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

The first game for our S weeks was one I had not played before, Stone Age.

My Agricola instincts served me well: expand your tribe/family as quickly as possible to get more actions and prioritize getting an efficient way to feed them via agriculture/cooking hearth. I then loaded up on civilization cards that granted many, many victory points for the same.

The final shellacking I administered? 211 vs. 139 vs. 110.

I immediately added Stone Age to my wish list. Ha!

#BoardGamesAtoZ #BoardGames

Sunday morning sleeping in.

#Violet #DogsOfMastodon

Families: Let's all go as witches for Halloween!
Dads:

Huge impacts on #TTRPG play we often miss inRPG design chats.

On par, in over for someone *to feel* like it is "fair" even odds [50/50, 1 in 2] then the actual odds need to be 2 in 3 in their favor.

Our collective obsession with "true" statistics is directly at odds with play.

Dear Fediverse:

I'm wanting to reach out to #gaming fans who have personal challenges that make some - or many - games difficult to access for them.

Visual acuity issues. Hearing loss. Dyslexia, or missing limbs or anything else.

I'm planning an article on accessibility features in video games, and would love to hear stories from people for whom those features aren't merely a convenience, but necessary for them to be able to participate in the hobby.

I'd appreciate help reaching out on this.

Heat pumps can be 400% more efficient than a gas furnace.

Here’s how they work and when’s the best time to make the switch:

https://theconversation.com/heat-pumps-will-cool-your-home-during-the-hottest-of-summers-and-reduce-your-global-warming-impact-212515
#environment #science #climatechange

#StarTrek

#DogsOfMastodon #happy

I have questions…

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is:

Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem -- which did we fail?

They staple dead animal heads to the walls here.

We learned this when we first started looking for a house with our realtor. Deer heads, elk heads, antelope heads, moose heads, etc. Dead heads seemed to be everywhere in everyone's houses.

We try to fit in as best we can. No sense in being "those people" if we can help it.
We named him Cleetus.
Bonus: He's practical.

Also, we found a shower curtain that celebrates our confused imaginings of the epic tale of Cleetus.

#HomeDecor