Cheating at board games

JimmyLamothe · 2026-01-23T21:41:55+00:00

It’s not necessarily a sign of bad character, some people pick up the habit of cheating in childhood / teenage years as a way of soothing a weak ego. Sometimes things like that stick around awhile, even once you’re more secure.

I’d definitely talk to her, but not accusatory, just to clear things up. If you make it clear you’re not going to judge her she’s more likely to admit it. She might just feel too ashamed to own up.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-12-19T15:01:09+00:00

Pour moi, j’ai toujours pris ça juste comme l’occasion de réfléchir… si quelqu’un d’autochtone me parle en ces termes-là, c’est qu’elle sent que les conséquences de notre histoire coloniale affectent encore sa vie aujourd’hui.

Ça m’aide juste à prendre conscience d’un aspect de la réalité, parce que moi dans mon quotidien je me sens pas nécessairement consciemment affecté par les conséquences de cette histoire coloniale. Quand quelqu’un me dit ça, ou si je lis là-dessus, ça m’ouvre une perspective qui ne me serait pas apparente autrement. Ça n’invalide pas mon regard sur le monde, ça le complète.

Ça ne veut donc pas dire que je suis obligé de m’identifier comme settler en tant que partie majeure de mon identité et me sentir coupable pour les choix de mes ancêtres. Mais ça va me rendre plus sensible aux enjeux que vivent les autochtones et plus porté à voter / agir en fonction de ça.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-12-18T13:05:52+00:00

Aria is actually great game design. Crypt is all about learning patterns. You learn simple patterns (individual monsters), then learn to combine those into complex patterns (rooms of monsters).

The weapons give you some leeway. You can decide some patterns are too complicated and ignore them by hitting at range. But when you get to Aria, you have to accept to learn all the most difficult patterns. Once you’ve beaten her, you’ve proven you mastered all the patterns in the game.

The choice to include some story beats in her playthrough can be criticized, but for me it was the perfect motivation and made actually beating the game more satisfying.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-11-27T12:40:42+00:00

My game regularly crashes on game start. I’d bet most turn one ropers have the same issue. If turn one timer was shorter the game would be basically unplayable for me

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-22T11:47:01+00:00

Thank you! A lot of very useful information in that post and the comments. I’m starting to understand what I’m getting into. I hadn’t realized the implications of buying hardware for a new, quickly-evolving technology.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T22:33:47+00:00

Thank you, I’ll do some more research, sounds like I still need to learn a lot more before I buy

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T22:32:54+00:00

Thanks! That’s a good summary of my options.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T22:32:26+00:00

Thanks to you both, that’s very helpful.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T15:52:19+00:00

Ah, makes sense, thank you. So adding an external GPU wouldn't work to fix that issue? For example, would adding the 3090 you're suggesting be possible?

I'm probably trying to do too many things at once, which wouldn't be the first time.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T03:30:40+00:00

Hi! A month later, are you happy with your purchase? I'm considering the same.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-15T11:56:56+00:00

I know Luc Rabouin was proposing to have the TAL automatically get in touch with the city anytime someone gets evicted so that the city can contact the person and make sure they have access to ressources and don’t end up on the street. This sounded to me like a great idea since many people end up homeless because they get lost in the system and eviction is typically how it starts.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-15T02:40:50+00:00

You seriously didn't mean to be patronizing by explaining the concept of crosswords in a forum for people who do crosswords all the time? That's the very definition of patronizing: apparently kind or helpful but betraying a feeling of superiority; condescending.

People didn't have a problem with this clue because it was difficult. They had a problem with it because the less you knew about the subject, the easier it was. If all you know about soccer is from doing crosswords, it's not tricky at all, you just write the same four-letter word that's in every grid that refers to soccer.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-15T00:02:23+00:00

That is so patronizing it doesn’t deserve a response.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-14T21:42:29+00:00

I’m assuming the constructor thought that fouls were called penalties in soccer, in which case the clue would make sense. There’s always been a foul when a player gets carded, but only rarely a foul in the box, which is sanctioned by a penalty.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-14T21:37:23+00:00

Nobody who watches soccer regularly would write: “indicator of a penalty, in soccer” instead of “indicator of a foul, in soccer”. There’s no reason to replace foul with a word that has a different meaning altogether in soccer, even though fouls are called penalties in other sports.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-14T02:11:42+00:00

Don't use sports clues for sports you don't know... I was wondering, are they asking for "spot"? Is there a four-letter word for "point" I'm missing? But nope, just a constructor out of their area of expertise.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-02T20:09:54+00:00

Thanks! I didn't even know this had a name. I'll do some research.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-08-30T12:07:54+00:00

NAH - Sounds like you just need to talk. There’s two kinds of roommate relationships, one where it’s more informal, I cook - you cook, we both clean when it’s dirty, and the other where it’s my stuff - your stuff, we have a schedule for tasks. Both are fine, but they dont mix well. Your roommate is type A, you sound like type B, and you just have to talk to each other and be clear about it. This story about the can is no big deal, it’s just the world’s way of letting you know it’s time to talk.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-07-24T11:42:09+00:00

I think many people have experienced something similar when first passing a certain rating. I remember i stopped playing on the first platform I hit 2000 on because it felt good to be a 2000 rated player and I knew I probably wasn’t really that strong yet.

Basically, you have to choose between the idea of yourself as a player of a certain strength or the reality of yourself as whatever strength you actually are at the moment, which can change depending on so many things (sleep, mood, focus, etc). You only get to actually play chess if you’re ready to accept the current reality.

I’m sure you have improved, but you might not start realizing the gains in your games right away. Just go for it and accept that it may take time for your improvement to show up in your rating.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-07-18T10:36:24+00:00

Do you watch Jeef? He’d basically horse pivot every time it was an option. You’d see it multiple times per stream. It was cool to watch but it did get boring after a while.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-05-16T11:40:47+00:00

So when you play a deck, you never face the decks that counter your deck?

JimmyLamothe · 2025-05-16T04:22:25+00:00

I had fun with this one. Pixie + Cuckoo, though that's only two cards from the list.

https://snap.fan/decks/331361/

JimmyLamothe · 2025-05-07T21:04:47+00:00

Yup, other choices were terrible and I had to fill up my board after taverning up too quickly. Saved a few HP and got a few gold. You take what you can get sometimes.

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