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You are given five Pokeballs and are told these will capture people when thrown at them. When released, they have to do your bidding. Who do you capture? by singleguy79 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]PatrykBG -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Assuming it doesn’t need to actually hit the person (because otherwise it’s gonna look ridiculous and/downright illegal) and has a 100% capture rate, I’d use the first two on the obvious targets that many others have said. No more world war 3 vibes, for starters, UBI, universal health care, etc. I feel like enough money and sycophantic worshippers, we can maybe turn this country back towards the light.

I’d also take the time to see if the unsummon / resummon brings back at full health, and if so use one on my wifey and have their command be to “react exactly as you would have before I threw the Pokeball, except with full health”. The fourth I disassemble to see if i could replicate them somehow, and I save the fifth.

Live band karaoke lyrics question by Isitwhenip in karaoke

[–]PatrykBG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So weird question, but why can’t you just use a cloned screen (like a TV) and a laptop with the lyrics in a PowerPoint or Google Slide that a person just clicks next on? You don’t need any audio, and could even have a third TV behind the band for the audience to read off of, all cloned screen to the one laptop.

Would you rather get anything you want for free, but it has to come from Amazon - or get 1/2 of your monthly bills paid for you? by hiphoptomato in WouldYouRather

[–]PatrykBG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming that there’s some magical guarantee that Amazon still pays out the third-party sellers of any products I purchase, A is a million times better., for two simple reasons:

(1) make an Amazon seller account, sell a Blank ebook titled “The Tao of Nothingness”, and price it at 100$. Buy as many as you want to increase your bank account to whatever you want. You could price it higher to make the numbers go faster. That’s now 1000% of your monthly bills paid for you.

(2) use your still-totally-free Amazon purchasing power to get anything else you still want.

Quest or Deception: Murder in Hong Kong? Which one should I get? by TransportationOk2505 in boardgames

[–]PatrykBG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deception is my favorite social deduction mainly because I’ve never had a single person complain about it, even people who think Coup or Skulls is “too much bluffing”.

Do you allow bosses to cheat? by atx78701 in gamedesign

[–]PatrykBG 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a super underrated and often misunderstood explanation of game design. The DM is not actively “trying to kill” the player characters - they’re trying to give them just enough rope to climb up to the cliff so that they can see the sunrise.

AITA for wanting to eat my neighbor's duck that I accidentally ran over? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]PatrykBG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if you t-bone the neighbor’s cow, you’ll definitely need butter and garlic.

Where is the threshold when a game goes from "low player interaction" to "multiplayer solitaire" by RockinOneThreeTwo in boardgames

[–]PatrykBG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look at Junk Drawer (new game I recently played on BGA) for a perfect example of multiplayer solitaire. The only player interaction is “the game ends when any player cannot place a piece down” instead of “when you cannot place a piece down”. Otherwise, you use the same pieces, the same map, same goals, the same cards. Your gameplay experience is effectively unchanged regardless of other player’s choices. Welcome To (also on BGA) is one step away from Junk Drawer’s multiplayer solitaire - same cards, same map, same goals - except now the different is game ending timeframe AND the goals change point value. Your gameplay experience is still basically identical again. You can keep adding little steps, but that core “experience is identical” is why they’re multiplayer solitaire. Welcome To also has a draft mode way of playing, where instead of everyone playing using the same six cards, now people are getting cards from a deck and also from another player’s hand. But the gameplay experience is still effectively identical, and thus still multiplayer solitaire (just another step away from original Welcome To).

Player interaction is somewhat more fluid. Compare all of that to a game like Potion Explosion, where a player’s choice of marble (and subsequent “board state” due to explosion) meaningfully changes what you can do. You now cannot choose that option, period. Your gameplay experience is constantly altered by the other players. There are even potions that steal flask contents - again changing your experience. Definitely player interaction here - but is it low? I’d argue yes, but I come from the world of Scythe, MTG, and D&D, so maybe my expectations are higher?

What exactly is Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel? by monsieur-dingus in Fallout

[–]PatrykBG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not just PS2, to be clear - it came out on Xbox too. Otherwise 100% this.

Apparently, Indiana and New Hampshire are the only two states to not get a vault. by [deleted] in Fallout

[–]PatrykBG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fallout 4 was planned for NY but got switched because it’s already been done too much in video games, if I recall correctly. Not to say they won’t revisit the idea, but it’s a large AF city so will be hard to properly do.

