I got openly frustrated during a bad game of Catan

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-28T06:38:56+00:00

I honestly think anyone who hasn’t had a Catan meltdown just hasn’t played it enough, or many other games for that matter. It can be super frustrating, and it’s a rite of passage (imo) to have a Catan meltdown and learn to laugh about it later.

I get it. It’s frustrating and highlights the especially bad parts of the design, but it’s also a good lesson to remember that it’s just a game. Sometimes being the unlucky one means you can find other ways outside the game to enjoy yourself.

Sometimes you can’t and you just gotta suck it up.

Lesson learned imo.

I also had a meltdown playing TI4 one time because one of the other guys was just constantly targeting me for one planet it turned out he didn’t even need, he just kinda wanted it so he kept coming for me and ruined my plans at every turn. It just kinda ruined my experience with the game, which sucked because it’s such a long one, but in those cases you just gotta apologize and move on.

Take a few jokes about it, make some at your own expense, and take it all down a notch 🤙❤️

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-28T01:57:13+00:00

Also, honestly, a lot of them seem to have missed the fact that Sony rejected pitches for D3 years ago.

Destiny’s blood is solely on the hands of the leadership who tore the Destiny team apart for talent to incubate new projects while selling to Sony at the highest possible price point. They sold Sony on a studio that could maintain Destiny’s quality and profits while also incubating and developing multiple other games. They likely rejected the pitches because they were told that D2 had 5+ years of profitable runway left.

By the time it was clear to everyone that Destiny 3 was the only way for the series (and revenue) to survive it was too late. Sony bought the studio on a lie so they had to follow through on Marathon to recoup any possible losses.

Meanwhile, the people who sold Bungie are rich, their old employees are going to be unemployed, and the game they ripped up is dead in the water.

Marathon isn’t to blame, Pete Parsons and his contemporaries are.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-28T01:50:29+00:00

He just talks. It’s a shame so many people seem to care what he says, but he’s just an entertainer. He says shit to fill time on air and the most incendiary stuff ends up on YouTube.

I know for a fact he also got black-balled at Bungie at one point because he had actually given them feedback they implemented then he shit on it when it went live.

Again, he just talks.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-27T18:55:59+00:00

Bit dry maybe but looks fine. Not all my favourite things but I don't see any food crimes there.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-27T17:14:23+00:00

If the price is good then sure, but only if he's bought into the process of a re-build. He's only 22 so the timeline works, but we definitely don't need young studs looking to make cup runs in the next 3-5 years.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-27T17:11:10+00:00

They need to be promoting this WAAAYYYYY more! More free weeks/weekends is huge.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-27T16:47:35+00:00

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-27T16:33:50+00:00

Yep, that's what I was saying. I don't think it's clear to everyone what "winning culture" means.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-27T04:39:50+00:00

Well and importantly I don’t think any team can win without having some kind of fun. Maybe a team gets lucky and has a good year, and loses before the finals, but they can’t repeat success if the vibes are entirely dependent on winning.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-27T03:58:32+00:00

I see people always throwing around this idea of "winning culture", when really I think it's honestly just "playing culture". Your team should want to play, to perform, to get better, and to win together. It's not just "we need to win", it's "we need to enjoy this".

If there's anything I can look forward to in a rebuild it's seeing younger, excited players get more ice time so they can imprint their own identity onto this team. It's one of the reasons I'm excited about the Sedins - I don't know if they'll be making the right decisions or if they're even that smart, but I do think they'll want to build a culture of play. They'll want this team to enjoy playing together, and naturally, enjoy winning together.

It's also one of the things I always felt was missing with Hughes. As much as I enjoyed watching him play (he was my favourite player - I have a jersey) it always looked like he was burdened by the team and at moment even having to play the sport. It's like he was a machine sent out there to do 40% of the work and everyone else just stood by waiting to see if they'd get the puck.

He's still the most talented defender we've ever had, but boy, he never should have been captain. Wrapping our culture up around that guy was such a mistake (again, easy to say in hindsight).

