You're trying to enjoy a nice evening of wargaming with your horse, then some guy in a fluffy-fronted shirt walks in, threatens you with a pencil and steals your whiskey.
I guess I should do an introduction... I joined Mastodon way back when Twitter imploded (not that I was on Twitter, but it seemed like the place to be), but really didn't figure it out. Now that Reddit's imploding, I'm gonna give it a real shot. I read that it's only polite to do an intro so here I am.
I go by Krispy in every place except work, I'm 36, married, with a dog, two cats, and two snakes. I don't have kids and do not plan to. I have a variety of hobbies, some outdoor (biking, disc golf, birdwatching, etc), some more sedentary (video games, board games, reading, etc), some creative (miniature painting, fountain pen/handwriting, TTRPGs), and some consumptive (tea, baking)... I'm probably missing some.
I love animals/wildlife/ecology. I got my Masters in wildlife parasitology and though I don't use that in my career, I've kept that curiosity and interest. I'm obsessed with paleontology and obscure animals.
I love stories, mostly fantasy, sci fi, mystery/thriller, romance, in virtually any medium. I'm currently playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, reading Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan, listening to A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie, and watching Drag me to Dinner.
I have a strong science background and believe in questioning everything, but with the understanding that I can't know everything and much in life is unintuitive, so something not making sense to me does not mean it's wrong.
I have no idea how to find people to follow, so if anyone makes it to the end of this and thinks I seem interesting enough to follow, I'll follow you back... I'll start there.
‘tis the season to play board games - a good time to appreciate the origin story of Monopoly, which was practically a plagiarized version of The Landlord’s Game by Lizzie Magie:
“a brilliant woman economist invented an anti-capitalist board game that was stolen by a lying, opportunistic man and repackaged as capitalist family fun”
I've switched instances again, to be amongst the cuties at cutie.city :bugcat_love:, so here's my new #introduction! Looking forward to meeting everyone :cozy:.
I'm Zoey, a 30 something she/they #transfem#enby who's learning to love herself more each day. :blobhaj_melt:. I'm a software engineer working for one of those megacorps you've all heard of, but at least it's #OpenSource :bear_shrug:.
X-Decor-libre version “libre5” is out! ♟️🎉♟️🎉♟️🎉♟️🎉
The Chess game that used to exist in the original xdecor has returned and works again and is actually a MUCH improved version, adding support for many of the missing Chess rules (using the #FIDE Laws of Chess) and fixing a ton of bugs everywhere. This was badly needed because not even en passant was supported before.
Got my first 3D printer with an automated color system, so I started adapting my Dynamod Dungeon Tiles models to take advantage of it. These doors are not painted but printed in place with three different filament colors!
Our only #BoardGames today was Abomination. This is a worker placement game where you create a companion for Dr. Frankenstein’s monster. You gather resources like bones, organs & muscle by sending your workers to the morgue, hospital, cemetery, or straight up murdering somebody in a dark alley. While you build, you’re also trying to raise your reputation, humanity, and expertise by lecturing, volunteering @ hospital, researching, etc. it took hours to set up & play, but managed to win by 3 pts.
Outside of that, I'm a New England-based software engineer by day. I'm also big into #boardgames , and got bitten by the #pickleball bug about two years ago.
I'm also big into various forms of #rock , from melodic death all the way to indie rock. But post-rock/metal and dream pop especially.
Hey board game/tabletop pals, does anyone have a copy of the 2001 Asmodee game Death Wears White / La Mort s'Habille de Blanc that you would be willing to sell?