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yeah, great show. maybe the scripted show i'll really enjoy from network tv?

i'm a little sad i never got that into monster. it seemed way too overdramatic and i wasn't big on its less cartoonish art style. still had some great moments though, and like two characters i wound up enjoying a ton.

good luck LOTM, with everything

if demand is low for subleasing then you may be reasonably competitive as an applicant? but yeah getting such late notice you need housing/roommates is rough

been watching a few episodes of "to your eternity" on hbo max

kinda gives kino's journey vibes, but more emotionally involved

i 151'd my copy of yellow after i got silver

thanks for the writeup and list, glad it was therapeutic and monumental for you! not sure this game is up my alley but loved the passion you showed for the game and for your craft

have y'all watched romantic killer

we're halfway through and loving it

i think i'm very likely reading the book pretty soon

biggest surprise to me was how the dragons took on their own lives there - aemond actually didn't want to kill luke there

finally caught up! you hit a few i've seen.

do you mind posting the complete list so far?

9. Resistance: Avalon

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128882/resistance-avalon

Category: Team vs team
Key mechanics: Hidden roles, social deduction, voting
Rules complexity (0 to 7): 2
Game length: 30-60 minutes
First played: 2013
Experience: 100+ plays with 5-10 players

In Resistance: Avalon, players are secretly divided into a blind majority (good team, knights of Arthur) and a minority that knows one another (evil team, minions of Mordred). The game is contested over five missions. During a round, a rotating "leader" nominates a team of players to execute the mission - but all players then get to publicly vote on whether or not the nominated team is approved to execute the mission. Good players win a mission if all the players on an approved team secretly vote for success.

Avalon is the first game that really brought me into "the hobby." Coming from a mafia background, it has some very obvious appeal - public voting, an informed majority vs an uninformed minority, potential for high emotions. Avalon "improves" over mafia by being better at a smaller player count and not having player elimination - by far the part of mafia that can most ruin your game. Compared to base Resistance, Avalon also introduces the Merlin role, which is something like the cop in mafia, with the caveat that Merlin, if guessed by evil, will automatically lose the game for the good team.

Further strengthening Avalon is the variety of different roles that you can optionally add to balance things out. I almost always play with Merlin, Percival, and Morgana; however, Mordred can strengthen the bad team in a favorable player-count for good, Oberon can weaken the bad team in a favorable player-count for bad, and the Lady of the Lake can be used in desperate straits of an 8- or 10-player game to add more dynamic information to the game. These little added complexities and information dials really allow you to fine-tune your experience. (My favorite configuration is to include Merlin, Percival, Morgana, Mordred, and Oberon in a 7- or 8-player game.)

It's hard to overstate how important of a game Avalon was to me in terms of my life. By playing Avalon, I directly met the friends who would introduce me to my other board gaming friends, and that is now my primary friend group in my city. And of course, tabletop gaming is now probably my most important hobby, because of how easily it can be shared among somewhat-like-minded individuals. And at the time, Avalon was all I wanted to play - I'd bring it to any occasion where we expected more than five people would get together. I felt like I could learn a lot about how a person thought based on how they played Avalon.

These days, I understand the game is not for everyone, and my passion for arguing has also waned a lot. My partner isn't a big fan of lying games, and I entirely respect that. My closest board gaming friends are also not so much into arguing, preferring indirect interaction and simply playing rather than being confrontational and debating with a crowd. But while the game doesn't make it off my shelf as much, I still greatly admire its design, and it occupies a large place in my heart.

10. Herd Mentality

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/311322/herd-mentality

Category: Player vs player
Key mechanics: Simultaneous, guessing, separate hands
Rules complexity (0 to 7): 0
Game length: 30 seconds per round
First played: 2021
Experience: 10+ sessions with 5-8 players

In a hand of Herd Mentality, a player draws a card and poses a question such as "what is the best eating utensil?" Everyone then simultaneously gives an answer, and the players who chose the most common answer get a point. If a single player answered something no one else answered, they get the cow, which prevents them from winning the game until someone else gets the cow, even if they score the most points otherwise.

I don't think any real ingenuity went into the design of Herd Mentality - it's essentially Family Feud, just not a game show. The fun of it comes almost exclusively from the interaction of the players and seeing what everyone answered - it's kind of fun to see how everyone divides into teams; some players will choose what they think others will say over what they're thinking themselves; others will answer honestly because they can't anticipate others' responses; some will be totally blindsided by what's going on. There's a little bit of extra fun that comes from the cow - a minor cone of shame.

