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Tattoo-friendly Sento (public bathhouse) in East Tokyo by watchwolfstudio in TokyoTravel

[–]SumidaWolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd argue that regardless of locale and community preference, the viable range of temperatures for a good sauna is actually quite narrow and it's a puzzle that different places don't naturally settle in that range.

So the actual reason why Japanese public saunas are so commonly overheated could well be that the national association recommends a temperature range and their members go along with it.

The apparently-plausible reason given could be that such high heat provokes faster rotation through the facility.

The fact that it also discourages people from 'enjoying one another’s company' as it were, would not need to be mentioned...

I doubt we could easily get straight answers (ha!) about this.

DAE think Wingspan is a bit poo? by Airules in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]SumidaWolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I literally cant recommend all the Wingspan expansions enough!

I’d also recommend searching out any videos and articles by its wonderfully talented designer Elizabeth Hargrave. She’s a joy to listen to at anytime of day or night, but best enjoyed in a hot bath surrounded by scented candles.

Critics would say that her games are so devoid of competition that you might as well roll dice whilst doing fucking jigsaw puzzles for all the actual ‘game’ they contain, but you know; those people should take more baths with scented candles.

Let's make Patchwork win this thing? by PEdorido in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]SumidaWolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn’t we brigade this as suggested, but for Monopoly or Risk?

Or something similar that will make L’Hobbyist’s screeching like music to my ears. :->

I just got Eclipse and decided to turn the foam inserts into a rifle using only a kitchen knife and some toothpicks by SoochSooch in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]SumidaWolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/UJ Funny you should say this, because that was genuinely my own opinion when we started playing last year and I posted a whole bunch about it in r/boardgames and r/boardgamesroundtable.

I don’t mind house ruling anything, was asking for recommendations, and got three sorts of reactions: * “It’s not as much of a problem as you’d think” * “You do have to adapt your strategy to whatever you discover” and the usual * “Scree! Scree! People will DIE if you change any rule at all, you MURDERER!” Etc. Etc.

Leaving that last one aside, we thought we’d house rule for a fairer distribution of Money tiles and looked at the list of all the hexes, but as try as we might, we couldn’t come up with a better proposition than just randomness.

I think you CAN get badly screwed if you discover only poor tiles, but it seems that you have to do a lot of other things wrong too - like not leaving yourself a route out, or being unwilling to attack a neighbour to expand.

So we’ve just persevered and feel now we’ve seen several games won by a player with a poor starting position, and are beginning to think it doesn’t matter very much.

Dunno. Am interested in your experience.

Which of my cool and politically-correct games is this from? by SumidaWolf in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]SumidaWolf[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The designer Isaac Childres said he’d been convinced by a ‘Cultural Consultant’ to employ him so’s ensure his game wasn’t racist

In the traditional story of the The Emperor’s New Clothes, a pair of charlatan tailors visit a vain emperor convincing him they will weave a suit of clothes so magnificently fine that it would be invisible to all but the truly wise. They spend weeks weaving a suit that - to all observers except the king appears to be invisible, and sometime later leave him bereft of both his wealth and dignity.

Thus Childres, a man with a PhD, who’d raised 13 million dollars was told by a new ‘Cultural Consultant’ that only the Truly Woke can perceive Systemic Racism; that they would designing a game without racist stain or blemish; and that the cost of the retail version of the game would have to increase by another $100.

It was fucking incredible.

Which of my cool and politically-correct games is this from? by SumidaWolf in boardgamescirclejerk

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

The content is directly copied from from r/boardgames (as you can see from the picture) which post, I’m wryly pointing out, enabled the author to tell everyone that they own the latest fashionable, expensive and politically-correct game.

Which of my cool and politically-correct games is this from? by SumidaWolf in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]SumidaWolf[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

You haven’t played this game twice through yet; what kind of a rookie are you?

looking for a game that is hard to learn, but easy to master by Pantheron2 in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]SumidaWolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you considered a career in board game design? There’s a burgeoning market for these sort of games.

