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 <insert the newest game>.

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:

1. Read the rules before everyone arrives
2. Play the game and have fun
3. Read the rules again
4. Email everyone with everything we played wrong

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.

TtR first journey is great because it’s easy to transition to the “full” game after they outgrow it. Catan junior is similar in this. That’s also my main complaint about Stone Age kids, it’s not really the same game.

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.

I have an instance that I created just for testing the software. It’s not being used. In fact, since it’s for testing only, it’s not even federated (federation turned off) because I don’t want to inflict my testing on anyone else. Also, the URL is not published anywhere. Since it’s just for testing, I had it with open registrations. A couple of days ago I woke up to find twenty new accounts. Somehow spammers got to it (again, no federation, URL unpublished anywhere). My theory is that since it was lemmy.<domain> that they were trying that kind of subdomain randomly. Anyway, manually removing 20 accounts from Lemmy is a pain. Moderation tools in Lemmy are severely lacking yet. I mean, it’s alpha software, we know it’s still a work in progress, so some issues like this are to be expected. But my point is that they shouldn’t be removing the very few tools to prevent spammers that instance admins have.

I don’t think this is too bad, but the question here is why they set it up this way. Are there any restrictions like no SSH? Also, this would make it hard to clone from an off site location (for remote work).

Always a good opportunity to learn something new.

That could be it. Something like Catapult Feud but Worms themed.