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I got codenames duet recently and have been enjoying that with my girlfriend, it's a nice little variant for two player even if I generally prefer the pictures version
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CancerCakes posted:Delivery drivers are likely to be self employed so would probably want the work. I'm keen to know more about decent two player PnPs, I had a quick Google about but the findings were meagre
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May 28, 2020 05:25
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Pistol_Pete posted:Driving sucks and I'm sooo glad I got rid of my car. It saves so much money and if I can't walk, bus or train it to a location then, eh, I can live without whatever's there. With busses running once an hour (and costing £3.50 for a ten minute ride) I've never been more grateful to have a car.
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May 28, 2020 05:33
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Ratjaculation posted:Wondering if it's good or bad to order games (to be delivered) during lockdown or not... I don't think deliverymen have time to think about anything, they don't even have time to piss. And even if they did, I hope they're not opening people's packages to see what they're buying. I don't recall any laws or instructions saying you're not allowed to order stuff, unless they expect people to stare at the wall for two months.
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May 28, 2020 05:43
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It's jarring reading this thread from Germany where essentially other than mandatory masks in stores and public transportation, nobody is giving a gently caress and life us pretty much normal again. Our infection rate has been going down steadily too and our current number of active cases is around 8200ish Meanwhile you guys are still in full lock down mode with cumgate going on. It's like you're a weird dark world, like in Link to the Past, and and BJ is Pig Ganon.
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May 28, 2020 05:55
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:It's jarring reading this thread from Germany where essentially other than mandatory masks in stores and public transportation, nobody is giving a gently caress and life us pretty much normal again. Our infection rate has been going down steadily too and our current number of active cases is around 8200ish We stopped testing at all for ages early on, stopped enforcing the 2 week quarantine on people entering & **never had a lockdown at all** in several significant industries (factories, construction) which are laughably non-essential. The lockdown we had was incredibly weak and not enforced at all in any way, though we have abandoned all parking enforcement where I am for some reason. The Government have specifically told people masks are worthless at times, so no one is wearing them. None of the supermarket staff have even been wearing masks at any point. That said, the general mood is don’t give a gently caress any longer, re-open everything. Are pubs, bars and restaurants open in Germany yet?
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May 28, 2020 07:34
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Is anyone going to be using that tracing app, assuming it ever gets released. Personally, there's no way I'll be having anything to do with it, it'll go from "Of course the data we gather will be strictly limited and confidential" to "We have and have always been very clear that your personal details may be used for certain commercial purposes, which is why we've sold your bank details and phone number on to China. Suck it up, mugs."
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May 28, 2020 07:41
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Yes, as of last week, albeit with hard limits. Same with Zoos and a few other public buildings, stuff like the unemployment office is still closed, which is poo poo cause I got laid off cause of the Rona. Which is funny cause I had the Rona cause of my work, being a mailman but stayed at home, which my boss didn't like apparently Jack-Off Lantern fucked around with this message at 07:48 on May 28, 2020 |
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May 28, 2020 07:45
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wooger posted:
I do a weekly shop at lidl plus whatever little bits I need from sainsburys down the road and all the staff have been wearing masks the entire time. Guess it depends where you are
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May 28, 2020 07:52
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is anyone going to be using that tracing app, assuming it ever gets released. Not in a million years would I trust this government to handle this data properly. Or to do anything properly, really, other than gently caress with poor people.
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May 28, 2020 08:01
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Yes, as of last week, albeit with hard limits. Same with Zoos and a few other public buildings, stuff like the unemployment office is still closed, which is poo poo cause I got laid off cause of the Rona. Strange this. Mail service is privately owned in Germany? After more than a decade of tory misrule it's the only publicly owned service that has not been decimated.
