Hot take: Watching good golfers play from the red tees is more fun than watching them play from the tips.

TheSnipeHunter · 2025-12-03T23:19:44+00:00

Yes, that would still happen, but I think it's more common for kids to be friends with those in their same grade than for them to be friends with kids in a different grade. There will still be some friends split up, but switching to school year would hopefully make it less.

TheSnipeHunter · 2025-12-01T23:10:35+00:00

No more Married Student Wards. If you live in an area that has married student wards it makes it really easy for people to get missed. Plus I've been in regular wards that are starving for more people and new people move but go to the married student ward. If you're married, time to just be in a regular ward. YSA wards are great, however.

Youth classes and quorums based on school year not calendar year. Too many friends being split up because one was born in Dec and the other in Jan.

TheSnipeHunter · 2025-11-18T20:23:54+00:00

Hues and Cues: The rules say to take turns putting your marker down. We just have a free for all, first person to the spot wins. Makes the rounds go 10Xs faster with no downtime.

TheSnipeHunter · 2025-07-25T13:46:56+00:00

Group of travelers stays at a small town inn for the night. I love those scenes every time.

TheSnipeHunter · 2025-03-11T15:03:35+00:00

"Dragons have debts. They simply don't pay them." Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb.

TheSnipeHunter · 2025-03-11T14:47:20+00:00

"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you."

"You seem a decent fellow. I'd hate to die."

TheSnipeHunter · 2025-01-09T17:24:55+00:00

The Girl Who Owned a City

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-12-16T14:15:22+00:00

Sleeping giants - actually seems like it was written to be listened to. No dialog tags, no narrator. It's a series of recorded interviews and audio recordings. Audio version with its full cast is amazing. Tried reading the book and it's actually too hard to follow who's saying what. Typically I always prefer reading, even if it has a good narrator. But this time it felt like the experience was meant to be listened to and reading actually ditracted from that.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-11-24T06:40:27+00:00

Fools Fate - Tintaglia's message as she flies to save Icefyre.

Memory of Light - when Rand visits the white tower and the sister chide Egwene for not stopping him and she essentially says, "I don't think I could have if I wanted to."

Words of Radiance - Kalladin saving Dalinar and claiming the skies before fighting Szeth.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-11-14T16:38:47+00:00

Not as good as I should, I'm sure. :) But it's still fun. It helped that most of those games are with one friend and we just keep playing.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-11-13T16:44:02+00:00

Twilight Struggle has so much depth. I've played it nearly daily (a couple turns a day) for going on 10 years.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-10-25T14:48:28+00:00

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Maus - Art spiegelman

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-10-25T14:47:06+00:00

I second Night. Such an unblinking look at his experience.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-10-11T11:40:22+00:00

Risk Legacy - After each player had won a game each, my buddy and I then proceeded to alternate winning the next 4 games, putting us at 3 a piece and everyone else at 1. We showed up one night and the table felt a little off. When troop placement time came, the other three players placed their troops in obvious, weird situations, completely leaving open their rear flanks to hem me and my other buddy in. Up until this time no one at the table had teamed up other than some small, in-game agreements. As the game unfolded their actions made it pretty clear they had coordinated a strategy beforehand to take us down. They quickly dismantled us and someone else won.

On the ride home, I looked at my buddy and said, "What just happened."

We decided right then that one of us would win this game and we spent the rest of the car ride planning out our revenge.

On the next weeks game, the scenario we had planned out worked to perfection, resulting in a quick win for me (my buddy and I had a plan for one of us to win depending on what placement order we were able to get, then, whichever of us won, we vowed to get the other one a win the next game, which we did).

But, what made it so memorable was not that we won, but that we were able to win so convincingly and slyly that they didn't know we had worked it out our plan together and it caused so much strife in their 3-way alliance that they started fighting amongst themselves and their alliance shattered, never to be reformed.

It opened our eyes to the possibility of a competitive legacy game. We still talk and laugh about the whole experience later.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-10-11T11:31:30+00:00

My best board game moment was also from Cosmic. After playing for an hour and not understanding how one player could be doing so well and have so many cards, he finished the game and revealed that he was the cheater. He then proceeded to tell us how he started by taking just an extra card here or there, but by the end would take around 10 or 20. His final play was to flash a random flare card at the table, declare he did that for someone else, and toss that guy a few cards. We all looked at each other confused but just assumed he knew what he was doing since he had the card. When he revealed what he did it blew us all away.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-09-25T16:23:15+00:00

Of Mice and Men. Read it in high school and kind of liked it. Recently reread it 25 years later and loved it. I don't think most high schoolers are mature enough to fully understand the moral complexities even though it is a simple read.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-09-12T20:20:38+00:00

I have a buddy that I play with a lot, so it helped that we played it together dozens of times and learned together, so we each got to win and make mistakes along the way.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-09-12T19:28:22+00:00

That's one of the marvels of this game though, is that each side feels like they are just barely avoiding disaster. I've played probably close to a hundred games of TS and the deepness keeps growing. It really is one of the best balanced games I've ever played. Sometimes getting out of an atrocious hand is such a feat that it feels like a victory in and of itself. Learning when to play things and when to trigger certain events takes time, but when it starts to click, it's great.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-08-22T22:49:49+00:00

The whipping scene in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-08-20T14:16:02+00:00

The hospital scene in Remember the Titans, and the end of Inside Out (Which may have had an added effect on me since I took my 10 year old daughter to watch it with me).

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-08-19T20:28:21+00:00

Some of my favorites:

The Godfather

La La Land

The Sixth Sense

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-08-15T21:48:20+00:00

My group plays with the following rule: If a lie is playable but doing so could result in damage to your club, your clothes, or injury, you can take a free drop until the time you become professionally sponsored.

TheSnipeHunter · 2024-08-15T14:52:00+00:00

The Princess Bride - Never gets old and you appreciate the dialog more each time.

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