Games4Two

Don't worry, there's plenty of death and suffering goes into that cheese.

>Tell them if they don’t, you won’t be holding one for them so it’s really in their best interests I know what you mean, but is it really in their best interests? The way I see it is that my funeral is for whoever is left to care about me; ultimately, it makes no difference to me whatsoever as I'll be dead. I think I'm in a minority, but I see funerals as an event for the living. I honestly don't mind what happens to my remains when I die.

Two gorgeous cats who we rescued in January. Mother and daughter we're told, though we can't know for sure. Wouldn't be without them 😻

Tenner a month. Yorkshire. They're not the most thorough, to be fair, but it's better than me doing it.

>Internet porn requires ID checks I mean, officially it does, but who can't install and use a simple, free VPN? I have a feeling some browsers even build them in now.

Love Robin Hood's Bay too. I've always said, morbidly, that if I knew I had one day to live I'd spend it up there with my wife.

Whitby. I can't put my finger on why exactly, but I'm so happy and at ease there.

Most people in the UK support either the local team where they grew up or another team they grew up supporting, mostly teams who were doing well when they were about 6-10 or so or the team their dad supported. Football is so engrained in culture here, especially among men and boys, that very few choose their club as adults.

You don't sound like most men

I think as long as the combined deposits are below £20k you're ok.

He does have pretty reasonable suspicion, to be fair.

What is so unbelievable about this post?

They're Second World War generals. Rommel and Montgomery associated with the African and Western fronts, Paulus with the east and Stalingrad. Dönitz was head of the German fleet and succeeded Hitler when he killed himself. I'm 39. Absolutely no way those are household names in the UK.

Yeah, they have a prestige grammar school there.

They do have grammar schools in Lincolnshire - Gainsborough, Caistor, Spalding I think etc - so he may well have sat an entrance exam for those schools. Unless he's very old or privately educated he'll almost certainly have taken SATs as well, which are separate national standardised tests at 7 and 11. I say breakfast, dinner and tea. It was always non-uniform day. Mock exams too. I've never heard of SATs in this context, though some schools have recently taken to calling them PPEs (Pre-Public Exams). Until about 2010 there were SATs in year 9, so perhaps he's thinking of those. I'm from North Lincolnshire and haven't moved all that far.

Definition of cult classic. Probably influenced every British indie band formed in the early to mid 90s. As you say, their one album is fantastic.

At the time of Urban Hymns they pretty much were. Every single from that album was a decent hit i think.

They were arguably the biggest band in the UK at the time of The Man Who.

Thea Gilmore is probably the most lyrically interesting and vocally accomplished of a generation of English singer-songwriters, but never really broke through. That probably her most complete album is the one she chose not to record under her own name (Afterlight) compounds her relative obscurity.

The Blue Nile. Better marketing (and more prolific output to be fair) and they'd have deservedly been as big as Coldplay ended up, only a lot better.

Just googled it. You're right: it happens *all* the time. Unbelievable really.

Yep exactly the same. Spend a few hundred on a every few years on a well-reviewed phone that's not an Apple/Google/Samsung etc and just get a cheap SIM-only deal. Haven't had a phone contract in a long time - getting on for ten years I bet. Obviously not everyone can afford the up-front cost and/or wants the big triple A release every time, but I'd never go back.

I got an earlier generation a few years ago (Redmi 8 Pro) and aside from the storage being a bit stingy I have zero issues. Does everything I want and just pay Giffgaff a tenner a month. I'd definitely consider going with a Xiaomi again when I do eventually upgrade.

At first, it's literally shocking to open your back account and see how much money you have left over at the end of the month. Took me a while to get used to it. Congrats on getting to the end of your mortgage.

Makes you wonder how "devastating" the attack was that couldn't finish off a 97-year-old.

Yes, I remember it. Along with Columbine and Parkland it's one of a handful of US mass shootings I can specifically name and know a little about.

**Circle the Wagons** is a really good game. Button Shy are great at producing these 18 card wallet games and that's one of the better competitive ones imo. Do get that. Echoing many others who have recommended **Hive**. It's a brilliant game and ideal for travel: light, portable, a small number of large components, essentially indestructible and playable almost anywhere you can find about 1'x1' of playing surface. I don't think I've seen **Star Realms** mentioned - it's a fairly simple deck-building duelling game designed by a couple of champion Magic players. If you get it, there's a great free phone app that makes the tracking the scoring so much easier. There are three main sets, all going for about £12-15, and any one is a good bet. **The Fox in the Forest** is a very well done two-player trick-taking game. **Schotten Totten** is a very well-designed game that can get very intense, especially if you play with the tactics module that comes with it. You're basically playing a poker variant mixed with counting area control. It needs a bit more space than the others, but we've played it in cafes all over the place.

