There are probably worse platforms for debate than Facebook, I just can't think of any.
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Hopefully in like a year most of the studios that aren't Sony will figure out that their me too streaming services are money pits and release their catalogues back into the wild
fuck gendered marketing
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Congressman Duncan Hunter is being questioned by the Federal Election Commission after it was discovered his credit card used “campaign funds to pay for video games on 68 separate occasions.”
As the San Diego Union-Tribune report, Hunter’s campaign credit card spent $1302 on “Steam Games” last year, noting that they were a “personal expense” that had to be “paid back”. Problem being that there’s no record of them having been paid back yet.
Congressman Duncan Hunter is being questioned by the Federal Election Commission after it was discovered his credit card used “campaign funds to pay for video games on 68 separate occasions.”
As the San Diego Union-Tribune report, Hunter’s campaign credit card spent $1302 on “Steam Games” last year, noting that they were a “personal expense” that had to be “paid back”. Problem being that there’s no record of them having been paid back yet.
Today I learned: Duncan Hunter has one hell of a backlog
Congressman Duncan Hunter is being questioned by the Federal Election Commission after it was discovered his credit card used “campaign funds to pay for video games on 68 separate occasions.”
As the San Diego Union-Tribune report, Hunter’s campaign credit card spent $1302 on “Steam Games” last year, noting that they were a “personal expense” that had to be “paid back”. Problem being that there’s no record of them having been paid back yet.
Today I learned: Duncan Hunter has one hell of a backlog
Do you think he only bought new? Because if he was purchasing during sales, my god that backlog must be unholy in size.
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Also I know you said "no Chinese whathaves you" but I'm assuming that was in reference to crouching tiger and not forbidden kingdom, which is delightful, and should be watched anyway
@Boart@MojJojo I got to play Rebellion tonight, so that monkey is finally off my back for now.
It's...pretty great! It reminds me, and this is something I would not have dared hope for, of a blend of Twilight Struggle and Twilight Imperium. The grand strategy is very 4X-ish, with fleets conquering worlds and worlds cranking out ships, but the actual play-by-play action feels a lot like Twilight Struggle's ping-pong match, with move leading to countermove andcounter-countermove, and a lot of "should I fire off X now or wait till I know he can't possibly stop it?"
Once you learn the game, it's surprisingly pacey; everything fires off quickly and you don't really have to sit around very much. Except during combat, which is not bad, but which would have profited from an app rather than a bunch of fiddly-ass card drawing. The other big point of friction is when a general build order goes out and you have to stop everything while both of you stare at the board and try to count up build points. "OK I've got three TIE Fighters, a Star Destroyer, planet Sullust gives me an AT-AT...wait, did I count Corellia? Did I forget it? Shit, start over." An app could save twenty minutes over the course of a single game by doing this alone.
My friend and I didn't get to finish as he had to pick up his kid, but it fekt like we were pretty evenly matched. His rebel mischief was blowing up Star Destroyers before they could so much as roll off the assembly line, and his fleets had a damnable way of disappearing from combat and reappearing on the other side of the table, but I had captured Chewbacca and had fleets in every quadrant of the board. He said it felt like I was "barfing ships everywhere." That sounds appropriately Imperial to me.
This makes.me even more torn on things! I'd heard the complaint about fiddly combat elsewhere, it seems to be a common complaint.
Although I'd don't think an app would be a good solution. If your boardgame needs an app then you've basically failed to design a boardgame
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
@Boart@MojJojo I got to play Rebellion tonight, so that monkey is finally off my back for now.
It's...pretty great! It reminds me, and this is something I would not have dared hope for, of a blend of Twilight Struggle and Twilight Imperium. The grand strategy is very 4X-ish, with fleets conquering worlds and worlds cranking out ships, but the actual play-by-play action feels a lot like Twilight Struggle's ping-pong match, with move leading to countermove andcounter-countermove, and a lot of "should I fire off X now or wait till I know he can't possibly stop it?"
Once you learn the game, it's surprisingly pacey; everything fires off quickly and you don't really have to sit around very much. Except during combat, which is not bad, but which would have profited from an app rather than a bunch of fiddly-ass card drawing. The other big point of friction is when a general build order goes out and you have to stop everything while both of you stare at the board and try to count up build points. "OK I've got three TIE Fighters, a Star Destroyer, planet Sullust gives me an AT-AT...wait, did I count Corellia? Did I forget it? Shit, start over." An app could save twenty minutes over the course of a single game by doing this alone.
My friend and I didn't get to finish as he had to pick up his kid, but it fekt like we were pretty evenly matched. His rebel mischief was blowing up Star Destroyers before they could so much as roll off the assembly line, and his fleets had a damnable way of disappearing from combat and reappearing on the other side of the table, but I had captured Chewbacca and had fleets in every quadrant of the board. He said it felt like I was "barfing ships everywhere." That sounds appropriately Imperial to me.
This makes.me even more torn on things! I'd heard the complaint about fiddly combat elsewhere, it seems to be a common complaint.
Although I'd don't think an app would be a good solution. If your boardgame needs an app then you've basically failed to design a boardgame
The XCOM board game is a strong counterargument to this position.
I played Caverna again on Sunday. Can recommend. Less "oh, you drew the broken occupations and minor improvements again. Time to go through the motions whilst you rampage around with some ridiculous multiplicative food machine".
OTOH, more "oh, whoops, uberharvest. Tears in the grain. Time to die."
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Apparently playing Survival mode in Fallout 4 prevents players from using the cheat tool.
This gives me a great degree of perverse pleasure.
