Free shipping is a trap. A TRAP!<\/p>\n
It took me a long while to realize this, and about when I did, I got Amazon Prime, so it would never again be an issue. Gone were the days of throwing another two or three things I didn’t need onto an order in order to get super saver shipping! No more, I said! No more!<\/p>\n
Well, um, I just bought $100 worth of board games just for free shipping.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t totally my fault, mann. I needed the new stand-alone expansion for Dominion, called Dominion: Intrigue<\/a>. I and my friends love the shit out of Dominion, and I couldn’t pass that up! But there was the “free shipping if you buy $100!” And it was only like… $30. Surely there was another board game… well, that’s pretty cheap too… and another, and another… and then I spent $100 on board games, just like that.<\/p>\n It’s not so much the saving the $10 on shipping that does it, I suppose. It’s just sort of a sign. An “okay, it’s okay to splurge” sign. And I love those signs. I love having permission to do things like that. And I let it make me spend quite a lot of money.<\/p>\n What did I get? Well, besides the Dominion expansion, of course, I also picked up Race for the Galaxy<\/a>, Dungeon Twister<\/a>, and Ticket to Ride<\/a>. Ticket to Ride I’ve played quite a bit on the XBLA version, so I know that’s worth my money. Dungeon Twister is apparently coming to XBLA, and ever since I read that, I’ve been really interested in it, as it sounds like a fantastically fun 2-player game. And Race for the Galaxy? Well… that’s more an unknown. I’ve heard good things, and it has cards. I guess that’s all it takes to sell me on a card game, huh?<\/p>\n Anyway, they’re all with the pre-order of Intrigue, so they won’t be shipping out until “Mid-July.” So expect a huge-ass board game party some time around then. It’ll be… exciting! Yes! Hopefully! Free shipping is a trap. A TRAP! It took me a long while to realize this, and about when I did, I got Amazon Prime, so it would never again be an issue. Gone were the days of throwing another two or three things I didn’t need onto an order in order to get super […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMan, I buy so many games…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"