Still, this is one of the games I have gotten the absolute most plays out of since I was introduced to it, simply by dint of not always being in a group conducive to more think-y games. And I love it for that.

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thick
fraud
grove

ayy

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guide
diver
denim

i have seen all the rockys and creed 1. want really interested in creed 2

i'm like a week behind, have a ton to catch up on

i randomly discovered kongming's OP a few weeks ago looking at best anime OPs. it is mesmerizing

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maybe
flunk
quick
quirk

hate being one letter off like this!

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match
trove
quest
deist
exist

they basically told us that alicent was prepared not to contest rhaenyra's succession, but that viserys's dying wish made her change her mind

yeah the ending of last episode (and the writers' explanation of it) started sending us off the rails here

MacArrowny posted...

Erased rocks, yeah. I don't feel like it's particularly pervy though...?

well the first episode of the anime has a 29yo thirsting after a 17yo and has his mom saying how great of a match they would be. we're also supposed to sympathize with his boss, who seems even older and later thirsts after the same 17yo. neither of these actually advances the plot much.

the kid stuff is actually less creepy.

i think the show has enough of its own problems without being compared to hotd, which is having its own problems! i enjoyed the last few episodes a bit more, though it's stark how much better scenes with durin are than anyone else.

halbrand being sauron was cool and fiiiinally made hos existence feel justified

there's no way that should be the case. "when I'm doubt you should always follow your nose," the fact he's wearing grey, etc

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slump
shake
snide
sinew
stein

tricky one, did not feel great on the eventual correct guess

yeah, we both speculated that too

and definitely, lead witch was totally slim shady

didn't love it particularly, one of the weaker episodes to be

other than foot fetish larys, that was amazing

have y'all seen erased

it's simultaneously ultra compelling and ultra pervy

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mirth
flask
scape
spade

okay that twist was legit great

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flair
flour
floor

looks like everyone did what i did

more to come, apologies for the pace

cyko posted...

I wanted to like The Crew, but I brought it out with three completely different groups of friends and it fell pretty flat with each of them. I was a little surprised since I thought the co-op aspect would appeal to them, but after playing several rounds in one sitting with each group, noone wanted to play it again.

I'm not sure why, but for a light, co-op card game, Hanabi has been much more well-liked by my friends.

that's very interesting. hanabi i suppose is more of a unique game, which may help its appeal. its length is more matches that of a "hobby game," so you develop a lot more arc in a single play as opposed to needing 4+ plays in a session.

i will say, i absolutely loved this viserys and did not love F&B

however, making a character richer doesn't always necessarily make the text better

in game of thrones, they made tywin and shae fuller, more sympathetic characters - but that made the way their storylines ended more puzzling and was worse for the more important character in tyrion

those are some pretty good letters tho!

mnk posted...

^5

ahahaha nice, thank god i'm not the only one who did this

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juicy
unmet
prude
equal

took quite a while on the last word there - i literally thought "if only U were the second letter, then it could be a Q word"

i actually think the word is very cool, i'm just salty that i took so many to get it. and no, i did not try monic lmao

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groin
sonic
tonic
conic
ionic

fuck that shit

oh, and perhaps my absolute single favorite moment of the episode:

viserys ascending the iron throne, and then saying that he's confused.

but not confused because of his own physical/mental state - confused because these motherfuckers really thought they could try to raise this succession issue in his house while he's still king

Leonhart4 posted...

I mean a few of them literally can't die there

i get that but then don't depict this event in this specific way - if every important character survives an apocalyptic event while we're told so many of the unimportant ones don't, then the storytelling feels cheap

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flame
royal
valid

in spite of it, i greatly enjoyed episode 6

every single major character surviving that volcano apocalypse did make me cringe though

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BARON
PINOT
ENDOW
ENVOY
ENJOY

cool word. thought i had it on guess 3 after seeing the first two letters light up green - whoops!

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mirth
chalk
house
howdy

mnk posted...

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HAIRY
FIBER
VIGOR

I was so close to guessing it on the second, because my tired self wanted to guess "rigor" second and upon realizing that was two Rs, I changed my mind to "vigor", but decided not to guess a V so early. >:|

dat logic lmao

also nice mini-sorry between words 1 and 2!

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style
major
vigor

too bad - i actually wanted to start with vigor, but backed out!

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dream
pivot
touch
sloth

otto is sooooo great