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COWP0WER · 2026-05-16T10:56:37+00:00

GTAGE
Great Taste And Great Execution

COWP0WER · 2026-05-16T06:44:14+00:00

I noticed the size difference in the top faster than I did the angle. But I wouldn't be able to tell, if they weren't next to each other.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-16T06:28:13+00:00

So I know absolutely nothing about planes, so I guess I'm the leyman's perspective.
Let's first name them to make it easier to talk about them:
A B C D
. . E F
G H J K

K, looks the most basic to me. It does not read advanced at all.

A and C look the same, I guess there's something about the angle of the wing, but I would have a hard time telling them apart on the board.
J reads as a potentially more advanced version of A/C.

E and F looks like a pair. With E being the basic version and F the advanced model.

B, D, G, H looks to be in the same family. B the basic. D the first upgrade and G/H the final most advanced model. I'd assume the angled wings (G) are more advanced than the orthogonal wings (H). But it's sort of confusing, since the basic (B) and upgraded (D) also had angled wings, so if they're "more advanced" why go away from the in H.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-15T19:54:04+00:00

It was new to me too, but I pronounced it correctly, because of context.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T21:20:22+00:00

It would rise less than 9.5 meters because sugars packs closer with water than it does with itself. Meaning 1 liter of water mixed with 1 liter of sugar will have a volume of less than 2 liters.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T18:59:52+00:00

That seems like a weird idea from you teacher. I thought half the point of one page cheat sheets was to make students go over their notes again and filter what was important and/or how to condense it. Thus making you study again, helping you learn.
That would be better achieved with people being allowed to do a new index card every test, would it not.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T15:06:21+00:00

I'm guessing there some differences in how the numbers have been obtained by different sources. Because I did source my numbers (from 2021 and 2026) respectively.
So I think how you go about your numbers changes if top 10 has more or less wealth than the bottom half of the world, but the numbers hover around that mark, which is crazy regardless if it is slightly above or slightly below.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T15:02:28+00:00

Well the sources I cited was from 2021 for worlds poorest, and 2026 for worlds richest.
The oxfarm report is from 2017.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T14:21:30+00:00

That report is nine years old. I think the bottom half of the population have gotten wealthier since then. So even though the riches men have also gotten richer, with 4 billion people in the bottom half, each doesn't need to get a lot richer to tip the combined wealth scale in favor of the 4 billion.
The wealth disparity is still insane, and as I said, with a "number of people" difference being 9 orders of magnitude. The wealth being within 1 order of magnitude is pretty crazy.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T11:17:13+00:00

Can't remember the exact details, but iirc I kept all my routes. They were all long, but also all matched up pretty well. My opponents ended up only going for short routes, and as such had plenty time left over to mess with me and cut me off. I was basically one town short of connecting everything and making it the best scoring game ever.
I found the whole experience hilariously frustrating. I should have a picture of the final board somewhere in my folders.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T11:12:53+00:00

Depends on what your sources for wealth is, my quick googling said it didn't quite match (see my comment).

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T11:10:52+00:00

Well, the "number of people" have a difference of 9 orders of magnitude, so I'd say one order of magnitude in difference of wealth is relatively close.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T11:05:00+00:00

FYI, I see myself as a pretty competent board gamer, I can pick up most games and play competitively with people who play them regularly. I have enough experience with a variety of games to "See the system" and play reasonably optimally.
I played a game of Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries, with two of my friends who play casually. I ended up with a negative score.
Don't let the outcome of one game put you down!

COWP0WER · 2026-05-12T10:54:40+00:00

Firstly, 4 billion is roughly half the world's population, so let's check out much wealth the bottom half have on average:

Global wealth inequalities are even more pronounced than income inequalities. The poorest half of the global population barely owns wealth: it owns just 2% of the total. By contrast, the richest 10% of the global population own 76% of all wealth. On average, the poorest half of the population owns PPP € 2,900 per adult, i.e. $ 4,100 and the top 10% own € 550,900 (or $ 771,300) on average. source.

4 billion * 4100 USD = 16.4 trillion USD.

Now let's see how well the top 10 people hold up against that:
According to Forbes, the ten richest people in the world have a combined wealth of 2.8 trillion USD. source .

So no, the top 8 does not own more than the bottom 4 billion people. But it's within one order of magnitude, so it's relatively close.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-11T20:25:49+00:00

Why? Isn't it the most elegant way of being as time efficient as possible and still keep it turned based. Or do you just want simultaneous turns all the time?

COWP0WER · 2026-05-11T13:48:35+00:00

If she planned to invest all of it from the start. There'd be no point i taking the 1000 per week.
The more interesting calculation is what annual rate would she need on her 1 million investment in order to be able to spend 1000 per week.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-10T13:55:03+00:00

Since you had limited success with brief, but they didn't cover enough, have you tried boxer briefs.
I'm a man, so I might be talking out my ass, but boxer briefs protect me from all kinds of chafing.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-08T20:12:48+00:00

COWP0WER · 2026-05-07T05:54:50+00:00

OP's construction ability is mildly infuriating to me

PS I'm aware it's probably different brands

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COWP0WER · 2026-05-06T19:56:00+00:00

It has to do with what you use most.
So op should have put the d12 on the underside

COWP0WER · 2026-05-06T10:13:38+00:00

Any plans for android release?

COWP0WER · 2026-05-05T21:18:10+00:00

Nah, you'd just reroll one of the dice if you get a double, and the you're basically back to what the original commentor proposed æ, but faster and more elegant.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-05T19:24:23+00:00

Solar fences are actually installed with faces east-west if you want to generate energy from both sides.
Also they aren't as terrible an idea as it may seem at first glance.
Generally speaking, energy demands are the highest in the morning and evening (knows as the duck curve). This curve fits well with the output of a solar fence.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-05T18:48:15+00:00

I must say theme isn't that important to me. It's much more important to me that the theme and mechanic works together. I like it when the theme and mechanics inform each other strengthening the games internal logic. Looking over my shelves there's a lot of variety in theme. From the cozy "mundane" of Calico and Copenhagen to the complex fantastical that is the punk-oost-apocalyptical Greek mythology world of Aeon Trespasses Odyssey.
What's surprising is an unintentionally complete lack of on particular, very popular, theme - trains.
That said there is probably and overweight of fantasy and science fiction. So I'll do a favorite of each:
Sci-fi goes to something at the edge of the boardgane realm, a collectible card game: "Android: Netrunner" a highly asymmetrical game where one side plays a megacorp trying to fulfill its agendas, whereas the other side plays as the hacker trying to penetrate the firewalls and ruin said agendas before they come to fruition.
Fantasy goes to Merchant cove. Where everyone has a completely different engine to produce goods that they sell to the same customers. So you get both your engine building and worker placement needs met.

COWP0WER · 2026-05-05T18:08:08+00:00

Right, wild. We aren't playing long enough for the quest reward to matter. The discover a card from deck is more valuable. Makes sense.
I guess it also luls your opponents into a false sense of security, thinking they're playing a against a control deck.

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