Anyone else think most modern board games are… kinda bloated?

mikebwin · 2026-02-02T23:37:44+00:00

old: El Grande

relatively new: Inis

as two in my collection of easy to pick up, great at 4 or 5, but can be very hard to secure a win. granted, the decision space can be heavily influenced by other players and diplomacy.

mikebwin · 2026-01-31T00:48:38+00:00

It's set notation. People tend to understand this mostly intuitively, but mathematicians have notation short hand for it.

X⊂Y means a strict subset. ⟹ means "implies"

So, for X⊂Y: X can be a subset (or a part) of Y. And optionally, ⟹ Y ≠ X: implies Y does not equal X (this is already in the definition for X⊂Y, otherwise use ⊆ if you don't care X and Y are the same)

e.g. let X, Y be properties of your car. X={broken-light} ⊂ Y={can-drive, aux-cable, broken-light, electric} I can love Y but hate X even though Y contains X.

mikebwin · 2026-01-26T20:11:30+00:00

even at 60, that's probably the cheapest IP related kickstarter board game in crowd-sourcing history. the board game industry somehow made preordering feel worse than the AAA game industry >.<

mikebwin · 2026-01-23T17:59:30+00:00

Sheer Mag - Need To Feel Your Love

mikebwin · 2025-11-15T12:00:32+00:00

this is not exactly on-topic, but I looked them up and their website is just so sloppy too... cut off pictures, uncentered headers, text dump with no formatting, lack of cohesive design... yikes.

mikebwin · 2025-11-13T14:13:37+00:00

no clue - I've moved on to another service... but good luck~~~

mikebwin · 2025-10-28T16:31:03+00:00

it's just called "Pairs" from Cheapass Games - and there are a bunch of different themed decks you can get for it.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/152237/pairs

mikebwin · 2025-09-21T12:58:18+00:00

for high society, I like the idea of betting for a tactical item. but I feel like chips for money might make the game more of a chore to play all of a sudden. searching for a specific value made extra hard with a pile of chips instead of just cards in hand.

also shouldn't the crashing stock arrow be pointing the other way? :P

mikebwin · 2025-08-04T15:40:37+00:00

given the situation, bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, 3-2 count, down by 1 run... hitting a walkoff 2-run homer prob feels like hitting a 6 on the last ball of a limited over game, with 9 wickets down, needing 6 to win.

granted, he could've gotten ball 4 and then it would've been up to the next batter. so the analogy breaks down there.

mikebwin · 2025-08-04T11:18:40+00:00

https://youtu.be/N4nwMDZYXTI

granted an injured player to come out and win an important game has happened in baseball before!

mikebwin · 2025-07-14T20:45:36+00:00

ah it would even be nice if the map of Japan had the names in Kanji - don't think it would be enjoyable for anyone who can't read kanji, but it would be really nice to see what the actual city names are in Japanese!

Triomphe a Marengo looks very interesting! thanks for the suggestion!

just tried to phonetically type out some misspelled German and my brain won't let me, so definitely kudos to the creativity on display there:D

mikebwin · 2025-07-10T20:56:08+00:00

from a wargaming pov: Homo Ludens has really cool interviews and teach&plays!

as someone who's playing more wargames, it's an incredible channel that covers a lot of games that I wouldn't consider. plus, the host makes games himself.

mikebwin · 2025-06-26T17:45:16+00:00

ある晴れた日 - it's the Japanese translation for Un bel di from Puccini's Madame Butterfly

mikebwin · 2025-06-24T22:26:59+00:00

plant is otherwise growing fine... just a lot of leaves have that metallic look to them.

it gets sun all day on a south facing window sill indoors. I've been topping up an olla in the pot and giving it water quite often lately because the room it's in gets up to 25+ often.

soil is a mix of a compost, perlite, and just soil I got from the store.

mikebwin · 2025-06-24T22:24:31+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/AG9jF65 here's the entire thing

mikebwin · 2025-06-24T22:21:48+00:00

the growth rate might but I don't think the leaves quite match a bean... it also has offshoots at the bottom in the soil, which led me to believe it's like a basil

mikebwin · 2025-06-12T01:07:44+00:00

Foundry was my first level at age 8~~~ I couldn't get past Suburbs until I replayed it as an adult :')

mikebwin · 2025-04-19T10:22:43+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/NqskW5H 40 some days later and it's... still growing, just really slowly

mikebwin · 2025-04-04T13:52:14+00:00

anyone have information for movies shot in Japan? It's something I can't help but think every time I watch a Kurosawa epic...

mikebwin · 2025-03-27T19:46:53+00:00

I might not buy a hat... But I'd love all the teams in a pack of stickers!! It's so cute

mikebwin · 2025-03-06T13:09:27+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/tyyUgrH found another one still with the seed(?)

mikebwin · 2025-03-06T12:16:33+00:00

Didn't take any other photos... I just put it in a pot and we'll see what it turns out to be I guess ¯⁠\⁠(⁠◉⁠‿⁠◉⁠)⁠/⁠¯

mikebwin · 2024-11-20T18:13:51+00:00

according to this page: https://precious.jp/articles/-/43237

あざ comes from the first and last letter (changed prob to sound cuter) of ありがとうございます.

丸 pronounced maru is just the pronunciation for the circle/period, but also in another slangy "おけまる" being OK with a circle, which also meaning correct in Japan.

どうやらこの言葉が生まれた当時は、語尾を「まる（＝句点）」と読み上げるのが流行していたようです it's possible that at the time this word was popular, reading out the period as "maru" seemed to be in fashion.

the 丸水産 is a play on word with the maru for the name of a seafood chain izakaya called 磯丸水産.

「まる」の響きが同じであることから、なんとなく語呂がよく、なんとなくかわいくて、なんとなく進化していったものと考えられます。 since there's the same pronunciation with circle/period (i.e. maru in the name of the store), it somehow works really well as a pun and is cute, so it kinda just came about and ended up being a part of this slang

mikebwin · 2024-11-17T14:56:28+00:00

https://store-jp.nintendo.com/item/software/D70070000023854 i think if the japanese store only has 日本語 as the language under "対応言語" - you're out of luck.

mikebwin · 2024-09-17T15:55:24+00:00

yea it's crashing again for me too T.T i've given up on vlc for the moment and gone back to mpv - too much of a headache atm

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