Best Nerd Hangout in the Pacific Northwest?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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as a nerd or a geek it can often be challenging to find a place to hang out
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that actually caters to the activities and environments that we're into we want
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to be comfortable we want to have stuff to eat and drink we want to have
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activities like games or other nerdy things that we could do
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some privacy options and some shops would also be a nice add-on so
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enter bellevue washington's mox boarding house
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mass drop is featuring the godspeed custom sa keycap set inspired by the
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colorway of the original apollo 11 lunar module cockpit click the link below to
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learn more immediately upon entering the main door
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you're welcomed into the inviting environment of the dining hall with a
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menu mainly comprised of comfort food items and a wide selection of drafts and
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other alcoholic concoctions you should be good to go in the sustenance
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department but as you may have noticed the tables are huge that's because they
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want you to well play games as it says on their menu and
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not computer games board games so when you play board games
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so they're happy to provide them everything from risk and katan to
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scrabble or othello basically whatever you want now if the hustle and flow of
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the public area is too much for you and your group you're also welcome to book
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one of the three private rooms first up is the apoca theory with a dark
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and evil laboratory type aesthetic up on the wall you have vials of poisons and
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other various ingredients and above your main table are some really wicked
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looking edison bulbs
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then we have the more mystical library which features a huge amount of actually
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real books from a law library just a kind of fun little tidbit
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each of these rooms are forty dollars an hour not too bad considering they can
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hold 12 people or by lifting this door
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24. moving on however is the coolest damn thing here the third private room
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and it is well right through here
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this is the speakeasy and at 80 an hour
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it isn't cheap but it makes up for it in sheer level of badassery a private bar
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with a private waiter an occupancy of 25
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people and honestly easily one of the coolest aesthetics of a private area i
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have ever seen but you're more here for the games right well they've got you
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covered with a massive board game shop with a ginormous selection sometime last
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year i was here and actually ended up buying the civilization games with
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barnacles and a very nice offering from timmy tech tv and they also have a magic
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card shop with over a hundred thousand cards in inventory right now and they'll
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buy yours too for value in cash straight up or in store credit plus 30 percent
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and that can be used anywhere including the restaurants you can turn your magic
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cards directly into beer then they have a warhammer and other large format
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tabletop games area featuring these beautiful geek cheek tables the likes of
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which you can see in this video of some of our previous packs coverage and you
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can even express your hobby in other ways with a huge selection of paints and
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other various painting accessories you can make your stuff look awesome i would
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completely fail at this but there's also probably people here that you can give a
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little bit of cash to to do it for you and finally the main event the
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gargantuan card game focused table top
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area with even a castable table featuring a bunch of cameras and tvs
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above it so on fridays they can stream their big games playing games eating
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food competing in tournaments and consuming drinks mock sporting house is
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my kind of place but is it yours i know
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