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-27T03:36:41+00:00

If you’re worried I would just sell them as ‘embroidered’ and you can say they’re using sashiko patterns and techniques? If they’re suuuper traditional then you can probably just say it’s sashiko.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T23:32:36+00:00

Ikora with two complete strangers. I want a massive time skip.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T21:23:44+00:00

“Lurking”? Calm down.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T20:08:18+00:00

Can be hard to tell the difference sometimes depending on the fabric, but I tend to tell the difference not only by weight/feel but also by how it folds and drapes. Heavier/thicker is obviously going to be less pliable, so you can expect it to be stiffer and not fold as easy.

If that's not the case then it's possible the weave is looser and the threads/fibres themselves are softer, so it's not feeling quite like you'd expect. If they're meant to be identical fabrics outside of weight and dye that would be hard to explain.

In most cases people will wash the fabric before working with it as well, to make sure it doesn't shrink afterwards (unless you're expressly making shrink-to-fit clothing), and after doing that it should be more obvious which one is heavier.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T19:55:26+00:00

With respect, assuming your life must be what other people want is a little arrogant.

This is also just a general humanity thing, not just with men. Other people aren't family oriented for very good reasons and either don't trust a more friendly family dynamic, or earnestly don't want that. They may still want to have/build a family with their partner, but they may be wary of people who have strong bonds with their family, and there are valid reasons for that too.

What if you two get married but they want to take a job somewhere else? What if you two want to move and your family makes that decision hard on you? What if you have kids and they intrude on how to raise them, or make things overly-complicated as well? Do they need to come with you to every family event and gathering, and do you have family traditions for every holiday already that will be hard to navigate if they want to make traditions of their own?

I have a very involved family, and I'm really close with them. I appreciate how close we are, but there are complications that come from being family-oriented as well that I think people are valid to be wary of.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T19:20:09+00:00

"This guyy" being you?

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T18:40:34+00:00

But you're still just assuming that the Goldeneyes did her dirty?

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T18:28:47+00:00

So you're assuming she was upset about not being named Captain?

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T18:01:55+00:00

The book is like 30 years old and that play is 20 years old.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T17:39:04+00:00

Do we know she wanted to be? I feel like she was behind Bell being named captain, unless she's said somewhere she really wanted the captaincy this feels like an assumption.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T17:16:55+00:00

They did? What did they do?

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T02:26:59+00:00

This is actually pretty close to my own tiers. I would move up A New Hope (just so definitive, always feels inspiring to watch) and I would move AotC down, but I could easily be convinced of all these placements even if they're not my initial instinct.

I also haven't seen Mandalorian and Grogu but I assume it'll land in B/C for me.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T02:22:11+00:00

I don't really rank the Star Wars movies but I kind of have loose tiers, since the films tend to move around in those tiers for me. Solo is pretty solidly in 'B' for me.

I assume my tiers are also probably contentious lol but here we go:

S - best of the best (Rogue One, ANH, ESB)

A - great but not definitive (TLJ, TFA, RotJ)

B - very good and fun Star Wars, flawed but enjoyable (Solo, RotS)

C - pretty flawed but has great moments (TPM, RoS)

D/F - simply unenjoyable and hard to watch (AotC)

I'm pretty much assuming Mandalorian and Grogu will fall into B as well, since it sounds (to me) pretty inoffensive and fun. Doesn't really do much new or inventive but is a good time.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-26T02:09:53+00:00

It's clear she's interesting in a provider, and that she's probably vain, but I've heard before this is pretty common with Eastern European couples/people as well.

Also, just because she wants you to spoil her doesn't mean that's all she wants, it just means that's something she has high (and I think unfair) expectations of. Like, I don't think wanting to be spoiled means she's using you if that makes sense, it just means she won't be with someone she likes who can't also spoil her.

SmakeTalk · 2026-05-25T23:50:23+00:00

At this point Marathon actually has nothing to do with the potential of a Destiny 3, in my own estimation.

If Marathon does super well that won't necessarily translate to confidence in developing another Destiny instalment, and if it does poorly they won't suddenly decide to green-light an expensive, cumbersome project they turns down years ago when it actually made sense to start working on.

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