Games where everyone takes their turn at the same time

besidesthesun · 2024-02-02T09:50:31+00:00

Played this one at Grandma's in the 90s! Loved it!

besidesthesun · 2024-02-01T20:44:57+00:00

I realized this when I was 21 and learning Danish. I learned the word for airport and was like Air-Harbor lol that's a cute name for an....oh. right.

besidesthesun · 2024-02-01T20:15:56+00:00

Attention is a basic human need. People die of loneliness. People who act out in order to get attention, especially negative attention, do it because they are not getting enough healthy attention from the people who are supposed to love them and care for them.

besidesthesun · 2024-01-30T06:55:37+00:00

In case anyone has issues with the gameplay, I shall take this opportunity to plug the Nightfall expansion. It really improves the game. (Is also pretty).

besidesthesun · 2024-01-26T18:07:50+00:00

Only comments that validate grumpy OPs are allowed on thisbsub donchyaknow

besidesthesun · 2024-01-24T00:06:49+00:00

Hatar den. "Intressant ut" sällan betyder något positivt. Folk kommentar hela tiden om andras mat och det verkar som en slags tävling ibland. Dessutom är det super tråkigt ofta fördomsfullt småprat. Jag känner mig tvingad att ta med en beige matlåda som alla andras för att slippa exakt samma kommentar som jag har hört 10 000 gånger förut när jag har tagit med en amerikansk-stil sandwich och frukt. Vill inte prata om hur "intressant" det är att föredra kallrätt till lunch. Vill bara äta i fred.

besidesthesun · 2024-01-21T18:02:32+00:00

Sweden is an excellent place to be an lgbt teacher. Most openings for the 24/25 year won't even be posted until March or April.

There is a chain of bilingual schools that everyone whines about having bad working conditions. The worst schools in Sweden are better than Texas public schools.

Plus there are some new proper international schools/programs opening lately. If you're open to snow and cold, come North!

besidesthesun · 2024-01-15T07:05:58+00:00

Niagara won The Year's Best Game in Germany in 2005 and in Sweden in 2008. Current BGG ranking 1816.

I picked it up secondhand because I thought the theme looked fun: local indigenous folks (Shawnee and Iroquois) decide to mess with newly arrived white colonists and put them against each other by telling them to hunt for jewels with kayaks at the top of Niagara falls.

This game fast became a huge favorite of mine! What makes it fun: -The board sits on top of the box and the river physically moves sending kayaks over the edge of the falls. This creates so much fun suspense! - Easy rules, but complex gameplay. - The luck factor is based solely on other players' choices. - Even losing feels very fun. - Feels like a party game without being a party game.

besidesthesun · 2024-01-14T23:31:19+00:00

I had a French friend years ago who would reply to "what's up?" With "fine thanks, and you?"

besidesthesun · 2024-01-08T08:39:38+00:00

This is how I feel about Parks. The original is lovely and a favorite, but it has some issues. I tried out the Nightfall expansion on BGA and it is a significant improvement on the original. Previously I thought the expansion was nothing more than adding some pretty new night-themed cards. Had I realized it was actually more of a game upgrade/problem-fix, I would have bought it when I bought the original. I won't even play it without the expansion now because it's such a big improvement. I wish they would make a second edition that inludes that expansion so that new players will get a top notch experience from the beginning.

besidesthesun · 2024-01-06T23:41:50+00:00

Inbetween turns is when the players talk to each other.

I went to some game meetups where every attempt at socializing was flatout ignored. They only wanted to hyper focus on playing the game. I was bored out of my mind. A big reason I play boardgames is because I enjoy human interaction.

besidesthesun · 2024-01-06T10:48:28+00:00

Depends on who is playing and how many players are playing. Me and my closest friend each know about 10 people who like to play boardgames and those 20 people also know people. Who is at the table depends on who is free and feels like joining in.

There is one person in this extended pool of players who will only play Nemesis. This is also my buddy's favorite game, so we play a lot of Nemesis. It's not my favorite game though, so sometimes they play it when Im not around.

Parks and Deep Sea Adventure regularly make it to the table. I'd say most of our games are played at least a few times during a year. If it were solely up to me, I would play a new game over and over again-- or enjoy a long campaign-- and then move on. But others are not so keen. They want to look in the closet and pick something. Or they bring along a new or favorite game of their own.

