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[nullexception]

Name: I'm hoping to remain a bit more anonymous you can call me null :)

Age: 30-40

Gender: CIS Male

Location: USA - eastern time zone

School/Job: Software Engineer

Likes: see below

Music: my Top 5 arists from Spotify Wrapped (2023) - 

Hot Mulligan, Taylor Swift, Taking Back Sunday, The Wonder Years, Julien Baker.

TV/Movies: Mostly dramas. My Girl likely started my appreciation and Forest Gump solidified it. Some of my favorite shows .... Parenthood, This Is Us, A Million Little Things, Gilmore Girls. I also enjoy some more "mystery" type stuff like Black Mirror, Servant, Severence.


Video Games: I really enjoy survival video games but some games I've enjoyed.  Divinty Original Sin i / II, Baldurs Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fable 1, Civlizattion games

Board Games: I enjoyed the typical board games growing up (monopoly, checkers, chess, uno,  risk, etc) but as an adult got pretty into more niche' games.  My all time favorite board game is Res Arcana.  Some others I enjoye... Terraforming Mars, Dinosaur Island, Gloomhaven, Heroes of Land Air & Sea.

Dislikes: Rude humans. If you don't believe that humans are all equal despite race, religion, sexuality , gender , etc...then we aren't likely to be friends.

Pets: I love animals and have pets.

Anything else: Just looking for a bit of community here as I start journaling again.

Comments

Re: Hi Null!

[nullexception]

Ironically... there are a LOT of single player tabletop games. Some of the best ones can be played solo... but i ahte playing alone :(. So now i must mention them!

Gloomhaven - this will likely be one of the most monumental shifts for board games. The game took a huge risk and it paid off in a major way. I think it's likely better with a group but plenty of people have solo'd it.

Terraforming Mars - one of the better engine builders that has a good solo mode

Agricola - I'd actually suggest this one and just using the app version of it. Its pretty true to the board game and gives a nice glimpse of what a solo board game may look like.

Mage Knight - wowzers this is such a well done game but the rulebook is a monster. I've literally had to use a laptop and ctrl+f on rulebook podfs to make it through.

Kudos @ multiple endings for Elden Ring. I haven't playe din a baout a week or so but I'm at goderick. I need to level up a bit so I went south of the first starting point where you first see the open world. I really wish I would've stuck w/this game when it first came out. Some friends were doing their own play throughs and talking... i was pretty depressed and not able to enjoy it back then.

Satisfactory is great, maybe this post will help with third person - https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/hi0yi6/third_person_mode/

Re: Hi Null!

[erembour]

I will look into those! I never saw good single player games back when I was actively looking for them and I never looked back. It's obvious the tabletop game works has changed since! Exciting.

I hope you're doing better now.