{"id":111296,"date":"2021-12-10T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=111296"},"modified":"2021-12-10T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:39:47","slug":"flush-it-friday-finding-a-haven-in-the-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/flush-it-friday-finding-a-haven-in-the-gloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Flush it Friday: Finding a Haven in the Gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Once in a while, I stumble into a game in a genre I despise (usually for little to no reason at all) and come out the other side as a rabid fan\u2014specifically, I&#8217;m thinking of <strong>Slay the Spire<\/strong> and the card battler genre in general. My latest cave-in?\u00a0<em>Overly complex board-games like <\/em><strong>Gloomhaven<\/strong>. What&#8217;s even more dangerous is that it&#8217;s all available digitally on Steam, and I won&#8217;t have to worry about losing one of the 300 pieces if I get hungy and need a snacky.<\/p>\n<p>Dungeon-crawling 4-player co-op with strategic combat and complex mechanics? LOOT? Possibly\u00a0<em>monsters<\/em>? There&#8217;s a <em>bit<\/em> of a learning curve (11 tutorial missions), but I&#8217;m fiending to start the campaign, which is apparently ~100 scenarios. Learn this game on Steam and play it with me. Nerd.<\/p>\n<p>The Bork is back in town, and he brought some <strong>VHS<\/strong>&#8216; to return:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sQ7As7VhIH\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/review-vhs-i-heard-they-suck-blood\/\">Review: VHS &#8211; I Heard They Suck&#8230;Blood<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Review: VHS &#8211; &lt;i&gt;I Heard They Suck&#8230;Blood&lt;\/i&gt;&#8221; &#8212; The Toilet Ov Hell\" src=\"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/review-vhs-i-heard-they-suck-blood\/embed\/#?secret=sQ7As7VhIH\" data-secret=\"sQ7As7VhIH\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tha Boiz<\/strong>, the trifecta you know and love, finally reconvened for this week&#8217;s <strong>Toilet Radio<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"njFr49EKVt\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/toilet-radio-343-the-best-songs-of-the-year\/\">Toilet Radio 343 &#8211; The Best Songs of the Year<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Toilet Radio 343 &#8211; The Best Songs of the Year&#8221; &#8212; The Toilet Ov Hell\" src=\"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/toilet-radio-343-the-best-songs-of-the-year\/embed\/#?secret=njFr49EKVt\" data-secret=\"njFr49EKVt\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Megachiles<\/strong> wrote a blistering blackened premiere for <strong>Karmanjaka<\/strong>; we&#8217;re no longer mega-chilly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8PE9Z87kuA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/premiere-karmanjaka-ancient-aeon\/\">Premiere: Karmanjaka \u2014 Ancient Aeon<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Premiere: Karmanjaka \u2014 Ancient Aeon&#8221; &#8212; The Toilet Ov Hell\" src=\"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/premiere-karmanjaka-ancient-aeon\/embed\/#?secret=8PE9Z87kuA\" data-secret=\"8PE9Z87kuA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Karhu\u00a0<\/strong>listened to more albums this week than I do in a year:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rKK9GGtsGP\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/december-roundup-hyperdontia-unleashed-sulphurous-lord-of-pagathorn-necromonarchia-daemonum\/\">December Roundup: Hyperdontia, Unleashed, Sulphurous, Lord of Pagathorn &amp; Necromonarchia Daemonum<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;December Roundup: &lt;b&gt;Hyperdontia&lt;\/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Unleashed&lt;\/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Sulphurous&lt;\/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Lord of Pagathorn&lt;\/b&gt; &amp; &lt;B&gt;Necromonarchia Daemonum&lt;\/b&gt;&#8221; &#8212; The Toilet Ov Hell\" src=\"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/december-roundup-hyperdontia-unleashed-sulphurous-lord-of-pagathorn-necromonarchia-daemonum\/embed\/#?secret=rKK9GGtsGP\" data-secret=\"rKK9GGtsGP\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you play any super-nerdy, involved board-games? Will you learn Gloomhaven on Steam and play it with me? Will you submit your G\/B\/Us below? Only time will tell. Nerd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while, I stumble into a game in a genre I despise (usually for little to no reason at all) and come out the other side as a rabid fan\u2014specifically, I&#8217;m thinking of Slay the Spire and the card battler genre in general. My latest cave-in?\u00a0Overly complex board-games like Gloomhaven. What&#8217;s even more dangerous is that it&#8217;s all available digitally on Steam, and I won&#8217;t have to worry about losing one of the 300 pieces if I get hungy and need a snacky. Dungeon-crawling 4-player co-op with strategic combat and complex mechanics? LOOT? Possibly\u00a0monsters? There&#8217;s a bit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":111298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"F L U S H I T F R I D A Y","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16343,6280,36],"tags":[2197,16841],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Feldherr-ORG029-Feldherr-Organizer-Schaumstoffeinlage-fuer-Gloomhaven-Die-Pranken-des-Loewen-Brettspielbox-61068.jpg?fit=710%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111330,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111296\/revisions\/111330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}