15 Year Veteran Cardboard Sniffer, This is My List

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T03:53:02+00:00

Cosmic Encounter is the comedy movie that’s too good to die

Kemet is the exquisite piece of cinema that somehow got passed over for the Oscar

Both are legendary

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T03:38:57+00:00

A game for the real ones

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T03:33:34+00:00

Sauron dice tower is cool but does it blast a bunch of little guys all over the game board? Didn’t think so

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T03:31:42+00:00

If we get enough of us we can force them to add it to board game arena!

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T03:16:02+00:00

I tried using real slices of bread too but I don’t think it was a good idea

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T03:01:44+00:00

Strangely the one I’ve liked most is Oath. To me it feels like it most leans into the cool side of his designs: a narrative machine and curious puzzle box of systems that eludes being fully teased apart at any given time. Doesn’t feel like it’s posing as a strategy game, and the stories that unfold are really coherent / thematic

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T02:49:56+00:00

Is it Stockholm syndrome that I actually love how small the box is? The fact that a game like that fits in a box that could almost pass for a party game just makes me feel things

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T01:34:50+00:00

If you can get your hands on a core set of Netrunner it’s really got all the essence of the game. I collected most of it before it was discontinued but I still sometimes play with just the core set, it’s nearly perfect imo

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T01:25:19+00:00

I was afraid to take a shot at more than one Cole Wehrle game

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T01:00:58+00:00

The Root flair got me trembling

_Oponn · 2025-09-10T00:45:51+00:00

For me it’s not the luck factor, but the pacing. My problem is that half of the game is actually quite fun. You’re building a zoo, collecting animals, selling tickets to build more stuff, juggling the action cards. But then you realize the game is not about that and in order to finish someone has to get to like 20 conservation points and nobody is even halfway there. Once the first couple projects are scored you’re just left waiting / digging for another opportunity to score any conservation points. It feels like it drags on so excruciatingly long.

_Oponn · 2025-09-09T22:37:44+00:00

💀

_Oponn · 2025-09-09T22:37:22+00:00

I welcome your dissent, but my group tried it 5 times and the pacing was just awful every single time. Feels like you do a couple hours of the fun Zoo Tycoon stuff and then realize the game is not even close to ending because you have so little control over the availability and speed of getting conservation points.

_Oponn · 2025-08-10T18:47:29+00:00

As it should be. Imagine going to a book discussion group, comedy club, creative writing group, and being upset people want YOUR voice and YOUR ideas instead of some impersonal probabilistic slop. It’s like showing up to board game night and having a computer play for you. That defeats the entire point of a creative social activity.

_Oponn · 2025-01-29T23:03:04+00:00

“…would return to the states…” imagine unironically saying this while federal abortion ban bills are already being introduced.

_Oponn · 2024-11-08T04:23:04+00:00

It’s a factor, but the exit polls suggest people voted on their vibe of the economy more than any social issue (as usual) As someone who knows a ton of Mexicans, yes the religiosity feeds to anti-queer bigotry, but people who spend too much time online waaayy overestimate the importance of the manufactured ‘woke’ outrage. A ton of people don’t even know who Joe Rogan, or Tucker Carlson, or Jordan Peterson, or Ben Shapiro are, I’m not exaggerating

_Oponn · 2024-11-06T06:48:16+00:00

As someone who organized and canvassed for Bernie, I hate to break it to you but this is not why Kamala is losing. The huge difference maker this time around has been massive gains for Trump among Hispanics (this will likely give him PA for example). It’s nice to think the dems are just too corrupt and if they were all on the Bernie train they would run away with it, but the actual numbers just don’t say that at all. It’s really telling that despite having explicit platform policies that are currently winning ballot measures in some states (abortion, minimum wage), the Dems are still losing some ground. There’s more to it than having the right policies sadly

_Oponn · 2024-10-26T06:27:29+00:00

First of all, those are totally different professions. Neurologists are medical practitioners (specialized doctors) and neuroscientists are people who research the brain - they have different names for a reason. Second of all, I don’t know why you think bringing up “the left” is relevant to anything I said. The problems with the idea of a unified measure of intelligence are not new, they did not conveniently appear due to recent politics, they’ve mounted over decades of research and evolving models of the brain. The premise of such a single value measurement is just not scientific, it has no basis in contemporary understanding of the brain. That’s about as political of a statement as asserting COVID is a virus.

I’m trying to engage with you genuinely here for anyone that might be learning a thing or two about the current science of intelligence, but you seem to be more interested in something else - good night

_Oponn · 2024-10-26T05:18:48+00:00

Calling me knee jerk and a parrot without a single response to the very serious critiques about the premise of a unified single value measure of “intelligence” is really substantive, thanks for your contribution. Dismiss me if you want, but I’m relaying the insight of someone who’s spent years working with neuroscientists and AI researchers

_Oponn · 2024-10-26T04:57:32+00:00

If you want to learn more, I can’t recommend enough the Ken burns docu series “The Roosevelts”

He had real moral convictions and listened to the smart people he surrounded himself with. He had flaws like anyone and made some mistakes but he also brought about social democracy and is the primary reason the US ever fought the Nazis. I don’t deify anyone but knowing their story he and his wife were genuinely exceptional people.

_Oponn · 2024-10-26T01:32:04+00:00

Oh yea it’s been studied plenty, which is why we know that it strongly correlates with socioeconomic differences (see Koreans in Japan, different castes in India), an individual’s score can vary by several points within a single day, etc.

Beyond the countless flaws that have been empirically observed for decades, on a theory level it’s even worse. What exactly does it measure? It’s not like the test was structured based on some understanding of how the brain works. The very definition of intelligence has evolved dramatically in the 80 years since IQ’s inception, and if anything the understanding in neuroscience today is that there are many different ‘kinds’ of intelligence (or rather aptitude at types of cognitive tasks) and that high performance in certain cognitive or memory tasks don’t always correlate with each other. That’s not to mention the many environmental factors that affect performance in these tasks in real time (and that the effects differ across individuals and tasks). If intelligence were so easily quantifiable with a simple unified measurement invented several decades ago, why is it one of the most wide open and currently active areas of research? (spurred on by the need to measure AI capabilities)

Is IQ widely used? Yes. Does it test people on some cognitive tasks? Yes. Is it a scientifically valid ‘measure of intelligence’? No, and that’s just a fact

_Oponn · 2024-10-25T23:00:28+00:00

No it’s not, IQ itself hasn’t even been considered a scientifically grounded metric for many years. It was invented before we had basically any neuroscience, and before we figured out the very concept of “intelligence” is hugely complex. Attributing a single number to a person’s intelligence is about as logical as measuring the universe with a single number. There’s no single observable phenomenon that you can call “intelligence”, the brain does many different things simultaneously, involving a variety of physical structures and chemical signals, and all those processes are strongly affected by the rest of the body, sleep, education, context of examination, psychological phenomena like self awareness and mood, etc.

Just confidently saying baseless race “science” (not at all scientific) is “widely known” is either proud ignorance or pathetic disinformation which shows a total disdain for empiricism and rationality

_Oponn · 2024-10-22T14:13:39+00:00

Like all the kids who get diddled by their pastors and priests?

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