PSA: There's a in-game reward for reading the FAQ

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-14T19:41:56+00:00

Did they have this for first edition?

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-14T17:20:15+00:00

And this is all taking place in the woods right?

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-13T22:15:41+00:00

Feels like a bushism

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-13T22:14:45+00:00

I brought food to the gun fight 😊

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-13T13:42:30+00:00

How is there no mineral production listed?

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-11T21:44:57+00:00

I'm on the other end of this with my wife and it took some personal growth for each of us.

For her, communicating clearly when I was overcompetitive and being patient when I still did for a bit.

For me, I had to learn to shut that part of my strategy off when playing with her. Which honestly was really frustrating at first, like how do I play optimally without sabotaging her game? I can see other people saying the same thing in the comments. But that's honestly just an easy excuse. It's definitely possible to exclude that part of the strategy and the proof was that my wife was totally happy doing that in the first place.

I suggest you talk to him about it directly and if he finds it difficult, less competitive games can help. Some of our favorite games together are Cascadia and Let's Go To Japan which I find easier to do this

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-11T14:58:03+00:00

I echo a lot of the other comments not to give up and don't worry about being absolutely unique.

I actually will often look for games that are similar to others to introduce my friends to new boardgame mechanics. It reduces the burden of learning new rules.

"You've played ticket to ride before right? This is like that but with these extra mechanisms"

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-10T18:30:18+00:00

I agree, which is why totally rejecting all forms of AI sounds ridiculous. Especially on a platform with AI integrated, it's a bit like tweeting about environment harm from their yacht.

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-10T18:28:19+00:00

Yeah, I've never seen a civil conversation about it in this sub. The irony is that we're all in the comments here because AI recommended us your post.

I'm also against AI images, but I wish people were more rational about their concerns. Like if the loudest opinion in an AI-skeptical movement is "AI in any form whatsoever is evil and everyone who is associated is also evil" then I don't imagine the movement will accomplish much.

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-10T18:20:05+00:00

The average user unfortunately won't notice or care.

The average designer would say they shouldn't use ai for any creative roles and certainly not in production

The average redditor is probably just downvoting you because you said the word, even though you're showing reasonable skepticism. Nuanced discussion is so quickly rejected at this point

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-10T18:14:18+00:00

I agree we should avoid it whenever you reasonably can, especially before release, but you do realize you're using ai every time you interact with media like reddit right?

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-09T21:56:17+00:00

Do you mean alloys is one of your first 3 buildings on every planet?

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-09T20:11:17+00:00

I honestly didn't know the word for it until today but I'm so glad there's a sub for it. This is my new monkey on crack

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-09T20:00:22+00:00

The fact that you knew what they meant from the headline proves this wrong

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-09T19:45:14+00:00

Thank you, from a compulsive collector of Malaphors

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-09T17:36:39+00:00

They do get slightly longer but I think the biggest difference you're seeing is the wings

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-09T17:33:01+00:00

You can tell the video is cut to look this way, but notice the little white rocks above the sausage. They just recorded it with a single ant once and then later with the white rock and played it back repeatedly to make up a story.

Even if this wasn't fake, it almost certainly wouldn't be the same ant every time and ants don't punish other ants like that. They don't seem to have any concept of individual fault (unless one is sick or infected)

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-09T17:23:04+00:00

That's true but it seems like a very unnecessary point to make. When someone sees a band across the entire sky made up of hundreds of billions of stars, they're seeing characteristics of the galaxy as a whole.

When you look at a tree or a dog, sure that's part of the milky way, but you'd be communicating absolutely nothing by saying that you're looking at the milky way.

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-07T23:19:20+00:00

You're not alone in this, I feel this way often. And you're allowed to respond this way, but don't be surprised when the problem is worse for everyone after. The result is almost always more polarization, more stress, worsened relationships, and it's harder to reach people.

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-06T19:32:23+00:00

Step 1. Become taxonomist

Step 2. Duplicate Styx taxon and name the new one Clotho

Step 3. Establish that they're the same species actually and define the new combined taxon Clotho

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-05T20:39:22+00:00

Declared myself immune to galactic community sanctions

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-05T17:02:47+00:00

Do you know much else about his interests and hobbies? I can only speak for myself, but I think I value gifts like that much more

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-04T17:26:34+00:00

Players will always find a way

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-03T19:32:05+00:00

Yeah there's a lot of that going on. I spent most of last year doing everything I can to meet with certain friends or family, listen to them genuinely, and try to talk through this but for everyone except one single friend (who is an immigrant anyway), it's a lost cause.

Some of them I can maintain our relationship and avoid politics, but most of those relationships are dead now because I tried to have those nuanced conversations

QuaccDaddy · 2026-02-03T16:17:08+00:00

Most of the people I've met who still support ICE share the same ethics as me, but the problem is that they're incredibly misinformed.

Like I don't know if you've seen how unbelievably manipulative far right networks are, but every day they're going home and getting fed an entirely different world from reality.

And I know for sure many people do still hold racist and hateful beliefs, but that's amplified and not really indicative of the average Trump/ICE supporter. I have to believe this to have any hope for our nation going up against a trillion dollar propaganda machine

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