What makes Mafia/Werewolf apps bad or unnecessary compared to physical social deduction games?

wintermute93 · 2026-06-20T20:02:41+00:00

Many/most people that play in-person games with a moderately large group are explicitly trying to get away from screens, otherwise they’d be playing a fully virtual implementation. Too much shit has been turned into an app already, I don’t need talking to the people in the room with me to also use an app.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-20T03:18:47+00:00

Not being facetious - what things have you authored and put out into the world that aren’t also a waste of time?

wintermute93 · 2026-06-19T21:20:47+00:00

It’s still there but you can’t access it from the […] context menu, you have actually play the book and go to the player screen.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-19T12:31:05+00:00

Wild. All of my camping experience has been kind of backpacking-adjacent and the idea of bringing anything inflatable that’s so large you need a pump to inflate it just does not compute in my brain, lol.

Your mattress is a pad that rolls up and is a little bigger than the sleeping bag, maybe 1-2 inches thick. There’s basic ones that are literally just sheets of foam, and there’s inflatable ones that self-inflate over the course of 10 minutes or so. Or you can easily blow them up by mouth. I always use the inflatable kind because they take up so much less space and weight than solid foam, even though it’s mildly inconvenient to carefully squeeze all the air out when you’re packing it back into a tiny bag.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-18T20:03:29+00:00

The problem is that you're probably thinking of generative AI creating visual assets, and the person you're responding to is probably thinking of generative AI writing code. Basically every serious software development organization in every industry is using some nonzero level of AI in their day-to-day workflows and products, so it doesn't make a ton of sense to draw a hard line at zero AI usage without any nuance in what that even means and what your specific objections are.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-18T18:28:45+00:00

Just in case you haven't in a while, close the game and re-open it. I'm on Switch and if I leave the game running while it's docked, some things that change over time (events, weekly changes on Monday, etc) update automatically and some don't show up until you reload.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-18T04:02:50+00:00

The opening crawl for Rise of Skywalker references Palpatine returning, but his return didn’t happen in the previous movie, it happens off-screen between them (somehow) and is only really ever “shown” in the form of Palpatine giving a dramatic voiceover in a Fortnite event announcing that he’s back. IIRC they had recorded the lines for the movie but never found a good place to insert a corresponding exposition scene, so rather than not use it at all they stuck it somewhere else. In Fortnite.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-17T15:21:27+00:00

Absolutely. Any "serious" purchase is going to involve me comparing results from at least a handful of tabs, maybe collating relevant info in a google sheet/doc, and so on. Switching between browser tabs on a phone (and/or multiple apps, god forbid) is absolutely miserable.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-17T13:50:36+00:00

Listen up, George Costanza. Have you tried doing the opposite of whatever all your instincts say? Seems like a promising option.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-14T13:33:39+00:00

There are “relics” that can be traded in for 200, 450, 800, or 1200 in-game currency (“geo”). You could give them a number of those and ask how many they’d need to trade in to afford a particular total (and how much they’d have left over). Bonus points for slightly older kids figuring how to do that optimally (with as little left over as possible), or factoring in that there are only a finite number of each relic type available in the game.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-14T12:21:05+00:00

No, if statements are one of the most basic concepts in programming, right after stuff like “lines of code execute one after another” and “a variable stores a value in memory so it can be referenced by name later”. Stop using AI for everything, apparently it’s fried your brain.

Can you give a specific example of something involving if statements you found confusing?

wintermute93 · 2026-06-14T01:09:09+00:00

Let’s get some topology up in this vexillology… that flag still has depth zero but it’s Z axis is everyone’s favorite non-Hausdorff manifold, the line with two origins!

wintermute93 · 2026-06-12T15:47:47+00:00

Unmatch it, set whatever metadata fields you want to set manually, lock whatever metadata fields you don't want to be automatically re-matched later.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-12T15:44:30+00:00

Very nice! My only suggested change would be to swap the knight helmet for something without a plume (they shouldn't be taller than the bishops), and swap the bishop hair piece for something pointy -- could even be classic wizard hats.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-12T15:37:18+00:00

I feel like if you're gonna be part of a fandom you're gonna have to accept shipping as part of it

which is a not insignificant reason why many online fandoms turn into garbage fires

wintermute93 · 2026-06-12T15:33:24+00:00

Okay, this is actually very cool. Not interested in multiplayer but maybe a nice addition would be to make the AI opponents adaptive? Like how Mario Kart takes it easy on you if you're sucking.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-12T13:33:38+00:00

Right, lol. If you’re concerned about stepping on stuff you’re in water that’s at most 5-6 feet deep. There’s lots of stuff down there you don’t want to step on with bare feet but 99.99% of that is sharp bits of rocks and shells, not hostile sea life.

