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Are We Old?
That said - I myself no longer read the board games one, I used to when I was trying to keep ahead of customer service icebergs. Mostly now I just do Facebook groups. We are lucky and have an amazing FLGS here, he made groups for board games, minis, RPGs, in addition to just my friends group and the Madison Company of Gamers. I do read Reddit for other things.
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Thaadd wrote: I too am old - 40 (and back! Uba had to resurrect my password, 7 years dormant). New Year's resolution, decided to actively seeking out old friends and reconnect. I am on Facebook with a few of you...
In short recap, been out of game industry now for 5 years, working for The Man, still in cheeseland, still with the same goon I met playing board games 6 years ago. Host a weekly board game thing of 10-15 people in Madison, which has enough people that most styles of games are represented each week. I am almost always the oldest person at games. I am working towards being a probation agent, and work with sex offenders right now.
Re: Forums and new folks...Reddit, with it's app and really large userbase is easy to get into. Person who gets into board games newly, may just need to add the subreddit to their mix. I hate the new BGG design, so pretty much only go for rules argument threads. Mostly I have been going to Something Awful for years. Lots of local Facebook groups exist too for reviews and feedback.
I hate it when whippersnappers of 40 years say 'I'm old' ..... but since I most probably said it myself and you replaced my BSG skill cards for me (no questions asked) many years ago you get an automatic pass !
Welcome back !! (from the gruff kiwi lost in his travels of life)
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And, JFC, Thaadd, has it already been five years since you left? That's mildly terrifying.
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I prefer my job talking to dozens of sex offenders a day... I am also the person who reviews all convictions for flagged statutes to see who has to register, how long, which one's need to go to Legal for review...
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Quick everybody, bombard her with parts requests!
Next up: The Return of Tom Hancock.
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Home and car repair videos I can deal with. It's how I was able to work on the washer for her salon.
Amen to that. I don't tear into the car and appliances enough to internalize what's going on when it breaks without pictures. Videos of "Top 10 hot-dog restaurants in Hilliard, OH," I'd just as soon see text.
And in the 'old' department, I took a tour of a semi-local university (Bowling Green State U) the other day. The ginormous card catalogs that were a staple of the school's library are now hidden away or gone completely. I wonder if the microfilm/microfiche periodicals are gone or digitized as well?
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But it sure is handy to just login to your university library and download PDFs.
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www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/...he-digital-dark-ages
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Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: My wife noticed the problem with moving from physical copies to subscriptions to online journals in university libraries a couple of years ago when a paper she had referred to and wanted a second look at suddenly vanished when the university stopped subscribing to that journal and you effectively lost all the copies of the journals you had already 'bought'.
When things disappear, I go to Wayback Machine, and its almost always there.
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Largely digitized in big central subscription databases. It's actually a big problem because the few players in the digital journal market can extract gigantic sums from libraries.
But it sure is handy to just login to your university library and download PDFs.
Yeah, that's bringing back fun times for me. Back in the Dawn of Time you had to find the reader with a working printer, then take your smelly copies to the desk and pay a dime per page. I bet outfits like OCLC bend you over pretty good, though.
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