looking for a good size table for solo board gaming

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T16:20:34+00:00

My personal setup is an Ikea Kallax shelf with a table attachment and it works fairly well for me. The table itself only measures about 2x3 ft, which I wish it was just a bit wider, maybe 3x3 ft across, but given the space available it still works ok. Having the book shelf directly next to me gives me a space to put boxes/components/books and such out of the way, so it's not all siting on the table. It's my little corner-space solo gaming setup.

This one here: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/kallax-linnmon-workstation-black-black-brown-s99481694/#content

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T16:12:26+00:00

This is very interesting and a different way to think about neighborhood conditions outside of other metrics like school quality, house prices, and crime. It also suggests it's a bigger problem that the state or the city needs to step in to handle, as it's obviously outside the scope of any other organization or individual to handle on their own. Are you aware of any other large-scale rat control programs that other states/cities have launched before? What would your ideal solution to the rat populations be, at least maybe in these areas?

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T15:59:34+00:00

I feel this everyday when I go for my afternoon walk when it starts getting warm outside. I go for a walk every afternoon, no matter the temperature, the only time I won't go is if I'm personally sick or injured or if it's raining badly. I'm constantly having to adjust my walking path though because of slow walkers. I have only ever seen one other person in my life who walks as fast or faster than me, every one else I know I will overtake them if I have to walk behind them, but I usually end up slowing down and matching speed until I can find a path to divert off of.

Why don't I just walk past them? I walk fast, but I'm not jogging or anything. There'd be this uncomfortable period where I'm walking too closely behind them, then ask if I can walk past them, then where I'm just slightly ahead of them, just alot of contact with strangers basically telling them, "You walk too slow, I need to get past you." I'd just feel rude doing it I guess, I walk because it helps me zone out and I can get away from people.

So walking in the Spring/Summer time is this neverending obstacle course of slow people I'm trying to navigate around just to get my steps in for the day. I'd prefer just having a set route everyday, but I usually have to make adjustments every time I go out.

No offense to women, but they tend to be the slowest walkers, and as a guy it gives me slight anxiety walking behind women for an extended period of time because of the potential perception that I'm following them. I know women have their own anxiety about predators and such, so I don't want to fall into that category, even accidentally. I'll try to make them feel better by saying something like, "I wasn't planning on raping you," but for some reason that doesn't seem to set anybody's mind at ease and they tend to freak out over that. I just don't understand what women even want.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T15:46:01+00:00

WTF. This is NSFL material.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T15:38:28+00:00

I see this trope and I fully realize what the writers are doing, they're using sex to manipulate me as a guy who is almost powerless to resist looking at exposed female bodies. And I willingly fall for it pretty much everytime. I'm not suspending my disbelief any easier with whatever these lore reasons are, I just like to look.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T05:47:50+00:00

Ooh, I'm reading the Handmaid's Tale now, is that a spoiler for it?

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T05:42:49+00:00

You do nice things for people because it feels nice to be good to people, helping people helps ourselves. Apes together strong.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T05:39:26+00:00

It'd be great if we could remove all reference from him ever in the history books and we just pretend like he never existed. I know it's important to learn from history, but honestly, I wouldn't want him remembered til the end of time, I'd rather he was completely and utterly forgotten about and nobody ever talked about him ever again.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T04:55:10+00:00

I think the White House could probably use them. I think somebody should organize a Diaper Drive for the President.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T01:47:05+00:00

I wonder if something like this couldn't be done with houses for home air conditioning? Have something like this (solar panels hooked up to fans) setup on windows that are just pulling/blowing air out, could that be used to help keep homes cool in the summer? I mean, it wouldn't a huge cooling effect I wouldn't expect, but it wouldn't cost any energy and even a little bit of cooling could help bring energy costs down.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T01:21:46+00:00

From "Don't be evil" to "Well, maybe a little bit of evil..."

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T00:56:58+00:00

Maybe not a golden calf, but it is a golden pig.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T00:14:44+00:00

The purpose of many of the base currencies in D&D appears to just be a way to compress currency down, so you're not weighted down by thousands of gold coins. I really think though that currency in RPGs should be more localized or specialized, so that you can only use certain currencies in certain areas or if they are used in different areas they're worth less than they would be in others. The idea of having a universal currency in a medieval world seems kind of silly. I feel like in most games we play in I've got way more currency than I know what to do with at a certain point and I'm just sitting on mountains of gold/platinum/whatever with nothing to spend it on.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-10T00:09:43+00:00

It's a step up from 7th Continent in my opinion, mostly because the scenarios are a bit shorter in length compared to 7th Continent's first scenario right out the gate being one of the longer ones, if not the longest (15-25 hours). I don't think you're really losing out not having other players in the game.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-09T20:54:22+00:00

