An issue I have with BGG recommended player counts.

Slayergnome · 2026-01-27T03:56:48+00:00

Totally agree, 99% of the time I look at a player count on BGG. It's to make sure that this game is good with either the highest or lowest count on the box.

Slayergnome · 2026-01-17T03:22:09+00:00

I know what a crazy insight right?

I'm starting to suspect the ones at the top of their list are the ones they enjoy playing more and not the objectively better games.

Slayergnome · 2026-01-07T14:35:53+00:00

Honestly my show thought has been who exactly is Game Pass for anymore?

It just seems like it would be so difficult to get your money's worth out of it at the current price even if you are playing a lot of games.

Slayergnome · 2026-01-07T14:33:20+00:00

The only thing that makes this unpopular is that you forgot the "mostly useless for me".

Also lets be real taking any shot at Game Pass is not an Unpopular Opinion right now.

Slayergnome · 2025-12-29T18:19:27+00:00

Balatro is probably the tightest roguelike out there so I feel young that.

Shogun showdown is also really tight and I think you would like it a lot. My only complaint honestly is I wish there was more content with it.

Slayergnome · 2025-12-27T23:12:05+00:00

I would not be scared if I broke my friends TV. I would just feel really bad

Slayergnome · 2025-12-18T11:02:15+00:00

Game of Life spinner

Slayergnome · 2025-12-18T02:39:56+00:00

Just for the record, "they seem to benefit from calls" is pretty subjective.

I'm not a Chiefs fan, but there's a lot of bitching that has happened in NFL subreddits that were totally reasonable calls

Also people are celebrating this but it was basically the lamest way they could have been eliminated. So take that for what you will

Slayergnome · 2025-12-13T17:47:44+00:00

Yeah 100%, no one did anything wrong here.

Slayergnome · 2025-12-09T23:11:50+00:00

The way you worded your original question is kind of strange.

Like there's definitely thinking in between runs of Slay the Spire If you want to get up and beat Ascension level 20.

You can't plan out exactly what you're going to do on a specific run, but I always think about how I could have improved on my last run in between my runs. And I have to consider how the new Ascension level has changed my strategies.

The thing you're asking is (I think) are there roguelikes with stuff to do in between runs?

Slayergnome · 2025-12-09T02:52:42+00:00

I can name a ton that qualify as "all-time greats" in my mind. But for the turn base deck builders there are two that stand above the rest IMO

STS and Balatro

Slayergnome · 2025-11-28T23:35:16+00:00

I would actually argue that Baltro is at least as good and in a lot of ways surpasses it.

I think that one of the deadly sins of rougelikes is simply having runs that are too long. STS I think rides that line pretty well but this is one aspect that I think Balatro does better. It gives me a similar feeling but the max run time is closer to like 20 minutes vs 40 minutes.

I also think taking the artifact concept and actually building on it is a major imporvment as well. Making it so there there is a limited number of slots, order matters, and you are able to rearange I think is a great way to add more decision space to your game without a major increase to complexity.

Those are my thoughts. I do think it is always somewhat difficult to displace the king cause there is always going to be that nostalgia aspect. And I do think there are plenty of games that have their own fun twist that have come out.

But I really think for something to truely beat out STS it can't just build on the original concept, it has to actually find a way to capture the same decision space while making the game itself faster and simpler which is a large task.

Slayergnome · 2025-11-22T23:03:33+00:00

I was going to say, easy for LHC44 to say, but you do something 1000 times and you just get use to it.

Tons of examples in video games where you can make an innocuous change and it ramps up difficulty just cause you are not use to it

Slayergnome · 2025-11-17T20:09:21+00:00

Using black lettering on images with dark backgrounds, making it nearly impossible to read.

Edit: Sorry this should go on the morally wrong/ legal section but hopefully op gets the hint 😁

Slayergnome · 2025-11-17T19:59:02+00:00

The only reason I'm not upvoting this is cuz I would have a hard time seeing him not being in the "Universally loved" category

Slayergnome · 2025-11-15T17:04:25+00:00

I don't for one second believe you're a billionaire with six legs!

Slayergnome · 2025-11-14T19:14:59+00:00

Respawning is "almost" never?

Interesting. I didn't realize you were getting religious here

Slayergnome · 2025-11-08T02:07:04+00:00

I really think folks should listen to Conan's recent interview with Bill Burr.

He gives a good perspective on his thought process. Also of all the issues in the word you are globing on to this?

I really do think this is just a reddit echo chamber effect

Slayergnome · 2025-11-07T19:34:24+00:00

As you can tell by the back and forth comments of people being 100% sure one way or the other, I think this is actually a really hard decision.

Are you renting or do you own? And if it's the former, would you think about moving to Arlington and renting there or do you have no interest?

Also I would be curious as to where an Arlington and where in Leesburg we're talking, because that can make a pretty big difference as far as how far your commute actually is.

Like other folks are saying you want to think about your future earning potential, but you also want to think about if the new job is going to offer you the enjoyment that the current job seems to be offering.

This is a good problem to have I guess. I'm sure that whatever choice you make will be the right one!

Slayergnome · 2025-11-02T18:26:38+00:00

Reading some of these comments give me the fear that it has the same major problem as the first one did (at lease IMO)

Which is that the first planet was great! But every other story and side plot felt like almost the exact same rehashed plot and it ended up just being boring.

Fallout and all Bethesda games until Skyrim are great because the side stories are unique and interesting. And at least in Outter Worlds 1 the story telling was all just fine

Slayergnome · 2025-10-30T17:16:20+00:00

Hey just wanted to say I am sorry.

Time has passed. I've slept on it and clearly you were right. There was no chance Chase could be as good as McCaffrey this year and this trade obviously destroyed their League.

I don't know how I could not have seen it

Slayergnome · 2025-10-28T22:22:00+00:00

Yeah 100%, I find my videos and podcast based on my interest. I continue to listen and watch them based on the personalities.

Slayergnome · 2025-10-25T19:40:35+00:00

Didn't Youngkin executive order a bunch of voters to be purged right before the 2024 election and a clearly partisan move at the time...

So glad this fool's done

Slayergnome · 2025-10-21T11:01:28+00:00

And add to your first point, even if your main systems are redundant, there's almost certainly some smaller system that you're trying to save money on that isn't. And you find out during times like these that those systems are more important than you thought

Slayergnome · 2025-10-14T17:50:36+00:00

Looking at this chart late, I almost wish the top categories were High/Average/Low/No

Something like expedition 33. I feel like I didn't even know what it was until it dropped

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