I'm with you, friend. Catan is a gateway board game into heavier games but it has been largely replaced by wingspan. Mechanically, it's a little too antagonistic and rng based to be an amazing new player option when there are so many better ones.
Idk if people out there love Catan more power to em I suppose but no matter what you are into there is probably something out there you will like more
I have ubo, what are your other kinds of ad blocking? I always want to block as many ads as possible
You can just never connect your TV to the Internet or make it forget all networks, that works pretty well if you have a console or PC hooked into it that is doing the actual content for it
I watched the sequel to 300 without sound on an airplane. Def didn't need it. I don't feel I missed much of the "plot"
My somewhat controversial suggestion is outward. Low graphical intensity PC game, very open world, and some incredibly unique and polarizing design choices. If your favorite part of breath of the wild was world exploration and korok finding, you may love it! If you like quality of life features though, maybe not.
Things like, you have a world map but no "you are here" marker so need to place yourself with landmarks. You need to drop your backpack to fight effectively and remember where you dropped it, the magic system is based on insomnia with the longer since you slept the more mana you have until you push it too far and just collapse. Really really weird game that I still think about all the time years later.
It was supposed to be the one that saved us!!!!
I'm not sure how this would work long term or if it would be any less annoying, but right now some content creators have ads within their content, like not YouTube ads but them just verbally promoting it. This could occur on peertube and is an option to still have a funding steam. It also allows creators to only have ads for things they are willing to support on their content. But it's also harder to skip and a bit annoying as a viewer so not sure if this has long term potential
I affectionately refer to it as live action breath of the wild
I'll check it out! I am something of a board game collector but am always looking for new ones
I feel like this same subtlety is also what makes it really hard to meaningfully track if an ad is actually effective or not. How do they know if you bought it cause ads or cause you would have anyway? Sometimes I wonder if ads arent way way less effective than companies think they are
It a fairly low intensity PC game, steam has it, gog does too I think
DE is fantastically well written, equal parts emotional and hilarious depending how you play and one of my all time favorite games. Big recommend