Depends on your frame of reference. When traversing the surface of a globe, your described concept of a straight line isn’t intuitive.

My bootlicking family, who insists “we got our country back” but refuses to elaborate when I ask basic questions such as “from whom? How? What has materially changed?”

It’s not a necessary tool for all fields. I don’t know your area but mathematics journals have vastly different style guides and citation standards. The best way to handle this is to export a bibtex citation which is just a list of metadata tags, then plug in the journal’s style header before compiling your TeX.

That’s because mathematicians use log for the natural logarithm. Log base 10 would be log_10

The thing I’d be more concerned with is establishing unreal expectations around sex based on overproduced porn. Like, it’s not a normal expectation to fold someone into a pretzel and jackhammer their ass for 30 minutes.

Do you keep restarting or wiping on fights? There simply isn’t 120 hours of content in a single playthrough of act I.

“Depression is a myth; tidy your room. Also, I’ve been clinically depressed for my whole adult life and I shamble from one crisis to another.”

I learned all too quickly to never go all in on Isengard attacking Rohan. Despite all laws of probability, my opponent has a 100% chance of having both ent cards and a companion near Fangorn forest.

That’s capitalism and it’s obsession with ever-increasing profits for you. Often times a video game company sees the most layoffs the year after a major release. Cutting expenditure such as employee salaries simulates profit.

The Witcher 2, though it’s more of an exploit.

If you get the sword from the Lady of the Lake in the previous game, you start the prologue of TW2 with two silver swords, one being the Lady of the Lake sword. Unequip the Lady of the Lake sword so you don’t lose it to the dragon.

You now have a mid-tier silver sword that is good for half the game. You also don’t need to find a new silver sword at the start of the game.

York isn’t in the Americas. It’s also a former Viking settlement, Jorvik. A millenium later and I’m in the same place, following the same diet of meat and bread.

I usually go to short stories, or old sword and sorcery novellas. For the former my go to stories are Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, Robert E Howard’s Conan, and Isaac Asimov’s Robots. For the latter I prefer Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and Jack Vance’s Dying Earth. If I’m feeling uninspired or experiencing a block, knocking out a few of these stories always sets me straight. They take next to no time to read and are great fun. I don’t get tired of rereading them.

I’ve recently started setting myself goals. I used to read non-stop before university. During my undergraduate degree I slowed down to finishing only a few books per year. By the time I started my PhD, where basically my entire 9-5 is reading and analysing dense 40-page mathematical papers, I’d completely stopped reading for pleasure.

Last year I set myself a 1 book per week goal and found that I was actively factoring reading time into my daily schedule, which I really appreciated. I managed to get through a lot of my reading bucket list this way, but at the end of the year I decided I wouldn’t set that kind of goal again. I ended up powering through some novels that I would’ve preferred to DNF purely because it was Thursday and starting a new novel would set me back.

This year I haven’t set a hard goal. I’ve decided I am happy with one book per month, and if I’m reading properly then I blaze past that. I’m very much enjoying the ability to augment my main reading with other reading. I’m currently participating in a book club over at [email protected] which I find very rewarding and I wouldn’t have had the spare reading time to participate in this time last year.

Oh, I just remembered as I played one of these last week. There are a lot of standalone scenarios which are cheaper. Searching „Arkham Horror Einzelszenario" should reveal these. They cost about 20-30€ each which is expensive for a single scenario but I find that some have a lot of replayability. The three I have played are Karneval des Schreckens, Mord im Excelsior-hotel, and Der Blob, der alles fraß. All are fantastic.

Googling the standalone scenarios, I found a free fan-made cruise ship scenario which is print and play. Unfortunately, it is only available in English. Perhaps if printing is an option for you, you could find some scenarios this way.

Edit: I did the googling and found pages dedicated to fan made scenarios here and here.

I find the game fun with any number of players. In having more players, you trade one kind of difficulty for another. In a single player game, your main difficulty comes from the fact that you can’t do absolutely everything; you must either diversify your skillset and be not-so-great at everything, or specialise and lose out on some interactions. In say a 4 player game each investigator can afford to be very specialised, but the trade-off is that you must find 4 times as many clues, mythos cards are drawn 4 times as often, and some monsters are 4 times more difficult to kill. I’ve found 2 or 3 to be the sweet spot for players, and playing solo with 2 characters can be quite fun.

On the topic of missing posts, I think it may be teething issues of the tech. Currently I can’t see anything on the Lovecraft community, including my own posts, but I get notifications if I receive replies. For now I just browse the community locally.

The best way is buying campaign/investigator expansions. Note that both are necessary for a complete cycle. Fantasy Flight have also starting reprinting older (and harder to find) sets in the campaign/investigator expansions; purchasing both these sets is equivalent to buying all mythos packs for a cycle. If you search „Ermittler-Erweiterung" or „Kampagnen-Erweiterung" for your preferred cycle, you shouldn’t have an issue finding a set.

The „Return to-" sets are further expansions to a cycle and intended to give a campaign greater replayability. I would not recommend them instead of the original campaigns.

A note on card sets. While your current 1st Edition Core is still useable, it is a 2-player box. There is a revised version which accommodates 4 players (and includes some cards from expansions as part of the core) though if you are solo or want to play with just one friend, then the original core set will work.

Edit: While I don’t endorse this method, I have played with a friend who grabbed high-quality card images from an Arkham Horror module for Tabletop Simulator and then printed out playable sets on cardstock.