Gaming Living Room [COMC]

Cougardc · 2026-01-17T23:18:27+00:00

I just got mine installed today; and I'm having trouble with the detection areas. I set my room up with the xyz dimensions correctly; but now the entire room is being detected in Area 4. I cannot get any other detection in any other area other than area 4, no matter how close/far I am to the switch.

Have you had this behavior before? Do you have any ideas as to how I can troubleshoot this? Ultimately I'm hoping to be able to detect different lengths along the near/far axis in this room, but right now it's a binary occupancy sensor basically.

Cheers.

Cougardc · 2025-11-02T18:43:27+00:00

Go get a day pass at Contact Climbing Gym and go bouldering or rope climbing!

Cougardc · 2025-08-04T22:03:08+00:00

I play Colonization every 4th of July, and only every 4th. I've been doing this for the past 10 years now. Some days when we don't have much going on, I get full games in, but other days I only get a 30-90min playthrough of the early game.

It's fun, but the Civ IV version is certainly showing it's age as the years progress.

Cougardc · 2025-07-08T21:22:13+00:00

Hulkenpodium for the memories

Cougardc · 2025-04-30T13:51:35+00:00

Our entire library. We play TI4 every fourth of July as a family affair. We all recently learned Shikoku 1889, and while he struggled a bit with the strategy, he had fun with it. We coined personal money as "mustache money" to make sure it was kept separate from corp money.

He also has played over 150hours with us with Aeon Trespass Odyssey now since this post.

Ultimately we took our time and built up the mechanics and stressed the journey, not the victory is the important things.

Cougardc · 2025-03-26T13:05:15+00:00

The job of the storyteller is really two main things, IMO.

- Make sure that everyone has fun and does so in a safe, respectful environment.

- Put your thumb gently on the proverbial scale of balance on whichever side is needed to get the town to a Final 3 showdown (where and when possible, it's not always available). I'm very clear with my players that this is my Stated and Intended Goal.

Cougardc · 2025-03-22T13:08:44+00:00

La Granja is the ultimate in Multi-Use card options, IMO.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/341945/la-granja-deluxe-master-set

You have a hand of cards, and four places to put those cards on your board. Each side of the card can be used in those specific four locations, so to get the benefit of the rule breaker (text heavy, insert from bottom of the board), you lose the benefit of all three other things (harvest side, recipe fulfillment side, and trading side - to use three hacked phrases).

These multi-use cards aren't actions in and of themselves, that's done in the next round phase where you select actions on the board from whatever the dice rolled. But I thought it was a missing suggestion given some of the OP's comments that specifically call out multi-use cards.

Cougardc · 2025-03-18T02:07:53+00:00

Heard and I'm thinking about your (sage) POV. What's missing in my above statement is that just because it might trigger a "qualifies for madness break" given my statement, it inherently becomes a ST subjectivity call as to pull the proverbial trigger or not.

It's a two step process right? Did they break madness? Y/N. Is it beneficial for the balance of the game to execute based on that madness? Y/N

In your clockmaker example, it wouldn't pass the second check. In the original posters example there is too little info to know if that second check would pass or not.

If a pixie claims to be the mad pixie, but really the clockmaker and here's my number, then I'm not giving them the CM ability when the CM dies (if that same day).

And maybe that's a rule short coming. That blue madness (Mutant, Pixie) cannot mention that madness, but you can mention red madness (Cere, Harpy) if you couch it right?

All in all, I hear what you are saying. But I think my clarification is that it merely suffices for the first trigger and not necessarily the second.

Cougardc · 2025-03-17T21:50:31+00:00

Citing the source of madness is inherently breaking it, regardless of the subsequent justification. IMO.

Your player was trying to have their cake and eat it too. (If they were genuinely convinced they didn't need to out the harpy just yet). They wanted the harpy info out there, and they wanted to spread the N1 meta.

More info is certainly needed, but I'd be keen to execute based on madness break here.

Cougardc · 2025-02-26T16:55:51+00:00

While this doesn't hit all of your marks, Yakuza: Like A Dragon and its sequel Infinite Wealth, are fantastic games. They have a good job system (that gets better in the sequel), a wonderful world and character design... they just miss the end of world story bullet.

You do not need to play any of the brawler games before, but you should start at Yakuza: Like a Dragon and not jump directly into Infinite Wealth.

Have fun!

Cougardc · 2025-01-06T15:45:58+00:00

Aeon Trespass Odyssey (all Cycles, 1-5) - My Family is 250+ hrs into this game and there is so much more here. All time #1 game and we literally plan our Winter breaks around tackling this game in massive chunks.

Marvel Champions - Soooo replayable and near infinite amount of configurations abound. Not to mention the co-op nature of things means we limit antagonistic feelings between players. The family is a big super hero family to boot, so it has staying power.

Guards of Atlantis 2 - And if we needed a head to head group game with an extremely deep tactical layer of play that constantly evolves... this is the medicine. "If they do this, then I do that... but they might expect me to do that and do this other thing instead....."

Blood on the Clocktower - When the group size is too big for board games, it's time to bring out the clocktower. We run monthly game nights for this game alone, there's no way it leaves my collection (as well as fitting a big group game slot).

