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Me to a pokemon: get on my level Charizard:

Are blue, pink, and white not the trans flag colors?

The community doing one online is probably for the best anyway. Not paying for hotels and travel means a "World" championship is basically selecting from people who have enough money to make it to the US / a certain spot in the US, so you're already eliminating a huge group of players who can hang but can't afford that. When I was playing in Regional Imperial Assault or Destiny tournaments, 100% of the time the winner give their ticket to someone several people down the results board before they found someone who could afford to go to Nationals, and I know this happened at Nationals too, particularly at events outside the US. That's not to say the people who did make it to Worlds were scrubs or anything just that it wasn't representative of the actual best players from Regionals or Nationals.

Also on the spoiler topic with @SuperSpreader and @TwinIon, if I was going to be really precious about the Fallout lore I'd say... Again, not a big deal, it's just silly.

Someone accused Gary Chalk and Louise Sugden of being a tourists on Twitter the other day and I just can't. This is @Zaku3 erasure.

Seeing some of the takes online about how "Bethesda and Todd Howard hate New Vegas and deleted it with this show" and I'm wondering how on earth these people navigate the world around them. Jesus Christ.

This is probably for the best, though I appreciate that it’s disappointing to people who could hang at a very high level. When I was playing Imperial Assault or Destiny competitively, I saw many more people discouraged by tournaments on the road to worlds than I did people who found even the regional level of competition to be an enjoyable experience. As someone who was in between I always found the experience somewhat odd; I would rinse anyone who played more casually and then get rinsed by people who played obvious net forces / decks. I’ll also never forget someone who drove from central NJ to northeast MA to play at an Imperial Assault regional event for a chance to get swag dice who got absolutely ripshit with my improbable X results on my white die and favorable draws from my command card deck because losing to me meant he drove the better part of 500 round trip miles to not get dice. Also I don’t think I’m a casual follower of AMG stuff and somehow the only reason I knew Worlds were at Adepticon was from posts here, so… probably best for them to invest that money elsewhere

The funniest bit to me is when the doctor came out and took his pulse by choking him.

It was shitty then, it's shitty now, it will be shitty in the future, and calling attention to its shittiness is always going to be okay.

Finished the show today. Broadly, I really liked it. Again it absolutely nails the BGS Fallout aesthetic so if that's part of what you liked about the games, it's very faithfully represented in the show. The main three characters are all pretty well written and interesting. Their development over the course of the series feels earned and pretty well done. Overall the plot moves pretty briskly and is pretty interesting, even if there's a lot of beats that are familiar to someone who's spent a lot of time in this game universe. Some spoilery thoughts ahead... Minor quibbles aside, it's a pretty fun, good looking show. Interested to see where the second season goes.

They're apparently pretty guilty of the crunch culture that a lot of AAA studios are. There's also speculation about Druckmann generally and the departure of Hennig, but a lot of that seems to have swirled around chud gamer reactions to TLoU2 and the studio being "woke" so who knows. The crunch side of things seems pretty well documented.

5 episodes in and it's pretty good, I'm enjoying it a lot. I'm always going to wish that the series stuck with the Black Isle / Obsidian vibes compared to the BGS ones. But if a series is going to go that direction, this is a very good version of that. Interested to see how the first season ends before I weigh in too much, but it's good!

Ironically a tactic that would make BGS content more interesting.

Did they ever patch in a reason that The Institute does literally anything they do?

Played again today and won! But I played with a 60% painted squad, which means I lost emotionally. Thematically Anakin got the high ground and kicked the everliving shit out of anyone who tried to mess with him, while Ahsoka and some Mandos scrapped over some border objectives. I think I played smart to win the first struggle. The second one went my way with a couple lucky rolls to give the priority objective to me when I had it, which only happened to my opponent once. Also in the second struggle my dice were red hot and his were frigid. Anyway I really enjoy this game. Playing with a good knowledge of the rules and winning two struggles in a row to clinch without having to go to a third, the game was a crisp 90 minutes after the terrain was set up. While I love me a full Legion army battle that can take a few hours, it’s nice to have one that’s more quickly paced. Not having a character / unit wiped until after they taker their max level of wounds AND they get one last activation means that even if the stars aligned and someone got totally slaughtered before they could activate once (I don’t think this is actually possible, just saying), they would still get one go before coming off the table. The tactics aren’t as deep as Legion which is to be expected given the pace and scope of deployment, but I still feel like there are interesting decisions to be made.

Ctrl+F: golden sun … Good.

I’ve maintained for decades now that unless you need to know file structures because you’re an engineer or programmer, the kind of person who sleeps better at night when your digital life is just so, or a combination of both, that they desktop metaphor with folders is confusing and has little to no utility. I’m broadly wired that way, in that I have digital rulebooks for every one of my billion board games stored on my Mac so I can just Spotlight search “line of sight” and the name of the game and get right to what I’m looking for. But even I gave up the organization fight for most things. Back in the say I had really detailed save folder structure for games that I backed up to floppy or CD, now I don’t even know which one of my SSDs my various launchers store their saves. If I’m that cavalier with save files for games I’ve invested hundreds of hours into, it makes total sense to me that someone has no fucking idea where that work PPTX file lives.

People in general either have very detailed folders where they organize everything or a desktop that is the digital equivalent of a million Hindenburgs. Anecdotally age makes absolutely no difference here. I will also say that over the last 5 - 10 years as things have moved to the cloud / Sharepoint / Google, it’s gotten much worse as a browser with more open tabs than there are stars in the night sky has become people’s de facto organization method.

My mom is a data bitch you fucking clown, recognize

I don’t mean to be callous as my sympathies are absolutely with the people who got laid off here but if any CEO says “layoffs are immoral” that’s a red flag that is itself waving several other huge red flags.

This is just not supported by the data at all.

Unless it's changed fairly recently, having literally any college degree is correlated with significantly higher lifetime earnings compared to people without a 4 year degree. That doesn't warrant taking out massive loans to obtain nor justifies the continual inflation of the cost of said degree of course, but in general getting any degree is better than not having one even if we're talking solely economics and none of the other benefits of a college education.

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