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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • If I remember correctly, that was the original idea of AWS, to offer their free capacity to paying customers.

    Do you think that AWS in particular has this problem or Azure and GCP as well? I have mainly worked with DWHs in Snowflake, where you can adjust the compute capacity within seconds. So you pay almost exactly for the capacity you really need.
    Not having to optimize queries is a good selling point for cloud-based databases, too.

    It is certainly still cheaper than self-hosted on-premises infrastructure.



  • Es freut mich, dass sie mittlerweile wohl dazugelernt haben.

    Ich hatte Anfang 2015 direkt das FP1 gekauft, nur um 2 Jahre später mitgeteilt zu bekommen, dass es für Ersatzteile keine Zulieferer mehr gäbe und dass ein Software-Update auch zu teuer sei. Kurz danach ist das Display zersplittert und ich musste es doch wieder in die Tonne schmeißen, obwohl es noch nicht einmal 2,5 Jahre alt war.

    So schlimm scheint es jetzt nicht mehr zu sein, aber achte lieber vor dem Kauf älterer Versionen auf die Verfügbarkeit von Ersatzteilen und Software-Updates.


  • Turing Machine is actually the only game on my wish list this year. It’s the perfect match for me as I love solving logical puzzles, work in IT and like to play board games instead of sitting in front of a display all the time. The Steam game Turing Complete was already a dream come true for me.

    There is no impact on taxes as long as your Nebenverdienst is not higher than 520€ a month. You also don’t have to pay social security contributions in that case.



  • Not yet. I usually don’t make a list until a few days before it starts. But maybe I won’t prepare anything at all this time.

    I’m more focused on playing games for fun now, rather than getting the best deals like I did 5 years ago. The SPIEL is good for trying out games, sometimes even before release, or getting some exclusive bonus expansions, but not so much for getting cheap prices anymore.

    Besides, I don’t want to add to my huge collection until I have more time to play games. So this time I may just go unprepared and see what looks interesting.






  • I totally get what you mean by lower entry barrier. In the end, that’s also by design for LCGs. But the completionist in me looks at the price tag for the whole collection in horror (no pun intended). Maybe after what you wrote I still give it another try, so thanks for sharing your experience.

    When you play SI for the first time on TTS, I highly recommend playing with someone who knows the game already. Scripts in TTS are nice and all, but it’s even harder to understand how everything works when they are doing stuff so fast that you cannot follow.


  • I played Spirit Island for the first time on Tabletop Simulator and it felt kinda cluttered and too hard to anticipate what happens next. But playing it at a real table with all the little pieces was completely different. We played many times with 4 players since and added the expansions only after a while. The base game is completely fine in my opinion and doesn’t feel incomplete.

    I didn’t really get into AH LCG. I only played it in TTS and felt like I had little control over the game. There were so many random elements that could affect all subsequent games that we abandoned it in frustration. And isn’t the price much higher with all the campaigns than SI?