There are some definite hits and some definite misses on Apple TV+ here’s the best and worst I’ve seen so far:

“For All Mankind” - An awesome realistic Sci-Fi show that feels like a prequel to “The Expanse”. 4 seasons so far of top notch Sci-fi. Highly suggest for folks that were into The Expanse.

“Silo” - Premise is basically Fallout except they call the vaults “silos” instead. Excise the peppy energy and self-awareness of Fallout and boom, you’ve got your gray mush run of the mill dystopian thriller “Silo”. It’s been a real yawner for me, I couldn’t make it through even 4 episodes.

Leopards are going to be eating well the next few years :>

She herself stated money was the main reason, and he knows it but it doesn’t bother him.

Well both you and your daughter are honest people and so is her husband. That’s a pretty good foundation for a healthy relationship imo. Good knows people have married with worse :>

This ho bag is the direct reason trump is in power

You forgot the greatest one of them all:

Silent Hills: Playable Teaser :>

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDmGGtglEY

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Got this game for free through twitch free games which turned out to be a surprising gem for me:

Dead in Vinland - Turn based group survival management game with some exploration and combat mechanics but the real juice of the game is in the writing and character development.

Story overall is ehhhh but it’s just a stage for the characters you meet :>

The original creators are doing a follow-up!

After the lackluster “sequels” (Star Control 3 and Star Control: Origins) that were made largely without the original developers input, I had pretty much given up the franchise for dead till now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pistolshrimp/free-stars-children-of-infinity

For those of you not in the know, you can get Star Control 2 for free on Steam and see what the pinnacle of DOS adventure gaming was all about :D

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters/

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The high seas have you covered matey. Check the wiki in the mega thread at the top 🏴‍☠️

You telling me the opening montage about the power vacuum in episode 2 wasn’t cool? Because it was pretty goddamn cool :o

I liked most everything else but all the Vi/Caitlyn romance bits felt really stilted. Wish they’d have kept it shorter and more subtle like in season 1.

Nothing like TLC in foot prep to make things taste even better.

As a fan of foot massages, I couldn’t agree more :>

Ah reread you message and you were asking specifically about trivia games. I thought you meant party games in general so I’ll just give you one of my favorites anyways!

Just One! - retails for about 20 bucks but you can DIY this with an online random noun generator and some bits of paper and pencils. This plays best with more than 4 players.

Cooperative game where the basic gist is one person is a guesser and everyone else are cluegivers trying to make him guess the mystery word by writing down a one word clue in secret. The catch is before revealing clues to the guesser, the cluegivers have to compare the clues they write with each other and if any of the clues match (or have matching root words) those are taken out and not revealed to the guesser.

Games are out of a total of 13 words and even a getting 7 out of 13 right on your group’s first go is considered pretty good!

It’s surprisingly fun for such a simple rule set since you have to think of good clues but not necessarily obvious ones that might conflict with other people’s clues. I highly recommend it!

Lot of good ones out there that you could probably DIY but some of them work best at certain player counts. How many people are playing?

This is what happens when you have Y’all-Qaeda running your state 🫠

Season one is great except for the police officer story line. Feel free to skip through those parts, everything else is emotionally hard hitting gold imo. Definitely worth a watch

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Maybe they shouldn’t be doing that :>

I think in games like Diplomacy and even Game of Thrones, you need to develop a pretty high level of trust to ally with someone which takes time and often initial acts of goodwill to grow. When that nurtured trust is betrayed it can be very jarring for some people that haven’t played a game like that before.

One of my friend’s wives was a regular participant in our game nights. She played GoT with my game group one time and was the victim of a particularly nasty stab by one of the players towards the end of the 3-hour game.

She uh, doesn’t join our game nights anymore :<

I heard one of the world’s top diplomacy players is actually plays honorably like 95% of the time. He makes deals with almost everyone early on and generally to their benefit more than his own since building repoire and trust with folks allows you a greater deal of leverage over more of the board. But that’s at the highest levels of play.

I played a month long play by e-mail game once with some friends in college. About half of them no longer talk with me because of that game hehue.