Endymion_Mallorn

Find me a politician on the US national stage who isn’t funded by AIPAC.

Massie doesn’t count.

I mean, both. Frivolous personal spending is bad. Inflation is bad. These two things are both bad, but not in scale. It’s possible to say “Uber Eats is a waste of money”, “Uber is a greedy corporation extracting money without value”, “Corporate taxation has affected prices in a way that’s negative to the consumer”, and “Inflation and trade instability have made it harder to have the lifestyle we expect”.

None of those are contradictory. Some can be changed on a personal level. Some need greater influence involved.

Warren Zevon - “Life’ll Kill Ya” & “My Ride’s Here”

My father’s death doesn’t hit me in my day-to-day life much. But there are moments it hits me. Dad and Warren weren’t close, exactly, but they were fellow-travelers and Dad worked the concerts at the Capital.

Mamoru needs to be there. Because when Usagi is in a rough place, it’s his job to save her.

*Hustle.

If voting actually matters, they won’t let you do it unless you’re going their way.

Yes, but are you surprised at SJG not being the top RPG? The media push after GURPS Cyberpunk has faded fully. If they’d stuck with Fallout, maybe it could change.

I could name so many tabletop RPGs for this. Unfortunately, since Hasbro has dominated the space like a generational pile of elephant dung for over 2 decades now, and TSR actually did manage to make a few smart marketing decisions before Dragon Dice and the bankruptcy, I guess I can’t be too shocked.

So I guess I’ll go with a board game. Tsuro - The Game of the Path. It’s super-simple to learn and play, can be interesting for kids and adults alike, and it’s just a really solid, fun, game. There’s even an iOS version. I don’t understand why it’s a niche game instead of being front-and-center ahead of Monopoly or Clue(do). It’s not even prohibitively expensive, honestly - the wholly valid argument against Carcassonne and other niche games. There’s no good reason I can think of why Ticket to Ride is more popular than Tsuro.

Half of it is the sunk cost. Half of it is the Clans. Plus, MW2 and forward have had multiplayer Mercs modes with lance-vs-lance combats. Why would most people want to play on tabletop when that exists?

Admittedly, there is something satisfying about a Jenner with every jet in the world and a single PPC making a jump, cooling down in midair, and landing directly on top of an enemy and doing major structural damage before leaping away.

Pringles cans work even better than toilet paper rolls, in my experience.

I think they realized that they won’t get the jurisdiction to bend on this one, and the general response from UK government will be “good riddance to bad rubbish”.

Okay. Ask yourself this - who actually has the ability to exact force here? The workers night theoretically have weapons and the right to bear arms, sure. Functionally, that right means nothing compared to the ability to use it by the police, PMCs, security details, the Guard & the Reserve.

We get lucky sometimes like the incident in New York City where a man shot a CEO, for which an innocent man was arrested. But they respond with things like Hochul placing police as security whenever a C-Suite officer is in public, or additional investment to the security industry.

I wish that could change, but raw numbers don’t equate to the ability to exact force.

Better yet - each army’s player may nominate or provide not more than one cat, to be placed on the board according to Deep Strike rules.

Oh, the time might cause slower fielding play, but combined with the “ties are a mutual loss”, you’d have an ongoing scramble to get one over. It makes the whole game more defensive under the time limit.

Baseball: Strictly timed innings. Take the average time of innings in the last season or two, set that as the time. Inning ends when the time ends. I don’t care if it’s mid-play, I don’t care if the ball’s in the air. And no extra innings. Tie game at the end of the 9th inning counts as a mutual loss.

Warhammer 40K: If it’s on the table, play it. I don’t care if it’s a Battletech model, or a can of coke. It’s a model, it gets a move, shoot, and melee.

Also, “You wanna get nuts!? Let’s get nuts!”

Six feet above the covers!

HACK THE PLANET!

You broke your little ships.

Did you ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?