Just Go Ahead and Lie (2012). She’s a cog sci major at Franklin & Marshall, the class is Bad Language: Meaning and Use. It’s a 200-level philosophy class, prof Nick Kroll.

I think you’ve misparsed it. They’re angled like a newf, and perhaps could be angled in other ways.

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Nonsense. We are whelmed all the time, it's just not notable.

It's one of the largest board game conferences, right here in Philly the first weekend of December. Mostly board games, also some role playing games and other adjacent activities. But the "regular board games" are mostly more modern and advanced than Scrabble and Scattergories! unplugged.paxsite.com

Also played Quiet House, another collaborative puzzle-solver in which you're not supposed to talk, but signal to other players through gameplay. Again, I'd rather play The Crew.

I agree about Fellowship -- my wife said, "I'd have loved this if I hadn't already played The Crew." I think The Crew is a better game in almost every way, except that I like LOTR and The Crew's settings (both of them) are just shoehorned fluff rather than properly integrated.

I played Fishing. It's pretty fascinating strategy-wise, but it is *extremely* finicky in the setup -- just getting the game started takes quite a while, especially for a trick-taking game with nothing more than a single deck of cards. Mixed review from me.

I’m not sure if suburban school board members like me are in your target audience, but I would love to discuss why this insulting and mostly false perception exists. (I think I know the answer: see my comment about the role of incentives on your inevitability-of-populism post)

It won't be completely invisible, but there is (and presumably will continue to be) a default option. You can already use feeds, block lists, etc. created by other people without really understanding how that works. Mastodon's geekiness is likely to prevent it from ever reaching critical mass, IMHO.