This is the Internet in general, i think… when you compare how many sites i used a decade ago to now, its cvastly fewer. five or so years ago, that would have probably been due to things consolidating… But now it is just because almost everything online is relatively valueless. it is a soulless wasteland with little to offer. Sure, ym digitital usage is enormous, but i engaged somewhat reguarly on internet sites. Now its nothing to me. Hell, I dont even really keep up on Lemmy anymore. Smaller use internet was thrilling. What it is now is pretty much balls. Its paying bills, or checking accts.

I mean… they dropped hte “dont be evil” tag, ages ago… which heralded the next phase of Google… “we are for sure going to be doing evil.”

I am not big into boardgaming… but all of my friends are super into it. It makes playing against them much less fun for me. Guys who play dozens or hundreds of games a year begin to recognize the different “engines” that boardgames run on… so they dont have to wrap their mind around the mechanics, just have to adapt to the scoring mechanism. I have to do both, and am at a disadvantage… so I tend to look at more co-op style games… but those arent to everyones liking.

BUT… This past week (actually the past two weeks) me and a couple of friends played quite a bit of The Crew. Since my oldest friends and I grew up playing Spades and Hearts, the concept of The Crew really clicked with us, and we have enjoyed it quite a bit. It is a fun game, that feels rewarding when youe play meshes, and you eke out a victory from what was looking like a loss… And it also makes you feel like an asshole for miscounting or missing something in a hand, and throwing the wrong card at the wrong time. I think we played very well up unitl the 29th or 30th hand, where we got a mission that was by far the most difficult. I think in all of the prior missions, we may have had to replay two of them, and only once… This mission (no player could win two more hands than any other player) was nearly a showstopper. I think we had to play it 9 times to get by it.

But since I finally played a game in the past week, I was happy to be able to post it in one of the weekly threads! lol

This is hilarious. The biggest inconvenience this will cause, is people asking “can you post a screenshot? I dont use Twitter.”

I feel like YTs feed is plain awful. For a site pretty much known for storing data and searching… The YT search, and their referral algo are maybe the worst.