@Aarseth's Bee Shaaarugs kicked off against Rodents et al this evening. The Rodents played an uncharacteristically slow game against the sturdy and well-positioned Undead defense. Miles finally worked his way past the Undead lines and scored late in the half. Ghoul Slimeripper was the first to die on the pitch, tripping and breaking his neck in hot pursuit of the Skaven runner.
The Bee Shaarugs struggled to gain ground against the Skaven screen through the rest of the game. Casketsnatcher the Ghoul died to Lennie Small early in the second half and the Undead manpower disadvantage proved too debilitating, with the ball never crossing onto the Skaven side of the field.
Coffinravager, the only surviving Ghoul of the original three, lashed out half-heartedly at Lennie Small in the final seconds of play. He was as surprised as anyone when Lennie sank to the ground, dead.
Final score Rodents et al 1, Bee Shaaarugs 0.
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There is a children's breakfast buffet close to where I am breakfasting today.
Apparently German children eat apples, rice krispies squares and haribo for breakfast
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
To speak as someone from a country that actually has socialists: theres no need to use it to mean only 100% socialism
Communism supplanted it long ago
Also yeah, older American generations can shut up, they're the ones who made it into a curse instead of a word for "it's the responsibility of the state to take care of everyone who needs it, being the nexus of communal effort of taxes and some light nibbling on the rich"
Blood Bowl can be a thing for other people. I'm not in the right headsace to play a game with brutal rng without losing my shit.
@evilbob If it's not your jam then it's not your jam, but I would say to not let your first devastating loss get to you too much. Once you play enough games you begin to realize that it's just a thing that happens, sometimes in your favor and sometimes against you, and while losing star players hurts you can still recover from it. Basically, no loss is quite as demoralizing as your first loss.
We'll be spending most of today undoing what was done yesterday, because we made the.mistake of setting things up in the smart way instead of the planned way
there is certainly a tension between fashionable left-wing grassroots spontaneism vs unfashionable left-wing programs via the bureaucratic state, but this is hardly millennial - rather it is reflective of the failure of the intellectual left more broadly to come up with any new consensus at all since the collapse of the New Left
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Blood Bowl can be a thing for other people. I'm not in the right headsace to play a game with brutal rng without losing my shit.
evilbob If it's not your jam then it's not your jam, but I would say to not let your first devastating loss get to you too much. Once you play enough games you begin to realize that it's just a thing that happens, sometimes in your favor and sometimes against you, and while losing star players hurts you can still recover from it. Basically, no loss is quite as demoralizing as your first loss.
There is not a single aspect of my life that isn't a source a frustration right now. This game just adds to that. A couple of turns of watching an opponent roll constant defender downs/defender stumbles when I can't even buy a push off five two dice rolls is enough for me to just want it to end. Regardless of the score. Team deleted. Game uninstalled.
Social democratic parties that sought to administer advanced economies in the neoliberal age, especially with the pressures wrought by globalization, had to adapt their platforms to this new reality. It’s often meant, such as in the case of New Labour in Britain, betraying the principles and constituencies that these parties built their legacies around. But, at its best, it has yielded a “progressive neoliberalism.” Certain European nations, like Sweden, have maintained much of their social safety net, and Lula’s Brazil provides a model of market-oriented center-left governance for the developing world.
A crude overview, sure, but right in the broad strokes: the Marxist-derived left was defeated, while social democracy reconciled to the neoliberal framework. “Anarcho-liberalism” sauntered in a weird middle ground between both camps. Its representatives had the modest ambitions of the social liberals of the center-left, but the flair for the dramatic associated with the most militant anarchists of the far left.
Take the talented Naomi Klein, the archetypical “anarcho-liberal.” At a panel hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society, Klein critiqued Milton Friedman on the peculiarly reactionary grounds that he was a “Utopian ideologue,” mentioning that she didn’t think that there was any great need for “grand projects of human freedom.” This is consistent with past statements to the effect that she wasn’t “a utopian thinker.” She continued, “I don’t imagine my ideal society. I don’t really like to read those books, either. I’m just much more comfortable talking about things that are.”
An odd stance for an iconic intellectual of an avowedly radical movement. Adding to the confusion, she has described herself as a Keynesian. Meaning there’s little separating her and the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, much less many European politicians, in terms of their vision of a just society. Yet instead of traveling to Socialist International meetings, Klein attends the World Social Forum or files adoring reportage from an occupied factory in Argentina, a raucous street protest, or Zapatista strongholds in the Lacandon Jungle.
Klein is a pre-crisis social democrat, untainted by neoliberalism. But if she wants to restore the policies of “golden age” social democracy, she is going about it in an unusual way. Social democracy drew its strength from the institutions of the workers movement — parties, unions, programmatic platforms, and the degree of discipline and coherence that came along with them. But to quote from a New Yorker profile, “[Klein] distrusts centralization, institutions, platforms, theories—anything except extremely small, local, ad-hoc, spontaneous initiatives.”
