Talk:2486: Board Game Party Schedule - Revision history

Gatorized at 02:26, 29 April 2025

2025-04-29T02:26:53Z

MeZimm at 16:59, 7 March 2025

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172.70.90.144: Adding correctly disambiguationg signature.

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Adding correctly disambiguationg signature.

Solomon: explaining timing shown in comic

2024-05-30T05:52:59Z

explaining timing shown in comic

141.101.98.122 at 23:46, 9 July 2021

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108.162.246.121 at 21:17, 9 July 2021

2021-07-09T21:17:12Z

Rtanenbaum: Include title text in transcript

2021-07-09T20:05:32Z

Include title text in transcript

141.101.99.177: It's a silly game, I'm just doing my part to highlight the ridiculousness. And the true detail is here in the Edit History!

2021-07-09T18:42:56Z

It's a silly game, I'm just doing my part to highlight the ridiculousness. And *the true detail is here in the Edit History!*

162.158.146.220: I think the explanation is wrong. The title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games.

2021-07-09T16:38:50Z

I think the explanation is wrong. The title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games.

172.68.132.9 at 16:16, 9 July 2021

2021-07-09T16:16:03Z

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	I think the explanation is wrong. If you've played table-top games, a semi-complicated game like Catan or Ticket to Ride may seem simple. But the title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games. In terms of "complicatedness", this comic is referring to the middle of the road: e.g. Checkers<Catan<Car Wars. {{unsigned ip\|162.158.146.220\|16:38, 9 July 2021}}		I think the explanation is wrong. If you've played table-top games, a semi-complicated game like Catan or Ticket to Ride may seem simple. But the title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games. In terms of "complicatedness", this comic is referring to the middle of the road: e.g. Checkers<Catan<Car Wars. {{unsigned ip\|162.158.146.220\|16:38, 9 July 2021}}
		+	:Board games are tabletop games. [[User:Gatorized\|Gatorized]] ([[User talk:Gatorized\|talk]]) 02:26, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

	This timing is primarily because the game takes an hour to set up and an hour to explain, and those aren't being done in parallel. [[User:Solomon\|Solomon]] ([[User talk:Solomon\|talk]]) 05:52, 30 May 2024 (UTC)		This timing is primarily because the game takes an hour to set up and an hour to explain, and those aren't being done in parallel. [[User:Solomon\|Solomon]] ([[User talk:Solomon\|talk]]) 05:52, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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 A "simpler" game, like Catan or Dominion...?
 Um. More like Scattergories, Scrabble, Sorry, Yahtzee, Apples to Apples, Uno, even Go Fish. Catan and Dominion might be relatively well known, but they are NOT simple. My experience is that the strategically-minded people who love immersive resource-allocation based games like Catan and Dominion are frequently open to learning new games, while the crowd that opts for "simpler" games typically just want to have fun without having to think too hard about stuff. (I say this as someone who loves immersive resource-allocation games, with a girlfriend who typically prefers the simpler stuff.)
-Also, feels like Scythe deserves a mention, as a game that might be pulled out of a cupboard for game night but ends up taking hours to set up and explain. Whereas Warhammer players typically seek out their own, rather than casually springing their hobby on the general public. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.84|108.162.221.84]] 17:05, 8 July 2021 (UTC) mezimm
+Also, feels like Scythe deserves a mention, as a game that might be pulled out of a cupboard for game night but ends up taking hours to set up and explain. Whereas Warhammer players typically seek out their own, rather than casually springing their hobby on the general public. [[User:MeZimm|MeZimm]] ([[User talk:MeZimm|talk]]) 17:05, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 : Fair, although with my group what usually ends up happening is side games of Magic: the Gathering, and that's not simple, but it's quick to setup and doesn't take super long to complete. [[User:Thaledison|Erin Anne]] ([[User talk:Thaledison|talk]]) 13:22, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

