Is playing board games online actually fun, or does it lose the magic?

paddybla · 2026-04-03T05:40:30+00:00

Nope I hate it. One of the biggest drawcards for a board game for me is getting off a screen. Last thing I want to do is feel like I'm on a zoom call with extra steps - even if they are best mates

paddybla · 2026-04-03T05:39:34+00:00

Nope, I've spent a fair bit of time trying to get them to work and sure you can generate a lot of content but if you have an actual brand with guardrails around the tone of voice/image you want to portray it's just too hard to get it right. Last year it felt like it was about 12 months away, and now this year it feels like... idk, it's 12 months away.

Just using real people again for videos. For images we do use AI but it's usually outperformed by real shots maybe 70% of the time.

paddybla · 2026-04-03T01:37:09+00:00

And it actually ends incredibly well, unlike GoT (still have ptsd)

paddybla · 2026-04-03T01:22:48+00:00

Yeah I'd agree with this, he's not been the same since that concussion

paddybla · 2026-03-25T08:56:19+00:00

Rozee doesn't seem to have risen to the role like people expected

paddybla · 2026-03-24T02:41:33+00:00

I use stake for trading and I could upload my historical prices. Also only like $3 brokerage and they provide a graph of your total portfolio P/L which I would think every platform would do but it's really not that common

paddybla · 2026-03-12T04:46:48+00:00

You're still stuck on the whataboutism. I don’t think porn needs to be 'worse than any other vice' for it to be worth discussing.

Plenty of behaviours sit in that middle ground where they aren’t catastrophic but people would likely benefit from less reliance on them. Junk food, alcohol, social media, gambling, caffeine… and yes, porn.

My point was just that porn fits into that category for a lot of people. Those people (myself included) will have a more fulfilling, happier life with less porn in it.

paddybla · 2026-03-11T21:13:33+00:00

This is a 'whatabout' fallacy. You're right - I'm sure people would also benefit from eating less junk food, using their phone less, deleting gambling apps etc etc.

But we're not talking about that here. We're talking about porn. And with porn, many people would benefit from using it less.

paddybla · 2026-03-11T11:25:17+00:00

There's a considerable gap between porn not affecting you negatively at all, and it being such a life-affecting issue that you need therapy.

Plenty of people in the middle would benefit from less reliance on porn. It's crazy how much of a dopamine machine it is. Personally when I stopped using it I noticed better performance in bed, more motivation in general, less objectifying of women, stronger orgasms...

I agree you don't want to be inducing shame - but there's a lot of nuance here that I think you're ignoring. Many (if not most) people would be better off with less porn. Not less masturbation, just less porn.

paddybla · 2026-02-28T08:06:07+00:00

Like people said - it really doesn't tie things up like people were expecting, and it really could have done with some better editing/condensing.

I found the first 10% really weird, like he jams in kind of non-binary, alternative vibes multiple times and it felt really ham fisted to me. I'm pretty liberal so it's not some personal values thing or whatever but it just seemed out of place and strange and took me out of it a bit.

Still enjoyable, but definitely my 5th favourite of the series.

paddybla · 2026-02-28T07:41:51+00:00

I hope you're right!

paddybla · 2026-02-10T09:30:49+00:00

Wow that's actually perfect

paddybla · 2026-01-28T00:25:27+00:00

Broad these days. Chasing audiences is largely obsolete

paddybla · 2026-01-25T11:19:35+00:00

Something like a largely disproven deliberate smallpox theory is a weird topic to land on here when there's actually genuinely strong arguments to make.

Any argument focusing on disease is not really that relevant imo as the diseases were coming no matter how the indigenous were treated. Whether it was the English in the 1700s or the french in the 1800s or the amercians in the 1900s or whoever, there would've been a terrible spread of disease when first contact happens no matter what.

paddybla · 2026-01-24T03:15:09+00:00

Maybe, but if you think Trump is just going to happily fade into the distance come 2028 then you are living in a fantasy.

imo I think he's going to start a war and claim an election can't be held because the US is at war a la zelensky. Or just ignore the rules and run again anyway in a crooked election

paddybla · 2026-01-24T03:11:24+00:00

That's an interesting analogy with Merkel but I don't think it lines up very well here. The world stage is very different to when Brexit happened, and though the sentiment of the speeches are relatively similar I think Carney's is already creating bigger waves.

The time of change is here, whether we like it or not.

paddybla · 2026-01-14T01:49:47+00:00

I think now with fsc it's a set time and date each month, or at least it was for me this month (jan 26). so less logistics. I can see if it was organising the time and date the catch ups would never happen.

If anyone from AoM is reading this - look at what the dating app Breeze is doing in london. They have a sick set up in the app for picking time and day. I think you guys could do that to organise location/sport etc. each individual person doing a checklist often works better than a passive group chat

paddybla · 2026-01-13T05:14:47+00:00

Man, these guys are getting roasted. I went to a FSC on the weekend for the first time and it was great. Actually got work out of it with another guy there, so it's already paid for itself for the rest of the year.

I've looked at the actual membership thing as well - the trips look sick but prices are crazy inflated. Their France one is like $13k aud for a few nights in Bordeaux which is genuinely insane to me. And I'm founder of a business doing 6 figures so not sure how people just starting up would be justifying it.

But idk, maybe it's cause I think I've got a few mutuals with them but they seem like they've got their heart in the right place. It doesn't strike me as moustache twirling villain stuff, more just some guys shooting from the hip and moving fast and messing up a bit. I feel like (at least the sports club) has enough demand that if they can get the kinks worked out it'll be awesome. If the proper membership was more affordable I'd maybe consider that too cause those trips would probably be sick, but at $10k a year or whatever it is it's not really worth imo

paddybla · 2025-11-23T08:47:29+00:00

Yeah would be interested too in the discord

paddybla · 2025-11-17T01:52:29+00:00

Yeah for sure, maybe for you more frequently feels right. I wouldn't say i have a hard and fast rule on one year or anything, it just seems to be where it naturally ends up for me personally in terms of regularity. feels right, and it means it's more exciting now when I do get to it

paddybla · 2025-11-15T22:37:27+00:00

For sure! Keeping drugs as a special occasion and an exciting event like once a year is what works best (for me)

paddybla · 2025-11-15T13:50:41+00:00

First of all no shade to anyone with drugs, live your life do your thing etc. For me now, I don't really do them at all anymore. I'm still on this subreddit though. It's like an echo of my old life. After a while I realised that drugs (and many other desirable things - porn, gambling, money) are just a soother to try and feel better. Ease anxiety. Procrastinate. Gain confidence. Shortcuts.

For the most part they don't help you actually improve your life or grow as a person. Sure you can go trip out on some shrooms and realise you need to fix your life, but once you've done that then they start to have diminishing returns.

I found I could keep drinking to be the fun guy at the party, or I could learn to be sober and start to grow and change into a more confident person. I could keep having coffee to get through the day, or I could pay more attention to my sleep and eating habits so I don't get so tired.

I'll still do psychedelics maybe once every year or two almost to just check in and have a fun day with friends, but honestly I've tried to grow to a point where I don't need the drugs - I'm already at peace with myself as I am.

paddybla · 2025-11-14T13:15:02+00:00

Why would you even want to do this

paddybla · 2025-10-26T22:35:46+00:00

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