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GrandpaPants posted:Most BGG users are actually pretty loving dickish. They seem like the type of people who are inviting at first, until someone disagrees with them and then they write essays about how they are and always will be in the right. It's a really lovely and toxic community, and I was glad to see people here cancel their orders. They also do this really weird thing where they post pictures of their wives and girlfriends playing across the table in nice dresses then tell each other how much they want to gently caress each other's wives and girlfriends. It's bizarre. E: Sweet top of the page, BGG Cuck Meetup Thread.
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GrandpaPants posted:Most BGG users are actually pretty loving dickish. They seem like the type of people who are inviting at first, until someone disagrees with them and then they write essays about how they are and always will be in the right. It's a really lovely and toxic community, and I was glad to see people here cancel their orders. It's why I'm SO HAPPY to be here, you guys are awesome. I only interact with BGG'ers now on the GCL and the occasional try to inform post. It's too bad that they won't moderate like they do here on somethingawful.com.
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I haven't spent enough time on BGG to have a real opinion on the community barring individual posts that get linked here, but their emote game is so incredibly weak that I can't stand reading anything there. Seriously, poo poo looks like 2002 AIM smilies.
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Countblanc posted:I haven't spent enough time on BGG to have a real opinion on the community barring individual posts that get linked here, but their emote game is so incredibly weak that I can't stand reading anything there. Seriously, poo poo looks like 2002 AIM smilies. Considering their entire site looks like it was frozen in time somewhere around the year 1998 or so I'd say that's pretty cutting edge.
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Mister Sinewave posted:Card shuffling is simple but people still get it wrong Like the famous MTG "mana shuffle" I've seen literal card tricks with better shuffling 
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canyoneer posted:Like the famous MTG "mana shuffle" But mana shuffle isn't meant to provide a truly random distribution of cards. The designers considered the risk of mana screw and mana floods to be a feature of the game. The mana shuffle is just a passive-aggressive way of disagreeing with the game designers.
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golden bubble posted:But mana shuffle isn't meant to provide a truly random distribution of cards. The designers considered the risk of mana screw and mana floods to be a feature of the game. The mana shuffle is just a passive-aggressive way of disagreeing with the game designers. It's not even that. Humans are just bad at understanding randomness. I've seen people claim that a properly randomized deck should give them exactly 40% lands because that's what they put in the deck. 40% of their drawn cards should be lands, so getting a no land hand or a 6+ land hand is obviously impossible in truly random deck. Which leads them to think mana weaving "helps" the deck be properly random.
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Huxley posted:They also do this really weird thing where they post pictures of their wives and girlfriends playing across the table in nice dresses then tell each other how much they want to gently caress each other's wives and girlfriends. ahahahahah really? I had no idea this was a thing. What woman would agree to that?
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:ahahahahah really? I had no idea this was a thing. What woman would agree to that? Here's literally the first page of pics in the first game that came to mind. https://boardgamegeek.com/image/551812/memoir-44 And one from, of all things, Jaipur. https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1273734/jaipur Huxley fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Aug 25, 2015 |
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Aug 25, 2015 21:56
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Huxley posted:Here's literally the first page of pics in the first game that came to mind. Holy poo poo the replies. "Funny, we played this scenario twice last Saturday and never had this kind of battlefield distraction... whistle Nice Pic! thumbsup" "Must be hard to concentrate on the game! blush" "Are those maracas on the blanket or are you just happy to see me?" "Tell her to wear a bikini next time, this will give you even more thumbsup and ." "Gives a scale for the board size, which is good. Now we need to know the measu... the height, the height. The height of the human so that we can guess how big the board is. Yes." "The Americans are in excellent position to take advantage of the hills in this scenario." "LOL... the level of Clever on this site never ceases to amaze me!"
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Huxley posted:Here's literally the first page of pics in the first game that came to mind. this makes my skin crawl
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https://boardgamegeek.com/image/72721/magic-gathering https://boardgamegeek.com/image/652281/dominion-intrigue https://boardgamegeek.com/image/530519/puerto-rico https://boardgamegeek.com/image/644538/catacombs This is only from the first two pages. BGG is a cesspit.
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Master trolls and a whole lot of horny nerds
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Ojetor posted:It's not even that. Humans are just bad at understanding randomness. I've seen people claim that a properly randomized deck should give them exactly 40% lands because that's what they put in the deck. 40% of their drawn cards should be lands, so getting a no land hand or a 6+ land hand is obviously impossible in truly random deck. Which leads them to think mana weaving "helps" the deck be properly random. Exactly. If you did a hundred independent trials with properly randomized deck reshuffled each time, you'd expect a 6 card no lands/all lands draw to happen 5% of the time, or 5 times. This is the most likely result. But it's possible that it could happen 0 times, or 100 times, or anything in between in that set of trials. Mana shuffle is bogus anyway because players can count cards in their own deck as they draw, which I think can cause some cheaty combos with cards. Ojetor posted:https://boardgamegeek.com/image/72721/magic-gathering This is so creepy
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I'm done with this rabbit hole.  https://boardgamegeek.com/image/96261/magic-gathering
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It's really loving horrible, because you can be a creepy, racist, misogynistic, total piece of poo poo - as long as you're nice about it. You get warnings for the tone of your message instead of the content.
