Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

That makes me 2 for 2!

Last time I prayed for someone in your household, Manfried brought you tea.

Heck no. I'm praying for the dog.

Oh, hell yeah!

Wait until Microsoft starts doing this at an OS level to everyone so it can design and sell AI services to businesses.

<paranoid>Who's to say they don't quietly do this already?</paranoid>

Ummmm.. I promptly disassembled it last night.

If you are serious, I'll redo the puzzle when you've bought the frame.

Ok, this one was a pain in my ass.

Gonna pass this one on.

bugs bunny is standing in the desert with a cactus in the background and says `` what a maroon '' . Alt: bugs bunny is standing in the desert with a cactus in the background and says `` what a maroon '' .

Soo.. I guess women can stop asking men if they "want children" now before getting married, since the answer is always "No".

And I guess all men are naturally sociopaths.

And, I think, a lot of people don't understand that sports betting has become and the impact it has, especially on college athletes.

Who wins it loses and by how much is the least a person can bid on.

Recognising and assessing risk is a core aspect of the human condition and a skill we actively develop. Gambling is a way of playing with that. But as is so often the case, the difference between poison and medicine is the dose. That slippery slope has been a sheer clif for a while now.

And as that happens, you lose any ojectivity you might have had on the subject.

And that's before you get into how people wth real resources are influencing events to win bets.

(Yeah, cheating with insider information is bad, but almost besides the point to wanting and manifesting bad outcomes.)

Betting on when bad shit happens (and worse, winning) will rewire your brain to desire the outcome because of the reward associated with it, not because of any moral or ethical value inherent to the outcome.

The thing about the prediction markets is, they destroy empathy, morality, and ethics.

For many people, it's a reasonable assumption that you don't want terrible stuff to happen. Disastaster, war, killing.. all objectively bad. But we also know it's going to happen.

Midnight post brought to you by "my wife is traveling and I sleep like shit when she's not here".

Why would you want to "waste time" writing something you'ld never expect to use?

Because writing is process. Sometimes you have to prime the pump. And sometimes you have to get out of your own way

Don’t just let it be terrible, LEAN INTO it being terrible, because no one’s going to see it.

I only bring this up because someone mentioned just this week that this trick is useful, but I *still* 30 years in, when stumped, write this on the top of the page.

At worst, I may have to put in my Loops because the radio may be on a little loud.

As a autistic man, probably the most consistently positive public experience I get to have is being a regular at the local breakfast spot.

It's rarely too busy. They know my order. Everyone is perfectly pleasant and social encounters with other regulars are short.

Appropriately, the worst sketch I've ever uploaded.

I tried drawing in a manga style and suddenly....

a cartoon of flintstone driving a car on a rocky beach ALT: a cartoon of flintstone driving a car on a rocky beach

Depends... How are your feet?

It feels kinda ridiculous, but I just went from a .7 mm to a .5mm tip on my work pen refills and it feels and looks better.

I have poor penmanship (so no writing samples).

Kinda tempted to draw a thing though.

Drinking and gambling with corpses too. He's a real every-man.

Throwing the signal up to my #ttrpg friends, some of whom I've already contacted about this -- anyone got a contact for Sean Preston, who ran the rpg game company Reality Blurs? Did some great Savage Worlds settings and the amazing Tremulus horror game. Last thing I can find is a 2020 blog post.

I feel at that point, we're splitting hairs on who gets to stand closer to the fire in hell.

What?

Goddamn it...

Just the right amount of cartoonish stupidity.

I do know if it's good, but it looks fun.

*snicker*