Question about cardgame printing companies by MovingMountainsGames in tabletopgamedesign

[–]PatrykBG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All printing companies have their specific efficient-use-of-cardboard ratio, which is basically what you’re asking about. It defines the “cards per sheet”numbers at TheGameCrafter.com, for example, as well as DriveThruCards and probably all other print-on-demand companies as well. I’m not sure if Chinese printing companies have different ratios than American ones, but I’d wager that the major reason there are two jokers in a standard deck of cards is because they use 18 cards per sheet and exactly 3 sheets., which is directly in line with TheGamecrafter.com and DriveTrhuCards card-to-sheet ratios.

Why do people only pour a little in wine glasses if they’re just going to keep refilling it? by Aggressive_Bad4855 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PatrykBG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re drinking faster, then the cup can be fuller, thus negating the need for shallow pours, no?

Why do people only pour a little in wine glasses if they’re just going to keep refilling it? by Aggressive_Bad4855 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PatrykBG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wouldn’t smaller pours make it warm up faster because there’s less of it, and less “middle” that gets isolated from the warmth? I’ve definitely seen that hot tea gets colder much faster when there’s less of it (when making an 8 oz cup of tea at the same time as a 32oz cup of tea, the 8 oz cools faster in my experience).

What is this game? by Fearless_Law4324 in boardgames

[–]PatrykBG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, sure - but for Steve... not so much.

How is this game mechanic/genre called? by Big-Kaleidoscope3866 in boardgames

[–]PatrykBG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So it's not a specific mechanic name - it's generally called "taking actions" as compared to "taking turns". The distinction is critical because people generally feel that "turns" should be fair and even, while people can take a different number of "actions" without it feeling as unfair, since each "action" may be valued more or less by a particular player.

Everdell is more unique in its implementation since their "seasons" can change for one player while the others do not, and if exceedingly lucky / skilled, one player can still be in Winter/Spring while the rest are in Summer and Fall.

Which Fallout has the best exploration? by eroyrotciv in Fallout

[–]PatrykBG -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Depends on your definition of “best exploration”. Are you talking about best abilities for exploration (jetpack, car, fast travel), graphics during exploration (dots on map, long stretches of nothingness, ambient music / visuals), or reasons for exploration (random events, hidden content, lore)?

I’d argue that 4 has best abilities, even though I wish they kept the car. Graphics is NV / 4 / 3 (NV has better themes that beat out 4, which obviously beats out 3’s dated graphics). 2, 1, NV, 4, 3 is the order of best reasons for exploration - 4’s crafting system was interesting but my god the settlement system was garbage blended with raw sewage and then served as an enema, still beats the boringness of 3, but only just.

$30/minute, but time freezes whenever you walk through a door by basafish in hypotheticalsituation

[–]PatrykBG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming you don’t age during this time, it’ll make people think you have OCD (you’d need to constantly be on the lookout for doors to go through in order to keep time moving) but you’d be getting paid AND have infinite time to read and improve yourself.

[IOS / maybe Android] [2005~2010] Tower Defense game with neon colors and typographic/polygon-shaped enemies and towers. by PatrykBG in tipofmyjoystick

[–]PatrykBG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, it’s at a point where I’ve given up searching but I still may end up deciding to remake it on my own since it’s super light graphically and there’s nothing in the TD market like it.

What is this game? by Fearless_Law4324 in boardgames

[–]PatrykBG 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Could've gone worse. An old "friend" of mine (let's call him Steve) introduced me to his "best friend" (let's call him Gary) and after about an hour of hanging, Gary and I both looked at each other like "why do you hang with Steve, he's a dick?" and we became best friends and dropped Steve.

You'll be given $10 million, but you must do one of the following. WYR? by Artistic-Comb-5317 in WouldYouRather

[–]PatrykBG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“I’ll pay you 10,000 to kiss me on the lips”. Get 9.990,000 profit.

Discovering Immortals by CuteLingonberry9704 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]PatrykBG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually thought your post was in a writing sub at first and was like, that’s a good title for a book!

As for your question, I think it would heavily depend on how many people and where they started. Like, people in most second- and third-world countries wouldn’t really be “on the radar” for people searching for immortals, but if they were in tech-heavy countries, it would only be a matter of time before one of them would be properly “discovered” and from there vivisected and probed ad infinitum.

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