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God drat that is some skeevy poo poo.
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BGG takes all people so of course the horrible ones always wind coalescing there. It's like a really bad Meetup group.
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Popular Tags: Play [+] Distraction [+] people [+] cards [+] immature [+] Look_at_those_cards! [+] Misdirection [+] locked [+] Boobs_are_NOT_immature_morons [+] guy [+] [View All]
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Traditional Games > Board Game Thread 4e: [+] Boobs_are_NOT_immature_morons
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Popular Tags: people_playing_games [+] creepy [+] clock [+] does_this_dress_make_my_boobs_look_big [+] Play [+] playing [+] caption [+] Play_Now_My_Lord [+] formal_wear [+] locked [+] [View All] edit: I like how this one acknowledges the creep.
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I'm not sure what is worse, the creepy comments or the creepy dudes taking and posting the pictures.
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Some BGG douche posted:So whose fault is [it for when someone announces a girl's hotness]? I say it's the one with the low-cut top. If you can't take people talking like people do, then don't come to BGG. 
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Lichtenstein posted:Popular Tags: Play [+] Distraction [+] people [+] cards [+] immature [+] Look_at_those_cards! [+] Misdirection [+] locked [+] Boobs_are_NOT_immature_morons [+] guy [+] [View All] Oh, Jesus, "guy". For anyone not familiar with the awfulness that is the BGG images section, until a couple years ago every picture with a woman in it was tagged "girl". It was the most popular tag on the site. That was too embarrassing for even the BGG admins.
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That place is a terrible hugbox filled with the worst people. But at least I can trade away my lovely games and get wargames on the cheap.
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Almost nobody there can write a decent review. Most of them are rambling, go-nowhere travelogues that talk about gaming with their group, it was a cool friday night, so-and-so brought nachos and expensive beer, and then and then and then and then. Then the punchline is always "It was OK, but not as good as [beloved game with any sort of similar mechanic]"
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Andarel posted:I wonder what their review would be of the glorious SA gaming community. "They're not fun"
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"Ruled by an illuminati hive mind that strictly enforces the norm"
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Moving things away from the subject of creepy BGG posters and their wife-swapping fantasies, does anyone know anything about a game called Yashima: Legend of the Kami Masters? It looks like dueling game taking place on a series of he map tiles along with miniatures and cards but I know nothing about it or its publisher.
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Tekopo posted:"Ruled by an illuminati hive mind that strictly enforces the norm" An excellent description of BGG circa 2007. Before it got really big BGG was very cliquey and full of people whose main attraction to gaming was the perception that like them, Germans have no sense of humour. The most mirthful thing any of them ever did was find excuses to use the Busen Memo meme.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tabletopia/tabletopia-the-digital-platform-for-board-games Why buy Tabletop Simulator when you can subscribe to Tabletopia? (Although 95% less likely to get DMCA'd since they're working with the license holders)
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GrandpaPants posted:Most BGG users are actually pretty loving dickish. They seem like the type of people who are inviting at first, until someone disagrees with them and then they write essays about how they are and always will be in the right. It's a really lovely and toxic community, and I was glad to see people here cancel their orders. BGG may be one of the better examples out there that a 'real name policy' does not make people act less lovely.
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Tekopo posted:I know the guy IRL, probably one of the nicest board gamers I know. He's one of the main organisers of London On Board, the meetup I attend. Cool! Yeah, I really enjoy some of the conversations he's had with samo and various people about games that sort of break the mold of modern euros and thematic games, favoring instead games that have high interaction and low rules overhead. Hunted down a bunch of games on his list here: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/164097/qwertymartins-top-60-games Went down the rabbit hole and read a bunch of the discussion on this list https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/151368/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-frameworks, and this thread https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/899370/non-aligned-movement-aka-people-first-games-not-eu, this post https://www.boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/15759/i-am-what-i-play-2012-review, etc It would be cool to see this category of games be further defined I still like some of the euros and thematic games that he doesn't like, but it's refreshing to see a different perspective that focuses on games that are emphasize interaction and lower rules overhead Stalking martin also sent me on a knizia binge that has been pretty cool fozzy fosbourne fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Toshimo posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Traditional Games > Board Game Thread 4e: [+] Boobs_are_NOT_immature_morons Pretty sure some of those are - what are they, like 15? Jesus Christ...
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