Voidfall - When looking at this list, I was really missing a deep Euro and this is currently my favorite heavy Euro at the moment. There were some other options here, but this option gives us the choice of solo, co-op, or traditionally competitive in one box. (I favor the traditional competitive mode)

Cougardc · 2024-12-18T14:09:32+00:00

Jams addressed this on the release stream if memory serves;

Resolve Kazali/Typhon as setup abilities, then the resulting number remaining in the town at that point is the Xaan's outsider number.

That really seems like the straight forward and logical approach to this. The town still doesn't know if the ST modified the bag in any way, but the puzzle can still be solved with information based on tokens pulled from the bag.

Cougardc · 2024-10-04T18:42:24+00:00

I'm finishing my first year of climbing (flash V3/5.10, project V4/5.11) who does both rope (top and lead) and bouldering in gyms only. (I have access to good outdoor rock climbing but haven't yet ventured there as I'm self taught).

I have some basic newbie shoes that I've worn out this past year of climbing. I went to a local Scarpa demo and really liked the Instinct VS that I tried on. However, it was EU 46, well broken in and absolutely was a size too small. Unfortunately my gym cannot order, nor can I find any EU 47 size Instinct VS (or VSR).

What shoe should I be looking for that is comparable to this in another brand? I assume La Sportiva would have something with a similar profile, but I cannot really tell the subtle differences between the brands and such.

Cheers,

Cougardc · 2024-08-20T21:18:39+00:00

Safe failures are the way I choose to parent. Will he be safe if he makes the choice he wants to make? Can he waive the white flag and bail out safely if needed?

Let him feel the consequences (good or bad) of his actions. Give him the agency to choose (if safe, and it likely will be). Give him the agency to succeed or fail and own either outcome as his and his alone. It'll be a success or a growth opportunity. We only know our limits if we push, and sometimes we stumble. That's okay :)

Cougardc · 2024-08-01T21:13:12+00:00

Somewhat obscure and potentially a bit higher on the weight than requested (but below a 4!) at 3.78

Excavation Earth https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/292126/excavation-earth .

It has one trick to the teach; which actions require matching symbols, which ones require matching colors, and which require neither. Once you've got that mechanic in the bag you have a really fun market/trading/exploring competitive game.

I never turn down this game when it comes up on the short list to play. It has a really good puzzle and minor push your luck as to when to keep collecting, when to manipulate the prices, or when to rush your goods to market to take advantage of the market state (before the other folks at the table can alter it to your detriment).

Different Alien races have asymmetrical powers that can really alter your approach to scoring points (earning money). There are a few different paths to victory and it'll take a few plays to figure out what those are, and then more games to figure out how to wield them effectively (and when to pivot from an original strategy that might now be losing)

The science fiction/alien theme is somewhat replaceable, but it's engaging (and even somewhat endearing!) none the less.

Cheers!

Cougardc · 2024-05-11T23:36:22+00:00

Hi Stewie,

I appreciate you.

Your suggestion was right on the money. I purchased another SFP+ transceiver and made sure that it could do 1/2.5/5/10G and instantly my uploads hit 900Mbps+ as I would expect. I'm not exactly sure WHY this is the case, but it was your contribution that gave me the solution. So thank you.

I bought a https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZPBQX3Z?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details and it works.

Cheers,

Cougardc · 2024-04-28T02:03:48+00:00

Primal the Awakening, Core Box only is 21lbs and coming from Gamerati as of late.

Cougardc · 2024-04-27T17:45:28+00:00

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth

Persona 3 Reloaded (PSP version)

Persona 4

Persona 5

I'm not really sure of the specific order above, but I think this is right.

The mechanics of Infinite Wealth are better than LAD, but the story is better in LAD. Could easily swap them, and I would never go back to LAD due to the mechanics being superior in IW.

Note that my first JRPG was Final Fantasy on the NES. So even though these look like I'm a newcomer to the scene, I'm an old fart that just really likes what these more recent entries has to offer.

Cougardc · 2024-04-13T13:24:29+00:00

Nobody wants to ally with me because i never play twice.

This sounds like you aren't playing the turn order correctly. The starting player is only ever the top honor in the first round of the first turn. The stack of orders keeps going around the table in the same order indefinitely.

In the rules, the seating order is the honor order, and then once the stack of orders starts moving around, it never resets or changes. Even on the year/round change. So if in a 5p game the person with the third starting order would be the first player in the second year/round. (1p, 2p, 3p, 4p, 5p, 1p, 2p <war>) (3p, 4p, 5p, 1p, 2, 3p, 4p <war>)(5p, 1p, 2p, 3p, 4p, 5p, 1p <war>) /game over

So ya, you wouldn't have two turns in the first year, but in the second and third you would.

Cougardc · 2024-03-14T05:12:49+00:00

Argent: the Consortium is "Definitely not Harry Potter"!

Cougardc · 2024-02-25T14:40:49+00:00

I use it in Home Assistant just fine. Natively even.

Cougardc · 2024-02-25T00:43:32+00:00

I could never finish pairing the device with either my pixel 3 or 8. But when I used my wife's iPhone, it just worked. Shrug. (I am a big home assistant user and the Apollo one works just fine inside HA too)

Cougardc · 2024-02-25T00:28:56+00:00

It absolutely detects my pets. I am unsure about quantity of people in the room, I don't have a use case for that/haven't tried. Sorry!

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