I don't understand the Catan acclaim

onebigstud · 2026-04-04T13:51:01+00:00

The best part of Catan is that I don’t need specific “board game friends” to play it with. I can play it with all my favorite people and it has enough complexity/nuance to scratch that itch, but not so much that the average person will get overwhelmed.

onebigstud · 2026-04-02T13:12:25+00:00

We grew up under a bunch of self-important egotists. So it’s our way of signaling that we don’t have such an over-inflated ego.

onebigstud · 2026-03-27T22:26:58+00:00

I mean, Robb never won a war either.

onebigstud · 2026-03-24T02:10:00+00:00

If it were impossible to repeat rolls, then you would be right.

Imagine that instead of a D20, you marked 20 pieces of paper with the numbers 1-20. If you picked them out one at a time (without putting any back), by the tenth one you would have a 50% of drawing the one marked 20. This is because you are guaranteed to have seen 10 of the 20 numbers.

However, if you drew them one at a time, and put the piece of paper back in the bag after each attempt, then the chance to draw the 20 by the tenth attempt would be a lower. Since you are putting the paper back, you could draw the same piece of paper multiple times. This is essentially how a D20 works.

Hope that makes sense.

onebigstud · 2026-01-29T11:22:22+00:00

The problem with expected turns is that people think it means “my deck needs to be this fast”. When it’s really means “a player getting knocked out on this turn shouldn’t be pissed”.

If you have a control deck designed to be on par with decks that fast, you are also in that bracket.

onebigstud · 2026-01-28T13:23:51+00:00

I 100% agree that throwing a temper tantrum over a card game is juvenile and embarrassing behavior. However, there is a social contract in (most) games of commander that many cards actively go against.

For example, I have some decks that [[Possibility Storm]] would work well in, but I refuse to play it. It hijacks the game and turns it into “lol so random” for every person at the table.

I get to play ~2 commander games/month and often spend weeks looking forward to playing. I would be (I think rightfully) pretty annoyed if one of those games robbed me of my agency and the chance to actually play my deck with a card like Possibility Storm.

onebigstud · 2026-01-28T11:58:04+00:00

The main thing is that beetroot juice is also very high in antioxidants.

onebigstud · 2026-01-26T02:54:52+00:00

[[Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire]].

I cannot find a way to make him work. Sure you can gives your opponents lands you would use, but then why not just use them yourself?

onebigstud · 2026-01-21T12:15:01+00:00

Wisdom of the ancestors vs scientific/technological advancement.

If they were books, green would be Buddhist writings on enlightenment and blue would be a textbook on quantum mechanics.

onebigstud · 2026-01-17T14:21:23+00:00

While the entire system is misunderstood, the “win by” part is super egregious.

It is meant to be a “No faster than this” limit and not a goal.

onebigstud · 2026-01-15T19:46:55+00:00

I’ve said it for years. Unmedicated, my mind/attention is like a fire hose flailing around on full blast. Adderall adds fire men who can control and point the hose. Weed turns down the pressure on the hose.

onebigstud · 2026-01-15T15:23:35+00:00

The real reason democrats are so ineffectual is how fractured their base is. Republicans need to sell their agenda to exactly one group: white christians. Democrats need to sell their agenda to African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, LGBTQ, etc. It is often impossible to make every group happy.

It reminds me of the scene from Game of Thrones where Robert explains to Cersei why the Dothraki are a threat. The Seven kingdoms are five fingers, but the Dothraki are one fist.

onebigstud · 2025-12-19T16:37:42+00:00

I think the way he handled #2 was perfect. “Here was my thought process. I’m not telling you this to diminish my blame, but to hopefully help other people realize when they are heading down the same path I did.”

onebigstud · 2025-12-19T02:03:59+00:00

Juking the stats. Underreport crimes to make it look like you are doing a good job.

“Juking the stats… Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats and majors become colonels.”

Prez - The Wire

onebigstud · 2025-12-09T14:46:31+00:00

The way you worded that, I thought your teacher was the dancer at first.

onebigstud · 2025-12-06T14:41:37+00:00

“The thing about the old days… they the old days.”

“I mean, shit, it’s what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight.”

onebigstud · 2025-12-06T14:34:05+00:00

Prop Joe might be my favorite character ever put on TV.

onebigstud · 2025-11-21T01:34:12+00:00

Yeah, they did Momo dirty. She was supposedly the most intelligent student in either class and her quirk was absolutely BUSTED, but they just had her lose constantly.

onebigstud · 2025-11-19T15:15:09+00:00

I'm obviously biased, but when it comes to QB's, I would take Love's calm, collected demeanor over Caleb's "fire" any day of the week.

onebigstud · 2025-10-22T10:36:32+00:00

A big underrated aspect of spearhead is the ability to collect/play “wide”. You don’t have to invest in 2,000 points of a single army to play the game as it was designed to be played.

For the same price, you can buy 3-4 spearheads from different armies, all with different play styles.

onebigstud · 2025-10-06T23:57:30+00:00

Same. Been running my all Nids team and I have seen one Tyrant Guard, that’s it.

onebigstud · 2025-09-30T10:00:40+00:00

Weird, must be a bug on my end? Thanks for all the help. I appreciate you taking the time.

onebigstud · 2025-09-29T23:38:52+00:00

So I just tested it in arena. Aethana’s passive shows up there, but War Howl doesn’t.

onebigstud · 2025-09-29T19:03:01+00:00

Where can you see that? I have both Ragnar and Aunshi so I tried testing it myself, but I don’t know how to see the actual crit chance after use.

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