birdcannon

Sweet-good Victory-win, yes yes

Ooooh yeah Factorio and I are well acquainted, think I’m probably close to 500 hours on that. Definitely closer to Frostpunk than AtS

Pretty much how I felt too. I looooved Frostpunk and wanted more games like that. 100+ hours and loved every second, but eventually gotta move on. Tried Anno 1800 and liked it but not as much, got maybe 50 hours out of it. Tried Against the Storm and after 10 hours of not feeling anything I uninstalled. Really don’t get why Frostpunk and Against the Storm get lumped together, other than both having mechanics of building buildings and assigning workers. There’s sooooo much more to Frostpunk beyond that.

I’m just out of NYC but thank you friend

Thanks! And here ya go

I better start studying up then for if/when I eventually find 3 other folks willing to play it with me~

I was able to release on the 14th, maybe a few minutes after 12 their time. One of the lucky ones!

And yep all the small ones were impulse. I’ve never played any version of Splendor but heard great things about duel, and at ~$13 pfft that’s basically free.

I did scoop up Ark Nova before ever having played it lol, the deal was nuts. I did get a chance to play it at my LGS the following week and immediately felt good about the purchase. Grand ol time.

I’m not a fan, though I’m surely not the target demographic. Board games are social activities for me, and the kind of games that get converted are not the kind that would work for me.

I have 1k+ hours in slay the spire, and who knows how many hours in other roguelike deckbuilders on PC/mobile, but any time I play a board game pve deckbuilder it feels like a slog. People take too long, I don’t care what they’re doing, why are we here id rather just do this by myself on the computer.

Same with Dorfromantik. 100%ed on pc and greatly enjoyed, but what does adding coop add to the gameplay other than having to wait for someone to take their turn? Would rather play anything else.

I didn't look at any of the authors while reading the books, but while reading Thousand Sons (now finished) I was seriously wondering "does this author even like scifi/fantasy?" he has Magnus speaking like you'd imagine some uncaring Hollywood accounting suit would write while pumping out a minimum effort script to cash in on some familiar IP. Magnus and Ahriman alternate between moron and genius as the plot demands. Worst of all, as you said, it's just boring as hell until the end. Checked the author partway and saw he also wrote False Gods, "yep that makes sense." Horus is moron for plot in that too, with all the dialogue someone who doesn't like scifi/fantasy would write to make fun of it.

I wonder if TS is so fondly remembered just because the last 10% is actually good. The Sons coming together for a final stand despite the betrayal of the Emperor and their own primarch, that's all super interesting! If it started at the Council of Nykea chapter, TS would be a great novella.

Do you have any proof? I can’t find any evidence of Tesseract crowdfunding anything nor any discourse talking about any drama. Something like that would definitely have ended up on the progmetal subreddit

Are you sure you're thinking of the right band? I'm not finding any information regarding a scandal like that.