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best part of the game yet

chloe is such an incredible character

also the alternate history daaaamn
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i went to the gym this morning, looked in my bag, and saw i'd forgotten shorts
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i would, too - but it's hard to know exactly what's essential and what isn't
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

79. Mascarade
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/139030/mascarade

Genre/mechanics: Social deduction, hidden roles, role-swapping
Rules complexity: 4/10
Game length: 15-30 minutes
Player count: 6-13
Experience: 7+ plays, from 10ish to 13 players
First played: 2016

In Mascarade, you're given a role, and it's every man for himself after that as you either investigate a neighbor's role, check out your own role, or claiming to have a role and taking an action associated with that role. The actions primarily concern acquiring more money for yourself, either from a pool or from another player. Opponents may counter your claim, leading to showdowns.

Experience: For some reason: I've never had a really satisfying game of Mascarade. Is it the downtime? Is it the randomness? Is it the fact that some of the roles are ridiculously mean? I may have rubbed some people the wrong way, but I was the victim of a "take that!" sort of play once, by a distant friend-of-friend, while I was clearly not a threat to win and someone else clearly was. Maybe I'm negatively biased by sucking at this game?

Design: I love so much about the ideas behind this game. The roles are unique and fun, and the idea of possibly swapping your card (or not!) leads to some amusing randomness. But perhaps one big issue is that it's not super enjoyable to try to track whose role has ended up where, and it's turn-based without teams - so you can wind up just waiting for twelve other players' turns, then take an action that's immediately counter-claimed - that's not a good feeling.

Next play: Honestly, doing this writeup made me want to give the game another shot. It's been at least a year - maybe I just need a change of scenery for this one. And fewer players.
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Reg posted...

19/20 because I took the test while doing three other things and misread "highest court" as "second highest court" so I said the Court of Appeals was the highest court of the land LOL

Kenri posted...

20/20 but I'll admit it took me like a full minute to remember how many amendments there are.

fwiw i didn't have either of these questions
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19/20

i answered 50 for # of senators lol
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Maybe I'll Pass

80. Secret Hitler

Genre/mechanics: Social deduction, hidden roles, team vs team
Rules complexity: 5/10
Game length: 25-45 minutes
Player count: 5-10
Experience: 10+ plays, from 6 to 10 players
First played: 2015

In Secret Hitler, you play as a legislator, and each round of the game, you elect a President with his Chancellor. But while the majority of legislators are liberal, some of the legislators are secretly fascist, and one of those fascists is Hitler. The President and Chancellor then enact one "policy" - liberal or fascist - before another leadership team is chosen. The game ends when a certain number of liberal or fascist policies is enacted.

Maybe in a vacuum I'd enjoy Secret Hitler - it has a lot of mechanics I really enjoy - but it's a knockoff of another game I absolutely love. Along with the retheming to the 'oh-so-edgy' Cards Against Humanity designers' sensibility, SH actually drastically worsens that game by diluting the deduction of it with a constantly short ticket, an inane rule about not repeating leaders, and a randomized policy deck that includes a rubber-banding mechanic. I won't pretend that I'm not extremely bitter about the changes - the template is already there, but SH then takes the mechanics and theme and tangibly worsens them.

Past enjoyment: My playgroup got a little played-out on SH's parent game, and I was at least somewhat interested, so we turned to this. Now in fairness, I've had some fun experiences with friends who are not as into social deduction games (where people try to figure out your hidden role), but I almost always wind up in situations where either the players don't grasp what it's like to play on the other team with asymmetric information, or they do (and in such a case I'd rather be playing the better game.) With strangers it has never gone well.

Game design: I find that the two-leader system can result in incredibly swingy games for liberals. On the other hand, the randomized deck punishes a team for getting ahead - pass too many liberal policies and that last liberal policy becomes that much harder to pass, even if you've identified the fascists. Additionally, in my experience, the chancellor has almost no agency about lying when passed a blue and red card from the president. It's a very clumsy sort of finger-pointing, which is what makes it somehwat more accessible to casual gamers - and also considerably less fun for me.

Next play: Sadly, SH is mind-numbingly popular. I'll probably wind up playing it again at a game night because someone will bring it and I showed up too late to get into a better game. I'm already feeling bad about myself.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

yeah, what you're doing would probably make me hate the experience. hope you're enjoying it?
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

I got into the board gaming hobby three years ago, and a year into it, I ranked the first hundred that I'd played, including expansions and games I'd played only very lightly.

It's been two years since then and I've accumulated a lot more experience, and there are enough games now that I've played multiple times to revisit this list using only games where I've played 2 or more times.

Ranking will be done on a combination of:

- How much I've enjoyed it in the past - both on average (fun per play) and on aggregate (number of plays total)
- How much I admire the game design
- How much I want to play the game again (which can vary on a lot of factors)

anyway without further ado, #80
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yeah the "procedural" and "non-canon" stuff is tough

like... do you count penalties?
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yeah, i'm fucking pissed that the league decided to help out cleveland

last year it was atlanta trading them korver, this year it's infusing them with youth and athleticism

god damn it
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that's because usually it's just SO and not S/O.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

argh
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

atlanta is nearly .500 at home too lol
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

SeabassDebeste posted...

it's sadly phenomenal by the cavs. i'm salty af at the league for enabling lebron, though you can't blame thr lakers, since they essentially just made it possible to get lebron next summer.

sucks for me

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that's what ya get for doing chronological
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i believe in you leon chan!
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Hard to win a game when you only win one quarter. And yeah, Oladipo dominated Kyrie. Hope Kyrie's fully healthy and not just playing out of obligation.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

this spacex launch has been crushing for kyrie's stock
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

lmao, call is so phantom-ish that tommy heinsohn saying "he deserves it"
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i've gotten deep into wednesday. wish the topic hadn't purged, but there you go. :/
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CherryCokes posted...

