Give how niche / useless some of the balls are color matching is really the one joy you can have with them. Doubly so when you are dealing with apriballs where you often only have a limited amount
Mmagnusson
joined 2 years ago
Its just a really time consuming game. I've spent 9 hours playing a game we made it 4 rounds in (in fairness with a few new players). I personally like it, but you really do need to have the patience of knowing you are likely spending the day and probably not finishing regardless. A bit like Talisman.
Mastodon I've found has a bit of a discoverability problem, but there are ways.
1 ) Start off with your local timeline: these are all the people that are on your instance as well. If you've chosen a "specialized" instance most of these people will have something in common with you: mastodon.gamedev.place for instance is filled with indie developers, mastodon.art is full of artists, and so on. The more general instances like mastodon.social have a lot more activity, but there's no implicit link between people on it. It's a trade-off: the more specialized of an instance you're on the easier it is to find people like you and build a tight community, but the smaller the instance. The more general the instance is the more activity and people are on there, but less of it is relevant to you.
2 ) Go search up some hashtags of topics you like. For instance if you like baking go see what's on #baking. If you're interested in pictures of moss #mosstodon is great fun. If you like pokemon #pokemon, and so on and so forth. You can naturally follow hashtags themselves, but you can also try to use that to find people you may enjoy following - after all, if someone is posting baking pictures and you like baking maybe you'll enjoy following them!
3 ) Go snoop out other instances. Some Mastodon clients allow you to directly view the local feeds of other instances, but you can always just go straight to the page of said instance. Find a few specialized instances for topics you like, scroll through the local feed for a bit, and follow people that look interesting to you.
4 ) Google: when I joined Mastodon I just googled a few people I like or followed on other platforms and saw if they had a Mastodon. There are also plenty of "Who to follow on Mastodon" articles out there.
5 ) In the "explore" feed you'll find posts that are trending on your instance: often at times there are some good users there to follow, albeit it can get a bit "samey" if there's a big news story going on.
I ended up naming them numbers. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. God knows it quickly went out of order but it wasn't like 10 year old me was paying close attention anyway.
Star realms because it is a great "on the go" game and having a constant stream of online opponents is great.
Axis and Allies... sort of... because it makes it easier to play over a long time if you cannot get the gang together for a full day of playing.
I've been meaning to get better at Go. It's fun, but man do I not have the pattern recognition skills needed to play it well. It is a work in progress.
love letter is such a good game. It's an instant hit with friends and gamily when we need something fast to learn but fun to play.
light : No Thanks!
medium : Catan, oddly enough.
Heavy : Shasn
Most played: Probably Talisman. Me and my wife played that a lot when we were getting together
Favorite of all time: Probably still Shasn, but if I can count civ5/civ6 as a board game that gets pretty close.
However I am a bit of a game omnivore that jumps from one game to the next, so I go through phases with what games are "in" at the moment and try new games frequentlt. My wife is the opposite, preferring what she knows and a solid set of few good games. As such we make a good team in blending variety and avoiding our board game shelf growing too quickly.
Optimally instances should have a tos or privacy statement, but out of the box you can expect a web server to collect your IP (if for nothing but know where to respond to your requests), a log of your requests, and any content you generate in using the instance (comments, votes, posts). login data (email, username, hashed password) are also stored to let you log in at all.
any other data will depend on the instance in question, how it is configured, and who is running it.
They aren't, and due to the type of culture that is common here many users are outright hostile to any monetization other than charity. mastodon has had instances being defederated for the crime of attempting to introduce advertising or subscription.
It remains to be seen if this changes, but for now you're unlikely to start a fediverse instance for profit.
I feel that given the current trendyness of AI and large language models it seems prudent to mention Façade, an interactive play that used AI and language processing to let the player "speak" to the characters and influence tha narrative. It was very janky and you could break it rather easily, but the concept was solid - the technology was just a decade and a half away.
Maybe they are just thinking about those with a really bad internet connection, who will need the month to download the 125gb game.