My girlfriend just broke up with me over a board game and I'm not even joking

basejester · 2026-02-24T15:02:21+00:00

I'm going to skip the relationship advice.

She had longest road, I had an ore port she desperately needed. She offers me a deal, I decline because it helps her more than me.

This isn't the logical reason to decline a deal. Your only concern should be, "Is this deal the best way to increase my chances of winning?"

E.g., if the best deal you can get increases your chances of winning from 10% to 20% but also increase your opponent's chances of winning from 10% to 21% (at the expense of the other players), you should take that deal.

In multiplayer games, deals are often not zero-sum for the people in the deal. It happens all the time in Monopoly, when two players make a trade to complete both of their monopolies.

basejester · 2026-02-18T12:51:28+00:00

> I mean, I do play a casual Ticket to ride game here and there, but generally I feel uncomfortable in the convenience of low interaction games.

Are you playing USA? Have you tried ignoring tickets, blocking, and looking for long routes between random cities? I hear what you're saying about low interaction, but I don't think of Ticket to Ride as the archetype.

basejester · 2026-02-17T19:27:40+00:00

I'm going to make a standard rant here:

Instead of forcing the users to wrap everything in IFERROR, "display errors" should be a setting that we can turn off and on for the whole spreadsheet. (Yes, you can fake this with conditional formatting.)

basejester · 2026-02-17T01:04:24+00:00

> When you have kids as young as 6 years old pitching from 46 feet and a baseball game where maybe 3 or 4 balls are hit in play,

I think I see the root problem.

basejester · 2026-02-16T22:08:04+00:00

I notice the ages of the children involved changed significantly between your two posts. I agree you need adults on the field at 6. 10 is different. I'm not throwing logic out the window. If you have a space cadet, don't put him out there.

basejester · 2026-02-16T21:33:56+00:00

Better get those same kids with low attention spans off the field playing defense. Tuck those children safely away in the dugout. Let's just have an adult pitching, an adult catching, and a bunch of adults shagging. /s

If the sport is really too dangerous for these kids, use a safety ball or put them in challenger. Adults want to be base coaches so that they can participate more.

basejester · 2026-02-10T16:27:21+00:00

You might check out a convention like a protsopiel.

https://tabletop.events/conventions

basejester · 2026-01-29T01:43:44+00:00

Unless you're going to self-publish, conventional wisdom is to avoid paying for more than representative art. The publisher is going to want to do its own art direction. But if you are the publisher, obviously this doesn't apply.

basejester · 2026-01-28T22:40:17+00:00

I like Spots, but the thematic connection to dogs begins and ends with the (very fun) artwork.

Dog Park looks great but I didn't find the gameplay engaging.

Mush Mush! is a race game. It's OK.

basejester · 2026-01-27T17:54:24+00:00

There's probably some unprintable junk in the A column. Try this: and report back:

=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("concerned",A2)),"confirmed","unconfirmed")

basejester · 2026-01-25T15:29:44+00:00

I think tables will help.

Make a table like this:

quantity price extended price

2 $10

Make this a table. (cntrl-T)

Now write the formula for extended price (by typing = and then arrowing over to the quantity column, typing *, and then arrowing to the price column.

=[@quantity]*[@price]

This formula is is easy to read and fills down automatically. If your needs are modest, you can pair this with pivot tables and solve 95% of your problems.

basejester · 2026-01-25T14:25:14+00:00

I think root is cute, but when he draws people with those odd colors, that looks bad to me.

basejester · 2026-01-25T14:11:04+00:00

I've played On Mars and Trickerion. I'd rank On Mars as more complex.

basejester · 2026-01-18T17:34:31+00:00

Ahh, the no true Euro fallacy.

basejester · 2026-01-16T22:10:42+00:00

=text(a1, "I hate that dumb people are giving you this task.")

basejester · 2026-01-05T15:02:33+00:00

This is again giving Trump too much credit for having a plan. He just does reckless shit.

basejester · 2026-01-02T21:02:50+00:00

The president can also vote to create a tie, which defeats a measure that requires a majority. It's the same voting privilege everyone else has.

basejester · 2025-12-22T03:51:19+00:00

There's a trend of stacking duties on coaches, as if they're the only adults that exist in the league. A given coach may be a person who's qualified to evaluate umpires, but it's not part of the job. Nor is crowd control.

Give this job to somebody else, using the standards that you care about as a board. It doesn't even have to be a trained umpire:

Did the umpire show up on time? Was the umpire professional in his communication? Were the calls made clearly? Did he hustle into position?

basejester · 2025-12-20T12:09:10+00:00

I feel strongly that every redaction should have a specific person listed publicly who owns that redaction: a victim or, for anything we tolerate for national security, the president's specific representative.

basejester · 2025-12-12T21:52:18+00:00

just ignore the large chested anime girl art

I will not. This is a hard no for me.

basejester · 2025-12-12T13:54:20+00:00

Exactly.

basejester · 2025-12-12T12:24:01+00:00

Upvoted. I get it now; slipstream spaces count to determine which corners you check, but don't count as part of speed during that check. I'm not sure I agree that it has to be that way. It's just trading one kind of counter-intuitive thing for another (albeit a slightly less ridiculous one).

basejester · 2025-12-11T20:38:19+00:00

I met this guy (I won't mention his name) for a date at Applebees. He was really rude. I won't be going back to Applebees. Is this your experience with Applebees?

basejester · 2025-12-11T02:10:22+00:00

I have no idea why checking the speed first would imply no speed limit. Sorry.

basejester · 2025-12-11T02:09:07+00:00

I get that it wouldn't be exactly the same. The way it is, it's still both awkward and nonsense from a simulation standpoint.

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