You start to run into the trope conservation of ninjutsu. Where a single ninja is a terrible threat, but a group of them splits the power of the single threat evenly.

Healers aren’t rare. We just roll with each other.

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It’s like they wanted to use bisexual lighting while editing and then didn’t remove all the layering.

It definitely pairs better than vodka, but vodka is a staple in the liquor setups regardless of where we have a session.

Vodka is the typical option cause you can take it near, on the rocks, or used with a mixer. People know their limits at this point and can adjust safely.

As far a sushi we used to rotate getting takeout, but overtime we started to default to sushi. There tends to be enough variety to mix up the type of sushi each week, it keeps people from getting too full/hungry, and typically is contained enough to fit with all our play supplies.

My main crew typically goes with vodka and sushi on our biweekly session.

When we have a younger/new player we go with seltzer and mixed veg/fruit/nuts.

A wopping $8,675,309!

Also if you got the money to spare a wet dry vacuum is a life saver when your kid barfs I the middle of the night.

Ours got daily use for the various messes the kid and cats would make.

Bit sus that it went from a generic invite to a religious event after one text.

Sorry to hear your family are being buttheads. They at the least did you the favor of forecasting that they were going to be a buzz kill to hangout with.

I think it is a solid game. Sunk about 30 hours into it a few months ago, but life got busy and I what free time I’ve had I sunk into Pokemon infinite fusion.

If you want the gist of what it is like to play without sinking in the money “Real Civil Engineer” on YouTube has a Timberborn playlist with hours of content with him just fucking around. Unless you find your own way to build a narrative or make your own challenges you may find that you have done it all by around 60 to 80 hours of gameplay.

My Birds!

A steam deck with emudeck installed is definitely my favorite way to play older Nintendo games.

I just finished my first play through of Pokemon Conquest, and my partner enjoyed getting to replay Cruisin USA for the N64.

Emudeck was my main reason for picking up a steam deck. Figured I could get an archive of retro games, and then build up a library of indie games over time.

I have to do some troubleshooting to get PS1 and PS2 games working, but that is probably just getting bios files. Just downloaded so many games that I am working through that even when something doesn’t work immediately I have more than enough options to be entertained.

Fucking lol.

I fell off of keeping up with them after flying microtonal banana. They are a blast to see live, but when they drop 5 or so albums in a year there is no time for me to fully process everything they are doing.

I tend to do theater of the mind for probably two thirds of my play sessions.

In combat I use a folding dry erase grid, some coins and markers to whip a board. If I have time to do a bigger fight I might prep some verticality by hot gluing some cardboard together. Having the terrain being low cost and effort gives me the option of breaking it down mid combat.

My family (New Hampshire) typically add smoked cherry tomatoes to our mac and cheese.

Mostly an add in of one protein and one vegetable. When more items get added we just switch to the dish being a pasta or a casserole.

I will say that raisins make a great addition to a curried meatloaf.