This is really cool! My teach is usually a very similar order to what you list, but its nice to have something like this written down. I will probably steal this.
For the Woodland Alliance, I usually deacribe them as "playing Pandemic, as the disease". You are spreading around everywhere, and can pop up suddenly to devastate someone's clearing if they aren't keeping you in check.
For sci-fi, one I haven't seen mentioned here yet is Red Rising.
Kind of an Enders Game meets Hunger Games in the first book, but quickly expands into a solar-system wide war with lots of intrigue, star-wars-like tech, and amazing characters.
If you haven't already, look up Graphic Audio. They make a lot of popular books into audio dramas. It felt a bit cheesy to me the first time but it's grown on me. I find them often on Hoopla or at my library.
"We're Alive" was a pretty fun audio drama that I think started as a podcast, but they edited into more seamless "books". Available as a freebie if you have Audible.
"Impact Winter" is another Audible freebie I think, about Vampires.
Alternatively, you may be interested in the Magnus Archives. It's a podcast with a short horror story in each episode, but all tied together by the researcher who narrates it. Eventually some connections form between the stories but each one is pretty short so you don't need to be super dedicated to the whole podcast if you just want a few stories.
Yep I do this. The game can take 15 minutes to teach, but an hour for me to re-learn if I have to read the rules again. If I write my "teach" into a cheat sheet it's so much easier to replay because it removes the mental barrier of having to read yet another 39 page manual.
Plus, there's always some tricky rule that everyone gets wrong the first time I explain it. My notes help me ensure I teach it "right" the first time.
What do you mean by keeping bookmarks? You mean like recording your place in the book so you can continue where you left off? I'm not understanding the benefit of that over a normal paper bookmark?
Yep, if you liked the author, Project Hail Mary by the same guy has very similar vibes. Optimistic scientist dude stuck in space using science in creative ways to save the day.
Ok so, the instance owner pays them to host, and with that revenue.... They pay the instance owner back? Isn't that just a "discount" with more steps?
What are they getting income from? Are they wanting to run ads on your instance or something?
The problem is they aren't comparing apples to apples. They asked each version of GPT a different pool of questions. (Edited my post to make this clear).
Once you ask them the same questions, it becomes clear that ChatGPT isn't getting worse at math, because it has been terrible all along.
My understanding is this claim is basically entirely false. The tests done by these researchers had some glaring errors that when corrected, show gpt-4 is getting slightly better at math, if anything. See this video that describes some of the issues: https://youtu.be/YSokS2ivf7U
TL;DR The researchers gave new GPT questions from two different pools. It's no surprise they got worse answers.
I'd still call it a legacy game. While legacy games usually involve physically, permanently, altering the pieces, it's not required; just that previous sessions carry some impact over to the next. At least that's what I've seen.
I would say simply adding and removing cards from the game counts as a legacy mechanic, since at any time my copy of Oath is going to play different than your copy based on our play history.
Maybe "legacy-lite"?
Edit: seems the term might be "Fable"? https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/44081/series-fable-game-system
Huh. I can't find a single book on here of the last 100 i have read. Is this all just self-help books or something?