I hope it makes up for the threats and harassment they've gotten and probably will continue to get from MAGAts
yeah, other than name...I'm not sure why he was running as a democrat.
yeah, I've moved fairly recently, and haven't found a regular game night to go to in my new town.
There are a number of good boardgame adaptations on the phone, several with async multiplayer as well as pass and play or vs a computer.
There are also a ton of solo-able games, depending on how complicated you want things to be.
I haven't played a game this way in several years, but I've had good experiences in the past playing games PBeM facilitated by ACTS (Automated Card Tracking System) and VASSAL.
Kids have been at summer camp this week, so we've had alittle time in the evenings to play some games.
We stretched Merchant of Venus over a couple nights, which is always a favorite of my wife's. We play FFG Edition, Classic Rules. She trounced me, getting to our target of 2500 Credits while I was still at 1700. Normally she plans her moves, but this time was much more open and loose with her turns. She ended up all over the eastern half of the board and picked up several relics that let her really fly through the various gates.
Last night we played Mint Imperium a mint-tin version of Star Wars Rebellion. Now...I love rebellion, both with and without the expansion. but sometimes you don't want a 3 hour game. Mint Imperium takes it and condenses the experience both physically, into the tin, and time-wise into about 45 minutes.
The rules do kinda assume you've played Rebellion, so there are a couple gaps in how they present information.
Well, I finally got it played. And it's as advertised, a 45 minute version of Rebellion.
I love rebellion, so my view is skewed. Mint Imperium definitely does the job of condensing the whole game down. I'm glad I have it. It will be traveling with me.
But I would absolutely agree, if you haven't played Rebellion, you might have a tough time with the rules. There are just some assumptions on what to do that are hard to convey in the little crib sheet that the rules come on.
Rebels won by the way. I ended up with a 50/50 choice and choose incorrectly.
any other games they do like? what works for one 12 year old won't for another.
Menara - cooperative dexterity game, where you building towers
Legendary - Marvel Superhero deckbuilding . "Semi" coop, but if you tweak the difficulty, the focus is on coop
Flashpoint:Fire Rescue - Firemen. rescue people, fight fires.
Pandemic/Forbidden Island - this is the 'classic' coop. it's a little puzzly for my tastes, but it's popular.
D&D Adventure Games - Wrath of Ashardalon, Castle Ravenloft. alittle older, but scratches a coop dungeon crawler itch.
my son (11) really enjoys Aeon's End and Spirit Island.
This is a good move. There will always be some who claim "it'll always be Bragg for me!" and that's okay. Having spent time at Liberty (Bragg), Moore (Benning) and Johnson (Polk) it will always be difficult to separate the names from the memories I have of them. People can have their memories, but that doesn't mean we should continue to enshrine the names of traitors to the nation, people who don't embody the ideals we claim to uphold.
We should work to be better. and if that means that future soldiers make memories at Ft. Liberty instead of Ft. Bragg, that's a small step in the right direction.
I've definitely seen base level posts from beehaw users. Just with no comments.
And then if you switch accounts to something on another instance(non .world), there are comments. So some things aren't coming through.
The the xbox game pass subreddit has been doing a similar thing for a while, just voting on what game on gamepass to play together and then discussions throughout the month. It's neat.
S20 FE 5G
I've been seriously tempted to swap to a S23+, maybe when black friday rolls around.
When you mean not federating, do you mean that when you go to that community from lemmy.world, no posts show up? I just joined askKbin and I'm getting quite a few.
We love The Crew. I've wanted to try some COIN games, I owned Falling Sky for a while, but lost my game group shortly after.