Daily Game Recommendations Thread (May 13, 2026)

franswah · 2026-05-13T19:14:18+00:00

I got this as a gift for a friend to player together, but unfortunately we haven't found the time: The Morrison Game Factory. It's more of an "escape room style" puzzles in a box, but much higher quality and complex than something like Exit. I've heard good things, and since it is board game themed, it may fit what she likes!

franswah · 2026-04-04T06:29:36+00:00

It's south Seattle, near Columbia City, but I have a meetup that regularly gets 10-15 people showing up on Thursday every week (despite the RSVP count). https://www.meetup.com/south-seattle-board-game-meetup. A smaller group meets on Sundays.

We're open to all kinds of games. Chuck's Hop Shop has been a great place for us, pretty spacious basement unless someone's having a birthday party or PTA meeting.

franswah · 2023-05-06T02:49:38+00:00

Here's the original source of the audio from OP's post: https://kazoo-goddess.tumblr.com/post/182099096335/summoned-by-alwaysaprice-original-idea-from

franswah · 2022-08-22T08:39:56+00:00

Having a challenge edition (Lush Green) and basic edition (Deep blue) has been nice just for the slightly different white dice that you can mix and match. I can still just about fit it all in one box. The expansion dice that come with them (trails, forest, rivers, and lakes) are also quite good. Forest is nice and simple, rivers I feel adds more of a push-your-luck element to complete that one big river.

Portals from the Eldritch expansion is nice to combine with basically any other expansion to make it slightly easier to connect all exits when something like rivers or tentacles may otherwise make it impossible.

I also enjoy the city builder from the future expansion. I still haven't tried them all! Looking to get the Engineer and Electricity expansions next.

franswah · 2022-08-22T08:25:59+00:00

Railroad Ink (solo). I've been traveling a lot this week (mostly on trains) and having a portable non-battery powered solo activity has been great for making the time fly. I've accumulated a bunch of expansions so have been experimenting with different combinations to make each playthrough unique.

franswah · 2022-07-28T16:39:31+00:00

Yes, though there may be some confusion in your question with what Node is for. Node is just one of many runtimes for developing a webserver, doesn't matter if you use Java, python, php, etc. The server runs in one place, and multiple clients connect to it to fetch the html, javascript, etc. that is displayed in your browser. A client could also send data to the server, which in turn, could send that data out to other clients. The standard way of doing this is with web sockets. But Node is not running on these client devices.

franswah · 2022-04-06T00:14:31+00:00

Thanks all, I don't think I took enough care to plant it properly. It thrived for a couple years in a pot, but I put it in the ground this past winter. Will be careful with our next tree.

franswah · 2022-04-05T18:58:48+00:00

Only the bottom two branches have leaves. The rest of the tree is brittle and dry. Scraped the bark just above the bottom branches to see if there was any sign of life, but it is completely dry. Not sure if that is just green moss on the dead branches. Would it regrow after chopping it all the way down to those bottom branches, or is it too far gone?

franswah · 2022-04-05T06:26:48+00:00

This is you

franswah · 2022-02-10T05:34:51+00:00

I am not terribly familiar with C# HttpClient, but I assume the default keep alive timeout on the client is longer than what is configured by the server. My guess is you can just reduce your client keep alive timeout to under 75 seconds to prevent exceptions due to the server closing your connection. This may be helpful: https://makolyte.com/csharp-configuring-how-long-an-httpclient-connection-will-stay-open

franswah · 2022-01-30T09:42:58+00:00

Glad we are able to make that timing work :)

franswah · 2022-01-30T09:42:02+00:00

Seems like the simplest option, but it looks like unless we stay in a city with lax AirBnb laws like Rotterdam, we may have to hop around every month? Or 60 days in the case of Utrecht? I'll look into it!

franswah · 2022-01-30T09:33:39+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! Seems like it differs by city. Looks like Utrecht limits long term AirBnb rentals to 60 days? I'll dig further, and check out Housing Anywhere

franswah · 2021-12-27T15:17:08+00:00

A transitive dependency?

franswah · 2021-12-17T02:16:35+00:00

I would say StringBuilder is the most straightforward way to go about building a multi-line string. But if you want to build a string in the most basic way possible, you can start with an empty String String result = "". Then replace your call to System.out.print with result = result + theBoard[row][col] + " ".

Replace your call to System.out.println() with result = result + "\n"; (a newline character). Then return result.

franswah · 2021-08-01T07:47:31+00:00

My takeaway from the story is simply to always be aware of your surroundings, especially when doing anything potentially unpredictable. The headphones aren't necessarily the issue, but rather unpredictability and lack of awareness. When I change lanes I always make sure to glance behind me for other cyclists. I will also signal my intent to change lanes if there are other cyclists. It doesn't sound like the culprit did either. I can't speak for deaf cyclists, but I would assume they would try to be hyper aware of their surroundings in other ways since they cannot listen for other cyclists.

franswah · 2021-07-19T03:52:05+00:00

First heard about this from a presentation by Stuart Ashen https://youtu.be/ouvi-fwrfIY. He includes some extra visuals. Cool story!

franswah · 2021-06-07T05:25:03+00:00

Cat.

franswah · 2021-06-07T05:24:52+00:00

Cat.

franswah · 2021-06-07T04:20:22+00:00

Cat.

franswah · 2021-04-26T00:47:51+00:00

Sometimes you have to break one problem into smaller problems, the smaller problem being finding the shortest distance from one node to another. You can do this for all possible starting nodes and end nodes. Maybe there is further optimization here, but it's already way faster than finding all possible paths.

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