Saw this and immediately thought of Dave the diver LOL

oh yes the standard reply.

Rs actively tearing it down like in Alaska

Ds putting forth a bill to do it but only started by three of them this time around

“both sides are the same!”

yawn

oh nice I’ll check that out

oh and I supposed to answer my own question:

(are we allowed to do links here? I will drop them if joe)

top organizers and accessories for me are probably:

quick draw and setup on wingspan from Etsy, lets me set up the entire game in about 3 minutes, wife and I play it all the time in part because of how quick it is to set up and tear down.

so many little things for Arkham LCG, I’ve gotten card mats with custom images on them, mythos draw bags, connectors for locations and stuff.

did this happen? anyone got a link if so?

which is just perl mode

I was hopping in to comment wingspan and then immediately realized of course everyone had already been talking about how beautiful this game is

yeah I suppose it’s time to try a reset

I actually switched to beta hoping it would fix the broken biometrics update, was using standard release before that.

no one that has used it would be surprised by that.

also did they write the study with ChatGPT?

just got the base, horizons sounds interesting thank you!

I use awk all the time. a very common and probably simplest reason I use it is it’s ability to handle variable column locations for data.

if you know you always want the last field you can do something like

awk '{print $NF}'

but usually using it as for performing more advanced operations all in one go without having to pipe something three times.

sure you can do grep cut grep printf, but you can instead do the pattern matching, the field, the formatting, whatever you need to all in one place.

it’s also got a bunch of more advanced usage of course since it’s its own language. one of my favorite advanced one liners is one that will recognize if it is going to print a duplicate line anywhere in your output and prevent it. in cases where you don’t want to sort your output but you also want to remove duplicates it is extremely helpful and quick rather than running post-processing on the output in another way.

all that said main reason I use it is because I know it and it’s fast, there’s nothing you can do in awk that you can’t do in Python or whatever else you’re more comfortable with. The best tool for the job is the one that gets it done quickly and accurately. unless your environment is limited and it prevents the installation of tools you’re more familiar with then there’s no real reason to use this over Python.

Arkham lcg is my favorite game, but it absolutely is campaign-based.

there are standalone scenarios that you can do but they are not the main part of the game. the campaigns are incredible though and honestly if you can find even one other person or even play solo I absolutely recommend this one.

could always demo it on like tabletop simulator or something too to see if you like it

agree with one and two and younger me would have agreed with your third point but I think I don’t anymore.

yes cut is the simpler and mostly functional tool you need for those tasks.

but it is just so common to need a slight tweak or to want to substitute something or to want to do a specific regex match or weird multi character delimiter or something and you can do it all easily in awk instead of having to pipe three extra times to do everything with the simplest tool.

been playing West of loathing and shadows over loathing lately. Fun and stupid, nice to be able to play them on deck

it’s funny because this reads like something exaggerating for effect, but anyone in this kind of position knows that it’s not.

for sure I love flash point. I think it might be one of the most commonly played games I have.

I need more expansions for it though I’ve only got 2nd story

I’m okay with them if they’re done well, but I haven’t really seen any that are with one fantastic exception: rampage (or the rebranded terror in meple city)

lightweight:

• forbidden games (Island desert sky)
• flashpoint
• castle panic
• escape the curse of the temple
• magic maze
• hinabi

medium weight:

• pandemics
• stuffed fables
• zombicide
• legendary predator
• Sherlock Holmes consulting detective
• the grizzled
• mysterium

heavy weight:

• Arkham horror the living card game
• Lord of the rings journeys in Middle Earth
• Arkham horror third edition
• mansions of madness
• Eldritch horror
• Spirit Island
• Robinson Crusoe