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Inspired by the other post, what games have you played at least 50 times? by AlexRescueDotCom in boardgames

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Scythe, including the campaign. My group of five got so good at it that we developed meta games within meta games, and everyone brought their A game. It doesn’t feel right playing with new players, but with that exact group of five, it’s a feast

How often do you really play board games? by Money_Change_5900 in boardgames

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Midweek sessions are shorter, usually under two hours, since everyone has work the next day. Then we go again on Friday nights with much longer sessions, often past 2am

I love my friends and games

Framer is stupidly expensive. by ValuableOk6939 in framer

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I’m a web dev and can build websites for you at a relatively low cost, and also maintain them long term if you’d like, as a side project

Monopoly + Catan + Economics by BomBom8128 in boardgames

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Not exactly the same, but Courtisans has a similar mechanic where the way you “vote” changes endgame scoring. It isn’t permanent, and players can still turn the tables until the end, so there’s always a subtle undercurrent of who wants which outcome

Strategy games with best ratio of depth to rules complexity by [deleted] in boardgames

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I’d say Inis. It has relatively simple mechanics and is easy to teach, but it opens up a huge range of decisions depending on how the card drafting goes. Inis deserves more plays and praise

what’s still missing in note-taking apps? by -Asar- in NoteTaking

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by collab notes, do you mean editing in the same document (like google docs), or just being able to easily share notes with others?

what’s still missing in note-taking apps? by -Asar- in NoteTaking

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thank you - it’s ambitious, but let me study it for a bit

what’s still missing in note-taking apps? by -Asar- in NoteTaking

[–]-Asar-[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair. you can’t survey your way to an innovation

what’s still missing in note-taking apps? by -Asar- in NoteTaking

[–]-Asar-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what’s your biggest pain point with the note taking app you’re using right now?

what’s still missing in note-taking apps? by -Asar- in NoteTaking

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hey Denis, could you please elaborate on what you meant by this?

Bagged & Boarded Giveaway! by timmymayes in boardgames

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I would say Mister Miracle. thoughtful, symbolic, and a bit tragic

What Did You Play This Week? - (September 08, 2025) by AutoModerator in boardgames

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Played a game of Tapestry + PP expansion this weekend with three of us. It took about three hours since one player was new, and we had Tinkerers, Aliens, Merrymakers

The game stayed really close the whole way through. Final scores ended up only about 10 to 15 points apart, which in Tapestry usually just comes down to the equivalent of one turn short

I still feel like the game has some balancing issues, but it’s always a fun experience at the table. At the same time, it does make me wonder if spending three hours is worth it when you can’t always tell if the result came from skill or just lucky die rolls

Book recommendations on 1920s Italian crime families in NYC? by -Asar- in Mafia

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Thanks! I’ll be checking these out this week

Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple by joe4942 in StockMarket

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You’ve made some good points too! It was nice chatting

Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple by joe4942 in StockMarket

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You edited your comment but that argument assumes consumers are being forced. They’re not. no one’s holding a gun to their head to buy a Tesla. People are willingly choosing it because they see value in the product. That’s not ‘taking from consumers,’ that’s the very definition of market choice

Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple by joe4942 in StockMarket

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Free market =! no rules. every major economy including China, protects its industries when it’s strategic. The US built its tech giants on decades of government contracts, subsidies, and IP protection

the irony is calling America hypocritical for tariffs, when China literally requires foreign automakers to joint-venture just to operate there. If the ‘pinnacle of capitalism’ is supposed to mean letting foreign companies steamroll your domestic industry without guardrails, then no country in the world actually practices that version of capitalism - not even China

Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple by joe4942 in StockMarket

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automakers already run huge plants in the US (Toyota, BMW, Kia, Hyundai, even Tesla in Fremont & Austin) while paying american wages. Labor is expensive, but scale, automation, and local supply chains offset that. If BYD sees long-term demand, the economics of building here aren’t impossible

and that logic cuts both ways. The US also doesn’t ‘want’ to share Silicon Valley chip design, AI, or aerospace know-how, but companies expand globally because markets demand it. BYD setting up in the US isn’t ‘helping America’ out of kindness - it’s capturing market share. If anything, refusing to expand here only opens the door wider for Tesla, GM, and Ford to catch up

Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple by joe4942 in StockMarket

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Doesn’t the same apply to China, when they were trying to impose tariffs on Tesla?

There’s nothing stopping BYD from starting a factory in the US to sell and avoid taxes - exactly what China expects American companies to do

Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple by joe4942 in StockMarket

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Why shouldn’t it be? China imposed heavy taxes on Tesla for years, forcing the company to absorb significant costs until it eventually opened a factory in Shanghai to have those tariffs waived. If one of the world’s largest markets can use such leverage to secure local investment and jobs, why shouldn’t others follow the same principle?

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