I'm a secondary school teacher. I think the structure and relative predictability of a school timetable and calendar is really good for me.

On my own, probably about a year before I'm totally wiped out. Maybe less than that as about 60% of my savings aren't accessible to me until December so I'd struggle quite a bit until then. With my wife and assuming she kept working, probably forever. That would obviously necessitate significant lifestyle change for both of us, but we wouldn't be out on the street. We're not in exceptional jobs (about 100k combined I guess) and are lucky enough to have a few savings, but nothing totally out of the ordinary. I do appreciate we're lucky to be where we are.

14% of the UK population is foreign born. Even taking into account migration from anglophone countries and very young children, it'll be more than 3% before you even get onto the many children of first generation migrants who will likely be multilingual.

Came to say this. If you're not aware, OP, modern board gaming is a surprisingly vibrant hobby and solo board gaming a growing niche within it. Obviously being bed bound places certain limitations on what he can do, but I'd suggest looking into roll and write games such as Cartographers or cheap card games. A company called Button Shy make excellent, simple solo games based on 18 cards which would be ideal. You can also pay for very cheap print and play files (I'm talking a couple of quid) at [PNPArcade](https://www.pnparcade.com/). There are also some excellent self published print and plays out there. [This one](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=http://juegosrollandwrite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Bargain-Basement-Bathysphere.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwijzZzfwsSDAxVy7bsIHZFZBisQFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw37i3wn-l41eH3D1Im5I0R7) just needs a printer, a pencil and a few dice. If you'd like more bespoke advice, r/soloboardgaming is a lovely community.

Not exactly the same, but over the last few years I've fallen down a Columbine Massacre hole. For those unfamiliar, this was an extremely high-profile small-town school shooting in 1999, in which 12 students, a teacher and both killers were killed. It has become archetypal of that very American tragedy. Anyway, both killers' parents and their siblings remained in the locality for a while and all have been repeatedly sued by victims' families. I'm not aware of sustained violence or harassment, though there will undoubtedly have been some, as there were of some of the killers' friends. Since then, one of the killers' parents has written a book about her experiences (A Mother's Reckoning) and regularly contributes to debate about gun violence and mental health (her son was depressed, among much else). She featured extensively on Panorama or similar a year or so ago and met with one of her son's victim's daughter. The father of this same killer I have no idea about - the parents divorced years ago and I don't think I've seen even a recent picture of him. The killer's older brother is living his own life in his early 40s and you can Google his social media. They've all kept the very unusual name (Klebold). The other shooter's parents remained silent from the outset, even from the point of not speaking to investigating officers without a lawyer and initially refusing access to their son's room when the police arrived at their house. They were panicked, but this among other behaviours led some in the community and others since to accuse them of knowing and turning a blind eye to a lot of what we would now call red flags; being fair, these people seem to have a point. Anyway, they moved out of Littleton years ago, but the father keeps or kept a website (referring to his son as "dying at Columbine", which I guess is r/technicallythetruth) with family photos from up to a few years ago. They've kept their much more common name (Harris) and most of them obviously live openly with their past, albeit removed from the community where it happened. So, long way of not answering your question, but I thought of it when reading your original post.

Perhaps those people got caught short.

How's Netrunner? I can't see me ever getting it as my wife doesn't really gel with games like that so a competitive LCG is kind of a non-starter for me, but I'm just curious.

It's a magnificent game. Obviously it expands a ton, but the core box alone is really replayable and has five heroes and three villains, all of which you can customise in different ways - you could easily stop with the core and have a really enjoyable, fun game. The villain is an automa that follows a fairly simple script each round. It plays exactly the same solo as multiplayer - no one actually plays the villain, the heroes work alone or co-operatively to take down the villain. The might find this video useful https://youtu.be/btHbwtRj9Zk It will take a couple of playthroughs to grasp the rules and rhythms of the game, but it soon becomes very intuitive and fluid.

I started with Marvel Champions LCG, then got Arkham Horror and LotR in big job lots on eBay. It's an absolute ton of stuff and I'm still working through it all to be honest, but I enjoy it.

My story is very similar. Absolutely love them People give me very odd looks when I tell them that I spend a lot of time playing boardgames on my own too. I strongly suspect some think I'm sat multi-handing Monopoly or something, though maybe that's preferable to making it known exactly how much I've spent on thousands and thousands of cards.