caseyweederman

I mean, if it's Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis...

I've always seen it as outside of their control. It's not that the lying guard chooses to lie, it's that they're incapable of not lying.

Confirmation from the Sega Genesis Sonic 2 manual:

Two images, one of the front cover of the instruction manual for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (giant shadowed Doctor Robotnik head and arm in the background, reaching for and clutching a giant checkered numeral 2 in the middle ground, with Sonic and Tails in the foreground, with game title and the text INSTRUCTION MANUAL below them, with the console logo at the top with stylized text reading SEGA GENESIS / 16 BIT CARTRIDGE.
Second photo: the manual opened to page 10 (greyscale), title text Super Items, description text: Spin, bash or bounce to break open monitors any way you can -- to get the Super Items inside.
Five square pixelated images are arrayed in a row beneath the text: a shoe, a ring, Sonic's face, three four-pointed stars, and a circle with a horizontal gradient.
Beneath these is a bulleted list of names and descriptions:

• Power Sneakers make you run like the wind!
• Super Rings give you ten rings at once!
• One-ups give you 1 more Life. (You also earn an extra Life when you collect 100 Rings and 200 Rings.)
• An Invincible protects you from attacking enemies, but only for a short time.
• Each Shield protects you from damage 1 time only.

Under this list is a cropped screenshot of Sonic in a shield sphere, with Tails behind him and a mechanical preying mantis in front, the latter of which has launched small curved blades at Sonic's shield.
The following page is visible in the photo but is outside of the scope of this post. It's about Star Posts.

Cyborg Justice was great. I only learned recently that no, pits were not just a death sentence if you didn't have the pneumatic legs, you can transition out of a jump into a forward lunge to get the distance you need.
Pulling robot pieces off and attaching them to yourself was an amazing mechanic. Same as kicking legs back upright and slamming torsos on to resurrect enemies (and possibly allies?)
And the music is peak Genesis music.

I feel the same about Ticket to Ride. Spend the whole game maybe doing something, maybe just drawing and passing, and then the game ends and somebody wins at random.

But these are good gateway games, games that lead from Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders to games like Betrayal and Root and Gloomhaven.

For the OP I would recommend Spirit Island, which is the perfect subversion of Settlers of Catan. Pass through Puerto Rico if you must (it's a better game than Catan but yeesh, slavery, and then double-yeesh, casual slavery erasure).

I'm surrounded by assholes!

"Oh good, soothers are still around too."

I see the gateway board games but not the advanced ones, why stop when you're so close?

I can now confirm that, thank you.

Caption: Tineye showing zero results

What the fuck is this froooommmmm I need to read all of it right now

It's confirmed then. The Brits are AI.