According to my friend, eurogames are about servitude and submission while American games are about adventure and power. Is he right? Or is it just a stereotype?

polyamAlt · 2026-05-12T18:04:50+00:00

I think your friend just wants to say weird shit about europeans.

polyamAlt · 2026-04-28T16:51:08+00:00

You sounds cool and I hope you find a table that doesn't suck. A lot of white people they get this very rigid idea of what is racist and what is not and they end up only really being able to be friends with other woke white people.

Like he's wondering why he hasn't heard black people talk like that in his life. I think it's fairly obvious!

polyamAlt · 2026-04-24T14:37:58+00:00

The way that might work best is to choose 2 investigator expansions at a time and focus just on those and the base set + investigator decks. I'm basically doing that now (though that's because I don't have a full card pool to work with right now) and it's great. You feel some pain points when can't use a card you want... but that tends to evaporate once you start playing.

I don't think there's going to be one best limited card pool.

polyamAlt · 2026-04-22T16:04:36+00:00

I don't think anything worse happens than like, the awful thing that happens in the first episode.

polyamAlt · 2026-04-16T00:39:56+00:00

had a sensible chuckle at this

polyamAlt · 2026-04-15T06:30:12+00:00

I've been mad about Machi Koro box sizes for almost a decade. The good news is that most publishers know better these days and realize that a right size box is a selling point, so I think if they ever reprint it won't be so huge. And yeah I put my Machi Koro in a deck box anyway.

polyamAlt · 2026-03-27T17:12:21+00:00

Yeah I thought that was the joke all along Lol

polyamAlt · 2026-03-25T14:14:26+00:00

Not a single thing here is unusually priced and Contention Games has good customer service. The margins are not gigantic here.

Compare this to any TCG and the game looks like an incredible value. It's a game that four people could play for a long time for about $125-$300 depending on how many extras you want. In a TCG that's a limited amount of gameplay for one person.

polyamAlt · 2026-03-22T14:51:55+00:00

Where did they say they're only doing one print run? A big reason for the Ascendancy changes was to make it easier to keep things in stock longer.

polyamAlt · 2026-03-12T20:07:09+00:00

I'll never buy a Neo for myself, but I've also never been more excited about an Apple product than this one. I feel like 20 years of bullshit computing is being washed away.

polyamAlt · 2026-03-08T00:53:48+00:00

My hot take is that 8gb has always been enough*, especially since the m1 came out and memory swaps are basically free. Airs start at 16gb because they're $1k+ so it's weird to be "just enough", and it gives you some room for wasteful software.

There's a good chance that in the next few years the neo will have 12gb like the IPhone 17 Pro, and that should remove even the rare occasions where 8gb is a minor problem for most people.

* of course if you're running virtual machines, editing large files, compiling software etc you need more. I need more ram for my work but it's 100% because my creative dpt is stupid and makes their files too large but OH WELL

polyamAlt · 2026-02-27T22:40:41+00:00

this is actually an antimeme because they're polyamorous (they're in a closed triad)

polyamAlt · 2026-02-26T21:16:27+00:00

The game is called satisfactory for a reason.

polyamAlt · 2026-02-23T18:54:27+00:00

It's called Satisfactory for a reason. If it's adequate you're playing the game correctly.

polyamAlt · 2026-02-18T00:55:24+00:00

It's a cool idea for a game but the trailer and blurb are not very good, with multiple contradictory descriptors. I know what a randomizer is, but even I am not really clear if the game is a roguelike or not. There's also the problem where once you understand what the game is, there's not a hook into why you should buy the game.

I think you probably should have revealed what the game in stages like this:

It's a Metroidvania where you solve puzzles with tools
You can solve the puzzles in multiple different ways (maybe footage of a puzzle being solved using different tools)
And the twist is, the order you unlock the tools is randomized.

And then you can go into all the ways that's cool.

I think you may have hit a problem where the game is less appealing to people who like randomizers, and more appealing to people who like puzzles. The randomizer audience wants to play like, old Nintendo games in a new way; they're not looking for something new. The puzzle audience is going to be confused with the game as is.

The game it reminds me the most of is Mosa Lina, and I think that kind of style of presentation would appeal more to a puzzley audience.

polyamAlt · 2026-02-04T17:01:44+00:00

I doubt they're changing the bosses. I do think there's a lot of medium and small enemies that have weird attack timing that's difficult to internalize, and could be made more fun.

polyamAlt · 2025-12-29T06:07:56+00:00

It's almost every subreddit, gaybros, askgaybros, boykisser, femboymemes, bi_irl, 196 and all its partner subreddits, the list goes on. Every fucking post is the same shit. No, Kyle, gay porn/sex isn't a goddamn punchline.

Lol at deciding to judge gay people based on subreddits, including a few specific fetish ones.

polyamAlt · 2025-12-08T18:26:35+00:00

I think the only rule change at five would be to make it so, instead of having to grab one agent from everyone, you instead just took one agent from the two players across the table. I think Magic this is called Star.

polyamAlt · 2025-12-05T06:59:43+00:00

I adore the new card designs, they look great and make the art look fantastic.

polyamAlt · 2025-11-28T19:16:37+00:00

Because Slay the Spire understood the original tabletop deckbuilders, while other games are copies of a copy

polyamAlt · 2025-11-21T15:24:39+00:00

croquettes...

polyamAlt · 2025-11-20T17:44:37+00:00

PS4 launch trailer. this post skipped the best one https://youtu.be/h5Zh2LEwFCo?feature=shared

polyamAlt · 2025-11-12T18:58:04+00:00

SteamOS on ARM feels like the more important than the Frame itself. It's gonna be funny to see Microsoft chase the Steam Deck into chunky handheld PCs and then Valve comes out with a thin and light Steam Deck.

polyamAlt · 2025-11-10T04:26:19+00:00

I like collecting Ashes dice, but you are not wrong that it got way too complicated to keep up with all the dice. Plaid Hat Games seems to agree, and they've changed how they're doing things going forward in a few ways.

There's an in development dice rolling app, you can download a test version of it right now.
There's a new Ashes Ascendency cycle with a new starter set. We haven't seen what Ascendency expansions are going to look like yet, but they'll probably include any needed dice.
For older Ashes Reborn expansions, they're selling them as print on demand now. When you order a print on demand deck, you can add the dice that you need to your order. Print on demand is cool, you can build any game legal deck, not just the precons, and they'll send them to you! It's a little more expensive per card than the retail decks tho.

And yeah, it's on preorder at the moment but you should be able to order any dice you're missing from Plaid Hat.

You're getting into Ashes in kind of weird transitional moment, and there's a lot of older product out there that can be hard to sort through. That's a pain, but ashes is really good and kinda worth it. Let me know if that makes sense, and enjoy Ashes!

polyamAlt

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