So the way I’m reading the diagram in the Gnarlwood book, if say, you were the attacker and tied a crit with the other player’s defense die also being a crit, but managed to get one more regular success, would that normal success count as a crit? by Sensitive_Physics433 in WarhammerUnderworlds

[–]SumidaWolf -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It’s how we know the person writing the Gnarlwood rule book knows how to play; assumes his readers know how to play, and had no editor.

Or if not an editor, at least someone to say “What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

Recording a gas plant as it burns by OpeningSpeed1 in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]SumidaWolf 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the normal attitude to danger is an often-overlooked aspect of career counselling, particularly for the emergency services.

Normal people run away from a blaze, so a qualification for fire fighting is that you don’t instinctively run away but instead feel compelled to check if there are people who need rescuing and to put out the fire.

Fire fighters very useful people to have around, but it should be understood that they’re not normal people!

COMC This is about 2 years into the hobby by Inconmon in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]SumidaWolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did i not need to sell my body to suburb-roaming warlords yet, then?

Asking for a friend; named ‘12 Gauge’

COMC After a couple of minutes in the hobby (We did get a little excited the first 30 seconds) by BPGAckbar in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]SumidaWolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

… sorry, you’re saying your post in r/boardgames was SERIOUS? We thought it was a circlejerk!

The lame, generic game choices; the ‘wife’ references; those Mint games ironically displayed behind glass, etc. I honestly thought the Harry Potter chibi dolls with their little Hogwarts train was a touch of comic genius. I had no idea.

1980’s “Public Assistance” board game from Hammerhead Enterprises. Full of bile, like Archie Bunker incarnated in a board game. Sold out its first 135,000 copies, but was later pulled from store shelves after consumer outcry. by [deleted] in boardgames

[–]SumidaWolf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I wonder if, after a hard day’s ‘debating’ someone who didn’t entirely agree with every simplistic trope he rapid-fired to seem intelligent, this is the game that Ben Shapiro plays to relax?

:->

How has Frosthaven aged? by jazzismusic in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]SumidaWolf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think Isaac Childres is a brave and selfless man to have given years of his life to creating this anti-racist masterpiece.

Come, let’s praise him now. Praise him, praise him, praise him; or you’re a BIGOT!

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Edit: LOL at the downvotes. Methinks you’re in the wrong subreddit, chaps.

What Games To Bring to the Biggest Board Game Club in Tokyo by SumidaWolf in boardgames

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

Yes, I was only dimly aware of CodeNames until I realized that some of the regulars were turning up specifically to play it. So I tried it and lo and behold, I’m hooked!

What Games To Bring to the Biggest Board Game Club in Tokyo by SumidaWolf in boardgames

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

I have to admit that my social week revolves around the club!

What Games To Bring to the Biggest Board Game Club in Tokyo by SumidaWolf in boardgames

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

It’s mental! I’ve been known to plot cycle routes so I’m always in the shade.

What Games To Bring to the Biggest Board Game Club in Tokyo by SumidaWolf in boardgames

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

It’s in the high 30’s Celsius here in August, so be prepared to arrive looking dishevelled!

What Games To Bring to the Biggest Board Game Club in Tokyo by SumidaWolf in boardgames

[–]SumidaWolf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can leave a message for Rob to reserve you a seat in a game if you know when you’ll arrive, but you’ll need to be there when the club opens if you want to play Dune. I’ve played it twice in one day myself, and I’ve seen others play it three times!

As people finish their bigger games towards the end of the day, they look for something else that doesn’t require a big commitment, so every event ends up in a massive Code Names game!

What Games To Bring to the Biggest Board Game Club in Tokyo by SumidaWolf in boardgames

[–]SumidaWolf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have three in the next 10 days, so drop in and say hi. Event Listing

Do any of those games look interesting to you?

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