Observed arrival · 2026-08-20
HOA President: suburban bureaucracy as a card game
A forthcoming iOS card game casts the player as president of a homeowners association, navigating 192 hand-written scenarios about mulch, bylaws, gnomes, pickleball, and goats.
Why it surfaced
The premise is immediately legible and unusually specific: you won an election nobody else wanted, and now 214 homeowners are watching. Its sample scenarios have the texture of miniature civic farces, including an emotional-support goat named Chairman that eats compliance notices; the game promises a one-time $2.99 purchase with no ads, subscriptions, accounts, or network calls.
A forthcoming iOS card game casts the player as president of a homeowners association, navigating 192 hand-written scenarios about mulch, bylaws, gnomes, pickleball, and goats.
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