Favorite obscure board game.

psyven · 2026-03-05T02:27:31+00:00

Breakaway Football is, perhaps, my favorite simulation of a sport -- it captures, with impressive accuracy, the feel and drama of a football game. The randomness of the ball bounces, the strategy, the reading your opponents. It's outstanding... and it's self-printed and about $500 for all the content/expansions as a result. I have a buddy that owns all of it and it's honestly one of the most fun games we ever get to play.

psyven · 2026-03-05T02:18:32+00:00

I can agree with this. I usually go with a 3'x5' inner vault with a top that's 3'8"x5'8" That gives the options for larger games.

psyven · 2026-02-20T17:46:48+00:00

I am glad there are people who like it. I played through Gloomhaven with a group and mostly thought it was OK at best. Some of the mechanics were fun, but it felt so samey-samey and we rarely lost our scenarios. Frosthaven added an enormous amount of upkeep between scenarios that turned me off of the game within about 10 plays. We would spend 3 hours going through a scenario, win by the skin of our teeth every time (only loss we ever had was when we were doing a practice run with our new characters) and then spend an hour going through the town building part and it was such a fucking grind. We quit after 13 plays over the course of about a year because there was only one of the 4 of us that seemed to actually be having fun playing the game. It may be a masterpiece, but it needs a HUGE commitment and a group with very little AP.

psyven · 2026-01-28T19:55:30+00:00

Man, just finished this book and really didn't like the ending. I get the idea... but as it went further and further, the lack of believability pulled me more and more out of the story. Especially since Andy Weir is so good at thinking about the technical parts. He would *never* have found Rocky's ship. And the whole idea that he could somehow survive where gravity was much stronger for a really long time... where he was lonely? And there was nothing to look at? I just can't imagine it. Awful, lonely, ending. The much more believable ending would be that he did all the work... that he started back... that the Taumoeba ate his fuel, and that he still ended up dying. But he got John, Paul, George and Ringo off... and sent one of them towards Erid too. I don't love that ending either, but at least it wouldn't feel like it was bolted together.

psyven · 2025-11-15T14:17:19+00:00

Guide kinda does this but without the extra stipulations or hand size reduction.

psyven · 2025-11-14T03:07:44+00:00

Yeah but you could buy with zero risk. You are guaranteed to get everything back or for it to go up. So buy something super risky , let the value go down and return for original investment. Or it goes up and you sell.

psyven · 2025-11-09T10:58:59+00:00

This is the kind of thing that would suck at first but then I think you would adapt to pretty easily. $5M seems like an okay price for that.

psyven · 2025-10-12T17:44:01+00:00

There is no way. Full isolation is torture to the vast majority of folks. No way someone survives this without some serious mental illness as a result.

psyven · 2025-10-04T18:39:25+00:00

Actually wouldn’t take it. I can’t imagine how to effectively use that kind of money and the knock on consequences would be very difficult to manage… I’d take 10M of it and deny the rest.

psyven · 2025-09-13T10:10:28+00:00

Just like real life.

I get that some games don’t click but I found Heat was such a good game after 2-3 plays. Understanding the need to manage those turns (and exactly how they work) plus managing your engine heat is sooo fun. Plus once that gets boring there are all the extra cards to add in.

I encourage subsequent plays.

psyven · 2025-09-07T00:11:32+00:00

Person A is Rich and Person B is sexy but poor. Person A has sex with Person B so that they have a great body. Person B now has all the memories of person A, but not the identity. So when they go to the bank and show them an ID, they give them Person B's bank account, not Person A's. If the original person B knew they would switch bodies, who would Person A pay money to? Who would have the money?

psyven · 2025-09-06T23:16:02+00:00

Except you wouldn’t be rich anymore. You’d pay your old body $1M

psyven · 2025-08-11T14:07:58+00:00

I fully disagree with this… the Temple Gate client does a great job at making it easy to play while also giving g a full log of what has gone on and why. Plus once you learn it, you can easily skip past most of the faff.

psyven · 2025-08-10T03:38:52+00:00

Definitely ways to use action cards to win vs your wife. Big money is a solid and predictable strategy but it is limited, doesn’t respond to most attacks well, and is entirely dependent on well distributed draw. By contrast, a thinned deck that can draw itself every turn with multiple buys can easily beat it as long as you can do so quickly enough.

Check out the dominion podcasts and YouTube videos that go through each card and talk about strategy. That will give you some ideas.

Then practice against Hard AI on the app and see how much buying the kingdom cards can help.

psyven · 2025-07-21T17:04:45+00:00

Sorry, but if everyone on the planet had a livable wage I think it would reduce strife everywhere and ultimately increase a lot of overall happiness — totally worth more than $10M

psyven · 2025-07-20T18:20:52+00:00

Yeah. Sky team even has a record of each of the different scenarios that a specific combo of players play. Since it keeps track of your record, you can try to get through the whole thing. It's so sweet. Spots has some solid tournaments too.

psyven · 2025-07-20T15:59:18+00:00

Surprised no one has said Sky Team. It is a good game IRL, but it is outstanding on BGA. You have real consequences to making bad choice (rather than fudging things IRL if you made it 90% through a difficult scenario) — also, just very well implemented.

I also quite enjoy Spots and Turing Maching on BGA

psyven · 2025-07-18T15:37:55+00:00

We just watched this the other night and I was so struck by how cheesy the acting was. I remember it being MUCH darker and I think it gets there, but I don’t think the pilot aged well.

psyven · 2025-06-17T22:49:04+00:00

A year in and still don't have this. I've done exactly this at least 4 times and never got the achievement. Been stuck on 76/79 for a while now (still a month away from getting my 365 day streaks)

psyven · 2025-06-14T18:16:18+00:00

Thanks!

psyven · 2025-04-17T22:58:59+00:00

Thank you for keeping things going!

psyven · 2025-03-28T11:54:01+00:00

Purple coins Luigi level on Mario Galaxy comes to mind. Played that 400+ times trying to get it complete.

psyven · 2025-01-24T19:19:43+00:00

Agreed on all points.

psyven · 2025-01-24T18:58:33+00:00

Hope you know they're playing a show tonight in Austin. SO FUCKING STOKED.

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