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Nerd; Board, Card, Pencil & Paper Gamer; Avid Reader.

  • That’s fun! I hadn’t remembered seeing your other posts.

    I remember a lot of them fondly, and when I was updating my reading profile on a bunch of the tracking sites, it was fun remembering as many of the ones I had read that I could so that I could put them on there. There were a few that I had forgotten about reading until I was looking at a big list of them and they came right back.

  • I read so many of the 90s era Star Wars books so good. Really enjoyed Stackpole’s Rogue Squadron.

  • The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins. Don’t read anything about it before hand, just strap in and enjoy the ride.

  • It helps that as a society a large chunk have stopped seeing anger and its derivatives as “emotions”

  • Dozing don.

  • To be fair, I’ve bet a bunch of misogynistic republican women too. I’ve had family claim women are too emotional to be in government

  • The 1st one arguably was a big part of what got me back reading regularly. I read it during Covid and it was what I needed at the moment. The second was enjoyable. The third is good, but I’ve been busy and haven’t been able to keep at it. But all are very enjoyable.

  • I’ll give you a heads up that site has some “interesting“ stuff if you start at the top level, but the A-to-Z listing and individual games pages seem to be pretty solid and are well formatted.

  • Dice-play.com is a really good resource. We play a lot of farkle (older scoring, not the commercial version), and Yahtzee, but lately we’ve been playing Ship, Captain, Crew; Knockout; and Centennial with the kids.

  • Nice! What game?

  • It occurs to me as well that the “completeness” of this amused me too.

    • 1 tin
    • 1 ~$5 package of dice
    • 1 print
    • 1 pencil from IKEA, your local golf course or wherever
    • 1 pocketmod printout of games sized to fit the tin (a work in progress)

    No spare parts, it’s all complete.

  • It’s not that we play a specific game that needs 10 dice, but I find that I can accommodate a whole lot of games if I have 10 dice. I originally thought of doing six because that would cover up through Farkle and then Yahtzee could come along for the ride, but then I realized that if I threw all the dice in the package in there, I could expand the optional games; or even support running multiple games separately.

    If I had 2 extra we could even play Bunco. So it was more that it fit and opened up a bunch of options.

  • I go back and forth between that and Hardcover. I like the features of both, but I think I like Hardcover.app slightly better.

    That said we do have a reading challenge on Storygraph for our book bingo.

  • A true sophisticate.

  • I have a cookbook with about the middle third of the book is bound on the wrong side so the page numbers jump up and reverse for a bit.

    Otherwise — related to text issues — the early versions of one of the last two Jim Butcher books that came out back-to-back has a moment with Dresden interacting with a character named Sanya and there’s a typo where it’s printed “Santa” instead. And given you have met “Santa” in the Dresden files by this point it took me a moment to realize it was a typo and not that the other character had just shown up.

  • The last week or so has been busy for me too so it’s been sporadic, but I’ve been reading through Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree. It’s the first true sequel to Legends and Lattes given that the second book in the series is a prequel. It reunites a main character from Legends and Lattes with a friend from the prequel. I’m enjoying it so far but not quite as much as the prior 2 yet, but I’m still only about 40% in.

  • So right-wing podcaster isn’t a good training for high level positions?