I’m generally falling out of love with expansions. It makes sense in games where it expands the game, so another player can join (i.e. Exploding kittens/imploding kittens) but other than that I’d rather buy a new game than expand one I already know.

I need to stop reading this thread. Every week I want to buy a different game. Earth looks beautiful!

I’m still seriously in love with Cascadia. It has so much replayability due to the changing scoring mechanic.

It was just too slow of a game for the occasion. We’ve all had a couple of beers and explaining the game to one of the four, while reminding the other 3 how to play and also having played a very active/loud game before, was just a bit of a buzzkill. I realized that when the others had a hard time following what was happening and who’s turn it was and so on. Just a bad pick for the night I guess.

Tow classics in our round of 5 players on Saturday night:

5-minute Dungeon: Utter chaos. But extremely cathartic with 5 lads who just watched their favorite football club lose 4:0.

Ticket to Ride: Europe: A classic. We’ve played it before with 4 out of the 5 players attending and had a lot of fun. But it was completely the wrong game for the occasion this time. I guess reading the room/group is an important part of picking the right game.

Playing cockroach poker with some close friends must be really fun for shits and giggle

Can confirm: Many giggles are to be had. It usually comes down to who ever has to take the first card being the prime target afterwards. But I could not imagine playing it with a less close nit group or even strangers.

I’ll post here if I had the chance to play Skull with the lads and let y’all know how it went.

I love games that you can “play as an appetizer” on a night that includes a “main course”-game afterwards. That’s the role I would see for Sushi Go.

Skull I would take to a different kind of meetup. The bluffing stuff does not go down well with my partner, but I have a group of friends I play with every couple of month. We’ve played cockroach poker during the last two meetups, which is the same slot I would see Skull in.

I love to read this thread. New inspiration week after week.

Sushi Go looks and sounds like fun. I might have to pick that one up at some point. I’m trying not to buy too many games at the moment.

Judging by the comments in this thread its seems to be pretty polarizing. That fits pretty well with how my friend loved it when we played it. But I think he played the physical copy before, so maybe he had good memories of playing it.

What do you like about it? I liked the concept when my friend told me about it, otherwise I would not have tried it, but the reality of it was just me randomly dying and having to restart while my friend got insanely powerful.

I played the steam version once with a mate who was into it. It’s horrible. Time-consuming mess, bad design in so many instances. If you can: Avoid it.

Sorry to be so harsh about a game you like, but it brings out horrible memories.

I was on vacation with my partner last week and we packed the card game version of Café International

The board game version is from 1989 and I was extremely nostalgic about the game, as it was one that I used to play a lot when I visited my grandparents back when I was a young kid.

After playing two round of it we realized: This is and OLD game, and it shows. Even the card game version from 2001 shows it’s age in both the ridiculous artwork as well as the game mechanics like drawing/discarding cards for minutes without any change to the board state.

We chose to leave it in the hotel lobby. Maybe it will bring joy to someone there, it brought no joy to us other than a short flash of nostalgia, so we decided we’ll never play it again.

First 4 player round of Viticulture. A bit to complex for my friends to enjoy it first try, but they want me to bring it again next time we meet.

We tend to play most things only once since everybody is so eager to show off their latest catch. I guess I contributed to that by bringing Cascadia last time and Viticulture this time.

Maybe I should stop that …

Similar, but I’ve only ever heard the term stir-fry used in combination with a wok over EXTREME heat.

They are just angry that they did not think of selling 5-Star reviews to those restaurants themselves.

I’m pretty sure in an Enterprise Environment OneDrive is just a SharePoint Frontend.

Sorry you work in a warehouse i guess? […] Also don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl unless it’s to make sure they have enough.

a. I don’t.

b. That’s my point. Improvements in the workplace are great. I just wanted people to be aware that this change is not applicable for a big part of the workforce. I was trying to make sure people saw that their neighbors bowl would still be empty so to say.

The manufacturing question is a tough one, because changing this requires taking short term profits away from companies and exchanging them for a long term better future. That’s a tough idea to sell. But I guess I’m derailing the discussion a bit with that point.

Letting people work from home is an easy decision in contrast. That’s just about changing some insecure managers minds. You can usually do that with numbers. Same goes for 4 day work weeks. Both of those are inevitable because companies who adopt it will have a competitive advantage in terms of acquiring talent in the next 10 years.

I’m not saying working from home should not be available for anybody who wants to do it, sorry if I sounded like it. I just wanted to emphasize that it is a solution for a specific subset of employees. I see a big potential to alienate a big chunk of people if we don’t put this in context.

And then there is the guys in the factory and the warehouse who can not be afforded this “luxury”. The doctors and nurses, the school- and kindergarten-teachers who need to be at a specific place to do their jobs. This proposal simply does not work for everybody. The whole “work from home debate” seem to focus on a particular kind of jobs and disregards that all those jobs only exists, because manufacturing takes place in China. I’d love to see a change of focus, from product price to quality and sustainability of industry products to go along with qualified manufacturing jobs returning to Europe. And in that context we can hopefully stop shifting the exploitation of workers to Asia along with the Jobs and exploit our own workers again. NO! Of course, not exploit them as much anymore.

I’m aware of that, that’s why I would like to get rid if it. And “technically” it’s not Facebook but another “Meta”-product 😉

I still use WhatsApp, because I have friends that won’t switch to Signal.

Other than that: I quit Facebook years ago, was never really interested in Twitter and recently stopped using reddit and switched to lemmy.

Edit: Oh, and YouTube… I totally forgot about YouTube.