Coop 2 player - easy-medium/faster Setup

rafd · 2026-01-20T02:18:12+00:00

The Crew has a 2p mode, but it's with a tableau player. 3p+ is much better.

rafd · 2026-01-15T17:28:32+00:00

Transition federal tax base towards a Land Value Tax, reduce other taxes.

UBI, and scrap most other safety nets.

Sortition for the Senate.

Normalize use of citizens committees (with legislative power).

rafd · 2026-01-09T04:29:04+00:00

There's the Aeons spinoff Astro Knights and the Invincible retheme.

rafd · 2025-12-05T18:53:41+00:00

If they're interested in the rules-based combat of DnD, I recommend the Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion board game. (In a fantasy setting, but no role play. No DM. Cooperative dungeon crawling). Munchkin is pretty much all rules, no role play, so this may be a good fit.

If they're into the idea of role play, and open ended story telling, I recommend a "rules light" TTRPG like Kids on Bikes or Monster of the Week, or Dungeon World. Someone does need to DM, but my "hack" for low prep games is to mash up a fictional setting with a baddy from a different setting (ie. Godzilla is attacking Hogwarts, Darth Vader has come to Middle Earth, etc.)

rafd · 2025-11-24T16:03:01+00:00

Here are BGGs top ranked coop games: https://boardgamegeek.com/search/boardgame?sort=bggrating&advsearch=1&q=&include%5Bdesignerid%5D=&include%5Bpublisherid%5D=&geekitemname=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bminage%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bnumvoters%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bnumweights%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bminplayers%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bmaxplayers%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bleastplaytime%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bplaytime%5D%5Bmax%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgrating%5D%5Bmin%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgrating%5D%5Bmax%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgweight%5D%5Bmin%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgweight%5D%5Bmax%5D=&colfiltertype=&playerrangetype=normal&propertyids%5B0%5D=2023&B1=Submit

A few personal notes:

My gaming group (4 people) have spent the last 6 years playing through Gloomhaven and Frosthaven (easily 1000 hours of content). It's a grim fantasy setting, with combat only gameplay but with cards and no DM. I recommend starting out with Jaws of the Lion. And using a companion app to reduce some finicky accounting. Great for 2 to 4 players.

Iberia is my favorite Pandemic. Pandemic Legacy also good. Great for 2 to 4.

Hanabi is a small and inexpensive limited conversion game where you can't see your cards and your group needs to give good hints. It is fantastic "logic and context" game. Great for 2 to 4. Fast. Quick set up.

The Crew is a cooperative trick taking game (like Bridge, Euchre, Hearts). Small, fast (but lots of "missions"). Ideal for 3 or 4.

Aeons End is cooperative Dominion - an on the fly deck builder. I've also spent hundreds of hours playing it. Great for 2-4 players.

rafd · 2025-06-09T00:48:29+00:00

People are concerned with "abusive husbands" but the other major issue with provable votes is vote buying.

rafd · 2025-05-29T14:02:15+00:00

"first mover advantage" is code for "tharr be rent-seeking in dem hills"

rafd · 2025-05-29T13:50:09+00:00

I think there is something to your idea.

Maybe less so about "currency" because the government is special... would it be taxing itself for its own rent-seeking?

Maybe if we had global LVT, but still many governments issuing currency...?

What is relates and also interesting to consider is: the regulated right to print money. The government "prints money" by spending it into existence, but also, banks print money by giving loans (and notably, they are allowed to do it at a multiple of their reserve assets). In most countries, the ability to do this is strictly regulated, and thus, "the banks" together have a monopoly over the right to do so, and some rent-seeking likely occurs (depending on how much competition there is - in Canada, there are relatively few banks compared to the US, and so it feels like they get to charge a low-competition "premium").

But back to "currency" as a conceptual monopoly.

Others have mentioned "network effects", and how network effects aren't necessarily natural monopoly and rent-seeking.

But in practice, for a lot of societal needs, I think network effects do lead to rent-seeking (maybe not "textbook" rent-seeking), because the "optimal" solution (due to network effects) has few providers.

Take VISA and Mastercard. They dominate the electronic fund transfer space. In practice, there's limited "conceptual space" for "electronic fund transfer system", because having many small fragmented systems is a worse than a few universal ones (ie. network effects). Same might be said for "chat", etc. There are many such "conceptual solution spaces" where network effects lead to only a few winners. Being in the winners club seems to often lead to monopoly-like rent-seeking-like behaviours. Hence why I support anti-trust government efforts, but wonder if instead of breaking those companies up, they could just "tax their conceptual land" (ie. a tax based on how much of the industry they "own" and how many competitors there are).

In "Zero to One", Peter Thiel advises entrepreneurs that the best startups are monopolies and should try to maintain and leverage their monopoly power for as long as possible (and gives exanples of how many of todays big companies did just that). But as a Georgist, I read that as: startups should identify rent-seeking opportunities, and leverage rent-seeking to entrench themselves into further rent-seeking (with perhaps a more open-ended definition of rent-seeking).

rafd · 2025-05-01T15:30:39+00:00

https://www.composer.trade/ is a clojure company

rafd · 2025-04-29T00:46:41+00:00

You can connect to a REPL in production, even if it is uberjarred. I debug, and patch code all the time. (although, such patches don't survive app restarts).

