Hiking Boots/Shoes Recommendations?

Hiking boot recommendations?

Any recommendations for women's hiking shoes?

[Request] Hiking/outdoorsy style shoes that can handle lots of walking on concrete

Cold and wet weather hiking boots recommendations?

I am in need of a new pair of trail/hiking boots.

Hiking Boots for heavy use during the summer

Good pair of hiking shoes?

[Request] waterproof hiking shoes

[request] - Good quality walking shoes.

Hello Redditors. I'm in search of a classy yet extremely durable pair of hiking boots to take backpacking around the world for 12+ months with.

Hiking boots recommendations

Men's three season "urban hiker" (like Merrell MOAB but longer lasting)

BIFL Hiking boots for women

Hiking boots with good traction and can stand up to abuse.

Looking for a good pair of shoes for my weird feet

Request - Hiking Sandals

Request: Hiking Boots

Comfortable and cushiony shoes for walking on pavement 10KM/couple hours a day (UK)

Hiking sandals that last?

[Request] Powerful dishwasher with sanitize function?

I want the best god damned dishwasher money can buy.

Looking for the best, easiest to operate, cheapest dishwasher - Recommendation?

[Request] Best countertop dishwasher for reasonable price?

Can anyone recommend a good dishwasher?

Countertop/Portable Dishwasher

[Request] Dishwasher &lt;$1k Australian with QOL features and low water use

Dishwasher for Second Home

My friend bought a house with this KichenAid dishwasher from 1974. He says it works better than any of the other ones he has owned. He just has to convince his wife not to replace it.

What's a good Panel ready dishwasher under $1k?

Best socket set on the market $100-$150

[Request] Socket wrenches

I need a recommendation for a tool set that should last a lifetime. [Request]

Looking for a Mechanics tool set.

23 years later; GM Goodwrench socket set.

A Starter/Lifetime Tool set

Basic screwdriver set needed

Mechanic Tools that are BIFL

Trying to fill a tool roll for my truck and would like input on BFL tools like wrenches, pliers, socket sets, etc.

BIFL: Mastercraft ratchet set with lifetime warranty. Got it at 14, im 31. Went thru more abuse than you think!

Looking to upgrade my home hand tools

Was told to post this here. Husky 270pc toolset from Home Depot for $99, normally $199. Lifetime warranty too

[Request] Ratchet/Wrench/Etc tool set for home/bicycle/general use

Thoughts on a Honda Accord V6 2007?

2010 Honda Accord worth the buy?

Thoughts on a 2008 Honda accord v6 coupe EX-L?

2014 honda accord ??

After an initial round of research it seems like Honda Accord Hybrid is the right answer, but I want to pressure test that with you guys

2014 Accord V6 Touring (any thoughts?)

Which car ?

me again. 2010 2dr honda accord, 122k miles for $5,800. just want a reliable first car, thoughts?

Want to buy an Accord, any suggestions?

2020/2021 Honda Accord LX - Tell Me About Your Likes/Dislikes

Compact - Midsize suv

best small/midsize suv?

Looking for a used (06-14) reliable compact/mid-size SUV

compact/mid size suv

Midsize SUV

Recommendations for midsized SUVs to look at

Compact to Mid-Size SUV

Small to mid-size suv suggestions?

Midsize vehicle for three kids

Mid-Size SUV

Just tried a Lotus Elise Cup 250, driving impressions !

Dan Neil reviews Lotus Emira: As Good As It Gets

Considering a Lotus Elise - USA

How affordable are Lotus Elises from the 2005-2012 model year?

Lotus Exige Sport Final Edition review: farewell, Exige

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Looking for a good rpg/action adventure with a good story and good characters

Deep long rpgs?

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Fantasy games with an detailed and immersive world?

[WSIB] I am in search for a open world RPG that will keep me busy for hundreds of hours.

Open world game with huge map, lots of things to do, and great graphics

WSIB Feeling a bit of an rpg lull and want something exciting like old school BioWare with a engaging story that doesn’t take 100 hours to play.

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looking for an open-world rpg

[WSIB] A turn based strategy game that isn’t 4X

Turn-based strategy game

Turn-based strategy games

[WSIB] Small-scale, medieval, strategy game, featuring pikemen and cavalry

(WSIB) Turn-based ”wargaming” game

[WSIB] Turn Based Strategy games

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What are some good "smaller scale to control, but still feel large scale battle" tactical / strategy games?

