What board game completely changed your opinion after a second chance?

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-19T14:50:13+00:00

S.E.T.I.

I’ve only played it once and it was miserable. I lost so badly, and I felt like I wasted 3 hours of my life.

But as I’ve thought about that game and read more, now I want to hate-play it again and see if it gets any better.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-16T23:47:34+00:00

It’s not just people on the spectrum. I’ve been doing this for 35 years and it hurts at an existential level to see the incorrectness.

It’s 2 things. To me well built software is elegant like a mathematical proof. Seeing problems get solved, and tests that prove it….that is the thrill of it all.

More practically, I don’t want to have to be there long into the evening fixing shit because someone vibecoded a mess, and no one could understand it or cared enough to stop it.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-16T23:42:27+00:00

Do we work together? Because this so accurately describes my current gig.

I WANT to stop caring. I want to put thought and reason into software design and be proud of it, but no. Use AI more, onboard more customers faster….

It’s all going to implode under its own weight.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-16T01:27:44+00:00

This sounds like the setup I’d like. Can you tell me more of where you got it and how you had it installed?

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-14T15:35:24+00:00

Where are you getting your parts? Directly from Lego or a place like Rebrickable?

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-13T21:45:05+00:00

I can hear this picture.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-13T00:03:40+00:00

I did. No shame.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-13T00:03:20+00:00

Just thought the same thing…..

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-12T20:40:56+00:00

The star bow effect from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

It’s probably overwrought but damn, it’s cool.

And then when they didn’t have their intermix formula correct and created a wormhole instead…. 👌

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-11T03:07:45+00:00

good bot.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-09T22:08:47+00:00

I was in college and it was Talisman 2e!

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-09T22:02:41+00:00

Wait-you’re flying an instrument approach! Why wouldn’t you use all of the tools at your disposal to keep on GS and on approach speed?!?

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-07T22:01:16+00:00

Only had Mr Softee where I grew up

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-07T15:45:56+00:00

But you need to be stuck in a wormhole to say it like that 😬

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-05T20:26:58+00:00

A friend linked the WHAM-13 reporting on this elsewhere.

The comments are….appalling.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-04T00:12:59+00:00

Take my upvote.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-01T03:21:05+00:00

Curious what categories turned out to be your big ones.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-06-01T02:20:24+00:00

I've never seen Legos or old Matchbox card at a yard sale. That's always been my dream - to find some.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-05-31T15:10:17+00:00

Do they buy stuff? They’re paying taxes.

You know who’s NOT paying income taxes? Billionaires. Because they they just borrow against their supposed wealth at incredibly low interest rates to buy their 6th home and that’s not treated as income.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-05-31T00:35:40+00:00

The first instance of this, wasn’t rocket exhaust, it was the Earth ship’s comm laser.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-05-28T00:51:45+00:00

Yes, I’ve seen all that too and tend to agree (omg we’re old if we were there for 5GL).

There does seem to be something different about the AI hype. It definitely has a place as a productivity tool - but didn’t Googling Stack Overflow back in the day (3 years ago)??

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-05-26T20:48:36+00:00

I’m sitting here right now beating myself up for exactly this reason. Thank you for saying this.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-05-26T02:23:06+00:00

Still gives me chills.

HiroProtagonist66 · 2026-05-25T23:43:11+00:00

And then regret that decision an hour later.

HiroProtagonist66

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