosaur hybrid telling spider-man that he doesn’t want to cure cancer, here wants to turn people into dinosaurs.
A closeup panel from the January 14th 2026 Flash Gordon comic strip by Dan Schadke. The dragon-man Bok faces down an assassin with second person narration saying: "The World is a Weapon. And everyone is a target."
A series of panels from an Alan Davis drawn issue of Excalibur. It's Kitty Pryde's birthday and she and Courtney Ross (secretly the villainess Saturnyne) are taking about celebrating - and while talking, eating frosting off of Courtney's finger in a very suggestive sequence.
Screen shot of my inbox, featuring a header of an email from Troegs Brewerey about Nugget Nectar beer being available right after a post from Portland Syrups about using their syrups for Dry January and making mocktails.
Picture of the covers of Cerebus 54-56 from 1983, featuring the Wolverine parody character, the Wolveroach, a parody of Marvel's Wolverine of the X-Men.
Picture of Maetel pointing a space blaster directly at the camera, dressed for some reason in a bikini with an overcoat. Forget it Jake, It's Galaxy Express 999.
Picture of two robed figures of whom no features can be seen, one a tall one with a green shroud and a much shorter one in a blue shroud, staning near a door in a train car on the Galaxy Express. The taller one, the mother, is saying "My son, for whatever reason, said he wouldn't take your body." While it is not immediately obvious here, they are ghosts from the planet Filament.
Picture of prototype boardgame, Ultra Kaiju City.
A picture from Galaxy Express 999 with Maetel in a bathing suit and Testuro in casual clothes walking in a green field on the Planet of Mirages.
A picture from the Galaxy Express 999 Episode - "The Continent of Sakezan" where a sake-obsessed Tarzan-wannabe holds Maetel and Tetsuro prisoner. In this picture, a sitting Sakezan is receiving sake being poured from a container by a kneeling and captive Maetel.
A picture of one panel from the daily Flash Gordon strip. The characters of Aura, Bok, Bones and Flash Gordon are paused at the exit to a stone tunnel, Flash stands ready with a sword for a fight, while Princess Aura appears surprised at something. Bones appears unconcerned with a sword resting on her shoulder, while Bok appears pensive.
Maetel and Tetsuro, in their underwear are in a cave where she rescued him from falling to his death. They are discussing escape from the primitive planet's mutant natives.
Tetsuro is in a pirate ship's captain's quarters, hat in hand talking to the pirate queen Emerldas, who is lying in bed, struck with an unnamed illness or condition that has rendered her weak enough to use a robot doppelganger to run her ship.
Picture of a cyborg with a wooden body who befriends Testuro aboard the Galaxy Express.
Tetsuro and a cyborg gunslinger who looks like a classic wild west cowboy face off in a duel, while the gunslinger tells Tetsuro he needs to master gunfighting because 'Only professionals can survive in the lawless ares of space."
Picture of the engine car of the Galaxy Express 999, which appears to be a classic example of a steam locomotive, but it's travelling through space.
A picture of Peter Parker from Spider-Man in 1970, wearing a yellow vest with tassels on them, evoking a cowboy outfit. Beneath that he's wearing a black shirt and blue slacks, with purple socks and brown leather penny-loafers, thinking to himself that he has a chance to 'do what Peter Parker does best', which in this case is to change into his Spider-Man costume and rescue someone.
The opening title card of Galaxy Express 999 episode number 16, "The Town of Fireflies". The picture shows a starfield in space, with a green planet in the center, covered in flickering golden lights. The episodes title is laid on top of this image.
Martel and Toshiro walk aboard the crashed remains of Train 333, trapped in a gravity well and full of skeletons, aged but a lonely cyborg who can accelerate time
The image shown when returning from a commercial break for Galaxy Express 999, showing Tesoro and Martel riding on top of the train looked its toy-sized, waving at the audience.
A panel from an issue of Daredevil, where he's able to avoid an awkward discussion with Spider-Man when they are interrupted by a crime in progress, leading him to think "Thank God for Stilt-Man", as that criminal dominates the panel, rising above the city rooftops to assaults a low flying helicopter.
The Cover to Amazing Heroes #105, featuring the characters Crossfire and Rainbow in a loving embrace, looking at the reader.
A close-up from a cover of Batgirl #1, featuring the Batgirl of Burnside era Batgirl (with a redesigned costume) taking a selfie in a bathroom mirror at a club, smirking.
Cover of Plastic Man #1, with a thief running down the stairs carrying a stolen painting, which is actually Plastic Man, stretching an arm off the painting to catch him.
The cover of Justice League of America issue 103, showing an open grave surrounded by members of the league and a ghostly Phantom Stranger announcing that it is the stroke of midnight and he has come for..."YOU!" impying he has come to put them in the grave, with a tombstone with all their names upon it.
A cover to The Avengers, with Iron Man, Thor, Captain Marvel, the Vision, Black Panther and the Scarlet Witch standing against a starfield, looking aspirationally to the upper right at something we can't see.
The cover of Action Comics #484, with Superman carry Lois Lane in a wedding dress in his 40th anniversary issue from 1979 with a story called 'Superman Takes a Wife".
Sal Buscema's cover to Silver Surfer #1, with the Surfer charging downwards from the skies to attack the thunder god Thor, who has his hammer drawn back, ready to strike the surfer in return.
A picture of Spider-man in mid-swing as Superman flies angrily towards him demanding he answer for his actions drawn by Ross Andru.
A picture of Batman on a rooftop swinging in surprise to see four bat-signal lights in the sky, each with a picture of a different member of his rogue's gallery: the Penguin, Catwoman, The Joker and Two-Face.
The cover to Issue #101 of the All-New, All-Different X-Men, showing Jean Grey's first full-issue appearance as the superheroine, The Phoenix, with her rising from the water in Jamaica Bay while Cyclops, Storm and Nightcrawler struggle to stay afloat.
A picture of 12 presidents as requested from ChatGPT with two approximations of art of them (with variations from known artwork) and one blatant misspelling of Andrew Jackson's name (at least it chose the worst guy to his name wrong).
A picture of a completed audiobook purchase of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee