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Behind the Cardboard Curtain: SU&SD Newsletter #39
Quinns: Hello my sweet Shut Upsters and Sit Downlings! Thank you for once again donating to this internet web site. Nothing can repay your generosity, but we can offer a little peek behind the cardboard curtain.This month I’m delighted to point out that you’re funding us during the holiday season. SU&SD actually gets the most traffic in November and December as everyone starts searching for what board games to get as gifts, as well as which games to take home to /meet the parents./ So it’s often when we try to pull out all the stops and d...
A Spooky Treat? SU&SD Newsletter #38
Matt: Hello, you! We hope you've had a pleasant October. Be careful to wash your hands, there’s a nasty bug doing the rounds - I should know, I’ve got it! But enough of my bragging: it’s Halloween time. And have I got a spooky treat for you? Absolutely not, no. Sorry.Last month’s newsletter had myself and Quinns excited to immerse ourselves into a couple of frankly beefy games. After digging further into Black Angel - the fantastically pink and purple euro that sees you hurtling through the depths of space - I found myself pretty un...
Revealing our Secret: SU&SD Newsletter #37
Quinns finishes a game of Teotihuacan with *one* tile left to place on the temple.Quinns: Hello everybody, and thank you so much for supporting Shut Up & Sit Down for another month. A month where I *tell all*.Of the thousands of new board games that come out each year, we see the job of SU&SD as one of curation. We provide exhaustive reviews of just 40 games, with perhaps another 80 covered on the podcast. But this has had an unexpected result. Publishers who want coverage sometimes wish they knew the secret formula of what games we might cover...
A Hot, Gloomy Marathon: SU&SD Newsletter #36
Quinns: I awake, as if from a dream... I have been napping in a cocoon of manuals. Tokens are gummed to the corner of my eye. Cards are stuck fast between the fingers of my cramped hand.Dear donors, this month we’ve been playing so many games. Last week was the hottest day in Brighton since 1976. Outside my window hundreds of people lay comatose on the beach, enjoying a rare blast of British sun. Me? I’ve been indoors, playing games. But I’ve never been happier with my life choices.You might not know this, but the board game industry has ...
Dirt Busters
Matt and Quinns at Denmark’s Fastaval doing a morning of work as “Dirt Busters.”
Dirtbustin & Bear Chess: SU&SD Newsletter #35
Quinns: Hello everybody! As always, thank you so, so much for pledging your money to the continued existence of Shut Up & Sit Down. For all of our new donors, this newsletter is where we give you a behind-the-scenes tour of what we’ve been up to.This month, I’ve got one word for you, and what a word it is: Games! The UK Games Expo took place last week, and this year we came home dragging multiple giant suitcases full of review copies (my exceptionally powerful case is known within our team as "The Big Bronze Bastard”).That means we’...
A Celebrated Toastie: SU&SD Newsletter #34 (April 2019)
Matt: Hello, humans! It’s a MATTSTRAVAGANZA this week, as Quinns is kindly looking after his unwell ladywife. It’s been just over a week since we returned from Fastaval - a small Danish convention of around 1,000 people, mainly focused on roleplaying - and it unexpectedly blew us away. Immediately upon arrival it felt a lot like we’d crashed a lovely wedding, with everyone hugging friends they’d not seen for a year - it seemed many attendees had been coming for decades, and yet the community was as tightly knit as it was welcoming.We im...
Quinns Loves Books
An exclusive donor video from December, 2020. Quinns walks us through some of his favourite books.
SU&SD Watch SU&SD
[Warning: Contains swears!]This one was a lot of fun! From back in December, 2018, for Newsletter #31.
What are we....
The "What Are We…" section of our newsletter is a perennial fan favourite - pulling back the curtain on team SU&SD's leisure time! So while newsletters #1-33 have been somewhat lost to time, we've excavated this section (which started in #6) for your enjoyment, nostalgia, and posterity! And always remember: It's not What You Are... it's What You Are... With.What are we videogames?#6 (October, 2016)Quinns: My addiction to the only online card game that matters, Duelyst, has now mellowed into a comfortable habit (do watc...
