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jbuergel@fiverandomsongs.com |
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Board game designer (Fox in the Forest, Hocus, Foresight) and terrible music blogger (fiverandomsongs.com). (He/him)
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jbuergel
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I mostly judge deduction-in-a-box games by two criteria: one, how often does it make us feel clever and two, does my daughter ask to play it. Based on these, the high points of Perspectives were enough to really carry point one, and point two was yes, so it was very successful for me.
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After the third time in a row rolling backwards off a cliff fighting the same guy, I thought my kids were never going to stop laughing at me.
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jbuergel
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The hats are so, so important. And the physical comedy of all your fuckups are also critical to the overall experience.
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jbuergel
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Just going to drop that bomb in the Sexual Jeremy writeup and walk away, eh?
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jbuergel
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I have straight up giggled every time I've seen one. It's a real mood lifter. "Loogit the dumbass!"
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jbuergel
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Probably my favorite RPG ever.
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Divinity 2 is a clear improvement, for the record. I wish there were more things like those games, honestly.
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jbuergel
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A blog arguing for more simulation in TTRPGs, which would suit me very well: roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/2024/06/a-ma...
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9mm parasocialism
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i am losing my mind
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jbuergel
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"It looked like a toaster for a divorced giant."
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jbuergel
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I don't think it's actually like this, but that pic is giving me Tash-Kalar vibes. And I'm in for anything even vaguely resembling that game.
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I'm as excited to try this as any game I've read about for a while.
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jbuergel
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Cool, looking forward to it!
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jbuergel
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My buddy and I had our own Rick roll variant that involved the Kidz Bop version of "Float On". ("I backed my car into a cop car the other day YEAH!")
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I'd love to know what kind of games he plays - I thought these sorts always thought that frivolous nonsense like this was pulling our eyes from contemplating the majesty of the Lord.
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How dare you sir? Potty talk! Fetch my fainting couch!
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jbuergel
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Did you try the realtime priority? That ultimately made the biggest difference for me. But you have to bypass anti-cheat by running the actual exe directly, so offline mode only (I play with mod engine on anyway).
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jbuergel
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For a while, I was running with Bluetooth and my network turned off, that also seemed to help.
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It's so frustrating that the stupid game freezes like this. Sure, maybe windows shouldn't discover new shit all the time, fair enough, but still!
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jbuergel
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Two things that helped me. One is that Elden Ring freezes when a new device is discovered. Stopping the SSDP Discovery service was a big help (you can restart it afterwards). That fixed a lot of freezes for me. Then, I bump the priority of the game to realtime and that helped a lot as well.
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Lord Businessman II
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You just so rarely see a Priest body someone so hard
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jbuergel
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Real monkey paw moment for me here, as I've never liked the term at all, but..."muman"?
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The Divinity game might be a very interesting one. It's very clearly a labor of love, I think the folks involved care about it a ton, and I have a huge amount of respect for the design chops of Larian. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'm hoping it's great.
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jbuergel
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Aw dang, broke my threading. Well, that's what I get for trying to tweet thoughts.
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Then, of course, there are cases like the Stardew Valley game, where I'm completelly immune to the charms of the original, so I haven't got a clue if the board game evokes them or not. It felt both too slow and too abrupt to me, but my daughter liked it ok. Although we haven't revisited it either.
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jbuergel
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...instead to make you remember a thing you love, and therefore draft off your enjoyment of the original. But that sort of thing very much has a ceiling. It's like hearing a musak adaptation of a favorite song - sure, you might remember the original, but what you're hearing doesn't make you happy.
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jbuergel
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The Witcher doesn't work because it could really be any fantasy world, any milieu. It has the trappings of the video game, sure. Things are named after stuff in the video game, but it's evoking the presentation of its inspiration, not the gameplay. It's intended not to succeed on its merits, but...
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jbuergel
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Dorfromantik works because it recognizes that it's just about putting together a spatial puzzle that you can engage with at the level you choose, and making sure it happens in a pleasant fashion.
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Tabletop StS works because it knows it's a game about tight choices, about ambiguous deck construction, about just barely winning challenges and hanging on, and then sets about translating that to a tabletop environment, with friends and manageable arithmetic and overhead.
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I've thought about this, and from my outsider perspective, the successful ones actually understand what makes the digital originals compelling and makes sure those elements shine, while then making sure the surrounding elements are tabletop native. If the adaptation is box checking, that's not there
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For every StS or Mechs vs. Minions, there's a Witcher or Sid Meier's Civ.
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I think it would have been easy to have done a basic job of adapting what is already a pretty tabletop friendly game and called it a day. It shouldn't be notable that they went above and beyond, but they did. Video game to tabletop adaptations are a real mixed bag, I should do a survey of them.
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jbuergel
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Indeed, so surprising that I noted it twice. Genuinely.
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I was genuinely surprised by how much I liked it. I backed the game out of what sort of felt like obligation, since I'm a true StS sicko. But it turns out to be a very thoughtful thing, and the multi-player aspect really is night. A genuine surprise.
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You say nobody wants a hot tuna salad, but tuna melts are delicious (and better than a tuna salad), so hot sandwiches still win. A local bar does a green chile tuna melt, and it's one of my favorite sandwiches in this city.
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Saw my first Cybertruck in the wild today, and what a delight. Truly delivered on the promise. The ruddy dude behind the wheel didn't look as if he was having a good time, but I was very much enjoying cackling at him.
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jbuergel
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I would see them in the record store back in the day and just assumed the CD cases were empty.
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Found courtesy the always fantastic Devil's Mouth: thedevilsmouth.substack.com
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This record rips, fantastic garage rock from my home town, I love it.
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I am so excited for this!
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jbuergel
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"Mini Xia" is a fantastic pitch, I'm definitely going to get this. Xia is one of my favorite games that doesn't seem like it should work at all, but really turns out to be delightful.
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That sounds incredible.
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It turns out that if you're sufficiently determined, you can cherry pick enough anecdotes to support all of your laziest, worst impulses.
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Those dolts think they're going to be the bedrock of society thanks to their superior generic material, and yet they saw a cat do something and instantly thought "yes this is the way".
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That Facet record from last year totally rips.
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-indy ✨
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I enjoyed this grand unified theory of AI hype: blog.glyph.im/2024/05/gran...
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Jack Grimes
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Last time I made it, I attempted to unmold it onto a sheet pan, an operation made ten times more oafish thanks to the lip. Really elegant service solution, too.
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The "and so" transition gets me every time.
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