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I like the way that Geek and Sundry does it. Open on desktop and resize the browser window. Pay particular attention to the top menu, and then watch how the content is displayed differently. Images are dynamically sized etc.

Believe it or not, some people do still buy and play board games.

And believe it or not, they've been gaining in popularity lately.

It's been a long time coming, but the Monopoly Stigma is slowly dissipating. I think Monopoly was the Mt. Saint Hellens of board games. It blew up, left a swath of scorched earth and desolation in a generation of people who grew up thinking games were stupid, pointless and nothing but dumb luck followed by three hours of a runaway winner forcing everyone else to keep playing. Over time, that desolation becomes fertilizer for the next generation.

If you're interested in giving a post-Monopoly tabletop world a look, there are a couple of key resources:

A bi weekly show hosted by Wil Wheaton showcasing a host of "gateway games". He gets three other internet famous (and sometimes proper famous) people to come play a game with him. He lightly goes over the rules, and they play.

A lot of effort goes into showing the fun interactions between the players that happens over the table - truly the best part of tabletop gaming. These are 30 minutes each, professionally produced and great fun to watch with the whole family. Overall, it's a great resource for finding something that may appeal to you and your friends/family.

The best part is watching Wil repeatedly lose episode after episode.

An extremely thorough, mature and self-built resource of pretty much all things tabletop game related. The community here is one of the best I've ever seen on the internet. Seriously, flame wars so germane and polite that they're helpful. Games are well reviewed, well discussed, and ranked overall.

The rankings are generally pretty spot on, but there is an overall tendency to devalue lighter games making it a bit difficult to find good gateway games. Be careful with this one if you have a tendency to lose hours whenever you land on IMDB, Wikipedia or TVTropes.

You almost always have to go to a solid game shop to get decent ones, but they exist.

I have yet to need to do anything other than order things from Amazon. Granted, if you're looking for some obscure Euro that's out of print, Amazon probably doesn't have it (or it's $300) - but then again, neither does your Friendly Local Game Shop.

Have you considered tabletop gaming?

I'm not necessarily talking about RPGs, either. Wil Wheaton has a very good series on Geek and Sundry devoted to tabletop games of all kinds, including some classics like The Settlers of Catan.

One of Wil Wheaton's current projects is his Tabletop board game show that appears bi-weekly on Fridays on the geekandsundry Youtube channel.

Speaking of Geek and Sundry... it's Felicia Day's channel. 3 Felicia Day

I have enjoyed the videos so far and I think this is a great idea.

This will be added to the stuff I watch on PATV as well as Geek And Sundry. (Which has a slew of great shows - though I'm most stoked about Wil Wheaton's tabletop gaming show and The Guild.)

Here I'd love to see stuff that shows off what slashdot is about - tech (especially FOSS tech) at a deeper depth than the 'non-technical' folks are interested in. I enjoyed the HD tv bit - since I don't know jack about tvs. But it did feel awfully fluffy. A lot of people complain about slashvertisements - and I don't think every mention of a physical product or software that can be purchased is an abomination - but I do want to dig a little deeper than consumer level.

Being able to have user submitted video would be cool - though I have no idea how that would work. Based on what I see here in comments, I wouldn't dare go through a video firehose to look for stuff to recommend. So maybe that's just a non-starter unless there was a way to filter out the obviously horrific stuff that I anticipate would be submitted.