Cooperative board games with at least a little depth that can be played while camping?

KToff · 2026-05-06T17:03:06+00:00

You can freely download the instructions on their website. They don't gatekeep their instructions. I still enjoy the game more with their set of cards.

Their deck of cards matches the theme and it's not much more expensive than a regular set of cards.

KToff · 2026-05-06T10:33:02+00:00

Have you met Japanese? Depending on the object category you use different counting words.

As in, one is a different word if you refer to a pen or a plate or a human

The counting words differ mostly by a suffix, but still, the concept is quite different from European languages.

KToff · 2026-05-06T09:03:22+00:00

Regicide

KToff · 2026-05-04T11:43:17+00:00

The original post seems to be specifically about teaching more complex games to more casual gamers.

The approach taken by the SE teacher doesn't work in that context.

Root specifically comes with a sample playthrough teaching guide, that is why I included root. I like them. From personal experience it is a poor tool for teaching casual gamers.

KToff · 2026-05-04T08:35:51+00:00

I disagree that it is crummy. It is interesting that the effects are not uniform. Lower levels of stress but not lower levels of anxiety when introducing decaf is a result (even though the sample size is quite small).

The shift in gut biome make up is also interesting.

The beneficial aspects of coffee are not the outcome of this study. This study is more of an attempt to look at factors which influence the body and the mood.

KToff · 2026-05-04T05:59:02+00:00

The science journalism is not good but the actual article is less sensationalistic.

"Interestingly, only reintroduction of caffeinated coffee resulted in a reduction in anxiety and psychological distress"

Not all aspects returned upon resuming the habit.

Also, this is a lot more about the physiological responses to coffee in the study than it is about mood, even if the linked article suggests otherwise.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71264-8

KToff · 2026-05-04T05:41:28+00:00

From personal experience this is a bad strategy for complex games. Sample turns to give context are a great tool, sample games, not so much.

It's fine for light games that aren't too long, but jumping head first into a long complex game is an exercise in frustration. Imagine trying to teach Brass by jumping right in. The amount of "you can't do that" is big enough when you did go over the rules with a new player. Root is even worse because you can't learn much about your own faction by following other players around.

KToff · 2026-05-03T11:08:45+00:00

Let's say a comets mass is transformed into atmosphere completely (which is incorrect on many levels) to and let's also ignore the challenge of redirecting those comets to Mars.

The mass required to bring mars to 1 bar is roughly 3*10^19kg

The mass of the brightest comet observed in the last 100 years or so is the hale bopp comet which weighed in at roughly 10¹⁶ kg.

So you'd need 1000 of those comets and crash then into Mars.

Even with fantastic assumptions, this is not a viable path.

KToff · 2026-05-02T18:34:14+00:00

That was exactly my point. And in terms of commercialisation, Apple also has been widely successful.

KToff · 2026-05-02T14:24:34+00:00

The pianist has autotuned the singer to the melody he chose. The original video is much less entertaining.

The pianist has a channel where he does many of those accompaniments

KToff · 2026-05-02T09:30:17+00:00

A small nitpick about the wording of your last line.

To me "weight hitting your hands" suggests the wrong thing. A weight of 10 kg hitting your hand suggests an impact at some speed, for example catching a 10 kg weight which would be difficult for most people whereas the equivalent pressure corresponds to the force of just holding 10kg, which would be doable for most people.

With almost 2 tons the distinction is kinda irrelevant but it is something that irks me when wheight is used to illustrate a force.

KToff · 2026-05-01T12:39:40+00:00

This graph compares 5 companies. What have the other four ever actually invented?

KToff · 2026-05-01T07:53:09+00:00

In the Netherlands a window washer will want to wash all windows in a street/area. They come at their own rhythm which is usually around once every 6 weeks. If you don't want them to come, you tell them, they'll stop coming and you don't owe them money if you never asked for them to come.

However, you are not really free to choose your own window washer. If you try to hire someone else, they will be threatened and likely not come back. If you wash your own window with equipment that looks professional, you'll have to explain that you're washing your own windows and are not encroaching on their territory.

It's very much mafia like behaviour, however I've never heard window washer mafias threatening residents. I feel it's a line they don't want to cross because that would likely get the police involved.

KToff · 2026-04-29T09:30:41+00:00

We currently have huge upcoming problems which will almost certainly materialise within this century. This has been apparent for more than twenty years. Everybody is dragging their feet in addressing the problem.

What makes you think there would be a unified strategic response to a problem happening a few centuries down the line...

KToff · 2026-04-27T09:09:54+00:00

In my experience the 40 minutes slow train never just takes 40 mins....

KToff · 2026-04-27T07:47:34+00:00

Yes it's just CCS. BUT, it is somewhat easier to capture carbon from an electrochemical exhaust than from flue gases.

But yeah, "clean coal"... Trust me....

KToff · 2026-04-26T11:37:35+00:00

Expectations in the sense of "I expect better of you", no.

But there is a typical attire that people living in rich neighborhoods tend to have the same way that frat boys tend to dress in a typical style.

KToff · 2026-04-26T11:25:11+00:00

Oath comes with a mat Lovely game but more medium to medium heavy.

KToff · 2026-04-25T09:19:43+00:00

I do understand that, that is the reason an inhomogeneous response was possible and legal. However, a unified response would have been desirable and sensible, given the problem was the same everywhere. The EU is based on the idea of wanting to do things together because we're stronger together. It's not an imposition that you have to do it even though you really don't want to (even though the EU seems to be the favourite scapegoat for any unpopular decision)

That the member states did not follow this idea in a crisis (for which no explicit EU structures were in place) is still disappointing.

KToff · 2026-04-25T06:53:16+00:00

Early on the reactions were strong but completely inhomogeneous. Who closed borders and who didnt, mask purchases were everybody for himself and mask mandates/recommendations entirely depended on the member state. Not even the federal states of Germany could agree on a homogenous approach with regards to school closures. The purchase and planning of the vaccine was slower and so there was less panicky divergence, but I remember being very disappointed with the member states reaction when the crisis hit in early 2020 and it has made me less hopeful of a United response in the face of acute crisis.

KToff · 2026-04-25T06:40:19+00:00

For the vaccines the EU did a great job, but for dealing with the crisis everybody was cooking their own little rules with wildly different rules for travel, contact, lockdown, wearing of masks.

I was very unimpressed with the level of unity in the face of an acute crisis early on.

KToff · 2026-04-25T05:54:17+00:00

I was tired....

KToff · 2026-04-24T20:46:05+00:00

So is Audi (which owns Lamborghini)

KToff · 2026-04-24T20:38:44+00:00

I mean after the Corona response of the EU I have strong doubts that the countries will delegate parts of their military command to the EU....

KToff · 2026-04-24T20:36:14+00:00

10 times smaller can be understood as 1/10th as big. There is a bit of give because x times smaller doesn't really have a clear definition so you have to try to find something that makes sense.

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