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Valko posted:Strange this. Mail service is privately owned in Germany? After more than a decade of tory misrule it's the only publicly owned service that has not been decimated. Yes. Deutsche Post is privatised, so are its competitors. I worked for both. I'm done being a mailman tho, job sucks,pay and benefits are trash,and woe you being truly sick from working outside in the rain on foot or bike all day. Fun fact, my boss probably got rid of me cause my wife is 8 months pregnant and I would have stayed at home collecting Elterngeld from the state for a year without working, but the official reason is my sickdays, which are entirely cause of Rona. Jack-Off Lantern fucked around with this message at 08:14 on May 28, 2020 |
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May 28, 2020 08:10
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I would rather pitch my phone into a river than install the track and trace app. It will be a janky piece of poo poo and that data will end up being sold, but also used by the popo for some racist bullshit too.
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May 28, 2020 08:12
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I'm sorry you got laid off, Jack-off lantern. Royal mail and the post office here are partially privatised now, and seperate companies which messes with people's brains a bit. I work in a post office and I basically refused to go to work from the last week of march because I have wierdo health conditions and I reckon working in the post office is one of the places you're very likely to be exposed. Direct face to face conversation with 150+ people a day, most of them older people who don't care about the Rona, and lots of cash handling. Lots and lots.
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May 28, 2020 08:21
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Valko posted:Strange this. Mail service is privately owned in Germany? After more than a decade of tory misrule it's the only publicly owned service that has not been decimated. If Royal Mail were fully privatised, businesses wouldn't be able to have their door-to-door delivery of marketing bollocks subsidised by the taxpayer.
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May 28, 2020 08:26
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Yes. Deutsche Post is privatised, so are its competitors. I worked for both. Is this not something you should talk to your union about? Surely illegal. Do you really get 1 year of paid paternity leave in Germany?
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May 28, 2020 08:26
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wooger posted:Is this not something you should talk to your union about? Surely illegal. Nah, it's not illegal since its just his decision to not renew my contract. The union guy told me I had a good chance to get my job back if I would sue, but I do not particularly want it back. Yup, it's usually a 50% paycut tho, and you can stagger the year however you want
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May 28, 2020 08:36
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God-drat. That came out of nowhere.
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May 28, 2020 09:34
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Galewolf posted:God-drat. That came out of nowhere. This came up in another thread and that video has like a min cut off of it. I’m not gonna say it makes it better but it does add a little context to it I guess. It’s still lol
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May 28, 2020 09:36
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https://twitter.com/bernardTcastle/status/1265624440173453313?s=20
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May 28, 2020 10:16
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MarcusSA posted:This came up in another thread and that video has like a min cut off of it. The cherry on top is that the game itself has about the most misogynist and patronising approach to feminism that you could imagine without literally being a board covered in redpill screeds.
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May 28, 2020 10:29
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I'm going to live to regret asking this but go on?
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May 28, 2020 10:38
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is anyone going to be using that tracing app, assuming it ever gets released. Absolutely not. The fact that they're ignoring the well thought out decentralised approach built into the OS that Apple and Google are offering to do their own thing that will undoubtedly fail to safeguard anyone's data if it ever even comes out should be a massive red flag. Everything else about Test and Trace is shambolic, there's no way the app won't be too.
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May 28, 2020 10:40
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Whybird posted:The cherry on top is that the game itself has about the most misogynist and patronising approach to feminism that you could imagine without literally being a board covered in redpill screeds. Let us never forget that the entire idea of the Monopoly game came from a woman, as an attack on capitalism, it was then stolen and mass-sold by a man
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May 28, 2020 11:01
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Monopoly taught me that I could win by table flipping if I didn't like the way things were going
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May 28, 2020 11:03
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Ratjaculation posted:Let us never forget that the entire idea of the Monopoly game came from a woman, as an attack on capitalism, it was then stolen and mass-sold by a man Monopoly has taught me you can be both evil and incompitent as the rules of that game are so badly described, to the point that the Free Parking rebate is just accepted as common law, that it turns from Capitalism as Fun to Capitalism as Frustration. And even then, it's intended operation doesn't work as fun too much.
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May 28, 2020 11:09
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I bought a copy of co-opoly from a charity shop a while back and it sucks.
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May 28, 2020 11:15
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Banks never going bankrupt and continue operating by issuing money by writing on a piece of regular paper didn't make me go all  as a child but, boy o boy, it's one of the most capitalism.jpeg things ever now.
