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Twilight Imperium has a 180-240 min playing time, Jesus Christ!

lmao just setting up the initial board game and reading through the rules took an entire meet-up session back when we started playing. It’s fairly daunting. Definitely had a bunch of rule violations the first round just figuring it out, improved from there haha. When you play with a full 6 players it can take longer than 4 hours to complete sometimes.

That was the case for me as well, it felt too complicated and slow. But when you understand the game and calculate into the future it gets very satisfying.

Makes sense, it’s just hard to motivate myself on my own to learn.

Strategy I like:

Stratego. I just have a knack for this one and play it to death.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1917/stratego

Twilight Imperium with all the expansion packs. I have third edition, haven’t tried fourth which came out 2017.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12493/twilight-imperium-third-edition

Chinese Go.

Motherfuggen SCRABBLE!

Chance I like: Buckshot Roulette

Chance I dislike: slots and other trash tier gambling games designed to make you lose more than gain.

Dislike strategy: I can’t get into Chess. I don’t know if Aphantasia is hampering my abilities here. I didn’t try long enough to really know yet so it’s just more of a bad first impressions grudge. Maybe one day I’ll meet a friend who likes Chess.

One ban is the notorious news sdf troll mod, edit: but otherwise they’re needlessly inflammatory yeah I looked farther down.

We should work on the “accountable to the people” part first. I don’t see that presumption reflected in reality where they are elected.

Today I’ll go with The Murlocs - Undone and Unashamed.

https://youtu.be/cg8sjXcVsJQ

My bathtub faucet plunger that diverts water to the shower head wasn’t working anymore so I couldn’t shower. I bought a new one with chrome finish to match the existing hardware in the bathroom. Installed it

Then I decided to CLR douse the water valve and decorative plate and get rid of some hard water staining. It dripped onto the new faucet which clearly wasn’t made of the same material because it instantly oxidized.

So that was infuriating.

Rollkuchen and a Pine needle Gin.

I did not until pointed out.

I did see the Invisible Gorilla when the teacher showed us right away somehow. That is to say, I’m long familiar with this detail of how our brains work :)

They do realize, I think the majority do. Took their words too literally.

Can you think of any reasons someone might consider that last ban the final straw?

Season 3, episode 2 I believe.

The original lyrics and singer are great too.

Edit: https://youtu.be/yvsR-xciOTg

Stagnation on my personal goals is a blight on my mood, but I’m otherwise okay. 75% okay is pretty good for me.

Ultimate example.

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

“I am completely. Out. Of ammo.”

slumps down.

“…that’s never happened to me before.”

All sports have an alternative league where performance enhancing drugs are mandatory to participate. That’s way more fun.

Besides two niche subreddits, I stopped using reddit. So it’s 90% Lemmy. I don’t use much else for social media except Something Awful and a heavily manually censored Discover tab on Bluesky because I’m sick of seeing Amercians crying and their politics. I wish we could region block entire countries on our personal social media accounts.

Anyways, the focus is reddit. I don’t really miss it because I could see the rot with bots, alts, power mods, site leadership, vote manipulation, etc etc.

I use Librewolf 90% of the time.

10% Edge (but with ShutUp10 ran over it) for HDR Youtube and if adblocking is broken on one browser at the moment.

I’m very uncomfortable with having all web browser engines owned by Americans.

You can do this at home. Everything here is under 2000 dollars spent total because we bought from bankrupted gyms liquidating during covid and a couple home gym people after covid who preferred going to a gym and were offloading equipment for next to nothing.

Outdated pic but same rack today:

You need the space to begin with, but besides the rowers (can be stored vertically) and rack, the space waste isn’t that huge. George Hackenschmidt’s abridged/edited down by me workout routine is pinned to my back wall there. An old world strong man from an era before steroids existed. He didn’t do focused muscle training, instead all-round balanced and, this is key, a very minimal amount of equipment is needed. You can look up how he looked, I think it’s aesthetically pleasing.

But yeah that’s really it. Lift heavy things, row, and I run or bike. I do not enjoy it. I don’t pretend to. I’m not doing this for enjoyment, I’m a big nerd who never enjoyed physical activity ever. It’s simply to stay in good shape because that was noticeably slipping in my 30’s.

So I’m doing this entirely out of self preservation. Importantly, I also do Yoga. Flexibility is important too.

Gyms are indeed predatory with their obnoxious membership programs and cancelation antics. I’m lucky to have some space in my ugly basement.

Your senior aged family members just seem to suck but we only got a single sentence of detail.

Old people are not universally mean lol. Honestly it seems to me that almost every asshole I knew since a young age was an asshole in their childhood, teens, and adulthood so far. I figure that won’t change. There’s some exceptions, but it seems very hard to change personality.