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
there are definitely board games i've played where trying to keep abreast of all the information- not just 'active' cards but the passive cards on display by various players, their respective chits etc- is actually practically difficult. lots of leaning, lots of neck craning, reading cards upside down etc. making it easier seems rad.
@Boart@MojJojo I got to play Rebellion tonight, so that monkey is finally off my back for now.
It's...pretty great! It reminds me, and this is something I would not have dared hope for, of a blend of Twilight Struggle and Twilight Imperium. The grand strategy is very 4X-ish, with fleets conquering worlds and worlds cranking out ships, but the actual play-by-play action feels a lot like Twilight Struggle's ping-pong match, with move leading to countermove andcounter-countermove, and a lot of "should I fire off X now or wait till I know he can't possibly stop it?"
Once you learn the game, it's surprisingly pacey; everything fires off quickly and you don't really have to sit around very much. Except during combat, which is not bad, but which would have profited from an app rather than a bunch of fiddly-ass card drawing. The other big point of friction is when a general build order goes out and you have to stop everything while both of you stare at the board and try to count up build points. "OK I've got three TIE Fighters, a Star Destroyer, planet Sullust gives me an AT-AT...wait, did I count Corellia? Did I forget it? Shit, start over." An app could save twenty minutes over the course of a single game by doing this alone.
My friend and I didn't get to finish as he had to pick up his kid, but it fekt like we were pretty evenly matched. His rebel mischief was blowing up Star Destroyers before they could so much as roll off the assembly line, and his fleets had a damnable way of disappearing from combat and reappearing on the other side of the table, but I had captured Chewbacca and had fleets in every quadrant of the board. He said it felt like I was "barfing ships everywhere." That sounds appropriately Imperial to me.
This makes.me even more torn on things! I'd heard the complaint about fiddly combat elsewhere, it seems to be a common complaint.
Although I'd don't think an app would be a good solution. If your boardgame needs an app then you've basically failed to design a boardgame
The XCOM board game is a strong counterargument to this position.
I've not played it, and while I'm no particular fan of the idea I think that something made from the ground up to need an app is basically something other than a boardgame. It's an interesting computer game / boardgame hybrid.
For me I like the constraints that boardgames force the designers to work in and offloading things to an app just seems like a way of avoiding the need for elegant design.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
I am kinda with Mojo on this. If you forget you had a certain card that could have saved your fragile space fleet that is your fault, dumbass.
I'd like some Euro games to have an easy score calculator, though, as the end of the game when you sit around and do maths for ten minutes usually feels like an anti-climax.
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
I don't really follow baseball anymore but do hear about it in passing.
Apparently there's a new "slide rule" and its ruining the game or something.
At first I thought this was a dig at the analytics guys and was talking about those goofy gadgets that older nerds used to carry around before the advent of calculators.
But no, it's just making the game safer by eliminating a dangerous play.
Good job baseball
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And then a day or two later maybe watch a couple hours more.
Cant do that we use it to share pictures with family, I keep it locked down and with minimal info though.
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which is good, ofc, but i want some brutal hand to hand fighting without 9th century chinese settings and semi-mystical wire fights or steven segal
hmm
back to the board
Stormfront
CNN?
Not even close
I had forgotten that was a place. Now I am sad
I dunno, they have wacky election holograms. I can't stay angry at them.
Twitter
At least the replies are short. I consider the inability to post mountains of reply text to be a plus in that case.
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@Gim since (4/x)
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and #yousaidso (6/x)
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Today I learned: Duncan Hunter has one hell of a backlog
Can you stay angry at Wolf Blitzer?
Do you think he only bought new? Because if he was purchasing during sales, my god that backlog must be unholy in size.
we've taken to refusing to call GG by it's real name
Like Benadryl Crumplypatch
This movie is so melancholy
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Oooooh
I thought it was a Goonies knockoff.
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So transporter 3 ya?
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
This makes.me even more torn on things! I'd heard the complaint about fiddly combat elsewhere, it seems to be a common complaint.
Although I'd don't think an app would be a good solution. If your boardgame needs an app then you've basically failed to design a boardgame
Says it was his son, and that they didn't spend that much money, claiming fraud which, given it was on steam, isn't unlikely
Also for reference this is the vaping congressman
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
The XCOM board game is a strong counterargument to this position.
I played Caverna again on Sunday. Can recommend. Less "oh, you drew the broken occupations and minor improvements again. Time to go through the motions whilst you rampage around with some ridiculous multiplicative food machine".
OTOH, more "oh, whoops, uberharvest. Tears in the grain. Time to die."
This gives me a great degree of perverse pleasure.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Ah yes, back when I was worried about it being 3
I was so young then
I've not played it, and while I'm no particular fan of the idea I think that something made from the ground up to need an app is basically something other than a boardgame. It's an interesting computer game / boardgame hybrid.
For me I like the constraints that boardgames force the designers to work in and offloading things to an app just seems like a way of avoiding the need for elegant design.
I'd like some Euro games to have an easy score calculator, though, as the end of the game when you sit around and do maths for ten minutes usually feels like an anti-climax.
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yoyoyo I am SO CLOSE to being actually caught up on this assignment
I....
I've got like.. two more shots in me tonight right? In order to not have to do homework over PAX? Right?
*does hand stretches*
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
Apparently there's a new "slide rule" and its ruining the game or something.
At first I thought this was a dig at the analytics guys and was talking about those goofy gadgets that older nerds used to carry around before the advent of calculators.
But no, it's just making the game safer by eliminating a dangerous play.
Good job baseball
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades