I’m in favour of moving.

We gifted The Isle Of Cats to a friend and had a go. Cute game, with card drafting, self imposed rule shenannigans and tetris puzzling cats onto your boat. Can recommend.

Interesting to hear. When I played it, I wished the publisher was less reluctant to use words, just combining symbols with a single word would have cleared up the overview by so much. My group(4p) played the tutorial for 3 hours after watching 1h of instruction video and decided we are not going to play this regularly enough to ever get over the required training barrier. Seems you guys are more fit, and it really looks beautiful. Enjoy!

Exactly, my television is an ips lcd with an arm based programmable microcomputer with software that translates input signals for the display, LED backlighting and an internal power supply. Although, I wouldn’t be able to repair it, there are no spare parts.

Every washing machine has an embedded system that controls the washing cycle and needed programming for that. That’s not common knowledge and they rather put functionality in their marketing than function.

We need a right to repair and common instructions how to fix things, maybe that helps dissolving the magic.

I think this is one step further, that technology has become so abstract and complex that people who focus on different crafts and careers are using magical black boxes. It blows my mind how my neighbour goes through life without any concept of what a phone app is. He just uses functionality and memorized the associated logo. I’m an engineering wizard to him.

I agree. Alternatively, have your whole group prepare for a new game in advance, at least a how to play video each, so you are not the rules guy and can figure it out together while playing.

If I see a game that strikes my fancy, I put it on a list to try it on tabletop simulator with my group. Especially during birthday season we try a lot to find a good game for someones shelf, with each their own inspiration. Games we can’t test are out of the running, that shit is too expensive to gamble and there is always similar competition that is available. Some games never leave TTS, if we feel like automatic setup and scoring is a big part of making the game fun and not a chore.

I’m convinced this article is an ad for their own boardgames and was never intended to include any depth aka competition.

You could try out Oath: Cronicles of Empire and Exile. It came to mind when I read the description of Inis.