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Thoughtful Dane

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Blogger, Game Designer, Software Engineer, Photographer. Offline I'm a Dane who lives in Sweden going under the name Frederik Jensen. https://thoughtfuldane.com

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 14h

Not Gotland. Sigtuna.

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 1d

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Galten och Suggan – Wikipedia

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 1d

Russian cannon captured at Narva now at Gripsholm Castle.

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 3d

We can sit in our nursery homes and complain that there are no one who comes to change our diapers. Our AI-controlled social media feed will completely agree with us and tell us how fantastic we are.

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 3d

Remember, up to 25% of the Swedish population migrated to USA pre WWI, Sweden was considered a failed state.

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 3d

2025 numbers already down from earlier.

Populist anti-immigration politicians are still chasing the immigrant scare, latest fad is "remigration", to increase the one time pay to people who voluntarily leave Sweden.

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 3d

Prognosis for 2035 is 15% fewer kids aged 5-14 in Sweden.

(www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/sv/ssd...)

Folkmängd, antalet döda, invandrare, utvandrare och medelfolkmängd (efter födelseår) i Sverige efter födelseregion, kön och ålder. År 2025 - 2120-Statistikdatabasen

www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 3d

Our kids' school will close by end of this school year. Combination of fewer kids and not finding better premises to continue the school. Our kids like the school so a bit sad but we will deal with it.

However, it triggered me digging into the population projection for Sweden:

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 4d

Follow up on yesterday's playtest + school meeting. Just had a good long walk with the dog.

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 7d

First game of Pompeii completed, fresh from SPIEL. The inventory boards make handling the many different resource types a bliss. Will play again! Congrats to Richard for keeping the eyes on the ball and beating us across the finish line!

Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Pompeii. Straight from Essen Spiel! #BoardGames

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 7d

"What are we going to do with this one, Frank?"
"Now that you've called me by name?"

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 7d

Play Pompeii at a friend's place...

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 8d

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Lübeck - Thoughtful Dane

On the way home from SPIEL in Essen, we stopped in Lübeck while waiting for the ferry to Sweden. Lübeck was a prominent member of the Hanseatic League. The scenic inner city is a UNESCO Heritage site ...

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 9d

For a moment there I thought you would translate Stevenson to Finish... Today I will stock up on treats for neighbourhood kids, swim with my wife, see my daughter's Halloween themed performance at Cirkör.

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 10d

No VP. It's a race. One player wins by buying an army and placing it in the camp outside the city.

First part will feel like a tableaux builder. Drafting and buying specialists to help you get ahead. No direct PvP.

In the second part punishment will be brutal, perhaps even random. Oh Fortuna!

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 10d

Offerings: You get a target number for resources that the group must sacrifice. Then you negotiate openly until the group either pays the needed amount or cannot or will not. When you fail you turn over a volcano card which is either a resource penalty that hits all -- or an eruption.

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 10d

Second part of the game starts when one player builds Foro Pompeii. This opens the game for luxury goods and city cards. City cards boosts advanced buildings plus some backstabery stuff.

Also, here you start doing offerings to appease the gods at the end of each round.

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 10d

It's not so complicated, the base game action is that you place a worker and either take or upgrade a resource. Then you can hire specialists that will do base actions better. Plus construct buildings that opens new transformations.

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 10d

Pompeii 2025:

Reading up on the rules in preparation for a first game this weekend.

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#boardgames #pompeii

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 10d

Spooky season as seen in Recklinghausen, Germany. Are you in the mood yet?

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 10d

Botkyrka is rainy too. Dog still want to go out. After that:

Unbox and study how to play Pompeii.

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 11d

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#spiel #boardgames

Great fun at SPIEL in Essen - Thoughtful Dane

SPIEL in Essen is the world largest boardgame fair. Each year in October, publishers and fans meet around everything related to boardgames. From family games over tabletop role-playing games and minia...

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 11d

#Lübeck #photography #Holstentor #Marienkirche

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 11d

You will return and be stronger, I'm sure.

It is extremely unlikely to by chance to run into a specific person at SPIEL, but with a wide enough network, chances of stumbling over someone you know by chance increases. I met Jacob Jaskov!

Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 11d

Sir, this is a first class selfie from a professional social media celebrity!