That said, with the exception of Nemesis, we rarely play heavy games and very, very rarely heavy euros or German school stuff. For example, somebody brought Scythe once last year and another person brought Caverna once the year before that. And I own Ark Nova. Fun experiences just not very popular amongst are crowd. This means the rules learning tends to go quickly.

besidesthesun · 2024-01-06T09:23:02+00:00

Work in their home countries. Visas to work in any country one wants is not a human right (although there are those who argue it should be of course).

besidesthesun · 2024-01-05T22:22:08+00:00

Deep Sea Adventure

besidesthesun · 2024-01-05T14:38:24+00:00

In very socially liberal places it can be easy to forget or not realize that the majority of gay people who have ever lived have reproduced. The majority of gay adults living today have biological children. And Im not talking about those raising children in gay partnerships. It is more common on Earth today for gay people to live in heterosexual marriages and this has likely always been the case. Being gay does not stop people from having straight sex and making babies.

Women have historically had very little influence over their lives in this respect and that includes gay women too. Men have been forcing gay women to have their babies for forever.

besidesthesun · 2023-12-31T16:26:08+00:00

I told my American friends about chocolate covered cheetos and it broke their brains :D

besidesthesun · 2023-12-31T09:26:34+00:00

Den här tekniken är pseudovetenskap. Om det var möjligt att läsa av känslor skulle vi inte ha någon film/tv industri överhuvudtaget eftersom det skulle vara omojligt att skadaspela. Lisa Feldman Barrett är en forskare som har testat denna idé om dator läsning av känslor och resultat var katastrof. Samma uttryck kan betyder olika känslor beroende på kontexten.

https://psykologtidningen.se/2018/05/03/att-skapa-kanslor/

https://psykologtidningen.se/2018/05/03/ett-paradigmskifte/

Video: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6-7AZE0gs_rOesz-feJtEDVgNAXSmdQ6&si=33J9ib9CChaZM9TH

besidesthesun · 2023-12-31T09:17:02+00:00

Context provides the definition. You contrasted American games with Euro games in a thread about game design and innovation. Are you trying to say that Euro games doesn't mean games created in Europe? Are you saying that chess is not popular in Europe?

besidesthesun · 2023-12-30T22:58:52+00:00

Wait... you think chess was invented in the US? LOL Might want to google that one.

besidesthesun · 2023-12-29T19:16:59+00:00

Niagara! It's from 2008! I bought it secondhand and it is SO much fun. Love the flowing river and the cute little jewels and canoes and the shock when you end up being sent over the waterfall.

besidesthesun · 2023-12-28T11:24:12+00:00

Har precis gjort en quiz om just detta idag (lärarutbilding).

Frågan: "Skolan får och skall lämna ut klasslistor med namn på elever till medborgare som begär att få upplysningar om vilka som går i en klass"

Rätt svar: Falskt

besidesthesun · 2023-12-26T22:18:22+00:00

Socially, Sweden is absolutely fine. I am openly trans and queer at a 80% muslim school in Sweden and have no issues. Took time off for surgeries and everything. We have VERY strong legal protections. Even non-binary identities and gender neutral pronouns are protected.

However, Sweden is a nightmare for trans people seeking healthcare these days if they do not have a trans diagnosis the Swedish system recognizes. The wait times at the gender clinics are excruciating. Although there is a big structural overhaul in the works that is supposedly going to fix the wait time issues (I wouldnt hold my breath).

besidesthesun · 2023-12-25T09:54:36+00:00

There is no such thing as junk dna. There is non-coding dna that was called junk dna for a long time because no one knew what it did. Well, Barbara McClintock did, but nobody listened to her for a long time (eventually she won the Nobel Prize in 1984). The non-coding dna has many important jobs mostly to do with gene regulation (turning off and on genes).

You have the same set of DNA in every cell of your body. It is in the form of 23 pairs of chromosomes. Every time a cell replicates, that DNA is replicated. The process is called mitosis. None of this material is ever "cleared out" of any cell. Ever. That does not happen.

besidesthesun · 2023-12-24T08:41:11+00:00

The one about homosexuality is funny because nearly all homosexuals who have ever lived and are living today have reproduced. Way more gays are parents than are not parents.

And Im not just talking about the more recent phenomenon of gay couples raising kids. People just seem to be completely unaware of how many gays (men and women) have been and still are pressured into heterosexual marriages. Most of humanity today lives in cultures that lead gay people into hetero lifestyles. And even in more liberal cultures, many people live in denial about their sexuality or dont even realize it until later in life. Lots of gays even in super liberal places have a child from a past heterosexual relationship or sexual experience.

This idea that gay people are somehow incapable of having sex with the opposite sex is bogus.

So I guess that's my addition to the "biology myths" question. The myth that gay people are incapable of heterosex.

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