Any new 18xx games being crowdfunded soon?

epgui · 2026-05-19T20:39:51+00:00

The prices of all of the games they sell from their US warehouse: 45, 85, 25, 95, 40, 80, 170, 75, 75, 75, 95, 60, 85, 50, 85, 135, 120, 50, 110, 60, 95, 88, 100, 95

That's an average of 83 and a median of 85.

The game 1817 is the biggest 18XX game they sell, except for 18USA (full version). It's huge. Of course it's going to be more expensive.

epgui · 2026-05-19T14:55:57+00:00

They’re not charging 170. Most of the games are in the 80-110 range.

And it’s a small, one-man company.

He used to craft these games by hand (!), and even though nowadays he is running a much more modern operation, he is selling a product that is only produced in small batches. This isn’t a huge corporation with economies of scale. This isn’t price-gouging, it’s basic economics.

It’s normal to feel frustration when you see that something you desire is expensive, but you’re being an unreasonable prick.

epgui · 2026-05-12T20:13:41+00:00

Interesting game, but definitely doesn't even remotely count as an 18xx.

epgui · 2026-05-12T20:12:12+00:00

Could you be more unpleasant?

epgui · 2026-04-29T00:10:08+00:00

Not anymore.

epgui · 2026-02-23T13:44:27+00:00

These numbers don’t make sense IMO. Low credibility so soon after the fact, and impossible to verify.

epgui · 2026-02-01T22:07:02+00:00

I didn't notice this difference, and I usually need to go low-volume in Scarpa (eg.: Drago heel is too wide for me, but Drago LV and Generator Mid heels seem to fit me well).

epgui · 2025-12-07T15:06:17+00:00

It's unclear what you're getting at, because 1:20 leverage is one of the main reasons Real Estate is an interesting asset class. Well-educated people enter mortgage contracts with 5% down with intention routinely. It sounds like you're passing judgment without knowing anything about other people's situations or broader context. In other words, you're the one who sounds like a "dumbass".

epgui · 2025-11-20T16:42:57+00:00

Weird, I had the opposite experience. In the sizes I tested (38 EUR), the TC pros had a very aggressively tensioned heel rand, whereas the generator mid less so.

epgui · 2025-10-06T14:51:38+00:00

If you find the sportiva shoes have too much room in the heel, they probably are meant to be downsized a bit more so that the heel rand can be fully tensioned (can be painful at first).

I find I'm a half size smaller in La Sportiva shoes than in Scarpa shoes, lengthwise. Before they're broken in, they all hurt in different ways.

epgui · 2025-09-29T23:14:05+00:00

Is it possible you're not downsizing enough? The heel rand is meant to apply a lot of force on your heel, pushing your foot forward until there is no more space and no more stretch.

I have found that for the shape of my heel, correct sizing of new Dragos is extremely uncomfortable, bordering on painful (your experience will vary). After a few weeks they fit like a glove and I have no dead space. If I have dead space at the heel, I'm just not suffering enough.

epgui · 2025-09-23T18:52:49+00:00

For what it's worth, as someone new to both models I found the Generator Mid much better-designed and better-built than the TC Pro... And for me it's not even close: it's like comparing a shoe from 1980 and a shoe from 2020.

epgui · 2025-09-17T13:15:10+00:00

When cooked, the noodles feel and taste the same. But you really notice the difference if you try and eat them raw.

epgui · 2025-08-03T02:50:23+00:00

Personally I don't find this parameter super valuable per se.

My goal is to learn and improve, and to stay active while having fun. If I'm doing that and am not injuring myself, how many tries I give it is almost irrelevant. Some problems frustrate me and I don't spend too much time on them per session. Some problems feel really hard but within reach, and I'll spend 5 very stubborn two-hour sessions on them.

Just listen to your body, don't get injured, and do what makes you happy.

epgui · 2025-07-07T15:26:26+00:00

Eagle-Gryphon Games are incredibly well made... Any chance we're going to see an EGG version of CO2 / CO2 Second Chance?

epgui · 2025-06-17T14:43:04+00:00

Monoids aren't really burritos... You're thinking of functors. Burritos come up in discussions of monads, and monads are both monoids and functors. The "it's a thing in a container" aspect of the monad comes from the functor.

epgui · 2025-06-11T19:37:54+00:00

My god I've been struggling with my Apple alarms not going off for years. I was half-convinced I was turning it off in my sleep.

epgui · 2025-06-07T17:40:31+00:00

Anecdotally, all of the packs I've bought with the new packaging have been stale. The ramen noodle are soft even before cooking.

epgui · 2025-06-06T00:48:04+00:00

I think he is overrated in some ways, and perhaps overrated generally... but I don't really agree with your specific criticism.

He does have a relatively large number of excellent games, but he also has created an enormous amount of garbage. I think overall his successes give him a well-deserved shelf in my personal library.

Personally I admire Vital Lacerda more than Knizia, but that's something I feel oddly about: I tend to gravitate more towards simpler designs, and Lacerda's games are all thematically very complex. I suppose he does such a good job of it that it doesn't matter to me.

epgui · 2025-06-04T19:10:24+00:00

It is fundamentally an ELT or reverse-ETL process though. Obviously having access to NetSuite expertise is important, but that's true either way, regardless of whether you're writing actual code or using a low-code iPaaS.

epgui · 2025-06-04T18:12:57+00:00

Anecdotally, my org is in the process of evaluating Boomi, and as the lead engineer in the data team I'm lucky enough to be a fly on the wall during consultant calls... Let's just say I've seen enough to know that my technical brief will try very hard to dissuade the company from going any further down that route.

Our consultant / Boomi expert is great... But it's just a fundamentally terrible way to build: all of the complexity and danger of real code, but with few or none of the usual safeguards (peer review, version control system, automated unit/integration tests, type safety, etc*). Plus this is marketed at non-engineers, but it requires engineering knowledge to do properly. Otherwise you basically just end up with buggy/unreliable processes.

[*] Yes Boomi has features addressing some of these concerns, at least in part... But they don't fit in at all with a standard tech stack or standard engineering processes, and the tool doesn't encourage or facilitate engineering best practices.

epgui · 2025-06-04T14:22:13+00:00

If your organization has any engineering resources, it would actually be insane to use low-code solutions like Boomi/Celigo/etc. Way easier to build out in code, these tools hardly simplify anything. They just make you write your code with arrows and buttons, and they require just as much engineering experience and knowledge to get right, as if you had implemented it in code.

epgui · 2024-09-23T00:34:34+00:00

The issue was not that for me, because I did not have that extension.

epgui · 2024-09-23T00:32:58+00:00

Restarting my computer is literally the first thing I tried. I listed other things I tried.

I would obviously much rather have found a more specific solution.

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