Refugee from Nerdica, Pluspora and Google+ looking to reconnect

I don't have much luck with social networks, do I? I used to be mcv@nerdica.net, but nerdica seems to be quite thoroughly dead. Database is corrupt, and nothing can be recovered.

So that means I lost all my posts, comments, contacts, followers, and my place in the Fediverse. I'm trying to cobble things together, so if you recognise me, or even if you don't, please reach out and reconnect. I used to be on #Nerdica , #pluspora and I'm even a #googleplusrefugee.

So I'm not #newhere in the Fediverse, but I am new at this server. I run a #shadowrun #rpg #ttrpg campaign, occasionally post about a #boardgame I played, especially #18xx #railroad games, but also many others. I'm a #programmer , and I'm pretty sure I was also connected to a bunch of people in the #opensource #software world. I'm also interested in #tech, #science, and #computers in general.

I'm also occasionally interested in discussions of #politics, especially of the #leftwing #liberal #green and/or #libertariansocialism kind, though I'm not overly dogmatic on any of them. I #bicycle regularly, use #linux, and after all these social media servers I lost, I'm considering running my own #friendica server. I might even be nuts enough to try to write my own #fediverse software, which would probably end up much like Friendica (or #Diapora, or Google+), but not in PHP.

I'm probably forgetting a bunch of stuff, but I hope this post will help me reconstruct and reconnect what I lost.

If you want to understand my family's love for the 18xx genre of train-investment board games, watch this excellent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QErygzM4W_Y

I got my train nut dad into boardgames by giving him 1830 for his birthday. Soon he'd discovered there was more out there, and he bought everything.

My personal favourite is 18EU, which plays pretty quickly (relative speaking of course) while feeling far more epic than that. It starts by auctioning a whopping 15 minor companies which (unlike privates) do run trains, and can later merge into major (regular) companies.

Recently we got my 11 year-old son into Steam Over Holland, the latest of many, many attempts at an 18xx game in Netherland. My son loves it and is excellent at it, once even beating my dad (now a veteran with decades of experience) in a one-on-one game because my dad foolishly thought he could operate 3 companies at the same time. (That kind of hubris deserves to be punished, of course.) I think this might mean Steam Over Holland could be a fairly suitable beginner game. Its only real downside is that the title doesn't start with '18'.

Your version of 1830 looks gorgeous, by the way. Totally different from the various copies I've played. It's worth noting that most 18xx games are not as aggressive as 1830, which is among the most aggressive games in the genre. For a completely opposite experience, try the very German 1835.

Also, in our group, it's not remotely true that nothing happens during the last couple of operating round; we keep optimising routes until the very end, trying to squeeze that last drop of money out of our 5-train + D-train combination, frying our brain in the process. Running two permanent trains per company is frequently key to victory and a splitting headache.

#18xx