Jerboa or just in the browser. Honestly though most people’s issues are likely to be because they joined a huge instance which is falling over due to load. Consider making a new account on a smaller instance.

Wow, you’ve got to be in the minority to actually prefer not using Prelude. :) I definitely prefer playing with Prelude, but I also like to throw in another expansion to mix it up. I really like Colonies, but I know lots of other people hate the imbalances in that expansion.

Heat and Camel Up?! Both such terrific ‘racing’ games!

My favorite heavier game is definitely terraforming mars. The gameplay loop is so satisfying and everyone always loves playing with the cubes.

Sleeved cards is also good, because you can usually skip the pile shuffle and just do the mash shuffle

In that case I’d say pile shuffle before regular shuffle is the way to go

What makes you think the deck is not random enough?

One interesting thing after a couple of plays is that this game is really good for mismatched skill levels. You can fairly easily handicap the game, by either taking away heat from the better players or adding heat to the less capable players at the start of the game. Or doing the opposite with stress cards.

Azul is probably the game our family gets to the table most often. We have the original and summer pavilion as well. It has just the right level of complexity and interaction that keeps our family engaged.

My rule for kickstarters is basically if I absolutely love the series or creator. If the game is good it will be available after Kickstarter without all the extra Crufts/add-ons/fees that modern Kickstarter campaigns have

Rushing out general purpose AI, what could go wrong

Had this happen today. Was searching for some programming related stuff and top pages are all inaccessible Reddit posts.