Breakup Gaming Society

Breakup Gaming Society salutes Daybreak co-designer Matteo Menapace, who deserves an apology and an invitation back to the event from the sniveling milquetoasts who run Spiel des Jahres.

Drink of the Week (3:10)
Farmer’s Punch, as seen on Outdoor Test Kitchen. Here’s the recipe:

►Watermelon 1-inch cubes - X3
►Simple Syrup - 3/4 oz
► Vodka - 2 oz
►Campari - 1/4 oz
►Tomato juice - 1 oz Fresh Pressed
►Lime Juice - 3/4 oz Fresh
►Soda - Topper

Garnish
►Cherry Tomatoes
►Parsley
►Watermelon

Technique
1. Add watermelon and simple into a shaker and muddle
2. Add the vodka, Campari, tomato juice, lime juice, and ice to the shaker and shake until well chilled
3. Double strain into an iced glass and garnish with tomato and parsley

Game of the Week (7:14)
Overcame my loathing for Star Wars as a business and had a ball with Star Wars Outer Rim as a rollicking personal adventure. Got my copy at Pueblo’s Game Knight Games. Good shop. Give ‘em a visit.

Track of the Week (25:00)
Highlights from Masta Ace’s coruscating 2001 diss track, “Acknowledge."

Drink of the Week (2:27)
Michelob Ultra. I can explain.

Games of the Season in Review (4:17)
• Vale of Eternity
• Wingspan
• Cascadia
• Cockroach Poker

Track of the Week (23:46)
”Trick Dice,” eLZhi & Oh No. A muscular 2023 artistic victory lap from a Detroit legend.

Drink of the Week (2:12)
I crushed most of a fifth of Milagro Reposado and called my friend who worked in a foundry in Saginaw, MI in the ‘70s. It was educational. He let me record it.

Game of the Week (11:09)
Our winner—and entertaining runners-up—from our Boardgames and Debauchery story contest. Hear all the stories.

Track of the Week (21:55)
DJ Magic Mike (the Orlando production/turntable monster, not the movie) shows us the pure joy of what happens when Miami Bass meets house in 1988.

Drink of the Week (1:42)
My summer officially began when I tried my first Bulldog at The Market Bar.

Game of the Week (4:33)
Final Girl: Madness in the Dark thrilled and demoralized me.

Track of the Week (21:55)
We’re full of tequila and we’re going to light the place up with ILL Bill, Mr. Hyde, Gortex and Necro.

Drink of the Week (2:18)
Pairing Larceny Bourbon with Avery Brewing Co.’s Stampede Colorado Gold Lager.

Game of the Week (7:10)
Will Dustrunner — the second game I’ve acquired from Grey Gnome Games’ Tin Series — steal any table time from Tin Helm? Let’s find out.

Track of the Week (14:49)
”Practice,” by J-Live, from DJ Jazzy Jeff’s The Return of the Magnificent.

Drink of the Week (2:35)
It’s the Battle of the $28 American Whiskies as two decrepit Southerners square off in a death match to win my praise.

Game of the Week (7:21)
Win a copy of fellow Trinidadian Dustin Hyman’s Gutter Punks and Breakup Gaming Society’s “Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends” in our new story contest. The hitch? You gotta tell us about a debauch that happened to include board games.

Track of the Week (13:02)
Skits on hip hop albums became a contagion by the ‘90s. But here are two I like from Ghostface Killah and Slum Village.

I persist in my attempts to teach you how to party.

Drink of the Week (2:35)
The Fetid Haze, built around Pikes Peak Hill Shine and one of the five recipes in Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends.

Game of the Week (8:53)
Staring back into the charred and radioactive eye sockets of Wasteland Express Delivery Service. I still love her.

Track of the Week (13:12)
Focusing on Tha God Fahim’s and Black Thought’s inspired verses from “Pravda,” a drumless posse track from Your Old Droog.

Be the death of the party with “Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends,” a booklet with four original shots and one cocktail recipe, all poured on the show.

Drink of the Week (1:45)
Had to drink home remedy tea because I got real sick the same week the cocktail booklet came back from the printer. I blame you.

Game of the Week (6:13)
See what I found on the first few maps of Pocket Book Adventures, a solo dungeoncrawler from Grumpy Spider Games.

Track of the Week (13:12)
The flawless studio instincts and lethal pen of DJ Quik.

Celebrating the end of the holidays, a.k.a. America’s Triple Crown of Suicidal Ideation.

Drink of the Week (2:48)
Does an arbol chile, a stick of cinnamon, and several days of solitary confinement do the same magic for Jim Beam that it did for Tin Cup Whiskey? Let’s find out.

Game of the Week (5:33)
Chronicling my ongoing attempts to learn Thunderbolt Apache Leader, the solo wargaming classic from Dan Verssen Games.

Track of the Week (11:00)
I am a male model. Not a male prostitute. (Modeling just sucks.) They made me take off my top.

After I happily reported all the Mr. Beast cookie displays had been pulled from the Trinidad Safeway, they put one back out. I’m so pissed.

Drink of the Week (2:35)
Zero complaints from me or my pals upon knocking a big dent in a fifth of Bird Dog’s 7 Year Old Small Batch Bourbon.

Game of the Week (5:37)
Bohnanza, the bean farming game, still hits the sweet spot for pace, thinkiness and sociability. Broke it out with a few pals at Frontier Geeks on Main St.

Track of the Week (9:40)
I saw one bad set by them in the ‘90s. It wasn’t their fault. I thought they were bad. They were, in fact, good. Let’s revisit “The Killing Fields” by Psycho