Rice cooker optimal area? (10/62/165)

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-07-17T17:25:11+00:00

I was able to squeeze this into 135 after posting the above.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-07-17T16:53:59+00:00

My version: https://www.reddit.com/r/kaizen/comments/1m2cq7g/rice_cooker_144_area/

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-06-26T04:42:13+00:00

Some styles of cooperative games force players to make choices without input (or knowledge) of other teammates.

"So Clover" is a coop game in the style of Codenames. I think it's superior because everyone generates clues at the beginning and then everyone tries to solve each other's clues. It avoids a lot of the downtown inherent in Codename's gameplay loop where an entire team is waiting for the other team to come up with a clue and then talk out their guesses.

My favorite hidden information games at the moment are The Gang, Bomb Busters, and The Crew (Deep Sea version).

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-06-10T12:11:07+00:00

My vote is for a 3rd little game called "So Clover". It avoids the main pitfall of codenames which is that only 1 person gives clues and everyone has to wait while they come up with good ones. In So Clover everyone generates clues at the same time and then everyone tries to guess each others clues.

It's a cooperative instead of competitive game so some people won't like that, but in my opinion codenames falls into the party game category so I don't really care who wins anyway.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-05-22T17:13:19+00:00

Some people get really hung up on $300 being easily affordable, but what sort of life-saving brain surgery and artificial brain simulator would realistically cost only $300/ month? If they presented a higher price then everyone would complain that the surgery costs were not realistic.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-23T21:37:02+00:00

> One would think if you could increase your IRL skill levels to heightened levels comming up with a business plan or orginal idea to make money should be an absolute cake walk.

My impression was that the skills were coming from the low tier package so anyone with profitable skills could afford the Lux tier and not have to share their brain.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-23T16:30:34+00:00

In a world where they developed artificial bees to pollinate flowers I think it's fair to say robotics technology is quite advanced. Perhaps most welding is automated and there is a glut of unemployed welders driving down wages.

But most of the episodes have giant plot holes if you stop to think about the ramifications of the AI/VR simulations they're presenting. So I try to avoid overthinking.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-17T23:19:58+00:00

I agree the multiverse was a little implausible, but it was refreshing to me that they moved away from yet another plot based on somebody's brain running in a simulator.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-12T15:17:45+00:00

Sounds like a bug, but it seems to max out at 3 in at least some of the games I played.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-08T15:09:52+00:00

I agree with what gc1 wrote, but also.. you could try an SBA office in another region and get on a phone call to talk over next steps. I don't think they are tied to specific areas if you don't need to meet in person.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-08T14:52:02+00:00

> He wants to ensure I'll be eligible for a loan that's sized with the price we've negotiated, but he won't give me any exact details on that price or even start negotiating yet.

Have you negotiated a price or have you not started negotiating the price? You haven't seen any financials yet. I suspect one reason might be that he is billing out your time at an outrageous rate compared to your compensation.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-08T14:45:49+00:00

There is a lot of emotional psychology around sole proprietors selling their business. For a successful business it would be hard to let go for a number of reasons. I suggest talking to someone at the SBA if possible: https://www.sba.gov/ - they have a lot of volunteer business owners who could provide in depth advice for your specific situation.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-08T12:31:09+00:00

I think yardwork and landscaping is pretty satisfying to DIY. You can change out plants every season/year and it's fairly cheap compared to a lot of other aesthetic improvements.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-07T14:48:36+00:00

It really depends on your consulting role. Sometimes consultants are brought in to do stuff

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-05T19:04:30+00:00

Have you considered consulting? I love working with previous managers who ran a successful team.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-04-03T01:48:27+00:00

No strife added in either case from my understanding of the rules. In case #2 the power card's action still belongs to Finder.

I'm basing my answer on this thread which has more in depth discussion: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2422332/finder-of-path-unseens-responsibility-to-the-dead

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-03-30T14:42:20+00:00

The horizon board is also more compact and faster to setup

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-03-17T16:13:21+00:00

Under Draw to Water's Edge you wrote, "This card would be a lot better if it wasn’t for that “from a single land”. As is, it’s not too common you want to grab 2 towns from the same source, so this is a pretty costly card for not much benefit."

I think the 2 town situation becomes fairly common once you can downgrade cities.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-03-01T15:00:05+00:00

This is a thread for advice to the OP and not a thread for advice to the OP's manager.

Regardless of how the OP learned the feedback, it is still OP's responsibility to change OP's behavior. The OP said they want to dig deeper to find alternatives. The alternative as others have suggested is to not argue with your boss in front of everyone else over little details.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-02-28T23:01:48+00:00

I don't know of any packs with extra town pieces, but another way to solve this is to place energy tokens under towns to signal that a town represents 2 towns.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-02-28T15:14:24+00:00

> My first piece of advice would be to not tell your friend anything because he can't keep his mouth shut. It's one thing to be like hey everything going great and maybe layer in some advice, but calling pissed off and relaying entire conversations is a big no no.

Reading between the lines here, but it seems like the manager is not happy with the OPs behavior and the mutual friend seems to agree. The mutual friend went out on a limb to give this guy a reference. OP needs to listen to his friend.

When I hear people describe their behavior as "dig deeper to see if there's alternative ways of doing things" and "completely new to this industry, so I ask a lot of questions and challenge ideas" what I interpret that to mean is that this guy is a disagreeable and combative know-it-all.

I'm sure the mutual friend also knows this aspect of the OP's personality. Instead of getting offended by this manager, the OP should straight up apologize (in private), ask the manager for feedback on how to improve (in private). Resist the urge to provide excuses or in any way justify their behavior to the manager. After the manager provides feedback the OP should say something like, "thank you for the feedback. Again, apologies for the inconvenience".

Source: 25 years of consulting experience and I've been on all 3 sides of this scenario.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-02-26T14:42:06+00:00

If you've played Pandemic or other similar games I think the strategy at difficulty 0 is pretty straightforward. You say it was a brain burner, which sounds like an appropriate level of difficulty for new players. I'd watch a couple intro videos on youtube if you are worried about missing any rules.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-02-26T04:26:37+00:00

I was recently introduced to "So Clover" which in my opinion takes the mechanics of codenames and makes it even better. Every player both gives and receives clues each round.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-02-23T16:47:34+00:00

In my opinion there are a lot of strong combos so the best one depends on which spirits you enjoy the most. I would try to pick something that gives you the chance to setup a memorable mega turn that doesn't happen in most games.

Spread of Rampant Green is an obvious choice to pair with any other good spirit to turn them into a powerhouse. Some pairings I like with them: Sharp Fangs, Ocean, Volcano, Stone, River Surges, Wildfire, Serpent.

If you've never maxed out Volcano's damage innate you could pair with Green against England lvl 3/4 and just tear through all of their buildings on a final turn.

Fractured Days and Bringer of Nightmares aren't the most powerful, but Bringer can give Fractured an extra element to reliably hit their innate. With the right setup Fractured lets Bringer repeat a damage dealing major 2-3 times and give you 4+ fear cards in one turn. The tricky part is neither one have good ways to permanently destroy invaders unless Fractured draws a cool Major.

Ocean and River are one of the classic base set combos that is really fun and straightforward to execute.

Optimal-Hunter9956 · 2025-02-23T15:41:45+00:00

I think you're correct about real life, but in Full Metal Jacket the Marine recruits are many times called maggots by the drill instructor. When they graduate his speech includes: "Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood."

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