Accusations of racism prompted a country music channel to pull the video, which is set at the site of an infamous lynching and race riot. But Republicans are embracing Aldean....
My buddy at work has expressed interest in Gaslands. Typical me, I purchased a bunch of stuff for it a couple years ago and let it sit un touched.
pulled it out to re-read the rules and the boys wanted in. Well, they wanted to paint first. So we had all of them paint their own car and glue some machine guns (and spikes…so many toothpicks died that day). I also have a 3d printer now, so finally some terrain that matches.
All the boys painted their own cars, just needing a little help with glue. My youngest (6) painted the batmobile and it’s pretty impressive.
so we had a race. one of the kids had a monster truck to use, so things weren’t “fair” can-wise, but who cares.
Right after this image, the Red Truck rammed the monster truck. which caused a wipeout of the monster truck, who spin forward past the green buggy. Purple Cherokee moves forward and flamethrowers both the bug and the monster truck.
After turning round, Monster Truck runs over the green buggy and crushes it. Batmobile power slides around the corner and zips to victory.
we had a quick family camping trip. so some small games in the downtime.
Survive!: Escape from Atlantis, is always a blast. I actually won, since the two older kids were so intent on killing each other’s people rather than hunting down dad’s.
Magical Athlete - my copy is worn and well loved, but it’s never leaving. We had a race with the druid (moves whenever someone uses a special ability) and the Ranger (move 4 when rolls a 1 or 2…so almost always at least a 4). The entire race the ranger never used his ability.
on another site we had a thread that was simply to discuss what you've played recently and any general thoughts on those games. Thought I might kick it off here.
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.
My oldest son loves Oceans, so when a request for it comes up, I try to oblige. It is definitely 'nicer' than Evolution, and the combos are fun. My youngest son (6) wants to play, so we let him in...and try not to take too much of an advantage with having a partial player in. We help him just get big combos and cool animals.
Sometimes we play with the # of fish for a 2 player game, this time I forgot to adjust and had the # of fish for a 3 player game, so we ended up with very well-developed species. I had a great combo of a, apex predator and a deep sea kraken. The kraken lets you attack again, with every attack after the first going straight into points rather than population. My oldest put a Cthulu leech, which steals population, and forced me to give up on my kraken. Then he jumped ahead with 2 species...translucent, communicating, whale cleaning mammals, and translucent, schooling, filter feeders, that i could never create the right circumstance to attack.
Then we broke out Blood Bowl Team Manager. Yet another game I had owned in the past, then traded away. I found a F:ATtie selling this, so got a good deal on it + Sudden death.
I remember it being a 'middling' game, but it was worth more than I was paying for it. Oh man, was I wrong. We had an freaking awesome game.
3 players, Vampires, Elves, Chaos.
Early weeks, Vampires gained lots of fans. Chaos did okay. Elves had no fans, but lots of upgrades and star players.
Week 3, my elves thought they were in good shape, and had a chance to tackle and steal the ball. I had a 4 star player able to tackle (Aurora Silverleaf). She began my reign of terror, wherein I rolled 'X' 5 dice in a row. Silverleaf rolled double X's and tackled herself. A Wardancer tripped over her own feet. The following week Silverleaf ended up in my lineup again and somehow rolled double X's again!
Vampires figured out how to use their thralls to absorb some punishment, then feed on them to power up his vampires. Chaos was having great fun with cheating Beastmen.
in the Final week, The winner of the Blood Bowl was going to take it all. We threw everything at it. Each team ended up with 3-4 players in the bowl. My Death Roller (the Crushinator) ended up with 4 cheating tokens. the two other players I had were cheating as well. and we would have won it all! the Death Roller got through all 4 cheating tokens without getting expelled....then the other two players were ejected!
Vampires 36, Elves 35, Chaos 34. One of the boys actually exclaimed "This game is awesome!" which, I'm not sure I've ever heard before.
Hey folks, I'd love a few suggestions of coop games to play with my kids. Sentinels of the Multiverse is a bit too much for Sarah while Joshua gets a bit too into the choices....
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.
A few days ago the Beehaw admins decided to defederate this instance, which means (as far as I understand Lemmy) we should not receive new content from their side. However I keep seeing new posts and comments on my subscriptions (example in the screenshot). Should this be happening? Have they re-federated lemmy.world recently...
After reading how much everyone loves War of the Ring and having it recommended to me multiple times I decided to see if I could find it at a local store and avoid Amazon. Lucky for me my main store I use had 1 copy!
