“Oy!” “Wut?” Just chat (The Return of)

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#161

Lukewarm take!: Any co-op game is great with limited communication.

Instructions:
Play with friends till you all feel like you’ve got it down pat.
Set difficulty to lowest.
Play in absolute silence. Watch people stuff both hands in their mouth trying not to point things out.
Realize no one has it down pat, and you’re pretty sure the person to your left doesn’t even know the rules.

20-40 minutes of silent stress later the table can erupt into glorious finger pointing and shouting.

I’ve tried this with forbidden island and… a pandemic clone? I forget. Anyway, it’s great fun if the tables into it.

Edit: forgot a step

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#162

I was introduced to Magic Maze because I was demoing a few stands away from them at Essen and got chatting with the guy who was phoning round to try to get some more tables, because three of them had been broken by over-enthusiastic pawn-slamming…

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#163

It sounds kind of funny. Have to try once I am brave enough to meet my friends for a game of pandemic not the spreading of it :wink:

Definitely more fun than what I spent the last 2 hours with… replacing my two factor device.
My phone broke (after less than two years the battery bloated) and thanks to local laws I got a replacement yay but setup of a new phone isn’t fun if it is not really a new new phone just the same old thing.

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#164

Limited communication is one of the only ways to make cooperative games work. Now, maybe that’s a fundamental problem with the idea of cooperative games in the first place, but Hanabi is a good example of a cooperative game that requires cooperation, and therefore succeeds where so many so-called cooperative games fail.

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#165

I have a question about SVWAG

They have their ‘as yet unamed intro segment, the Ayuris’

Is that a joke? Can someone explain it please? It annoys me

#166

An initialism?

#167

AYUIS:

As Yet Unamed Intro Segment.

Where they revisit the game they reviewed a year ago.

EDIT: I think perhaps this is it:

AYURIS:

As Yet Unnamed Retrospective Intro Segment?

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#168

Thank you

Although now I understand it barely seems worth it!

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#169

I was working on cleaning up some old backup files, trying to trim the fat so to speak. Unexpectedly, I found myself 1 step closer to my original avatar SVG: a PNG export that I made

cheese

The vector file was surprisingly nowhere to be found, but I’m glad to have the uncropped version back again.

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#170

My laptop died a month ago and was super sad. to be fair, I had it for 9 years since I started university, which is a LONG time in computing. It even has Windows 7 on it.

Since i don’t need a laptop anymore. I’ll be building a pc. Which I’ve never done before.

Work-wise. Company gave me a work laptop

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#171

Kudos to you. My laptop is 7, bought it with a discount just after Windows 10 came out (yes, it is that old) and it is starting to struggle. I actually haven’t used it as a laptop since the DVD reader packed up and stopped opening (yes, it is that old) so my next computer, in all fairness, given the way I use them, should be a build up. But I have never done it before. So fear kind of stops me from it.

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#172

I feel like we need a new laptop. Mostly because TTS will not run on our old one and it would be nice to have both me and my wife able to play games with friends remotely should things go back to full lockdown (I use my work laptop. Shhhh…). We’ve managed to play physical copies over Zoom with them, but not all games really work that way.

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#173

What is your budget like? At most budget levels I would recommend going AMD - they’re really knocking it out of the park right now.

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#174

My new laptop will arrive next week. Bought for similar reasons. Also it sporadically pretends that we don’t have photos or music saved on it.

#175

Currently? No idea

#176

Do you have any particular capabilities that you’re shooting for? That may be more helpful than a budget.

#177

Dunno about all of southern Ontario but I consider this person a valuable resource. Posted with permission, your forum neighbour @Marx on regional Ontario news spreading the joy.

P.S. He holds up Sagrada, by a local designer.

Someone confirm please that you can see this outside of Canada. No reason to think you can’t but you never know.

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#178

Yup, I can from Japan. Couldn’t catch anything he said over my toddler’s babble, he was speaking too fast and quiet, but everyone else on the segment was very positive about him.

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#179

Yeah, speech was a bit fast for TV, which is a standard thing people do - but (toddler-free) I was able to make it out.

(I remember Andrew Offutt [Kentucky] recounting, with gestures, the time Bob Asprin [Michigan] rang him up in the middle of the night about the shared-world anthology they were working on: “HiAndyTempusisintroubleandwe’vegottogethimout!” (beat) “Hi,” (pause) “Bob”.)

It’s a little sad that “person working in retail store actually knows their stock well enough to make recommendations” is news, but I’m glad that @Marx is getting credit for it!

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#180

Apparently all it takes is a rocket scientist! (Bet you’ve heard that one before @ Marx)

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