I have such great memories of these games but man, trying to play anything with the second edition ruleset these days is rough.
I think growing up in Fresno, CA broke me. I saw this pic and was like “oh a mediumish warm day, wonder what they’re talking about in here”
Last year I did them from seedlings but then had a month long emergency and they all died :( Starting fresh but from seeds this year!
I really can’t tell if this was a /s thing or you just kind of don’t like people.
This is only my second year trying it so as of now the best advice I have is corn takes a ridiculous amount of water once it’s pretty tall, haha
I had a great time, easily the best phase 4 / 5 so far other than maybe Guardians 3
Nice, thank you for the circle back and additional information, that was interesting to read!
Oh weird, I hadn’t realized that but guess I should have since nurses work 12 hour shifts too and don’t get OT for that. Thank for the info!
What’s your starting and average per hour pay for them? And are they getting four hours of OT on those twelve hour shifts?
I knew it was a larger model but didn't realize how much larger until I got one of the legs together.
(She kicked the covers down for better pillow access)
Hoping someone has an idea on this!
I’ve been making little Disney trinkets for my wife to hand out when we go to Disneyland, and feedback has been positive enough that I thought I’d try a little Etsy store to make some filament money.
Initially I added it into my base template in TinkerCAD but it kept coming out real bad, so I’ve been trying adding the text within Creality Print, and usually it looks pretty good but it can be wildly inconsistent.
The top two are from a batch of five where I set one up and then duplicated it. The middle two are from a batch of eleven, all duplicated from the first five that looked nice, and then the bottom two are that same batch of five that I tried printing a second time and it turned out way worse.
Any idea on why it varies so much and what I could do to resolve it?
It was down to the wire but got my 9x9 done for the year! It was an eclectic mix of games this year and there were some that I wish I'd played more often just didn't make the time.
Quick thoughts on them all:
- The Crew - Really fun, starts out getting you in the groove and feeling smart about your team and your choices and then quickly ramps up. I'd like to be able to play it with the same people a bit more often as too many times there'd be one or more first timer and we'd start from mission one for them to get in the groove.
- Dungeon Rush - A super quick and fun reaction/slap game. Great to start or end an evening of board games.
- Frosthaven - Huge, complex, ridiculous in it's scope. Love this game so much and can't wait until our next session in a few days when we should have our first retirement.
- No Thanks - chill and great to play while hanging out at a bar. Some of the funniest on purpose or inadvertent hate drafting you can get.
- Sequence - My wife loves this one and I haven't really been a fan, but we've been playing it more 1v1 recently and I think it shines a lot more that way versus as a group game. Still not my favorite but it's grown on me a lot this year.
- Space Base - One of our favorite games, year after year. Still my top roll and collect card game.
- Taverns of Tiefenthal - A great follow up to another of our favorite games, Quacks of Quedlenberg, and one that was initially a "yeah, this is pretty fun" but really shines as you add more modules in. The expansion especially took it to the next level I feel.
- Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West - This was a very pleasant surprise for me. TTR has always been a 'eh it's fine' game for me but my wife loves all of them, and I love legacy games, so I jumped on this for her when it released. It's so much fun, full stop. Takes the TTR mechanics and does some really interesting stuff with them, and every game is adding something fun and new. Big recommend.
- Whirling Witchcraft - Another good quick game that has a great engine building while screwing your neighbor mechanic.
Honorable mentions:
- Aoens End Legacy of Gravehold - Got seven plays in and it's hard but so fun. Hoping we can finish this one up in 2024.
- Twilight Imperium - by hours my most played game this year, but that's because the four games of it added up to more than 10 games of Frosthaven. So much planning to get a game of it going but nothing really hits like it for ridiculous scope.
Oof. May Leopold rot in hell.