Asimech @Asimech@mastodon.social

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284778/unmatched-jurassic-park-dr-sattler-vs-t-rex

What.
So "Unmatched" is a cross-compatible series of board games where two or more players will battle each other. In this, well.

I'll just copy-paste a bit:

"In Unmatched: Jurassic Park – Dr. Sattler vs. T. Rex, the massive T rex unleashes fearsome attacks and seems unstoppable while Dr. Sattler makes full use of her surroundings and the aid of Dr. Ian Malcolm and his chaos theory."

For years now I've liked to occasionally look at tea and coffee related equipment just go "oh, that's pretty" or "ooh, that looks interesting".
Since I started drinking coffee I also started looking at coffee equipment with potential intent to buy (I already had perfectly good tea equipment). This lasted long enough to form into a habit.

Now that I'm happy with what I've got every time I look at stuff I subconsciously add "…but I don't need it" to the end. Which is still a novel feeling.

Bought a "patience" double deck of half-sized playing cards and didn't realise at the time that I was buying myself a project with it.
Because they are of course really stiff and I like to riffle shuffle my playing cards.
Also once they're a little bent they're easier to pick up off the table.

I've actually taken to the habit of re-evaluating if I actually enjoy playing a game whenever the UI becomes unresponsive just to sync with the servers before letting me to, I don't know, check settings.
Change cosmetic stuff about my profile.
Or any number of things that don't actually involve me using anything that should require double-checking by the server to make sure I'm not "cheating" or whatever.

#gamedev #gaming

I feel like the most ignored aspect of Free-to-Play games is in how many ways they're reliant on servers and how that is detrimental to the user experience.

Game becoming unresponsive in a menu because it's syncing up with the server to make sure I'm not gaining or using resources I haven't "earned properly" gets tiresome really fast, especially if I'm not even trying to use any resources.
Having the game always assume the worst of me during lag spikes is similarly really annoying.
#gamedev

Deleted Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel. The near-constant screen shakes and flashy effects hurting my eyes were what finally pushed me over, but the free-to-play nonsense and most cards being a dang short story of mechanics did the ground work.

I'm still going to keep Link Evolution, since there I only have the overtly long animations as a permament bugbear. Verbose cards and inability to back out of decisions are something I can at least get over with experience.