Looks like they've all been set to private

I love boardgames too and could wax lyrical about them for ages. Sucks that this article was clearly written by AI.

Yep: "The tower itself isn’t just a gimmick; it’s a physical presence that creates tension and anticipation the moment it hits the table. Add the Dark Horde expansion and suddenly the game isn’t just something you play—it’s something you engage with." 100% in Pangram, BTW.

But there's enough biographical details and concrete facts that I think he at least wrote the outline before having ChatGPT rewrite it.

Man I suffer from this recently. Everything I read feels AI written but because it’s just a guess I get into this loop of questioning myself and then the whole read is ruined for me.

I hate it so much.

So much is AI written now. I can only hope that more people start to notice and react negatively so that others will be discouraged from doing it. People are using ChatGPT to write the most ridiculous things for them, sometimes only a few sentences!

For me, the emdashes and the constant use of "it's not just [X], it's [hyperbolic Y]" gives it away.

This has happened to me so much recently that it’s actually pushing me towards reading proper books. I’m so sick of everything sounding the same.

Was this written by a human?

Shouldn't the sound for when a task finishes be something like "Job done!"? Looking at the table it seems like it makes the sound for acknowledging that it's received an order (e.g. "I can do that").

If we're being strict to peons, then no, that's the human's voice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r06heQ5HsI.

Hearthsone...

You're thinking of peasants, the Human unit.

`peon --pack peasant`

This was my first thought too, thankfully they thought of it!

Work complete

"Hey, did anyone try the fish tonight?"

"It's not so good, Al"

Looks like it has integration with Jitsi Meet https://zulip.com/integrations/jitsi

in slack and discord i don't need another app i just hit the huddle button (in slack) and join a voice chat room in discord.

This is the problem with pitching zulip to this audience. The original thing that got gamers to switch to discord, it was their original and probably still is their primary target market, was a single login to a huge universe of voice chat rooms. Before discord gamers were setting up/renting teamspeak and ventrillo services (that were voice chat only). Hell for the first couple of years of using discord with my gaming group the only thing anyone ever posted in text was what time they were going to be on and what game they wanted to play.

I would say the main thing that got people to switch to Discord was the fact that voice chat was free, paid for by VC money.

sure but also that you didn't have to pass around your teamspeak/ventrillo information to every rando you wanted to play with, less friction in discord with invite links etc

I have never created an account nor logged on to use jitsi.

Oh yes! I remember playing that at a friend's house when I was 5 years old and having my little mind blown. I couldn't believe you could just take any car and go anywhere you wanted.

I later got my hands on a copy of GTA2 and played that a lot, behind my parents' back of course

I get the sense that there are a good number of these around the world. There's one I go to Melbourne sometimes, it's awesome.

https://thebikeshed.org.au/

Which games?

For older games: MechWarrior 3 and 4 (plus expansions). Thief 1+2. Freespace 2. Gothic 1+2. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

But in general, I play a lot of weirder, niche games that just don't get a lot of traction for community fixes and so on.

You might be interested in Fooyin?

https://fooyin.org/

Exactly why i made my comment! Thank you! Will check it out! So many players out there for Linux it is hard to keep track!

Fooyin looks to be inspired by foobar2000 that compiles natively on Linux, but I haven't tried it.

https://fooyin.org/