If you're not the superstitious type, you should reconsider

i put the game on right after posting that and was about to start playing life is strange while watching silently

never started playing life is strange lol

ninkendo posted...

Pistons fell apart in the 4th after having an 8-point lead in the third end up losing by double digits

i see avery bradley had 11 shots and 10 points
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so i have watched, but don't know if i've got the motivation to do the episodes

they've been... okay
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

so maybe i'm not gonna tune in to this game
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

yeah, first thought was dirk, next was hakeem. then maybe 03 duncan.

all of them had very solid teams, but only one superstar
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ShatteredElysium posted...

In two years, Orlando managed to turn Tobias Harris, Victor Oladipo, and Elfrid Payton into Terrence Ross and a second round pick. That's some solid work

ded

do you still follow harris?
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that's not the celtics' starting lineup; it's the closing lineup (baynes for smart). i think cleveland might also start JR for continuity over hood?

we'll also have greg monroe, which will be nice

celtics seem to be way worse than their record and cleveland seems rejuvenated and has lebron. until otherwise proven i have cleveland. ugh.

the 1 seed looks important again with cleveland's win against minnesota and the trades. so i'm focused on the regular season for now.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

the part that made me angriest about that game was that the refs stopped the game after the 3 to review if it was good

lebron teams are terrible at defending in transition, even off made shots - spurs could absolutely have won in those 5.1 seconds if they'd been allowed to run
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ShatteredElysium posted...

We traded Elfrid away for a second round pick? That's disappointing. He wasn't starting caliber but would have been a useful bench player and can't have cost that much to retain I mean his Defence was shocking but he had an 18+ PER. And not like we have another PG

Although I guess we wcouldn't have gotten any more for him. Just figured he would have been a useful bench player

a second round pick? lolwut. probably just wanted him gone, like the cavs with wade. but... i don't really get why, for the reasons you stated.
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transcience posted...

honestly, Lebron doesn't need stars around him. he needs guys that can run and defend and give effort and make hustle plays and hit 3s.

he needs both. every title team needs both. he doesn't beat GSW without kyrie and love as well as TT/JR/shumpert/delly balling out; he doesn't beat OKC or SAS without wade and bosh in addition to miller/battier/allen/chalmers.
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sounds like it's obviously better for female divorcees on average. i don't know enough about the average divorcee's situation to say if it's good or not.

in a vacuum, i think it's probably a bad thing, since it means more taxes will be paid overall (presumably alimony is paid by the higher earning person, so deducting it from their income means that a lower marginal rate is paid on it)
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

it's sadly phenomenal by the cavs. i'm salty af at the league for enabling lebron, though you can't blame thr lakers, since they essentially just made it possible to get lebron next summer.

sucks for me
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

koby altman just went full measure on the league, god damn
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poor IT, jesus christ.

unfortunately, i think this move makes cleveland better.

celtics' problem is that rozier and smart are both really nice pieces... but they're gonna nearly unplayable together when the games start to matter. i personally like marcus way more but his contract is due first, and that's probably gonna be a problem.

not sure how well this team would look with a guy like evans in his place.

also i love avery bradley but what the fuck are the spurs thinking offering a pick and DANNY GREEN for him
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

haven't been feelin it
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i'm in
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

oh god bismack biyombo is making 17mm/year until 2020

also steven adams is a foul machine, it's just a matter of how the game is called

poor kristaps porzingis. the knicks have a winning record at home this year, feel bad for NY fans who bought tickets.

i think GSW makes it to the finals this year - continuity is stronger than OKC/HOU - but it's not clear that they will next year or the year after at this point if iggy is really falling off

LeonhartFour posted...

I think every Spurs fan realizes this is basically a lost season. We'll win 50 games and maybe a playoff series, but that's it.

kawhi being out obviously means this season is lost, and i can kind of live with that. but the gay/gasol contracts have basically crippled them as players in coming summers, too, which is what upsets me. :/
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

seriously though the spurs have butchered things

they're paying paying 12MM to rudy gay instead of 6MM to jonathon simmons, they're paying pau gasol... :(
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ShatteredElysium posted...

Cavs scored 43 past us in the 1st quarter and led by 16 at half time. They lost the third to us 41-22 to be behind by 3 entering the 4th

They are such a mess right now.

that final score lmaoooooo
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i paused the game after q1 with plans to catch up

my friend advised me not to bother watching and, uh, yeah, i see why
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

so if orlando just starts new guys every 10 games, you should be fine, right?

meanwhile, celtics at toronto is really free-flowing. i enjoy these games so much when there aren't fouls every possession!
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Thanks for the encouragement! I've watched an episode and I'll probably watch another tonight. Might as well go 2-for-1 on these writeups as they'll be quieter, and I'll start thinking about my next potential watchthrough...!
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he does not.
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do layton after AAI2/AA5
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Giggsalot posted...

if larry shows up i'm gonna lose it

who wants my datz
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yeah it was ticky tack.

in hindsight made the GW that much more euphoric tho. refs said "no OT tonight" lmao
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MAXIMUM al horford
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lillard is a fucking assassin in the fourth
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

five cavs scored in the double digits and lebron james came within one rebound and one assist of a triple double, but the balanced effort was not enough to overcome the houston rockets
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i agree on almost everything you said about 6-1 and 6-2!

also smart money is on 1-3 but whatever, i'll bet on 1-4
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