A person either wants to spend 10 hours relitigating the Reformation or they don’t.
I am a dyed-in-the-wool board gaming sicko. I listen to tabletop podcasts, watch tabletop YouTube videos, and once owned over 300 tabletop games before paring down my collection considerably after moving to New York. This makes me the exact sort of person who should object with Liu’s thesis, perhaps by listing off a litany of self-help methods to make her board gaming dalliances more enjoyable or fruitful.
I think a lot of those tips can be useful. You can, for instance, start with some lighter fare and never, by any means, indulge the Devil’s Promise of “We’ll just figure it out as we go along” when learning the rules. But frankly, after a decade with this hobby, and after desperately trying to tabletop-pill so many of my wonderfully appeasing friends—an effort that’s led to innumerable unsatisfying board game nights along the way—I’ve become incredibly sympathetic to Liu’s perspective.
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