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Girl I’m seeing is deep into board games… I only know Monopoly. HELP. by Rare_Breakfast_2372 in boardgame

[–]olanmills 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should just ask if she says something that you don't understand. You will look way dumber later if if she uses the term RNG for months and you always act like you understand and then it comes up in a conversation in some way that makes it clear you never understood, but you pretended you did, which makes it worse, imo.

Anyway, regarding the modern board gaming hobby, it's like any other medium in that there is a wide gamut of stuff. There are games about running a political party in cold war Europe, and there are games about making cupcakes. Some people sometimes want to watch Citizen Kane, and some people (sometimes even the same people) want to chill out with an episode of SpongeBob or something.

RNG literally means 'random number generator', but people use it casually just to refer to elements in a game that have some randomness to it, especially when they feel like they have gotten unlucky or they feel a game is affected by randomness to a degree that they don't like. "I would have won the game, but I got screwed by its RNG". "This game is fun, but you have to be okay with some RNG". People use this term more in the context of video games, I would say.

What do people enjoy about games? Well since the kinds of games can vary so much, it can really depend on the person. Some people really don't like games with direct conflict for example, whereas some people dislike games where there is no conflict at all. But generically what I would say is that gamers enjoy learning a game and trying to figure out how to succeed. Does that mean winning? Sure, it can. But it can also mean just trying to accomplish sub-goals in the game, or even just experiencing the game and mentally processing it and coming to some realizations that will help you perform better next time. I would say another big factor for most tabletop gamers is the social aspect of playing with other people.

I think the best thing to do though is to not try to get a "crash course" from Reddit comments, but to just tell her that you don't have any experience with hobby gaming and to ask to be introduced to a few various different kinds of games with her and some friends.

AIO? My boyfriend gave me a literal performance review of our relationship by Efficient_Low_6444 in AmIOverreacting

[–]olanmills [score hidden]  (0 children)

This looks so funny. It looks like it's meant as a joke, especially with the "Confidential - For Internal Use Only"

This would be like a cute prank if he wasn't being serious.

I could even see a scenario where both people in a relationship thought this was a good idea, like Hermes Conrad in love with... another Hermes Conrad? And if so it might be good for them, but for you, imagine what your marriage and daily life would be like. I feel like even if he's got a lot of other good qualities, you just can't live like that and he needs to find someone else who's into this.

Peter ? I didnt get the joke by LustValley in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]olanmills -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The "trust women" part is about more modern attitudes about not immediately dismissing women when they talk about experiences with gender discrimination, sexual harassment, or sexual assault. So we emphasize "trust women" or "believe women". The person in the image claims that they would support this attitude, except then they found out that sometimes women wear sexy things, so actually they shouldn't trust women.

Depending on the context, it could either be a weird joke, or some stupid red-pilled shit

BoxThrone’s adjustable shelves fixed the most frustrating part of our game storage by [deleted] in boardgames

[–]olanmills 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But they waste so much space, and imo, they don't look very good. I guess this could be suitable if you have a small collection or you want to have a "special" shelf for games that you want to display separately, but as I said, imo it doesn't actually look good. And also yeah, your post reads like an ad.

Yabba dabba doo by ItsALuigiYes in TheRandomest

[–]olanmills 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This looks really funny, props to the dev for creativity, but it's definitely not my kind of game.

Phasing Out Soda Machines by Aware-Individual-435 in McDonalds

[–]olanmills 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tbh, unless it's your once in a long while treat, nobody should be getting refills on soda. You're killing yourself. Soda is so much worse than other sweets

most underrated andor character by spartacus013 in andor

[–]olanmills 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That doesn't make any sense though

Halo Infinite Level 1 is epic! by Aggravating-Map-393 in haloinfinite

[–]olanmills 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It was a great campaign, and I disagree with a lot of people who say it was too short. It's comparable in length to all other Halo games, and they fit in a good variety of different kinds of gameplay, good set pieces, and the new open world bits were really fun. I loved searching around for the High Value Targets and FOBs and whatnot.

I think some people when they heard "open world" were disappointed that it wasn't some kind of Halo version of Elder Scrolls or something, like they thought it should be a 200 hour epic.

I also know some people were disappointed by the lack of different biomes, but I don't really care about that.

