Some of you might be unfamiliar with the traditions surrounding birthdays in Canada. They are savage affairs, drenched in blood and feats of suffering. I mean, there's the cake, sure, and that part is pretty benign--except for the baking of it, come to think of it, where the birthday girl or birthday boy is expected to remove the cake from an oven with their bare hands and devour the thing whole; then comes the declaration of threats, where the horribly burned, frosting-seared celebrant mounts a nearby table and screams doom to their enemies. Let's not get started on what kind of gifts are considered appropriate.

AYURIS: Stephenson's Rocket 1m36s (Reiner Knizia, Grail Games, 2018)

Games Played Last Week:
-Empyreal: Spells & Steam 3m44s (Trey Chambers, Level 99 Games, 2020)
-Egizia: Shifting Sands 11m05s (Acchittocca, Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, Stefano Luperto, & Antonio Tinto, Stronghold Games, 2019)
-Root: The Underworld Expansion 13m39s (Patrick Leder & Cole Wehrle, Leder Games, 2020)
-Pax Renaissance 18m58s (Matt Eklund & Phil Eklund, Sierra Madre Games, 2016)
-The Estates 21m42s (Klaus Zoch, Capstone Games, 2018)
-Assault on Doomrock 25m11s (Tom Stasiak, Beautiful Disaster Games, 2014)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
-Into the Spider-Verse for Marvel United (Walker's obsessed) 27m54s
-The Liberaion of Plaid Hat Games? 29m23s
-Toy of the Year! Pictionary Air 30m44s
-The Next Game that Matters: Phantom Division 32m09s

Topic: Playing for Second 33m03s