Kempeth

Off course, fellow human!

The rules don't discourage discussion. They discourage highly detailed planning. The idea is that you discuss priorities, make a rough plan and then go. I don't know if jotl also has the battle goals and retirement goals but these together with the "don't say the initiative number you're playing" rule, the distinct player decks, and the unknown monster initiatives supress quarterbacking and analysis paralysis.

But yeah. GH is a beast to learn. I think we played half a dozen session before we had the rules more or less down. JotL is supposedly easier in that regard but you shouldn't feel bad if it still takes you a while.

As a reader it's vastly better than Jeroba but the notifications are hidden in a very awkward way and I haven't seen access to the mod tools yet or figured out how to search for new communities.

Managed to get a 3 player game of Imperium: Classic in with my group. It was a tough teach but by the end we had reasonable grasp on the mechanics. Still very little clue what we should do. Points were pretty wild. One player stumbled on an absolute gold mine of points and won handily. I don't yet see such a huge difference between the three easiest decks, we all played pretty much the same and after exhausting a good chunk of the common decks I'm worried that there's not a whole lot of variability in that area. Downtime with 3 players is also pretty extreme towards the end. The game took us almost a full 3 hours (with teaching) and I'd say this is about the maximum that we can tolerate. We definitely prefer Earth in this regard. It also takes about this long but you're doing stuff constantly. We'll give it another shot one of these weeks before we decide on it's future...

How's Terraforming Mars and Spirit Island not mentioned yet?

I'm confused. Is the fifth the pro or the anti LGBTQ part? Probably the former though.

“I don’t think any of us want to see any of our churches leave,” he said. “We’re called to be the body of Christ, we’re called to be unified. There’s never been a time when the church has not been without conflict, but there’s been a way we’ve worked through that.”

Well, here's the thing: you either move with the times or you get left behind. The German Catholic Church is in a similar trifle with Rome since recent years. IIRC it's over letting women and married people be priests. Rome still follows a hardline NO on that but what they don't get is that it's not really up to them. This is no longer a niche opinion in Germany that you can squash from on high. The church's stance is the niche opinion now.

To about 90% I have. Some communities still simply don't exist or are essentially dead, so for the times where I need something really specific or just a general content fix I still wander over. But it's been a fraction of the time I spent there previously.

Thanks. We both love to hike and do it pretty often. But I have problems going downhill. My knees start to hurt badly after about 300m down (not much to do about it but lose weight). Meanwhile my GF is rather small so going uphill counts about double for her. So most of our hikes are more on the flat side.

But we're definitely gonna keep going.

Set a new record with my GF for hiking upwards (650m). We're training for the Säntis.

We're not fit so it took us almost twice the time from the official hiking sign but we got there.

Thankfully we had shade for practically all the way or that would have been brutal. Were rewarded with butterflies landing on us, nice view and delicious saussage at the top.

Switzerland produces aroung 37 Mt of CO2 every year. Fireworks account for - drum roll - 78 t or 0.0002% of it

The Zürifest attracts about 800k people each day. Lets assume that tenth of Switzerland is responsible for ALL the fireworks CO2 of the whole year. That's 97.5 g per person.

That's less than a kilometer of driving with a car. Anyone who goes on a joyride or used their car recreationally in any way can just stfu about fireworks.

Ventilate in the night then close everything in the morning and roll the shades down wherever I can.

If it get's too hot despite this open the windows back up and get a light draft going.

Most recent addition is a small swamp cooler.

If I don't have to be home then a trip to the water or the mountains helps a lot too.

Various degrees of niche-ness:

• modern boardgames. I've been fascinate by them since before I could write. I would draw my own roll and move boards and my mom would write down my instructions of what space would do what. From there it only grew and now I have more games I can play.
• rpgs. The most recent addition. I had always dismissed them as a potential hobby because it was advertised to me with videos of actors basically doing 99% improv and 1% gameplay. Turns out it doesn’t have to be like this.
• I also collect gemstones. Started as a kid when we came across an old quarz find on a hike. I was hooked by the shiny and have been collecting on and off ever since.