Board Game discussion thread v2

Off-Topic (Thronepass)
#21

fuuuuucking nerds

cards against humanity or bust

#22

lookatthisdude

#23

to be fair the main reason wasn’t ‘stopping freshman from metagaming’ it was ‘stopping freshman from ruining games by openclaiming Percival on D1 and saying which thumbs they saw’

#24

hecking freshmen amirite

:^)

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#25

We often lose when percival openclaims in my games
Evil is just too good at sandbagging and guessing merlin

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#26

F

I’m usually not able to wrangle people together to play stuff
Well
In real life

#27

it’s a lot easier when you’re at university

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#28

^this^

#29

I am able to get people to queue en masse for hearthstone battlegrounds to try (and fail) to get a 8p local game going

#30

So I’m not sure that that’s the problem

#31

truth or dare phone app

or bust

#32

I know my house (basically a subset of the dorm) has a board game night every weekend

like to be fair I did write ‘PUT ME WITH THE NERDS PLEASE’ on my housing form in the write-in section but

#33

and when that sort of established event is a thing it’s a lot easier for it to, well, happen

#34

im going to specifically request “no nerds” for my housing

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#35

especially if i get into a nerd college

like an ivy leauge school

#36

then i gotta for sure request no future math or science majors

#37

most of the Ivies aren’t even nerd schools

just because they have somewhat disproportionate concentrations of smart people doesn’t mean they have particularly large quantities of nerds

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#38

…see the problem is I have a nearly-perfect way of explaining the distinction but literally no one else on the forum will get the reference

#39

my dad had a friend who went to harvard

and he said his friend said it had a bunch of smartasses/nerds

although it might just be my parents trying to discourage me going to college in the northeast

#40

the fact that they all suck at engineering (and that Arete’s school doesn’t even offer engineering) should inform you they’re not nerd schools