Small c conservative Keynesianism! Lyrical, creative, disruptive protests in pursuit of a localized variant of what the New Left considered a drab and conformist bureaucratic welfare state. The incoherence is baffling.
Some things were broadly shared by “anarcho-liberals”: an anti-intellectualism that manifested itself in a rejection of “grand narratives” and structural critiques of capitalism, abhorrence for the traditional forms of left-wing organization, a localist impulse, and an individualistic tendency to conflate lifestyle choices with political action. The worst of both worlds, the “anarcho-liberal” can neither manage the capitalist state nor overcome it, and aspires to do both and neither at the same time....
Is there anyone I haven't played yet who wants to go a round?
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Tonight on Blood Bowl, the Constantinople Byzantines faced off against the Hamsterdam's own Barksdale Crew, managed by the necrotic manager-in-chief @shalmelo. The Byzantines received in the opening play and made a strong push up the right flank. That stretch of turf will forever be known as the "Bloody Yards" for the sheer number of casualties taken along the scant three paces, as the elves surfed a number of the undead off the pitch and into the official Byzantine Cheer Centurions, who smashed D'Angelo Barksdale's hip and badly hurt Wee-Bey. The mummy Stringer Bell broke his record of never brutalising another player and cracked Leo the Thracian's spine, ensuring he'll never take a hit the same again.
Twice the ball was knocked out of play, and twice the Byzantine fans made sure the ball went directly where the Byzantines wanted it, though the undead made them work for it, with the first touchdown in the closing moments of the first half.
Midway through the second, the undead watched in horror as their skeleton, Cheese Wagstaff, was broken into splinters that couldn't be put back together. Romanos the Purple-born took a hit on the chin as the undead began their retribution drive, and the last elf standing touched the ball in moments before the shambling horde that had taken out all but two members of the elven team came for him.
A mid-second half look at the team's medical areas.
While both teams could only field eight men for the last drive, the final moments of the game were largely by the books, as the undead sought to at least make one touchdown, culminating in the greatest play of the match, as the ghoul Michael managed to dodge out of no less than four tackle zones in order to make a touchdown just as the whistle blew on the game.
The final tally, for the fans at home - four injured elves, three injured undead, one dead undead, and a 2-1 victory that has finally broken the Byzantine losing streak.
While we here understand that tensions are running high for fans of both teams, we urge you not to riot in the streets. Remember - the game is the game.
Blood Bowl can be a thing for other people. I'm not in the right headsace to play a game with brutal rng without losing my shit.
evilbob If it's not your jam then it's not your jam, but I would say to not let your first devastating loss get to you too much. Once you play enough games you begin to realize that it's just a thing that happens, sometimes in your favor and sometimes against you, and while losing star players hurts you can still recover from it. Basically, no loss is quite as demoralizing as your first loss.
There is not a single aspect of my life that isn't a source a frustration right now. This game just adds to that. A couple of turns of watching an opponent roll constant defender downs/defender stumbles when I can't even buy a push off five two dice rolls is enough for me to just want it to end. Regardless of the score. Team deleted. Game uninstalled.
That is understandable. Hope you feel better.
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Okay, after some Butter Chicken Pizza and Balverian Kremes, the day is looking up
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Oh yeah, and fun fyi tmi:
Earlier I saw huge chunks of torn red tissue looking stuff in the bowl and freaked the fuck out. I almost called 911. Then I realized that the last thing I ate last night was a bowl of cherries.
Thank you for joining us for this episode of Butt Stuff. I'm Deebaser, filling in for Cass.
I've got nine healthy players for the next match, and only 30k in the bank. I should probably play one of the new teams next because while I've got 5 games played my team rating is barely above where I started.
On the bright side, Stringer is now level 3 on casualty points alone.
It all started the day prior when my sugar tooth persuaded me to eat 2 handfuls of these sugar-free delights. Fast forward 15 hours 23 minutes and 44 seconds, the world shook. All hell broke loose inside me, a sudden headache, my skin began to perspire and something tore around in my abdomen with force enough to make me latch onto my couch with both hands and let out a sheer cry that sent my dog retreating into the bedroom, she probably knew the battle was already lost. I tried to make for the bathroom but the pressure was so intense I had to wait it out on the couch until a lapse in the gut-busting occurred and I regained control of my muscles. It took only moments before the volcano Mt Anus had blown its top. The air quickly turned poisonous from the methane and sulfuric fumes that spewed forth. Violence and terror are understatements of what happened for the next 45 minutes. I sustained 3rd degree burns from contact with the lava that flowed abruptly from my bowels, my blood pressure was at record levels, and my body mass was reduced by 4 lbs. After ample ventilation of the crime scene I quickly took a shower and changed clothes because the powerful fumes had soaked through the fabric and into the skin. I almost had a mental breakdown in the shower after realizing those little gummy bears had nearly defeated such a man that I thought I was. I can now hardly bare to look forward through the night-terrors and PTSD that will come of this horrid event. . .
