La tercera partida de la campaña de Oath que estamos jugando. Como somos todos viejos es difícil coordinar un momento en que podamos todos, pero bueno.
Como canciller logré mantener el control, gané por defecto. No era Oathkeeper, pero nadie más cumplía su objetivo.
I’m sort of peeved that boardgames has gone from a “hey, I get to sit in meat space not staring at a monitor and doing something fun with friends” into a consumerist dog and pony show.
I feel like part of the problem is that the people participating in and boosting the consumerist aspect are the ones with the shiniest toys to show. Like, sure, 1830 is an awesome game (even if I still can't get a regular group to play it), but you won't get more upvotes for showing off your 100th game of 1830 than your first game of .
An look, I like having new games. I enjoy the feel of new puzzles to try. But in the end, it's as you say, the best part of the games is getting together with friends and doing soemthing fun for a few hours. Having a collection as a backdrop in my video calls is not the point of buying games.
What I don't like about your categories is that you're focusing on the buying and owning games part.
My process used to be:
Now that I have kids I don't always have the luxury of reading the rules the same day we play the game, so what I usually do is I read the rules a few days in advance, which means I won't remember as much when the time comes to play, so then I end up complementing that with a rules explanation video.
If some random dude comes in and opens a new instance, and then it comes out that this dude willingly associates with white supremacists, is a known creep, and even had a hand in an actual real life genocide, everybody would defederate without a second thought.
But suddenly that dude is Facebook and has a shit ton of money and everybody is just wait and see.
The problem with this is chatgpt is shit at facts. You ask it a question and it might just give you bullshit, and you tell it to provide a citation and it will happily invent one. There's no easy way to verify whatever it says to you, other than going to the source, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of this exercise.
A lot of times. It doesn't really help to find a problem, but rather when the problem was introduced. It's a really great tool.
Because nobody has windows user as a core part of their identity.
I have four Uwe Rosenberg games. Three of those follow a similar format: game title on top, then a line, then some dude, another line, publisher logo. But Feast For Odin had to go and be all creative and unique.
The reason is that Meta is an extremely harmful company. They've enabled the worst kind of people in their pursuit of "engagement". It's no exaggeration to say that Facebook enabled a genocide. So if people are (correctly) quick to block instances where fascists congregate, why would Meta be treated any differently just because they have a ton of users? They enable fascists, they provide them with a platform. And now they want to bring that platform to the Fediverse, which has been a place that has traditionally been anti fascist.
And that's just assuming they'll be good citizens and won't do an embrace, extend, extinguish thing, which we all know they will do whenever they feel secure enough in their position to do it. So rather than waiting until Meta is already integrated and it's harder to do it, the idea behind all this is to prevent the issue from coming up in the first place.
It's my favorite series of his. I read the first couple of Laundryverse books, and while they're fun, I'm not a fan of the lovecraftian horror thing. But Merchant Princes hooked me right from the start. Tons of politicking, and by the end it gets messy, like really messy. It's basically The Godfather meets Game of Thrones meets Sliders. And then the followup series (Empire Games) is a Cold War spy thriller with portals. You can just start with Empire games, it's written to be a separate series, but it does have massive spoilers for the original series.
The Lost Fleet series by John G Hemry
A note on this: the series is written under the Jack Campbell pseudonym. Took me a while to find. The first book is Dauntless
A mí me gusta mucho. Las historias que se arman tienen sentido.