whats still p2p today? seems like mostly everything was updated to run through corporate servers. i mean heck chats no longer has the capabilities they used to when things were p2p; now, a chat has like one single feature, to chat, and half the time that doesn’t even work because their servers are down lol.

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the legion of shills all but disappeared about 3 months in. i guess their budget ran out. but at least we stopped getting the anti-fedi pro-bluesky spam here at the fediverse so i don’t care anymore if its alive or not. mastodon is the only social media i use today not counting aggregation portals like lemmy.

i tried this approach but those channels died. discord rarely works long-term from what i’ve seen. you see the activity and if its far too long since someone engaged with the channel then its dead basically - and you have to start a new server; but forget getting non-gamers to put in the effort of joining a new server.

as an example, i’m an aquarist who focus on developing specific traits - being out of the loop basically means no access to shows, international exchange meetings, local swaps, events and would also set me back 10-20 years on potential development by trying to reinvent the wheel or even likely to fail in such attempts as well as an inability to acquire quality stock to revitalize genes in housed populations.

being out of the loop in this context is equivalent of quitting because its just impossible to do without facebook because these assholes all decided to move their social activity there.

how do you keep up with local/town newd, club information and activities? all of mine post exclusively on the fb groups and since i deleted my account i’m out of the loop on everything lol.

i uploaded a playthrough video on the website last night which should answer most rules questions :)

there is also an illustrated playthrough available if you don’t like videos.

I made a video playthrough to try and explain the rules: https://playcrowns.wordpress.com/video-example/

I put together a play example here:

Hopefully I managed to cover all the rules 😅 (right click to open in new window so it expands for the text).

Interesting! I would like to test that when it’s ready :)

1. Only the Ace can be placed diagonally - it’s its special move, but that still cuts it off from the connection to home - The game relies heavily on tactical spatial moves for all important decisions, coded into the face cards. except for the 10, which is a power move only because you can only remove a 10 with a face card and most face cards have special properties that makes them hard to use for that purpose (and sometimes wasteful to use).

2. I love the “home” row term, I need to change to that instead! You are correct, you can place a card without connecting it within the home row at any time assuming the opponent hasn’t populated your home row with higher cards to try and choke you.

3. You can only downgrade a card disconnected from the home row, but not upgrade. The main reason you want to downgrade a card is to draft a new one and try to get a better tactical card though.

4. Special rules always apply, which can make cards like the Ace and Jack tricky to place at times, and the Queen be a direct disadvantage. A jack cannot land on (claim) a card higher than itself (queen or king), so might simply not be playable at times - EDIT: albeit you can play the jack in seemingly ‘normal’ way, if you jump from a card in a row, e.g. the row turns into 3♥ -> 8♦ -> J♦ (you jumped from the 3♥).

5. Once the connection to the home row is broken you can’t place any cards adjecent from the cards that broke off and lost their connection. i.e. if you go deep into the enemy base (home row), and they have a well placed knight. that sets you back 3 turns, giving them a lot of opportunity to build up defence and pursue an advantageous position.

I hope they understand the rules. Seems I didn’t write it clear enough based on every comment so far lol. I’m really bad at explaining things D: Everyone who has played it so far I taught physically, and it was much easier to do than to try and put it down on paper. I’m going to need to update the text.

i hope the rules aren’t as bad to read/understand as it seems! i need to figure out how to improve them D:

The illustration at the bottom of my post has something called first row (think of it as your home row) - basically, cards need to be connected, as in the connection example on the boardd (from black players first row) - to be legal to play from. a card that isn’t connected to the home row can’t be played from to place new cards. cards except for aces cannot be placed diagonally adjecent to your current cards either, so the card needs to be ‘touching’ on their sides in order to be considered connected (assuming all the cards finally leads back home).

i don’t see where i put rank in the text. i had a medieval theme initially for the game, but changed it to more common game terms as i figured it would be more comprehensible. rank was the original text and idea that numbered cards are infantry and if you break rank (instead of break connection back to home base), then infantry couldn’t get reinforcements (new higher cards on top).

Thank you for trying! Been trying to find new faces willing to give it a shot all day lol. Also, tbh, I’m not surprised it’s been done before. But I never heard of golf! Going to need to check it out.

I was working on a tile game with flip mechanics but the actual flipping made the experience too fiddly. There is probably a solution I’m not seeing but I had a game of Shithead with the family and I figured using a standard deck with card powering instead of flipping might work even better. After throwing out like 90% of the rules I’ve come to a point where I feel this game flows like butter and it’s finally ready for public testing 😁

i assume the problem with league of legends since last year is because they switched to kernel level anticheat then? would be nice if they get kicked in the face for the anti-linux decision they made so we can start playing again :P

incorrect. currently sporting an ideapad pro that i bought directly from lenovo last year and it came without windows pre-installed.

GIMP etc are not developed by the target consumers is the real problem. affinity exists literally to capitalize on adobe going subscription and their entire effort has been to basically make adobe-but-better at a reasonable end user cost to convert users. As a professional designer, I have successfully migrated to Affinity after years of waiting for GIMP and others to match adobe offering. Even now, I would still use Photopea over GIMP. If one guy can make Photopea in his spare time, then what is stopping the GIMP team from doing the same while being paid? I’ll tell you; because they have no idea what a professional actually needs.

If there was a Publisher (InDesign) and Designer (Illustrator) equivalent just like Photopea - my life would be infinitely better because I’ve long since given up hope on Inkscape etc. I could finally breathe as i leave Windows forever. Sadly, best the world is willing to give me is fucking canva, and now those assholes own Affinity - so in the end, i’m still stuck between a rock and a hard place/

it seems like every government (and its citizens) in Europe can’t imagine being without: Microsoft services Google services Meta services Apple services

I’ve written a few articles in LibreOffice and the things I need to be able to do just can’t be done in order to follow the structure of the zine I was writing for. It’s a hobby zine and the work is free by everyone so they just reformatted it for me; but it still inconveniences others when things aren’t within a certain expected standard. I do blame microsoft for it though; all office apps uses the same standard except microsoft, unfortunately all the users uses microsoft office…

and no, krita, inkscape, gimp, etc. can’t replace Affinity. Affinity itself could barely replace Adobe in their first place. but it still has, for many. so it’s not a learning issue. Affinity is more intuitive than Adobe, so in this case Adobe is just outdated.

but as for the open source, the issue is more than just a lack of features. The UI is at least 15 years out of date.

Professionally the software just isn’t there; and it’s a real shame too, because I feel very uncomfortable using ANY microsoft products (on principle). But as far as Photoshop goes, there is photopea which is a great free browser based clone. Sadly there is no illustrator or indesign browser based clones that can match the quality of photopea, and the only desktop apps up for the job of matching Adobe is currently the Affinity Suite.