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

We were going to try Great Western Trail over boardgamearena today, but after reading the rules and/or watching videos, none of us had the appetite for such a huge bowl of victory point salad.

Instead we tried Gaïa, a tight little game with some clever mechanisms.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163920/gaia

As usual, we concluded with Go Nuts for Donuts!.

#BoardGames #BoardGamesAToZ

Wrapping up G fortnight, I (black, even game) won a thrilling game by resignation. ai-sensei.com says it went back and forth a lot, but white never recovered from the mistake in the second image.

#go #igo #baduk #weiqi #BoardGames #BoardGamesAToZ

Ah -- I might have found the catch with that Kobo Plus deal. It doesn't give you access to their entire catalog, just some titles:

"Not every eBook or audiobook from Kobo is available to read with a subscription. There are over 1.3 million eBooks and over 100,000 audiobooks currently available through Kobo Plus, with more being added all the time.

Any time you see an eBook or audiobook with the option Read with Kobo Plus, it's available to read with your subscription."

A quick browse suggests that most books in their catalog aren't covered by this program.

#kobo #books #reading

I squeaked one out by 2.5 points. (I'm white, 3 stone handicap.)

#go #igo #baduk #weiqi #BoardGames #BoardGamesAToZ

Based on two data points, in a 7-season horror comedy TV show involving a perky blonde heroine, a dark-haired brooding good vampire (whom the heroine dates and who temporarily turns evil at one point), and a blonde bad-boy vampire (whom the heroine eventually also dates), if a new character named Ben is introduced in a later season, Ben is the same person as the season's villain.

#Buffy #TrueBlood

Am I the only one who saw this photo and thought someone was being murdered and/or romanced by a trilobite?

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/taubman-colleges-groundbreaking-project-brings-3d-concrete-printing-forefront

#3DPrinting #concrete #materials #construction

I'm not sure what happened here, but somebody fully committed to the bit. #BoardGames #bananagrams

"No! It's a ... blast, what the devil do children draw? It's a pheasant!" -Stewie

#MastoArt #drawing #birds #FamilyGuy

This Kobo Plus deal looks tempting. Does anyone have a sense of whether they treat their authors well?

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/plus

#writing #author #kobo #reading #books