Bullet Hell-Type Games: Atomicrops vs. I, Dracula: Genesis vs. Others?

WSIB if i want a completely story driven indie game but have already played undertale and oneshot (preferably similar to those 2)

Post apocalyptic enthusiast, Underrail or Atom RPG?

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Blsoodborne or Resident evil 2 ?

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SIB Nuclear Throne?

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I know you can’t get rid of pores but I’m wondering is there anyway to make them smaller? I use La Roche Posay products. They keep my acne mostly at bay but I feel like my pores are just so large. Part of it is genetic, but just wondering if there’s anything else I can do at home to help. Thanks!

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How to reduce pores.

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Sunscreen recommendations for rosacea

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 Oh go to the red dot: there's a million red dots like which red space are you talking about like what is that? So i have not played this solo because and not for lack of trying. I tried she tried very hard. I got very frustrated. We have our own clockwork prince, which is our dog that is think constantly

 We really did enjoy our time with it once we got into it. Yeah um, and so i hope that and - and i think it's like it depends on the person like if you love yeah, if you love that tug of war, if you love that king making sort of thing or queen making or queen blocking um, then this is Definitely definitely for you, if you love those kind of tactical war sort of stuff and go for it now you have no doubt that they're probably going to be. You know additional expansions and additional all sorts of different things to make this. This point maybe we'll revisit it, but yeah yeah

 Yes, and so you were very good at every time. It'S like chronicling like what happened in that game and i'm very like so that was really nice. That was really fun yeah. So after we filmed like, we played all the multiplayer games and we kind of understood now how things worked, and i was like okay

 Let me see i've got very handy right here. All the different uh forms that this sort of takes place so with the clockwork prince, you have this um. You know, in theory, very handy a4 sheet, which you, why would that be like size, 6 font double-sided, not a single image inside to explain or give you some context as to this is what this means, or this is where this goes. And then you have the mind of the clockwork prince, which is this flowchart that i believe is based on um again, war games sort of thing

Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile | We Have So Many Feelings | Board Game Review

 If they rolled a three through six, they would win okay, so it could end even earlier than that if an exile is able to win as well all right. So what you're going to be doing on your turn is essentially spending supply, which is kind of an action point system to take different actions. All right and the actions are listed on everybody's player board and the actions are the same, no matter what the player you are, you might search and by searching you're drawing three cards from this deck or from the discard of the area that you're in and you're Going to play one either to your site or to your advisors. Your advisors is basically kind of like your hand of cards, and you can have up to three start the game with one you can always for a free action play it face up, turn it around, and now you can utilize whatever the particular power of that card

 You'Re gon na need money, so you you can learn it and i did and it was fine. You know just sort of being taught the game without going through that system, but you don't, then see you know three or four sort of ideas that are the general what they are suggesting. Well, you know here's what you could do you could do it this way. You could do this, you could do that

 They'Ve got this alternate win condition which is in purple at the bottom of all of these kind of oaths that you might potentially be playing in that game, and so it gives them uh, potentially a chance to strengthen their position because they're kind of sharing warbands with The chancellor, but it also does give them a different way to win whenever it might trigger a win for the oath for the chancellor. If the citizens have fulfilled that secondary condition, they would win instead of the chancellor. So a lot of things going on a lot of potential win conditions, oftentimes happening at the exact same time. There are a lot of things that i did not cover here and that was by design

 Yeah, you know those games that are kind of really hard to get into and they're punishing, and you took you three games to like it. Remember that game. If you do and you did like it, you might like both yeah yeah. That'S a really good way

The 4 Squares Review   Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile

 That can be blank. One two or multipliers become exponentially more scary. The more that are rolled and attacked ice can be impotent just right or so chunky that they have. You offing your own troops, so those are the actions of oath and on paper, they sound kind of unremarkable sure there are clever little twists and they're all done under these weird victory conditions, but what makes them sing? What makes them special the way that i've explained? Those actions in that order sounds like a pretty typical war game, but those actions are not that and oath is not one of those games

 Sat around the table, so alliances get strung from game to game so far so neat, but the real star here are the tweaks to the deck because of what they mean within the future of your copy of oath. At the end of the game, the winner chooses the suit of one of their advisors and filters in new cards of that suit into the game. They'Ll also put in a couple of other stragglers and then gather up all the cards from the losing players and slide. Six of them into the dispossessed: well, they might as well, have been put in a history bin

