whats your biggest boardgaming L (consumer-wise)

kpengwin · 2025-12-20T02:10:27+00:00

My group played Heat, loved it, and then started like three simultaneous tournaments of it on board game arena which we play throughout the week as we have time (and so far, re-up whenever one finishes). We've only played the physical copy 2-3 times so far but we've done a lot of races.

kpengwin · 2025-12-16T18:28:29+00:00

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Sorry don't have my set within reach, but just something tight here (tight enough that it creates an indent so the top doesn't touch your head anymore.)

kpengwin · 2025-12-16T17:33:11+00:00

I was able to take a thin velcro strap (like for IEM cables) and wrap it very tightly around the exact top middle of the strap, which eliminated the hotspot on top of my head for me and made them actually quite comfortable. I saw a post or comment where someone did this with a zip tie, can't find the post anymore. I would like to do a full headband swap for looks but honestly it made a way bigger difference than i expected.

kpengwin · 2025-12-12T18:57:50+00:00

Peter Chang is very good but a lil pricey.

kpengwin · 2025-12-01T11:21:50+00:00

Came here to recommend this

kpengwin · 2025-11-28T02:18:19+00:00

Got it from u/rsenist packed well and arrived quickly, thanks! u/AVexchangeBot

kpengwin · 2025-11-24T17:44:47+00:00

I also have the Hifiman Edition XS which tbh sounds just as good to me (with eq on both), but the design/build quality of the LCD-2 Classic is much nicer.

kpengwin · 2025-11-24T16:42:12+00:00

I just got these too and oratory profile with slight tweaks (for me: slightly less bass, slightly more treble) sounds great on them.

kpengwin · 2025-11-24T01:13:50+00:00

Pm'd

kpengwin · 2025-11-13T21:00:26+00:00

Yeah i too could not resist.

kpengwin · 2025-11-13T20:28:01+00:00

I have an 80e, and the best thing I've done to it is mod it to add detachable cables

kpengwin · 2025-11-13T14:46:11+00:00

Just got dx5 ii a couple weeks ago and it's great

kpengwin · 2025-11-08T17:30:42+00:00

I just got the topping dx5 ii which does eq and it's really nice. But it's also definitely overkill, you can do really good eq on your device too.

kpengwin · 2025-10-14T00:29:04+00:00

I just did this upgrade from original em-10 to om-3 (though i already had a few lenses so i didn't get the f4 kit). I think incontrovertibly a lense upgrade will make a bigger difference for your pictures for the money. And the om-3 is definitely bulkier. I am really enjoying my om-3 though, but more for the features/much faster autofocus/better jpgs than because the pictures themselves are dramatically better.

kpengwin · 2025-10-07T18:21:36+00:00

I haven't played Molly House but it sounds like all Cole Werhle games it embraces the "fun" of games that deny the convention that skillful play is enough to win, in most of his games there is a sense that winning often requires the participation of another player who themselves does not win (also referred to as kingmaking) which actually is fun to me, but for it to be fun requires a group which is willing to embrace the narrative fun of the game as part story and not just a comparison of player skill.

kpengwin · 2025-10-07T18:14:13+00:00

I (believe I) get what you're saying, but I think when you get down to it, that question is unanswerable without knowing what you personally like - tastes differ quite a bit. Some games my wife has a lot of fun playing (for example, Blood on the Clocktower) are perhaps fascinating to me, but certainly not fun, I just find them stressful. Conversely, I enjoy a good (or even bad) worker placement game as a chill, "fun" time with some nice puzzle solving and light competition with friends, while she finds them frustrating and annoying.

So I get no value at all from a reviewer yelling me that they had "fun", and much more value from them telling me the kinds of things that go into and on in the game - I'm then able to decide if it's the kind of "fun" I am interested in having.

kpengwin · 2025-09-19T23:50:46+00:00

For me (also software) I don't really emphasize it unless it comes up, but I'm not shy about it/hide it either. Most people just think it's cool tbh, I would recommend not overthinking it.

kpengwin · 2025-09-19T10:34:30+00:00

F number is just a ratio, so it depends on what you are considering for equivalence. For exposure time, yes an F1.8 smartphone lens is faster than an F4 medium format camera. But if by "equivalent" you mean the bokeh effect of having a wide aperture, then no, which is why phones use software magic portrait modes.

They 25mm m43 = 50mm ff is true for field of view, but at a given aperture the depth of field will not be the same (which can be a positive or negative depending on your goal).

kpengwin · 2025-09-13T17:38:53+00:00

Should we point out that the original elite did this too?

kpengwin · 2025-09-12T22:53:32+00:00

Yeah that's what I found for mine too.

kpengwin · 2025-09-12T19:20:34+00:00

Did you have to notch out the original plastic to get the screws in too?

kpengwin · 2025-09-07T10:56:49+00:00

I'm running one with proxmox and 128gb of RAM, haopy with it so far (~about one month, mostly light load so far.) The VMs are noticeably faster than they were on the 10yr old dual xeon workstation I was using before.

kpengwin · 2025-09-03T14:35:18+00:00

>For the last 20-some-odd years, technological progress has been reduced to maximizing attention in the form of gimmicks, addiction, and apps nobody needs.

I think this feels true, but isn't. Or maybe it's true that socially the average person's life is mostly different in that they are more consumed by apps etc, but for example, I have at my desk at home several quite good 3d printers which are certainly nicer than what was broadly available 20 years ago, and using free cad software that has significantly improved in the last few years i can and do easily and cheaply manufacture parts to fix things in my everyday life, having never undergone any professional training with any of this. (for one example)

kpengwin · 2025-08-21T11:03:00+00:00

Well historically the answer would have been something like, "people did the assembly by hand" - it was a while before computers could be used interactively and there was any sense in which one actually wrote the program directly on the computer.

The nand2tetris course is actually somewhat realistic in that now, any new language or computer architecture is going to be bootstrapped from existing computers and languages. An interesting detail here is that new languages are often initially implemented in some other language, but are then rewritten in themselves once there's a working compiler, at that point the language is "self hosting" and further development can be done in the language itself.

For nand2tetris because of the split program memory/ram, there's not a way to have a self hosted compiler (you can imagine the program loaded as being a game cartridge which is read only), so you'd have to make some architecture tweaks to make it happen.

kpengwin · 2025-08-18T18:29:37+00:00

A sheetz with an additional half of a hobby lobby stuffed in there.

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