The Full Spite Story

The true story of how one night led me to make games out of spite
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This is my story

Meet the villain of our story

The first thing you need to know about the man I am spiting is...

Spoiler alert: He's exactly as awful as you're about to discover

He's a raging narcissist.
He is the creator of a board game that nets $1M a year on Amazon.
He's the type to talk for 45 minutes, and when he decides it's your turn to speak, he glues his face to twitter and gives you the occasional, 'oh cool' or 'really'.
TLDR: Super narcissist board game mogul crashed our vacation, proceeds to brag about his game, his life, his bedazzled fucking jacket, and enrages me enough to make games to spite him.
Watch the chaos unfold
How a terrible Airbnb host inspired a BOARD GAME EMPIRE

How it all went wrong

The Love

A tale of friendship, COVID tests, campfire dreams, and the narcissist who ruined everything

The trip plan

2020. Friends plan secluded Airbnb ranch trip to mountainous Tennessee. COVID tested, excited to finally see each other after MONTHS of Zoom.

Sunset arrival

Pull up, unpack at sunset, head straight to campfire. Want to soak that smokey smell into our skin for the whole trip.

The watcher

HE was there, watching us from his barn outback, waiting for the perfect moment to infiltrate. It was his Airbnb - we couldn't escape.

COVID bomb

Tests ... COVID sucks. I just had it a few days ago.' As he sits INCHES from Nick and Emily. Fresh virus boys in his breath. We hated him at 35 seconds.

Classic narcissist moves

Talking over people, story swapping. That reminds me of the time I did something TINY bit related-ing. The signs were there.

The one-act play

His story read like a f*cking script. Well-rehearsed rhythm, cadence, pacing. We were just the new audience for his performance.

Ted's greatest hits

Some highlights from his story (obviously just the highlights, as we each suffered separate strokes):

  • He made a board game that he's in talks to sell for $20 million. (That came up a dozen times.)

  • He's a world class dog sitter - no seriously my dudes this was like a main plot point in his story

  • He met Kid Rock once. Like... in a bar? Idk but it took 2 hours and was the lamest arc in his story.

  • He has a $10k bedazzled jacket AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M SO MAD BUT HE F*CKING BRAGGED ABOUT IT FOR SO LONG THAT JESUS CHRIST I CAN'T F*CKING STAND IT.

  • The mayor of Nashville is a communist? Idk this one was weird.

  • We should all quit our jobs and persue our hobbies as entrepenuers except for making board games because that's too hard.

The 9-hour ordeal

We were stuck at that campfire until 4:00 AM—nine straight hours of him talking about his board game.

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