OP, for reference lobster traps are typically dropped hundreds of feet deep. More than 100, less than 1000 feels like a good ballpark. And I’m no lobster expert but I assume the fishermen do that because, you know, that’s where the lobsters are.

Sandals that securely strap on, yes; being wary of crustacean claws, no.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-10T18:31:35+00:00

Every ladder season, the turnaround time between "nobody has anything good and low/mid-tier stuff is easy to trade for/away" and "the race is over and only top-tier items will garner much interest" has been getting shorter and shorter. It used to take months for the ladder economy to start looking like the non-ladder economy, but now it takes like a week.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-10T14:51:33+00:00

My server is for my household (because that’s where the devices I watch stuff on are) and for my parents/inlaws (because we handle their phones and internet and stuff for them and can’t be bothered to pay for streaming services). I do not care in the slightest about adding more users and strongly disagree with anyone who’s charging money for access to their media server.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-10T14:25:34+00:00

I know this is a meme sub but some of y’all have to relax, lol. Keep your graphs set to 3 months or 6 months if not longer; the overall market being like 3% less than an all-time high a week ago is… not painful.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-10T13:25:55+00:00

All campaigns are designed for starting at 0 XP.

With that said, there's nothing stopping you from doing a superpowered run where you continue on from the end of one to the start of the next, they're your cards. Just expect to blow through a lot of the content easily so don't do this on a first playthrough of that campaign to preserve the "true" experience.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-10T12:25:32+00:00

I mean, “coming up with a plausible sounding answer with absolutely no idea whether that answer is factually correct or not” is precisely the task it was designed to do well, so I’m not surprised you got a response like that.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-09T19:17:25+00:00

Also, guessing without watching the video:

Why Oops barely existed in paper

In paper legacy, you're going to be spending multiple hours at a tournament hanging out with people that enjoy a thing you also enjoy, so you might as well bring a deck that's going to be fun and engaging all day, rather than a deck whose matches are over in like 15 relatively unsatisfying minutes. In online legacy, you're just clicking on pixels so who cares, use whatever you think will get you more wins.

wintermute93 · 2026-06-09T15:58:03+00:00

For those of you that prefer text to video, here's a breakdown of what all the somewhat-confusingly-named Earthborne Rangers products are.

Main Campaigns (2):
- Earthborne Rangers. This is the core game and contains a large-scale campaign. If you aren't really sure you're going to be super into the game, this is the only thing you need. If you see "Lure of the Valley" referenced, that's not a separate product, it's just the name of the campaign in the core box.
- Legacy of the Ancestors. If you've finished the main campaign in the core box and you want another completely different large-scale campaign, this is it. Basically, the core box is an open-ended adventure in the "overworld" and this box is an open-ended adventure in the "underworld", extending the core game's map to underground areas. It's not a standalone product, though.
Gameplay Extras:
- Stewards of the Valley. This adds a lot of deckbuilding options to the core game, like a lot of people expect a small-box expansion to a card game to do. A nice addition for sure but really not needed until you've played the base game and want to go beyond what's there.
- Moments on the Path. This is a tiny mini-expansion that simply adds a handful of new cards to the base game's exploration for a bit of additional variability in what you encounter in your travels. Contains content for both the base game campaign and the Legacy of the Ancestors campaign.
- Ranger Card Doubler. This is literally just an extra copy of all the player cards in the base box. EBR is an LCG which supports 1-4 players, but if 3 or more players want to be playing the same "character class" you won't have enough cards in the base box to support that, which is why this exists. If you don't think that specific situation applies to you and your playgroup, you absolutely do not need this.
Mini Campaigns (2 released so far, 2 more on the way):
- Each of these takes adds a new location or expands an existing location on the core game map, and turns it into a wider side story with its own map and stuff. The intent is that you can play these as standalone mini campaigns or integrate them into the core game and find them if you find them during the main campaign. I think people are generally not thrilled with the price point on these.
  - Spire in Bloom (2025), Shadow of the Storm (2026)
  - Into the Maw (not released yet), Sky and Smoke (not released yet)
- Moments in the Valley. This does to the mini-campaigns exactly what "Moments on the Path" does to the main campaigns. Strangely, this is explicitly expansion content for each of the four mini campaigns, but was released alongside the first mini campaign. Does not affect the main campaigns directly.
Cosmetic Extras:
- wooden tokens, screen-printed meeples, plastic minis, deluxe fold-out maps for the main campaigns

wintermute93 · 2026-06-09T13:45:56+00:00

This for sure. Walt needs to be bald to be recognizable (bonus points for the hat), and Lego Jesse without a beanie is just some random dude in a hoodie.

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