Hi! Analysis-Paralysis here! I start planning my next move as soon as I complete my current move, but inevitably something changes board status the player before me so I have to recalculate. During recalculation my anxiety creeps up as I'm 100% aware people are waiting on me and I'm faced with 2 choices. 1) attempt to plan an effective move and frustrate others as my anxiety spikes, then once I make the move someone tells me how I could have optimized better. Or 2) say fuck it and just make a playable move to keep things going, ultimately fucking someone else's game. At least it's less often that I'm told how if I would just analyze everyone else's known game state and abilities along with my own that the next move should be obvious to me.

We've managed to find games that I enjoy and can process that I'll participate in, and the others I'll wish them well and step back.

Soooo, family game night?

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and someone with Alpha Player Syndrome too

You nailed this perfectly.

one who is only checking their phone and always asks “who’s turn is it”/“what should I do now

Aka, the poor soul the others have forced to play a board game that they clearly have no interest in and refused to take hint.

The part they don't show you is that the guy on the left has been reading the rules, learning the game, making plans to play it, and then having those plans not work out. For 10,000 years.

Pokémon Ultra Sun, is that you?

Hey, same!

That’s been the opposite of my ADHD experience.

Board game rules are almost always exceptionally clear and unambiguous. For me they are a dream, and I love being the rules guy in my game group.

I wish more instructions in different fields were so clear.

This is exactly me hahaha. Except I do like playing boardgames. I just really hate learning them.

I usually hate it at first but that, you know, passes eventually.

Me too. Wasn't particularly relatable but reading the comments i kinda get it. Finding other board game people who want the same style and complexity of game is hard, even narrowing down to just people who say they like board games

God that is my mother. Even worse is that she makes up/ignores rules if she doesn't think it makes sense, which, spoiler: is all the time. Because she won't read the rules. Yes, you, a 64 year old woman who can't operate a remote, know what would make a game more fun better than the PEOPLE WHO MADE THE GAME 🙄

There are some games for which it works, others for which it does not.

What game?

Of course, each round technically involves every chracter moving, sooo, maybe grab a drink and a notepad?

"oh and there's that one thing I forgot to explain earlier, there is an exception, (...) so you may not do what you just did." So that's just ruining MY WHOLE FREAKING STRATEGY DUDE and it is almost endgame.

On top of that, you have somebody else cutting in to add highly specific details about certain rule exceptions, and somebody else who can't stop talking about the last time they played.