Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

We played the "learning scenario" of BattleLore. @htdrake won, but we're both a bit mystified as to how; she rolled worse (as is her wont), lost more figures, and didn't feel that she knew what she was doing.

She expressed that wargames are more frustrating than economic eurogames, because you're losing things rather than building them. It strikes me that Go straddles this in an interesting way: beyond a certain skill level, players can see trouble coming and avoid actual capture. There's even a Go proverb, "big groups don't die". That said, strong Go players play at the razor's edge of their abilities, so occasionally something big does die.

#BoardGamesAToZ #BattleLore #BoardGames #go #weiqi #baduk #wargames

When I post a mastodon link elsehwere (e.g., in an email signature), which should I use? Why?

Caught in the act. #squirrel

I finally got around to reading @pluralistic's essay on why the internet is getting noticeably worse:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

The long essay is worth a read, but handily the TLDR is in the first paragraph:

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

Spending the day transubstantiating NyQuil into urine.

gaslight
gatekeep
girlboss
glue gun
gorgon
grilled cheese
gumshoe
git push
garfish
gazprom
guy-wire
glasgow
gandalf
guava
glassware
ghana
goober
grow light
guano
gut punch
grandma

#memes #lists

So much for the "rodents don't like capsaicin" theory.

@htdrake reports that a squirrel knocked down our suet holder, opened it, and ran off the the block of "hot pepper suet".