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 ::Prob. not the forum for discussing all this. In fact I'm sure it'll be better somewhere in the Community Portal. I really must catch up on my reading in there. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.122|141.101.98.122]] 23:46, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
-I think the explanation is wrong. If you've played table-top games, a semi-complicated game like Catan or Ticket to Ride may seem simple. But the title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games. In terms of "complicatedness", this comic is referring to the middle of the road: e.g. Checkers<Catan<Car Wars. [signature missing]
+I think the explanation is wrong. If you've played table-top games, a semi-complicated game like Catan or Ticket to Ride may seem simple. But the title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games. In terms of "complicatedness", this comic is referring to the middle of the road: e.g. Checkers<Catan<Car Wars. {{unsigned ip|162.158.146.220|16:38, 9 July 2021}}
 This timing is primarily because the game takes an hour to set up and an hour to explain, and those aren't being done in parallel. [[User:Solomon|Solomon]] ([[User talk:Solomon|talk]]) 05:52, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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 ::Prob. not the forum for discussing all this. In fact I'm sure it'll be better somewhere in the Community Portal. I really must catch up on my reading in there. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.122|141.101.98.122]] 23:46, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
-I think the explanation is wrong. If you've played table-top games, a semi-complicated game like Catan or Ticket to Ride may seem simple. But the title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games. In terms of "complicatedness", this comic is referring to the middle of the road: e.g. Checkers<Catan<Car Wars.
+I think the explanation is wrong. If you've played table-top games, a semi-complicated game like Catan or Ticket to Ride may seem simple. But the title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games. In terms of "complicatedness", this comic is referring to the middle of the road: e.g. Checkers<Catan<Car Wars. [signature missing]
 == that was fast ==
 this was my first time looking up the most recent comic on here (though it wasn't 'cause [I'm] dumb'... for once), and can I just say you all work really fast at getting a basic explanation written out. Your work is much appreciated by this student software dev :-)--[[User:Twisted Code|Twisted Code]] ([[User talk:Twisted Code|talk]]) 18:56, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

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 :::Because I'm the last human alive? [[Special:Contributions/10.0.0.1|10.0.0.1]] 23:60, 31 Dec 10,000,034 (UTC)
 :Yes, I also believe that the title text should be part of the transcript. I have heard the explanation many times and the explanation makes NO sense to me. First, a transcript should be a full transcript, not just a transcript of what is in the picture. Second, Even if I was using a text reader, I would want to hear the title text after the elements in the picture are described, the same way that I experience the comic when I am reading it. First I process the comic then I hover over and look for the title text. Without the title text, it's like hearing the build up of a multipart joke without hearing the final punch line. So if a vote is ever taken, I would vote to start including the title text in the transcript. [[User:Rtanenbaum|Rtanenbaum]] ([[User talk:Rtanenbaum|talk]]) 20:05, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 I think the explanation is wrong. If you've played table-top games, a semi-complicated game like Catan or Ticket to Ride may seem simple. But the title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games. In terms of "complicatedness", this comic is referring to the middle of the road: e.g. Checkers<Catan<Car Wars.

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	I've done the best I can starting this out. Since it's been years since I did gatherings like this, if someone can suggest more modern examples of complicated tabletop simulation games than the ones I suggested (Squad Leader and SFB started in the late 1970s, for heaven's sake), please do so. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.236\|108.162.245.236]] 00:27, 8 July 2021 (UTC)		I've done the best I can starting this out. Since it's been years since I did gatherings like this, if someone can suggest more modern examples of complicated tabletop simulation games than the ones I suggested (Squad Leader and SFB started in the late 1970s, for heaven's sake), please do so. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.236\|108.162.245.236]] 00:27, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
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		+	Diplomacy? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.121\|108.162.246.121]] 21:17, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

	How about Seven Wonders? [[User:Gvanrossum\|Gvanrossum]] ([[User talk:Gvanrossum\|talk]]) 04:59, 8 July 2021 (UTC)		How about Seven Wonders? [[User:Gvanrossum\|Gvanrossum]] ([[User talk:Gvanrossum\|talk]]) 04:59, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

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 :(Nice IP. *cough*) The transcript describes in text that which cannot already be read as text (without OCR, etc). The title-text is already in text form, reiteration would be redundantly repetitive. - Or so I've seen it explained several times before, and it makes perfect sense to me. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.105|162.158.158.105]] 03:10, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 ::Thanks for the explanation.  Also, why are you talking to yourself? [[Special:Contributions/127.0.0.1|127.0.0.1]] 17:12, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 I think the explanation is wrong. If you've played table-top games, a semi-complicated game like Catan or Ticket to Ride may seem simple. But the title says "Board Game" so I don't think explanation examples should be table-top games. In terms of "complicatedness", this comic is referring to the middle of the road: e.g. Checkers<Catan<Car Wars.