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Catan rules!
It's ok as a gateway drug, but I'm in the camp that always vetos it and cards against humanity in favor of one of the hundreds of more interesting games.
I played again recently for the first time in a few years. What a drag. It's as bad as Monopoly IMO, pure chance and no strategy after the first placement. I want to influence the game and make decisions and plan ahead - Catan does none of that especially well, if at all. Give me Dune or Inis!
Lmao did you really downvote me for enjoying Catan and then go on a rant about how much cooler you are than me because you like more niche games?
Votes mean nothing here so have fun but that's fucking hilarious lmao, "oh you like Nirvana? I bet you've never even heard of Tad or Gruntruck, loser" but even nerdier hahaha. Get a grip kid.
The smug put downs really aren't giving you the high road in this one.
Reap what you sow, and such.
I didn't downvote you, you ass.
Well then I guess it was just coincidence that when I went to respond to your condescending comment someone else had downvoted it.
Fair enough, less sad, but you still have the option to not be a dick and let people enjoy things without bemoaning how "entry level" they are. Shouldn't you be off somewhere asking a girl to name three songs from the band on her shirt?
Dunno what your problem is or why you're insisting on conflict, but I said it's ok. The boardgame community owes Catan a lot for getting it more into the mainstream, but it's 30 years old and I've played it enough to have an opinion on it. In your metaphor, you're the guy that insists everybody should love 90s pop and anybody that doesn't is pretentious and hates you. That's not why people don't like you.
Anyway, I'm done interacting with you. Enjoy life and some newer board games.
I'll continue to play the games I enjoy playing, including Catan, despite your opinion on them. I don't care how long you've been playing Catan nor how old it is, people still play Chess and Go ffs. Checkers is like 5,000 years old, I'm sure it's beneath you but that's a bit older than 30yr, and people still love it.
I said it before and I say it again, it's ok to let people enjoy things, you don't have to tell them why they're wrong for enjoying it.
Not that I'd encourage criticizing people for downvoting you either way, but this is Lemmy, there are ways to verify whether they actually did
I always forget about that site that tracks it, thanks for reminding me.
I've never used it because as I said it's not that important, it just seem(ed) hilariously gatekeepy to both leave a condescending comment and downvote "Catan rules," but it's still annoying enough with just the condescension alone.
If something is important enough to make an accusation, it's important enough to make sure it's actually true
Fair enough.