I'm a programmer of video games (blasphemy on this site, I know) and a dabbler in board game design (thaaat's more like it).  Games I like: Cribbage, Catan, Root, Clank, Smallworld, Rivet Wars, Above and Below/Near and Far, Scythe, Hneffetafl, The Resistance: Avalon, Dominion.....Games I... meh?: Carcassone, Betrayal... Games I dislike: Ticket to ride, um.. Pandemic?, uh... Monopoly, ummm... i havent played enough games I dislike apparently.