calculuschild

@calculuschild@vlemmy.net

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calculuschild,

Love Letter. A very quick game with just 13 cards. Games take about 3 minutes so you can play multiple rounds if you want. Suits 2-6 players (best at max 4 in my experience). Generally very popular and easy to learn.

Comes in dozens of themes as well, if you don’t like the “princess in a castle” theme. You can find Batman, Cuthulu, The Hobbit, versions depending on your preference.

calculuschild,

You were into Warhammer at age 4? Man, I couldn’t even read.

[Feature Request] A Package Manger... for Communities

After a week on Lemmy/kbin it strikes me that one of the major oncoming problems that the Fediverse has is the fragmentation of communities across multiple instances that were formerly centralized in reddit. While this fragmentation into instances has significant upsides, it shifts responsibility for finding and subscribing to...

calculuschild, (edited )

The way I picture this is by letting communities have some sort of “partner communities” listing. If mods of games@xyz decide they like the content of games@abc, and gaming@123, they add those communities as “partners” (perhaps those communities have to accept which in turn adds games@abc as their partner). Then, when any user subscribes to one partnered community, they also become subscribed by proxy to the others, and begin to see posts from all 3.

This helps smaller communities piggyback on the success of willing larger communities and gain a bit of visibility as well, which should encourage growth of each partner so smaller ones don’t just die out.

Communities can “unpartner” at any time, in which case users would only remain subscribed to the one they originally selected. And of course, users could explicitly block any of the partnered communities if they don’t want to see the whole set.

calculuschild, (edited )

Are you looking for separate games to play in between roleplaying sessions, or games to play “inside” the roleplaying game?

One game that comes to mind is “Love Letter”. A fun little card game that involves a little bit of deduction and bluffing but only takes about 4 minutes.

calculuschild,

The theme is very minimal. I think the premise is “someone is trying to sneak a letter to the princess. Guess who has it? The guard? The maid? Etc.” It’s just a deduction game.

But there are also loads of “themed” versions if you prefer. Batman, Cthulhu, Munchkin, Santa Claus, Legend of the Five Rings, The Hobbit, Marvel, etc.

And since there are only 13 cards, you could easily re-theme it with a Deck of Many Things or something.

calculuschild,

Is there a particular product that you have in mind as an example?

calculuschild,

Ooh this is neat. Unfortunately my shelves aren’t divided into cubes like a Kallax, but I do like the idea.

What is a good board game for beginners to expand in to? started with Catan, maybe looking to shake things up.

Hi, me and my cousins had a good thing going for a long time playing Catan but we are looking to shake things up. We have played Catan regularly for over s year, but find that it’s getting a little stale. We are looking for a game that requires a lot of strategy, planning, teamwork but also betrayal and backstabbing, yet also...

calculuschild, (edited )

I might recommend Dominion as a great “starter” game that is a totally different feel from Catan but still has the “different every time” setup. Very quick to set up; it’s just cards. No teamwork though, but lots of strategy that will change each game.

For a teamwork game, one classic is Pandemic, although once you win the game the first time the novelty wears off

Something with teamwork and betrayal I would recommend is Dead of Winter. But I’ll be honest betrayal as a mechanic usually doesn’t work for me in general, so I don’t play with those rules when there is an option.

calculuschild,

Wait so what was the trick to save time and filament? Just rotating the part to use fewer supports?

calculuschild,

Why plastic washers instead of springs? Is the bed sagging due to the washers deforming with heat?

calculuschild,

Since Lemmy is kind of like a bunch of small separate Reddits, its very possible that a community you are looking for already exists; its just on a different Lemmy server. But fear not! You can be the person to connect it so everyone here can see it and start to interact with it!

Use this site to search for other communities that might not yet be on this instance: lemmyverse.net/communities

You should find a good handful of communities around D&D, Pathfinder, Fate, etc. When you find one you are interested in, you can visit it directly, but since you probably don’t have an account on that server, you won’t be able to post or comment there until you connect it to ttrpg.network by subscribing to it.

Mouse over the link (it should pop up with “Click to Copy”), and copy it. Then come back here, open the search page, and search for the link you just copied. You should get a result that you can click on, but notice this time you are viewing it through ttrpg.network, so you can interact with it with your account here. Click “subscribe”, and everyone here will also start to see posts from that community.

Congrats! You have just made one link in the Fediverse, connecting everyone here to a community somewhere else.

calculuschild,

Did you access it via the search function here on ttrpg.network? The link you provided won’t work until someone searches “!wargaming” from here and visits it through the link in the search results at least once.

calculuschild,

Are you searching from a web browser? I know the Jerboa for Android app does not correctly search into other instances yet.

When I search from my laptop, this is what I see:

https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/f61ba5f7-bbb1-4262-9069-20ad8baffde2.webp

calculuschild,

Very possible. This may be a question for @eerongal. It does indeed look like this instance is stuck an older version of Lemmy as well (17.4; the latest is 18.0 or 18.1 by now), so this may be a bug which requires an update to fix.

calculuschild,

Oh interesting. Kosher is a whole market I didn't even think of with Beyond Meat.

Is cultured meat considered "real meat" or "kosher" for your purposes? (I hope I'm using the term correctly)

calculuschild,

How does this Dev Team interact with the official Lemmy repository? Based on the Reddit post where you were directing people to message the Mod team rather than visit the Lemmy GitHub page, somehow I get the impression you guys are working on a forked version of Lemmy rather than contributing to the core repository. Is that accurate?

calculuschild,

When I subscribe to a remote community and we become federated with that instance for the first time, does the whole remote instance and all it's communities start showing up in all for everyone on our instance? Or just the one community?

calculuschild,

I’m wondering if this is a bug or not:

When I open up the VLemmy home page, I see in the side panel a list of “trending communities”, such as arknights. However when I open the community, there are zero posts, zero users per month, and only 2 subscribers. Are posts just not showing up, or is the “trending” measurement not what I think it means?

calculuschild,

Is there a way hide a specific community from showing up in my “all” feed? For example, there are communities in different languages that I don’t need. I’m hesitant to just “Block community” in case this somehow affects other users, the same way “subscribe” causes remote communities to start showing up in everyones’ feeds here.

Deck building + racing. What's your favorite?

This genre seems to be fairly popular, and I can see why. Instead of just building a deck for the sake of building it (like in Dominion), adding a racing element makes the game more interactive, tense, and tangible. I've only played a few, and I'm interested in how Heat compares to for example....

calculuschild,

What about something like Aeon’s End? Not racing on a map, but racing against a clock, because the big monster is going to destroy the world if you are too slow.

Awesome deck building, but an extreme sense of urgency.

calculuschild,

Conversations with my spouse are almost entirely of the following:

  1. planning and coordinating
  2. infodumping
  3. little love phrases (“I love you.” “You are a good wife.” “Come give me a kiss.”)
  4. listening silently while my wife shares the latest gossip and about her day
  5. spontaneous deep conversations

I love her.

calculuschild,

Right now, finally had some time to play an old birthday present: Great Western Trail. Decided it’s good but not quite my favorite.

When I can I usually like to play Root or Aeon’s End these days.

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