SW-4158-3990-6116
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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@Aarseth's Bee Shaaarugs kicked off against Rodents et al this evening. The Rodents played an uncharacteristically slow game against the sturdy and well-positioned Undead defense. Miles finally worked his way past the Undead lines and scored late in the half. Ghoul Slimeripper was the first to die on the pitch, tripping and breaking his neck in hot pursuit of the Skaven runner.
The Bee Shaarugs struggled to gain ground against the Skaven screen through the rest of the game. Casketsnatcher the Ghoul died to Lennie Small early in the second half and the Undead manpower disadvantage proved too debilitating, with the ball never crossing onto the Skaven side of the field.
Coffinravager, the only surviving Ghoul of the original three, lashed out half-heartedly at Lennie Small in the final seconds of play. He was as surprised as anyone when Lennie sank to the ground, dead.
Final score Rodents et al 1, Bee Shaaarugs 0.
Apparently German children eat apples, rice krispies squares and haribo for breakfast
worst Let's Play ever
Then next generation is going to be entirely robots, though.
oh great give cinders inspiration
but since I don't speak any other human languages the only option is English
Communism supplanted it long ago
Also yeah, older American generations can shut up, they're the ones who made it into a curse instead of a word for "it's the responsibility of the state to take care of everyone who needs it, being the nexus of communal effort of taxes and some light nibbling on the rich"
now I will read some more of lexicon and then I will sleeeeeeep
night y'all
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
@evilbob If it's not your jam then it's not your jam, but I would say to not let your first devastating loss get to you too much. Once you play enough games you begin to realize that it's just a thing that happens, sometimes in your favor and sometimes against you, and while losing star players hurts you can still recover from it. Basically, no loss is quite as demoralizing as your first loss.
them too huh
I didn't even permanently maim any of your elves
oh god, i'm losing my touch
everyone is getting piling on, mighty blow, and claw
There is not a single aspect of my life that isn't a source a frustration right now. This game just adds to that. A couple of turns of watching an opponent roll constant defender downs/defender stumbles when I can't even buy a push off five two dice rolls is enough for me to just want it to end. Regardless of the score. Team deleted. Game uninstalled.
Twice the ball was knocked out of play, and twice the Byzantine fans made sure the ball went directly where the Byzantines wanted it, though the undead made them work for it, with the first touchdown in the closing moments of the first half.
Midway through the second, the undead watched in horror as their skeleton, Cheese Wagstaff, was broken into splinters that couldn't be put back together. Romanos the Purple-born took a hit on the chin as the undead began their retribution drive, and the last elf standing touched the ball in moments before the shambling horde that had taken out all but two members of the elven team came for him.
A mid-second half look at the team's medical areas.
While both teams could only field eight men for the last drive, the final moments of the game were largely by the books, as the undead sought to at least make one touchdown, culminating in the greatest play of the match, as the ghoul Michael managed to dodge out of no less than four tackle zones in order to make a touchdown just as the whistle blew on the game.
The final tally, for the fans at home - four injured elves, three injured undead, one dead undead, and a 2-1 victory that has finally broken the Byzantine losing streak.
While we here understand that tensions are running high for fans of both teams, we urge you not to riot in the streets. Remember - the game is the game.
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That is understandable. Hope you feel better.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
in 15 hours i will eat everything.
Earlier I saw huge chunks of torn red tissue looking stuff in the bowl and freaked the fuck out. I almost called 911. Then I realized that the last thing I ate last night was a bowl of cherries.
Thank you for joining us for this episode of Butt Stuff. I'm Deebaser, filling in for Cass.
I kind of want to give DotA2 a go maybe tomorrow evening?
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Unfortunately no! I have to deal with some stuff re: PhD submission.
We'll have our game, Cinders
I just need to say goodbye to my team beforehand
just want to give your team hugs Simon
accept Nurgle's love.
Nah dude, Im not going to eat Gummi bears.
Jesus.
Maybe an unreasonable amount of small plates.
Maybe a huge steak.
The secret to your team surviving against cinder is to have them constantly fall over before she gets a chance to block them.
On the bright side, Stringer is now level 3 on casualty points alone.
http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-SUGAR-Classic-Gummi-Bears/dp/B006J1FBLM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405489470&sr=8-1&keywords=haribo+sugar+free+gummi+bears
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
do I need to remove you from the spreadsheet