2muchcoffeeman

You stopped playing because there are fakes? Was the game not fun?

The pressure build up can be quite a lot from fermentation. I’ve accidentally fermented drinks in glass swing top bottles. And upon attempting to open the bottle the pressure ripped the stopper and the metal parts right off the bottle at high speed.

If you were purposely fermenting something, you could build enough pressure to pop the bottle.

Black is some weird masculine thing where it all has to be “tactical”

That’s even worse then. I’ve never bothered to go to cons. But this means that almost none of the games that deserve attention get any air time.

I’ve played all those games And I understand why you’re saying what you’re saying.

The war games aspects of Root and Arcs are kinda polarising and there’s definitely a certain mind set required. Dune imperium is a lot more straight forward in that it’s clear what needs to happen and how you might do it.

That’s the captaintobs site!?

I salute you. Incredible implementation. My group has spent so many hours on there.

If you aren’t finding Arcs or Root “deep” or competitive enough you’re probably playing it wrong. Both have war game elements and a lot of subtle shenanigans you can play.

If you’re pure euro gamers but need a bit more interaction maybe try Brass Birmingham, Food Chain Magnate, 1846, City of the Big Shoulders, Inis, Kemet.

I’d argue we’re past the peak though.

These days far too many board games are designed to appeal on Kickstarter with needless plastic minis and content. All that time and effort could have gone to play testing and improving the game but instead you get 2kg of plastic that doesn’t improve the game in anyway, increasing costs, and day one expansions or bonus content that’s often mediocre.

For every truely innovative game out there, there’s many more that look great and have incredible table presence but are throughly mediocre rehashes of the something else and rely purely on hype or great art.

Now you see people backing KS or buying 2nd hand games specifically for scalping, and Kickstarters preying on people with FOMO.

Also you can no longer trust Board Game Geek ratings.

The good news is, the vast majority of what’s really good, is probably already out there and available new or 2nd hand for a fair price.

Innovation is worth playing but it’s a Chudyk game. Perhaps with a lot of plays there is more strategy and nuance, but even with experienced gamers, I find Innovation much too swingy. With the right mindset to embrace the chaos, and players with the same level of experience/skill in the game, it can be fun though.

The Ikape Cera+ can heat water from room temp but it can’t do this many times.

But in many environments you don’t have to heat from cold. There’s often a Zip tap or kettle to get you most of the way.

But maybe the internal battery can deliver more power directly to the heating element.

Having a battery pack has its uses though. As crazy as USBC is, you can now get a relatively large amount of power from a battery pack.

There’s a bunch of things that don’t need their own battery if they just drew enough power off USBC. I have an office coffee setup. My grinder and espresso maker have their own batteries. But there’s no reason I couldn’t have a single battery pack and just plug both into USBC saving me a ton of weight. (In fact the Lagom Mini 2 grinder is powered straight off USBC with no internal power.)

For phones and cameras, that need their own power source, a replaceable battery is mostly just an end of life thing for me. Because I’d still have to carry a cable or spare battery around.

The account is from 2016 maybe this is a real person.

But you sound self important and a bit unhinged. It’s not that no one here can wrap their heads around such behaviour. It’s that your comments sounds like a troll response but could also be real.

Is this an AI response? Serious question. They’re taking a website comment a bit personally and threatening throwing drinks in peoples faces.

I hope you’re not comparing a gold trophy to a straight up bribe. It’s like giving Trump your Noble peace prize.

Having the prize doesn’t make you the winner. But it feeds Trumps ego sooooooo muuuuuch, it’s probably the “best” thing you can do to get on his good side without actually giving him anything.

So, they’re just like every other software outfit.

I think loads of people regularly create new accounts. Also the HN account creation process is quite painless.

Does this mean that because seatbelts and air bags exist to save my life in a crash I should be less careful driving?

Like staying warm, it’s all about layers.

I’m surprised they went with outlook rather than something like thunderbird. And I’m surprised they are burning power on an os that can run outlook.

Why? Better than a track pad.

Use a Surface Pro some time. If you are just casually browsing or reading a website. I find it much nicer to just tap on a link or swipe to scroll.

Can you “build colonies” for native species?

Doesn’t Boxing use weight classes?

I had a hard time but I didn’t start with the tutorial first.

But once I saw their “philosophy” as it were, everything became so much easier.

Did not know about this. How do you see all the properties?

Not if the charger doesn’t work.

What’s a cheap but ok thermal printer? The brand mentioned in this repo?

I wanted to setup https://www.colonnes.com but their recommendations were quite expensive.

Comfort issues aside, these are still stupid expensive.

I can buy a laptop for that money.

It’s strange to me that they haven’t introduced a more budget friendly line to serve different segments, like most of their product categories. Headphones aren’t an experimental hobby product.

Where are my $200 budget pair?

There’s a lot more going on there than AI …

This is clearly sub-optimal for a tablet. And worse, they are supposed to be a company that has good taste and design.

I bought a knock off cantilever keyboard cover. This is clearly the way to go. Very clever design from Apple. The knockoff works almost as well for 25% of the price.

I like iPhones because they are a little bit restricted.

But let’s be real here. They should have unified everything 5 years ago. Your phone should plugin to a screen and be a “netbook” level device and anything 13 inches and up should be running MacOS. The iPad should have a real affordable keyboard.

These limitations are no longer designed to make the product better.

Stop thinking voters are rational.

I remember the pro Palestine groups were threatening to not vote for Kamala if the Dems didn’t push for a cease fire or whatever. All while the other side was Trump.

They didn’t go, “maybe we should do our best to prevent a worse situation“.

Even back then I had a gut feeling something like this would have cost the Dems the election.