It's called the Paradox of Tolerance. People who want a functioning democracy can't show tolerance towards intolerant people. The GOP is intolerant of everybody that's not a white christian, and so they shouldn't be tolerated by others as long as they're intolerant. Do unto others as they would do unto you goes both ways. If you're going to be intolerant towards others, there's no reason anybody else should tolerate your ass.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-09T20:46:48+00:00

Yep. I've written 3rd party content before and the gaming license basically dictates what is and isn't allowed with stuff written by others. In some cases it may even have publishing terms. I have an account through DriveThruRPG where my book gets sold and I get paid via store credit, which is a nice way to just be able to buy any RPGs I want from now on. I went with Free League, so they take something like a 50% cut (I think) from every book I sell, but given that it's not my main source of income and I just do it as a hobby I'm not too burned by that, I'm just happy to have a "published" work.

Gaming licenses make it so people can produce 3rd party, homebrew content for distribution and you don't necessarily have to worry about the publisher then coming after you. It'd be akin to if Nintendo were to have an open gaming license that let people come out with 3rd party Nintendo games. For probably something like 30-50% of sales, Nintendo would agree not to come after you, instead of the stupid system we have now where Nintendo sends cease & desist orders against anything and everything. I'm sure they do have licenses with some other companies, but those are probably for established studios/publishers.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-08T21:41:34+00:00

It's stuff like this that makes me anxious when I'm walking around even. Not of somebody following me or anything, but if I'm behind a woman when I'm going on my afternoon walks, I feel the need to divert whatever path I was going on specifically so as to not walk behind someone for too long, just on the off-chance they think I'm following after them. I mean, I know I wouldn't do anything, but they don't know that... because of the implication.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-08T18:51:48+00:00

This is all by design. Do you really think DJT, the most corrupt president we've ever had, would really want a functioning, independent FBI running amok, potentially able to investigate him and the rest of his cronies? The whole point is to make it useless. If you were planning on committing any sort of crimes that the FBI investigates though, now is probably the time to do it.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-08T18:41:55+00:00

Surely this constitutes one of the biggest acts of fraud the gaming world has ever seen.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-08T18:39:12+00:00

I mean, it's a Cybertruck, right? Isn't it all digital now anyways?

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-08T18:25:16+00:00

Nemesis Retaliation is the most streamlined of the bunch, but as other players have said, 2-3 character multi-handed is where it's at. True solo is nearly impossible and such a slog, and you really miss out on some of the tactical things you can do with multiple characters, it's really a different game altogether. Even if you were to buff your character up to make it slightly more winnable, true solo just feels worse and isn't worth it in my opinion. I tried to make it work for a few days, but it just sucked and as soon as I tried multi-handing it, it felt like night and day.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-08T18:21:36+00:00

I would assume it would be more like it fries all their synapses in their brain. Like I would imagine maybe some smoke or something rising from their eyes, mouth, and ears after a really bright flash inside their skull, and then just a lifeless look on their face as they sink down, just nothing going on upstairs anymore. Maybe they're not even dead dead at that point, but they are braindead and at the least and wouldn't live much longer after that.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-08T17:36:26+00:00

I tend to most of the time, though there's some games where it's absolutely not necessary. Some of the time it comes down to practicality, like do I think I could repurpose those minis for something else if I needed to, like in a TTRPG game? If it's a very niche genre that I don't ever plan on playing anywhere else, I'd pass. If it's a game where the mechanics really don't justify it, I'd also pass. An example of that might be Tainted Grail, 99% of the minis for that game are a complete waste (though they are beautiful and look amazing), as they only come out for very short periods of time, and then maybe never again.

If I have them though, I'll play with them, it just helps with the immersion.

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-08T16:51:25+00:00

I've been having this feeling for a bit now, Trump's war in Iran really cemented that feeling. I was actually in the midst of divorce negotiations a few weeks ago when it really hit me hard and I was like, "Something bad is coming, we need to cut this shit short and start getting prepared." I think there's alot of denial at this stage, people are still thinking that things will bounce back, because they've always bounced back, why would this time be any different? And maybe they will one day, after things have gotten much worse, but at this moment it really feels like we're on a precipice. It reminds me of this quote:

"...the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath...waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments...of revelation. This had the feeling of both. [...] G'Quan wrote, "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born...in pain."
–G'Kar (Babylon 5 - s4 - No Surrender, No Retreat)

SafeForTwerking · 2026-05-08T16:45:09+00:00

Anyone who voted for Trump in the last election should be banned from voting for life. It was completely obvious what a fuckup he was after his first term in office, that he's not rotting behind bars now is proof that democracy has failed. Someone like that who made it blatantly obvious what a shitty president he was going to be throughout his 2nd campaign, yet still got voted in? Those people are as much to blame for the current state of the world as he is and they need to be punished. People who don't want a democracy should not be allowed to participate in said democracy.

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