I found it easier to play with bots to learn, they are more forgiving and are a bit bad at the game as well.

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Sharks don't really pee. It gets stored it in their body tissue instead. Part of the preperation of shark is essentially pressing it for weeks to bring out the ammonia and let it break down into something that won't kill you. Doesn't taste good, but won't kill you.

DS3 literally starts with a boss that is quite challenging if you're not used to DS already. Just "here is a sword, here is how to swing it, here is a bear of a man with an oozing snake hand - kill him". A lot of players bounced off him.

Fromsoft isn't in the business of making easy games, it's just different variations of challenging. For people that like that it's great. For a lot of people that very understandably is a turn off.

Its more a human thing: you have a big thing many people are working together to build, you have to organize somehow and make sure the thing actually is being built and does what it needs to do. Good companies do have an overall plan and good communication.

SCRUM is just one of many ways of organizing a project. It in itself isn't really a programming thing even if it is most often used there, the general structure can work for just about every project that can be split in to multiple smaller tasks and sub-projects.

If your programming team is perpetual firefighting and chaos with nobody knowing their roles then that's a sign of a bad organization or a lousy management structure. The last company I worked at was very organized. Status meetings thrice a week, clear seperation of responsibility, a good team lead divying up tasks the cropped up, and good communication between programmers.

I play a lot of the classic games on Cardgames.io. Spades in particular is a favorite, albeit I also really enjoy an Icelandic game called "Manni".

My family played a lot of what I later learned to be a variation of Shanghai rum, a contract rummy played with three 52 card decks. It takes a while to get over a full game, but it was always a good time.

Give how niche / useless some of the balls are color matching is really the one joy you can have with them. Doubly so when you are dealing with apriballs where you often only have a limited amount

Its just a really time consuming game. I've spent 9 hours playing a game we made it 4 rounds in (in fairness with a few new players). I personally like it, but you really do need to have the patience of knowing you are likely spending the day and probably not finishing regardless. A bit like Talisman.

I ended up naming them numbers. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. God knows it quickly went out of order but it wasn't like 10 year old me was paying close attention anyway.

love letter is such a good game. It's an instant hit with friends and gamily when we need something fast to learn but fun to play.

light : No Thanks!

medium : Catan, oddly enough.

Heavy : Shasn

Most played: Probably Talisman. Me and my wife played that a lot when we were getting together

Favorite of all time: Probably still Shasn, but if I can count civ5/civ6 as a board game that gets pretty close.

However I am a bit of a game omnivore that jumps from one game to the next, so I go through phases with what games are "in" at the moment and try new games frequentlt. My wife is the opposite, preferring what she knows and a solid set of few good games. As such we make a good team in blending variety and avoiding our board game shelf growing too quickly.

I feel that given the current trendyness of AI and large language models it seems prudent to mention Façade, an interactive play that used AI and language processing to let the player "speak" to the characters and influence tha narrative. It was very janky and you could break it rather easily, but the concept was solid - the technology was just a decade and a half away.

start simple. It is all right to just make extremely simple meals while you get in to the habit of cooking on the regular schedule. sit down on Sunday evening and scan the internet for ideas what to cook that week, make a plan, and buy groceries on, say, monday.

It is all right if the plan doesn't go perfectly, something is better than nothing. Most of it is just practice.