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You can try out Brink on Tabletop Simulator right now. I managed a playthrough not long ago, it definitely needs a "test run" for everyone to get familiar with the rules, I felt like a lot of things felt too expensive or didn't feel balanced but I'm guessing we didn't know how to optimize our turns well enough. It doesn't have the same kind of player interaction that Moonrakers does but I'd play it again

Moonrakers is in my top three favorite games, and we love Century Golem and Wingspan. I'll have to try out Agricola and your other recs 'cause we seem to have similar tastes

By Droknar's hammer, what a savings!

Been playing GW2 since beta, but haven't been that active since I had my a baby. I've played thousands of hours, have over 40k AP, was even mildly famous in the community for a bit, but I just haven't had the time for any games lately. It's still my favorite though, I love the art, the music, the player centric design and how they really try to make a fun experience and not waste your time. I tried Star Trek Online because I heard they had screen writers from the shows writing some of the content, and had enough fun to max a couple of characters and upgrade a ship or two and then they raised the level cap on me and made it all obsolete. I quit. I have no patience to put up with that kind of crap. I've been spoiled by GW2's design philosophy, and they've proved worthy of my trust and time. I recommend it to anyone looking for an MMO.

We have a Jackery and we're quite happy with it. It's come in handy for a lot of random uses and they have a wide variety of charging options and capacities so you only pay for what you need. Battery life is good, build quality is good, we have no complaints.

I was driving home from an event late at night on a highway. It was warm and my AC wasn't working, and my eyes felt heavy. My blinks kept getting longer until I realized my eyes had been closed too long. I realized I was falling asleep at 65mph and opened up the windows and managed to wake myself up, but if the road had been any busier I could have killed someone, myself included.

38 hours, I was working on a creative project I was passionate about with a hard deadline. I worked on it basically non-stop the entire time, I don't remember much of it though. I do remember that after about 30 hours I started seeing patterns on things, like the walls and ceiling were covered in shifting sliding wallpaper.

This absolutely tracks with my experience after having a kid. Suddenly I have little to no time to waste and so every hour I have to myself I feel that urgency and pressure to get as much done as possible. I've never had less free time or been so consistently productive as this last year. I think the demands are not so intense that I'm going to crash, but I do chafe against the limitations. I'm frustrated that I'm unable to excuse the time for my favorite leisure activities, and I miss video games. However I have gotten so many projects done, some things that have been sitting around for years, that I have to give myself a bit of credit for once.

You could take on some community volunteer work, get involved with a local group that's doing work that aligns with your values and fill up your schedule with some hard commitments to do something worthwhile. I just volunteered for a committee in my town and it was way easier than I expected to get involved.

I read those books over and over again just to spend more time there. I still remember more details about the cultures, cities, and fashion in those books better than I could ever remember the plot. The magic and higher moral themes were very simplistic in comparison to other books but RJ really excelled at fleshing out a continent with diverse and unique peoples that made sense in that world.

In my experience it was like making new friends but more stressful.

Dating felt a lot like looking for a job, trying to find prospects, going out on job interviews but with a relationship at stake instead of employment. You start with this rough pretext of wanting to get to know each other, and you ask questions about things that are important to you, muddling through small talk. You try to be entertaining, showing your best self until you get invested enough in each other. It's stressful but can also be exciting because when you find someone you get along with it can be exhilarating.

Then, if you know you like someone but are unsure about whether they reciprocate your insecurities go nuts. You live in two simultaneous imaginary universes where in one, things go well and you live happily ever after, in another they declare you unfit for their life goals and leave you hurting and back to the grind of searching. Then, if you get to it, there's the comfortable period of having your relationship defined and developing on what is ostensibly a good path and you can relax more and show your "real" self. If both of you can tolerate each other at your worst, that can lead to a proper partnership which and should feel like hanging out with a best friend. Your partner becomes your go-to person to enjoy things with and consistent companion, which obviously can be really nice.

When your kid runs at you to give you the most enthusiastic hug of your life just because.