 You are the agent of the actual change, not sending faceless people to do the battle in a far-off land. You stake your claim personally, the metagame and the game are won, but, unlike the king's dilemma, none of this narrative is offered. It all emerges from the board and through people through the players through their relationships between games and their knowledge of the history that came before them. This is where oath shines in ways that are broader and more glittering than even the remit of this review

Oath Review - 2021's Most Exciting Board Game

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 The rules explanation alone took well over an hour, and the game itself another five. While there were quite a few unclear rules questions during the game, this will absolutely get played again in our group, as hard as it is to get to the table. It's one of the wildest euros I've ever played. The art style is definitely a choice and the mechanics are bloated as all hell, but we still all liked it quite a lot

**Beyond the Sun** (1x4p, 1x2p): One of my new acquisitions from Essen this year. rather medium-weight, but so much fun to build up the giant tech tree and try to manage your resources so you don't run out of human ~~sacrifices to experiment on~~ resources to use for science.

**Feudum** (1x4p): Ho boy. This game is just *massive*. The rules explanation alone took well over an hour, and the game itself another five. While there were quite a few unclear rules questions during the game, this will absolutely get played again in our group, as hard as it is to get to the table

Happy Monday, r/boardgames!

It's time to hear what games everyone has been playing for the past ~7 days. Please feel free to share any insights, anecdotes, or thoughts that may have arisen during the course of play. Also, don't forget to comment and discuss other people's games too.

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<p>It&#39;s time to hear what games everyone has been playing for the past ~7 days. Please feel free to share any insights, anecdotes, or thoughts that may have arisen during the course of play. Also, don&#39;t forget to comment and discuss other people&#39;s games too.</p>
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What Did You Play This Week? - (October 18, 2021)

 Overall, even though this is a solo review and I haven't played Dune Imperium multiplayer yet, I get the sense that playing multiplayer would be a ton of fun. I envision it to be a really vicious knife fight of a game where you jockey for position in the worker placement parts, on the faction tracks, and in the combat. But for solo players, I think you'd want to look into this one if you like compelling worker placement games because again, the combo of the cards and the spaces are really cool. If you like simple solo A

 You do have the regular assortment of "trade this resource for that resource," etc., but I like that some of them let you place troops in the combat zone while others don't, so you have some harder choices to make there. The addition of certain action spaces that increase your influence with one of the factions to help you gain victory points really makes you consider your worker placement carefully and is a great mechanic overall.  FULL-ON CON, 1 out of 5: DECKBUILDING

 For example, you could commit a lot of troops and suddenly the A.I. drops in 4 or 5 or 6 troops because of a lucky action space. This could be like a swing of 4 victory points out of 10 to win the game

 I also like the intrigue and the sudden surprise attacks in the conflict aspect of the game. It's not like this is all extremely exciting and will blow you away, but I can see the thematic idea of each action/each card, so it's good for the type of game it is.  MIX, 2.5 out of 5: SMOOTH/SWINGY A

Playing Dune Solo: Needs More Spice

 However, like i said you can put out your agent under turn or you can reveal when you reveal your turn, is over you're, not gon na be able to take any more actions but you're gon na get all the stuff on the blue parts of your remaining Cards, so if i use these two cards to put people on the board, then i don't get that so i would just get the remaining ones, but using these cards will give you influence, which is a currency to buy more cards and other things. Players can buy more cards. You always have the opportunity to buy. These spice must flow cards for nine very expensive, but are worth a point, and these arrakis liaisons, which are pretty cheap but give you the opportunity to have more spending influence as time goes by or a deck of cards, which will be just a vast variety of Things some of those cards are expensive, like lady jessica here, but she lets you go up one influence immediately and then they're going to have different things in both the gray and the blue sections and they're going to let you go to different spots on the board

 So you're going to be looking at all those things as you take these cards, when you buy a card, they'll be replaced, and there are many many different things in this game that you might recognize from the dune universe. Some of them are going to fit your thing, some of them. When you end your turn, are going to add to your military strength, some of them. Let you cull cards from your deck there's some of them attack your opponents like here

 Just that combat area was the main thing i feel like the rest of it kind of faded away from me as the gameplay happened, but that combat area still looks like man. I really wish they'd put like some shadows there, or maybe actually put the actual like red swords that are on the other, like combat cards, and things like that in there it's like hmm, it could have been a little bit better graphic design. I guess now. This is a deck building game mixed with worker placement

 Like my dad made me watch the movies and quoted the books like growing up, so the theme's always been there. It was a class he took exactly it was. It was a class i had to take to be part of the family. I wasn't part of the atreides family until i expected they must grow yeah exactly um, but yeah

The 4 Squares Dune: Imperium Review

Sent an email to the publisher to see if they'll send me out the missing pieces. Can't play otherwise.