Nice. I have a 1st Edition copy that comes out about once a year. It's an event to play it, but worth the effort. I recently 3d-printed a Mt. Doom miniature to use with it.
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.
In case you didn't know, beehaw.org decided to defederate both lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. You can read about it here. Essentially it means beehaw.org users can no longer see my posts/comments, it's like they shadow banned my entire server. Thanks to @donio for messaging me about it. I have created this account on feddit.de...
I have bunch of games with miniatures made of single colour plastics which is a bit boring. I did buy a Warhammer paint kit to eventually try to paint some but so far I was too lazy (or scared? 😅) to try....
First of all, let me say that while the admins can do what they want, I think it's pretty unfortunate that beehaw is defederating from .world and shitjustworks. I don't want to see the fediverse fracture, I want it to encourage conversation with others....
I didn't think this made the beehaw stuff read only. I thought we got a snapshot from the moment they defederated, and it doesn't update after that. .world users can comment, but that's only on the snapshot that .world is storing. as time goes on it veers further and further from the 'real' content stored on beehaw.
No, it's how I said it. I just checked - there are a couple posts from Ruud's beehaw account over there discussing it. If you visit the conversation with an account not from lemmy.world, there are a number of posts that show up that we can't see.
power users and mods leaving. The big key is how moderation continues on reddit. whether the scab mods and those that stayed are able to control the bots and spam or not. if they can, then reddit continues mostly as normal.
Another S20FE here. I've had new phone fever recently, but I keep having to ask myself....what exactly am I going to gain from spending almost a grand on a new S23.
For those of you who use instant messaging services like Signal or WhatsApp, what do you use as your profile picture?
Used to have a funny picture of my cat as my profile picture on Signal, but I removed it later on. Now, I don’t use one on my personal accounts.
The outrage over Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town,’ explained (www.washingtonpost.com)
Accusations of racism prompted a country music channel to pull the video, which is set at the site of an infamous lynching and race riot. But Republicans are embracing Aldean....
What Boardgames have you been playing recently? - July 2023
What have you been playing? new games, old games. any thoughts?
July 2023: What Board Games are You Playing?
Monthly check in! What have you all gotten to the table recently?
What Board Games have you Played Recently?
on another site we had a thread that was simply to discuss what you've played recently and any general thoughts on those games. Thought I might kick it off here.
RFK Jr. Gives Away the Game With Decision to Speak at Moms for Liberty Summit (newrepublic.com)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. finally reveals who he has been all along.
Georgia poll workers targeted by Trump are cleared of false election fraud claims (www.nbcnews.com)
Suggestions of coop games to play with kids 10 & 12?
Hey folks, I'd love a few suggestions of coop games to play with my kids. Sentinels of the Multiverse is a bit too much for Sarah while Joshua gets a bit too into the choices....
Why am I seeing recent content from Beehaw? (lemmy.world)
A few days ago the Beehaw admins decided to defederate this instance, which means (as far as I understand Lemmy) we should not receive new content from their side. However I keep seeing new posts and comments on my subscriptions (example in the screenshot). Should this be happening? Have they re-federated lemmy.world recently...
Picked this up yesterday at my local BG store! (lemmy.world)
After reading how much everyone loves War of the Ring and having it recommended to me multiple times I decided to see if I could find it at a local store and avoid Amazon. Lucky for me my main store I use had 1 copy!
Idea: Book Club but for games
Basic idea is to have the community all play the same game and then talk about it and our experiences....
Day 3: Best Dexterity game - Menara
In case you didn't know, beehaw.org decided to defederate both lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. You can read about it here. Essentially it means beehaw.org users can no longer see my posts/comments, it's like they shadow banned my entire server. Thanks to @donio for messaging me about it. I have created this account on feddit.de...
Do you colour your miniatures?
I have bunch of games with miniatures made of single colour plastics which is a bit boring. I did buy a Warhammer paint kit to eventually try to paint some but so far I was too lazy (or scared? 😅) to try....
Will lemmy.world be defederating from beehaw.org now?
First of all, let me say that while the admins can do what they want, I think it's pretty unfortunate that beehaw is defederating from .world and shitjustworks. I don't want to see the fediverse fracture, I want it to encourage conversation with others....
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Stealing from c/Android, what Samsung device do you guys have?
I went from an S22+ (with really bad battery life) to an S23 Ultra and can finally enjoy Samsung without worrying about battery....
What phone are you using?
So, I thought I'd kick things off here with some community building....