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May 28, 2020 11:23
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I stopped table flipping later on and started making ridiculous deals to get what I wanted. I was actually pretty good at it. I'd buy property from people by promising to pay them triple rent if Ianded on their other properties for x amount of times around the board.
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May 28, 2020 11:26
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You guys wanna play Bass Fishers Monopoly or Horse Lovers Monopoly tonight?
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May 28, 2020 11:27
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So it turns out I'm misremembering -- it's Socialist Monopoly that is out-and-out mean-spirited. Ms Monopoly is merely incredibly patronising: you get to pick a wine glass as one of your counters, women get more money for passing go, and the community chest cards mention twisting your ankle in high heels. FEMINISM IS SOLVED.
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May 28, 2020 11:31
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Natalie Fartman posted:I stopped table flipping later on and started making ridiculous deals to get what I wanted. I was actually pretty good at it. I'd buy property from people by promising to pay them triple rent if Ianded on their other properties for x amount of times around the board. Some people didn't like the auction rule but I think it created the level of perfect scumminess. "Your enemies get strong on what you left behind" Godfather 3. 
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May 28, 2020 11:31
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Ah Monopoly. The one game I'm banned from playing with anyone. I spend all my time stuck in jail. As people go around buying all the good properties my rage just builds and builds until it boils over and I become a stand over man. Conistently robbing the bank and threatening and intimidating people into giving me their properties and money.
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May 28, 2020 11:48
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If you aren't stealing from the banker when their back is turned, you're monopolying wrong Pre-ordered my case of "Barnard Castle Eye Test" from Brewdog this morning. I'm wasting too much money on lockdown specific merch...
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May 28, 2020 13:08
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I am supposed to phone the vets tomorrow at 11:30 to see what the final verdict is on kitty. I'm so loving restless over it, it's ridiculous. I am hoping that her ear infection is just that, if it's something like cancer then I don't know what I'll do as it would be completely uninsurable and cost mountains of money. Selling my paintings on SA has been overwhelmingly amazing and basically nearly doubled my income this month, but that money can't just disappear on one vet bill, it has to support her food, her insurance, etc . I guess no word from them is good, it likely means there's nothing serious or her owner didn't spontaneously turn up after all. This cat though, has pulled me out of a deep emotional funk. My sort of partner who I was supposed to go to visit in LA on the 19th march, got a girlfriend and moved her in for quarantine like, a week after meeting her. This is a guy I'd been with for 5 years and only 'broke up' with because I had to move back to the UK due to visa ending. I am still deeply in love with the fucker, this visit I could tell would be the last time it might happen and I was gearing up for a proper goodbye. Of course, that didn't happen and I've had such a weird last couple of months dealing with the fallout. It was just becoming more and more like my life was completely hosed as the days drew on, not able to move forward and get myself sorted. I was doing NOTHING. no enjoyment in anything. And then this cat walked into my life and suddenly my apartment is spotlessly clean, i'm reorganising things, I'm selling my paintings (to goons, but gosh dang) and I'm just completely wrapped up in the wellbeing of this small fluffy creature. I'm no longer a spiritual person but she's come at just the right time. I can see why some people go doolally over animals and think they're angels or what the gently caress ever. Anyway, cats are better than people. It's a fact.
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Monopoly is a bad game, but my grandfather mercilessly beat me while playing it and while it was bad at the time he was just treating me like an equal rather than a child which I appreciated later on. So it has a soft spot in my heart, but I will not willingly play it again.
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Mojo Jojo posted:I'm keen to know more about decent two player PnPs, I had a quick Google about but the findings were meagre Sorry I didn't reply earlier - boardgame geek has a yearly print and play competition, most games are solo but a few are two player. Also some of the solo ones would work as coop or head to head. Need a printer though!
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Natalie Fartman posted:My sort of partner who I was supposed to go to visit in LA on the 19th march, got a girlfriend and moved her in for quarantine like, a week after meeting her. This is a guy I'd been with for 5 years and only 'broke up' with because I had to move back to the UK due to visa ending. What a prick.
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