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Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials! It'll be the adventure of a lifetime, enjoy the ride!

Wingspan was an absolutely fantastic first choice of game, you really knocked it out of the park from the outset. The wife and I just got Ark Nova as a Christmas present, we haven't played it yet as the back of the box conveys a staggering amount of complexity. We're not tabletop newbies by any means, but we're a bit intimidated.

For my money, it would not be possible to make a better addition to your thin game library than Everdell. The gameplay, presentation, theming, art direction, and mechanics are at the top end of anything we've ever seen achieved in a board game. It also has very little "screwing over your opponent"-type gameplay, which I think makes it a very pleasant 2-player experience compared to many other games. I would highly suggest grabbing the Collector's Edition of the base game, if you can swing it. That should provide many evenings of entertainment on its own, and then any time the game starts feeling a little stale you can pick up an Expansion (there are ~5, each of which adds enough to make the game feel VERY fresh all over again). I would not recommend picking up all the expansions right away, there's no really need to binge them and you may become overwhelmed with the complexity. My wife and I have steadily explored the expansions over a series of years and it's been a magnificent experience. We're maybe 3 years into Everdell being the default board game at our regular Board Game Nights with friends, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I give it the strongest possible recommendation.

Two quotes come to mind:

Jordan Peterson's much-memed "There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see"

The Last Psychiatrist's "If you're reading it, it's for you"

It seems obvious to me that anyone with your attitude, living in the current digital age - where it has literally never been easier to create and disseminate works of art - is someone who is actively choosing the role of the curmudgeon. Consciously or not, you are allowing yourself to calcify, closing yourself off from experience, embracing the lazy "nothing is as good when as I was a teenager" mentality. The state of art hasn't meaningfully changed, but your brain and your habits and your openness to experience has. Fight it. Stop being lazy.

He's the heir to Rich Piana's legacy, providing a constant stream of blindingly parasocial, unfiltered, steam-of-consciousness buddy chats while going through a fitness-centric daily routine. And the great thing is that, unlike Rich, who was probably not a great role model for his young male audience, Sam Sulek is unfailingly humble, pragmatic, and down-to-earth. Real positive masculinity shit. You love to see it.

I'm in the broader Philly area and would join just for the off chance of meeting TracingWoodgrains in person (who I think moved here recently?)

I found this advice to be deeply empathetic and fairly profound. Saving for the next time I need to give a friend a pep talk. Really, really good stuff George.

Very fair point, Gungeon might be a bit high up the difficulty ladder for a child.

I feel fairly confident that the exact game you are looking for is Rampage Knights - it's an absolute blast in co-op, with great humor and fairly simple combat that retains all the great roguelike elements of Dead Cells.

Another strong candidate in the vein you describe is Enter the Gungeon. Again, the co-op here has everything you're looking for, but I will note that camera management is a bit more of a pain point than in a game like Dead Cells or Rampage Knights because of the top-down viewpoint.

You can't go wrong with either of these games, and if your son likes Dead Cells, he'll love these too.

This was very helpful, thank you!

Asking anyone who might be willing to answer - what's the cynical take on why the military got a carve-out here? Honestly, I'm confused by this exemption and I'm having trouble imagining what prompted it. A cursory look at the "military officer affirmative action" pro and con discourse doesn't show me any novel or compelling arguments I'm not seeing already in the "affirmative action in higher education" discourse.

In the same vein as this, more strenuous exercise is always, always, always easier and more fun with another person. The "get a gym buddy to keep you accountable and motivated" advice is very real and very effective if you are one of those people who, like me, often struggles to summon the motivation to work out.

The Bear. It's fantastic.