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A good board game when sober and lucid, but an even better board game when high as a kite with others.
A game of strategy, but not the complex kind where you have to study and it feels like you're lowkey taking a 300 level course (catan, terraforming mars, etc.). No, this is a strategy of pure vibes. Sure, there's some probability involved, but most of it involves trying to predict what your team has and what they want/plan to do - which is where the being high part comes in. After all, high people love reading each other's minds, or as me and my friend like to say - "getting on levels".
And if you play often enough with the same people you can start having your go-to teams and you can even invent your own rules - nobody can stop you! After all, rules are just a subjective consensus. Anyway, it's a great way to stay off your phone and grow closer with your loved one's (when high or sober). Chat, focus, and play into your fanciful whimsies all at once. And its relatively cheap to purchase, unlike all those phD-level board games they're coming out with these days.
Jan 4, 2025
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quality time spent doing something silly and fun and competitive. even better when your friends get obsessed with a specific game and you play it to death until everyone's sick of it ( cough cough bananagrams )
Nov 6, 2024
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oh youβre tight with your bffs? put your telepathic connection to the test π
Apr 15, 2024
embrace the childlike silliness and fun of this and get a bunch of people standing around the table to play a couple rounds. Helps if it is a giant game, tons of cards, and is very cutesy.
The presence of alcohol probably going to reduce memory skills and make for increased levity.
Oct 24, 2024
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I don't know how well this actually answers your initial question, I think it's more of a counterpoint to some of the stuff people have already said, but here it goes.
In the past (prior to social media or search engines) specific styles, specialized knowledge, and niche awareness actually took effort. You had to go out into the world and find a scene, be accepted, participate in it, contribute to it, and learn from others with specific knowledge within the specific sub- or counter-cultural scene. It took time, effort, and experience to craft an identity. Nowadays people cycle through various identities and trends like commodities because it takes no effort (they're sold to them by social media algorithms, influencers, brand accounts, etc.). It comes to you in your phone without you ever even having to leave the house or put in the time to discover it or participate in it (you just follow specific people or subscribe). You can be a passive observer or consumer, not an active contributor. As a result, you're not invested or tied down and committed to that core identity. You can cosplay depending on your mood or who you want to momentarily convey yourself as, because it's easy. Essentially, being a poser has become normalized. An identity is now something to be momentarily consumed and affected, rather than grown, built, and developed over time.
Granted, it's always been different in regards to "mass" culture and popular trends (both in the past and now). Those are impossible to miss and were always monopolized by specific trend setting institutions, but always by the time it gets to that point, the actual initial counter- or sub-culture that inspired it has already been coopted and has started to disintegrate under the weight and attention of mass consumption.
Feb 18, 2024
It's an action deserving of its own nickname. My cat's name is Gomez, but when he crosses his paws like this, he turns into Hodgkins Plumpersocks.
Feb 2, 2024
Please enjoy my attempt(s) to fill the void.
title: "pet; owner"
medium: hair
Jan 30, 2024