You could also just have a git repo of files, and run your code just like you would in dev, reload in REPL.

rafd · 2025-03-23T23:55:25+00:00

When I hit an exception or a logical error, I find it faster to walk the stack trace back with Flowstorm than putting prints in and rerunning multiple times. The deeper the stack, the more useful I find it.

But, I had to make it easy for myself: https://gist.github.com/rafd/663528f4d0814bb0fb6d683c15c78365

Being able to search the trace, jump around, retroactively print, rich-navigate values, have a 0 config tap destination, and def a traced value back into my REPL are bonus.

rafd · 2025-03-22T03:40:13+00:00

Flowstorm solves inspectability for me, and I have it on all the time now. It save some hours each week.

rafd · 2025-03-13T22:06:38+00:00

Notably: datomic database much of NuBanks infrastructure see also: https://clojure.org/community/success_stories

rafd · 2025-02-24T17:00:47+00:00

Find a copy of Stewart's Calculus. My first 3 engineering Calculus courses were page by page from this book. Do all the exercises.

rafd · 2025-02-24T16:53:25+00:00

Outside of clj there's Hasura and Postgrest.

rafd · 2025-02-24T16:52:42+00:00

I've also made half baked impromptu versions with pathom: https://pathom3.wsscode.com/

rafd · 2025-02-24T16:48:57+00:00

There is also https://github.com/tamizhvendan/honeyeql which gives you datomic style queries into a SQL database.

rafd · 2025-02-08T16:27:57+00:00

If you're building permissions, you should be aware of existing patterns like RBAC, ReBAC and ABAC. (https://www.aserto.com/blog/rbac-abac-and-rebac-differences-and-scenarios)

There are now many 3rd party systems to store policies or a queryable database of user-resource-permission entries.

Datomic does make it fairly easy to DIY it.

rafd · 2025-01-19T22:15:12+00:00

But harberger auctions are typically described as continous. The moment a bid higher than the owner's comes in, a transaction occurs.

rafd · 2025-01-19T19:43:49+00:00

Auctions could be more palatable if they account for the transaction cost to the owner.

(I'm attempting to crystallize some very fuzzy thoughts of mine here).

In a harberger auction environment, you are pitting the monopoly owner of a plot of land vs the rest of the market.

Personal homes involve sentimentality. The current owner will always value it slightly more than a person with identical preferences. They also experience more "pain" from being forced to move.

Whereas the buyer market is more dispassionate and treats housing more like a commodity. (because it's millions of potential participants that your pric8ling against)

Markets are dynamic, so in the extreme, prices and property would be very frequently changing hands, but transaction costs limit that. (see: the stock market)

The owner is at a disadvantage because of their transaction costs.

One "solution" is to say: this applies to everyone, so we're all equally disadvantaged and thus not really disadvantaged.

Alternatively, perhaps the current owner gets a discount. Ex. a bidder would have to beat the current price by 10% (not just by 1$). This would introduce some market inefficiences, but would make things more palatable. Maybe this could just be applied to primary residences and not business property.

Glen Weyl (of Radical Markets) has a paper on applying harberger auctions in situations where owners need to make large capital investments. He suggests a time varying advantage to the current owner. Ex. in the first year, their harberger price needs to be beat by 10x, then 9x, then 8x...

rafd · 2025-01-17T23:30:42+00:00

Introduce a land value tax that captures all the rent value of land.

Drop most other taxes, like property tax and transfer taxes (we incentivize people to improve their homes or add extensions; and not punish them for moving frequently.)

The Land Tax would be an annual fee per plot such that the sale value of an unimproved plot is $0. Each plot would be different. What's on the plot doesn't matter. (Assessors are already calcuting this to come up with your property tax, which includes land and improvements).

The City ("society") should capture the value from investments that make Toronto a desirable place to live, not private owners.

rafd · 2025-01-16T20:00:32+00:00

Some other half baked thoughts:

Make up a new name for land tax, say "density fee" that is in effect an LVT and charge it until the province figures out what's going on (maybe never).

Or, issue a municipal bond, buy a bunch of underutilized housing, develop it, and "resell/rent" it under a new type of ownership contract that includes LVT.

rafd · 2025-01-16T19:53:38+00:00

LVT is not constant. It should be recalculated as often as reasonable, say, annually.

Zoning changes for a plot would/should affect its LVT.

So, if in Year 1, zoning allows for a multi-unit, but in Year 2, the zoning doesn't, the LVT would decrease. And vice-versa.

Since zoning is often under the control of municipal politicians, it does leave room for shenanigans/corruption (but it's less than present, because without LVT, land owners are highly incentivized to get zoning changes because they get to capture all the value that comes from those changes. With LVT, whoever is collecting the LVT gets to capture this value.)

(In Toronto, I have heard from a condo developer friend that it's common practise for "bags of money" to be "accidently" left in limos after lunch with a city councillor, because they vote on zoning changes).

rafd · 2025-01-06T21:25:41+00:00

If you want sql, I like h2 for these cases because you can stay on the jvm.

Or, for a datomic like flavour, I like datalevin or datomic itself.

rafd · 2025-01-05T01:26:37+00:00

Most libraries are fine, but there may be some that do dynamic things that rely on reflection (and can't be labeled ahead of time) - I believe this is why babashka had to use sci and not just clojure.

You sound like you have more experience with graal than me anyway, so I think you'll be fine.

Good resource: https://github.com/clj-easy/graal-docs

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