Game was missing pieces.

  Do you use a card to place an agent or do you save it because it will grant combat strength when you reveal? Tough choices!  At the end of the round comes the “combat” which is basically just how many troops (cubes) you’ve committed to the current combat round, plus those additional combat strength cards plus special, “Intrigue” cards you can play (they are earned from spots on the board) for that extra, “ah HA!” Moment.  …and so much more. You have influence tracks that you need to move up on in the hopes of acquiring victory points…but wait! You need Spice first! No! You can’t get the Spice without paying Water…and you don’t have enough water. No no no!!!! Your opponent just went to the spot you wanted!!!  This is a great game and I’m glad it didn’t just turn out to be a money grab coasting off of the hype/popularity of the new movie

 You have influence tracks that you need to move up on in the hopes of acquiring victory points…but wait! You need Spice first! No! You can’t get the Spice without paying Water…and you don’t have enough water. No no no!!!! Your opponent just went to the spot you wanted!!!  This is a great game and I’m glad it didn’t just turn out to be a money grab coasting off of the hype/popularity of the new movie.  An absolute must buy in this veteran board gamer’s opinion.

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 Arnak has 5 rounds, but there is no limit to points. So I never feel like "oh no, so and so got a point" has any real impact, because it is too early to tell what will happen.

But Dune Imperium just does a better job at driving player interaction. I also think what makes D:I shine brighter than Arnak is that D:I has a time limit and very tense and tight 10 point limit. Arnak has 5 rounds, but there is no limit to points. So I never feel like "oh no, so and so got a point" has any real impact, because it is too early to tell what will happen

Ever buy a much anticipated game, tore off the shrink wrap, watched the how to play videos, but felt underwhelmed by the actual play experience?

I have to. Imhotep is the first. Such an attractively presented game, lovely chunky wooden components, but the game play for me was… meh. 

The other is Mysterium. Such an amazingly beautiful component inventory, lovely artwork and as thematic as hell. But the gameplay (for me) is way too much setup work for an only mediocre play experience. 

I have returned to these two multiple times with different groups and they just never click. 

What games disappointed you? Have at it!

<div class="md"><p>Ever buy a much anticipated game, tore off the shrink wrap, watched the how to play videos, but felt underwhelmed by the actual play experience?</p>

<p>I have two. Imhotep is the first. Such an attractively presented game, lovely chunky wooden components, but the game play for me was… meh. </p>

<p>The other is Mysterium. Such an amazingly beautiful component inventory, lovely artwork and as thematic as hell. But the gameplay (for me) is way too much setup work for an only mediocre play experience. </p>

<p>I have returned to these two multiple times with different groups and they just never click. </p>

<p>What games disappointed you? Have at it!</p>

<p>EDIT: Well, this post blew up a bit! I hope it has been cathartic for many of you to get the frustrations out. The main takeaway; we all like different things. Who&#39;d have thunk it?? Plus, never climb aboard the hype train. Catch you all on Board Game Arena!</p>
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 The AI in 2p is really poorly thought out and a very bad mechanic imo. We didnt have much fun playing this and i think it will not hit the table again soon. 

 Playing them correctly makes you realize how many strategies are possible in this game.

 I do not count my plays but i would guess Arnak might soon be my most played game. We love the leaders. Playing them correctly makes you realize how many strategies are possible in this game.

What Did You Play This Week? - (November 08, 2021)

 We will get together again next month, this time we'll try to get the maximum amount of six players.

 In that sense the "Raiders of the Lost Ark"-like theme of Arnak is much better fitting.

 But somehow I don't think that the mechanics of that game really fit the Dune theme. The GF9 Dune game captures the "feel" of the Dune theme much better. In that sense the "Raiders of the Lost Ark"-like theme of Arnak is much better fitting.

We played Dune: Imperium a few months ago. I think that thing's almost a year old now! I doubt it holds up anymore.

Sure we live in a golden age of board games and the cult of the new is alive and well here, but does anyone break out a vintage game once in a while?

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