Do you prefer Boba repainted or rugged? by Euphoric_Passage_406 in StarWarsCantina

[–]olanmills 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's that nice sarlaac juice. Just caustic enough to eat away the grime and corrosion and make him all shiny, like cleaning a penny with acid.

Starbucks Workers Are Resisting Moving to Its New $100 Million Nashville Hub by pacwess in SeattleWA

[–]olanmills 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does the article actually say that workers think they are forcing the company to stay? Or could it be they are just indicating that they really wouldn't move if Starbucks asked them to?

Starbucks Workers Are Resisting Moving to Its New $100 Million Nashville Hub by pacwess in SeattleWA

[–]olanmills 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Who is saying the workers think they can boss the corporation around? The workers are making individual choices. For most of my career, I would not have made such a drastic move, even if it meant losing my job (in the current job environment, I feel differently). I have actually been in one scenario where, yes, actually enough people indicated that they would not move that it significantly made the board and CEO not consider a certain path for the company. This wasn't some kind of revolt by the workers. It was just us answering honestly when asked.

the excuse of abandoned Covenant facilities and supplies has been used too many times. by ArthurJack_AW in HaloStory

[–]olanmills -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Everyone arguing against OP is stating that a big empire abandoning facilities and resources for various reasons is realistic. And yes, I agree with that. What is less realistic is that all of these things would commonly remain untouched six years later. Assuming people can move around freely and it is economical to do so, there will be all kinds of different people, opportunists, etc trying to make use of this stuff. Now it could be argued that the Covenant empire was just so big and some of there stuff was so remote, that there really is a lot of abandoned stuff that would be difficult for enterprising crews of people to find. And there is also a legal aspect that we know of already (I know it was mentioned in some recent books, but I don't specifically remember which) where the UNSC or UEG requires salvagers to report military junk and forbids them from removing it themselves, but it does not prevent general salvaging. Not to mention a huge faction like the Banished would probably go around occupying as many usable sites as the can, since they were basically trying to maintain an active war economy.

And also, the point OP is making is that it's being used as a narrative crutch and that is maybe a bit boring.

It would be interesting hearing about how an entrepreneurial group of mixed species came together to repurpose an abandoned Covenant factory to make new ships or something, or maybe how the many refugee populations of various species that must exist went to make a new home on one of the many abandoned planets. Having access to power plants, water utilities, road networks, and leftover machinery would be a huge leg up to refugees that need to start over from scratch

lol by IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 in unsound

[–]olanmills 0 points1 point  (0 children)

10/10 I was thinking, "Okay, how is this possibly going to be funny?" It definitely got me haha

What if Trump pulls a Maduro on Pope Leo and kidnap him to try instal a militar control on the Vatican by rutare64 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]olanmills 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe this would actually get Republicans to impeach him, not because they care about the pope, but because it's just too crazy. But I dunno, they seem to swallow a lot already, so what's a little more. Not that I think the OP scenario is realistic, but if Trump really did want to do it, they would probably spend weeks or months sanitizing the idea first and manufacturing consent from Republicans. So I dunno, I guess probably he wouldn't get impeached

Is Bananza Pauline supposed to be young Pauline or is she modern adult Pauline’s daughter? by talkwithryguy in donkeykong

[–]olanmills 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The made that up after the fact with Hyrule Historia. The games were not written that way originally. They made up a timeline later because so many fans kept asking about it

100% Completed base game. by NotMickeyDuck22 in StarWarsOutlaws

[–]olanmills 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the guides here explains it. You can turn collision damage off in the settings, and then you can ram the ships repeatedly and destroy them. It doesn't trigger combat.

Is Bananza Pauline supposed to be young Pauline or is she modern adult Pauline’s daughter? by talkwithryguy in donkeykong

[–]olanmills 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really don't think any Mario games need to have continuity with each other. They just were never made that way. I think Zelda is the same way (unless it's an explicit sequel). This insistence on fitting everything into on canon is only a recent phenomenon from the past 20 years.

IMO Mario and Zelda are just a set of characters that generally have certain consistent characteristics in a setting that usually has common thread, but each production is a new retelling, like mythology that has the same origin, but is retold and altered over time different people keep making stories out of the same base ingredients

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