Kal-El814

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I remember a really distinct wall when I played Imperial Assault and Destiny competitively at regional tournaments between people who played on TTS and people who didn't. I was one of the latter and could usually hang until I ran into the former. I went to a Destiny launch event for one wave or another and as I was getting worked over was being told I was playing combos sub optimally; I was playing the cards for the first time, they'd had them from leaks / previews online for a couple months and I just got bounced.

Getting online in the 90's was how I realized I was trash at games compared to a lot of people. Going to FLGSs in the 20XX's was how I realized I was trash at tabletop games compared to a lot of people.

I haven't played this or Armada in ages. There was an "anything goes" gig at Pax U that I meant to check out but ended up flaking on.

What would Indy do? Steal what he needed.

Always gonna be funny to me that a Catholic character is gonna have "Born Again" in his show title @Commissar SFLUFAN

$15K Lions Tampa FG Goff Over Lions Ravens, Packers, Chiefs

If you have someone who can misty step a few times it's not that bad, otherwise it can be a drag to avoid getting murdered while you're lining up the masher / press.

Cool looking Indy game? Executive producer Todd Howard?

@Mr.Vic20 knows that the 5090 will be large enough that it could be driven on pubic roads once wheels are strapped to it.

TASK FAILED SUCCESSFULLY

The phone is made of lead.

I WILL ABUSE MY MOD POWERS TO SAY GAAAAAAAAAAH NO I FORGOT THIS WEEK

What a horrible night to have a DMCA strike.

Having sold maybe 100 things on ebay over the last 20+ years, my take is that most buyers are completely fine, but the ones that aren't are completely insane. Someone wanting expedited shipping but waiting weeks to pay seems completely normal. Shit like, "I know this auction is listed as shipping to the US only, any chance you could do local pickup in Spain? Figured I'd ask."

For sites like google and amazon, them getting shitty was like driving a car every day; I didn't notice the brakes getting gradually worse. Then one day I went to use them for something slightly outside my regular beat and they were just... fucking terrible. Etsy is like that too now. I have some accounts that I know are real people who make cool board game shit, anything that's out of a specific niche I know well? I have zero ability to detect whether or not it's a real seller or someone hocking aliexpress shit on etsy with huge markups. It sucks. Twitter has been much more abrupt, at least for me as someone who has essentially zero followers and uses it like something resembling an RSS feed. Over the course of a few weeks / months the ads got dramatically worse (it's mainly dropship scam bots) and if I look at the threads of anyone with a moderate following who doesn't have a robust blocklist, the replies are all bluecheck bullshit. Not that a website that was basically "commentsection.com" was ever GREAT; bullshit designed to farm engagement would float to the top from time to time. But replies to legitimate news accounts rarely had shitposter78986926 dropping racist dogwhistles as the top comment, let alone MOST of the top comments, which happens all the time now.

Imagine starting a thread about the Senate taking something seriously and then having a picture of Marco Rubio in the OP.

The extent to which the biggest sites on the web have become just absolute fucking dogshit is wild to see.

SKYRIM BELONGS TO DA NORDS

In 10 years we'll just be getting dump truck slider mods for ES6, well played.

Polar Seltzer > all others Every year they don’t have the limited edition cranberry cider in the fall, I die just a little bit.

The audience gets mad when you don’t play the hits.

I don't know that this is true. At the risk of painting with a broad brush, it's similar to the perspective that a lot of people had about gay issues / rights. Obviously gender reassignment surgery for kids is not the same as adult, same sex marriage; the comparison isn't perfect. But it wasn't smart politicking to support gay rights even for democrats until it was, and when that tipping point happened wasn't immediately obvious until it was happening or even had happened. Also not to be grim... but kids getting killed by guns en masse has moved the needle slowly on gun laws. Things like gender affirming care are more easily manipulated at the state level since there are no national constitutional protections, but still. Besides, lawmakers don't need cover to do this, as we're seeing here. I'm under no delusions that pro trans activism is going to bring a ton of democrats to the polls later this year. But I also think we DO have evidence that "protect kids from the mind virus and the thirsty scalpels of woke doctors" isn't a winning position for republicans, either. Maybe it has something to do with slippery slops arguments they've been making for years failing to come true? Maybe it's because shit like crying wolf with claims that schools are letting kids identify as cats and shit in litter boxes hasn't stuck? Maybe it's because these surgeries are so rare? I don't know.

The problem with being an “equal opportunity offender” is when you go “they think I’m punching down when I talk about trans people? Wait until they hear my jokes about disabled people” you just end up telling on yourself twice. “Who’s got it worse than group X,” is not fertile ground for comedy. I don’t think anyone’s out there saying that trans or disabled people are off limits in general, Dave’s just lost in the sauce and has been for a while now. The brief bits of this one I watched are just him making “the one joke” conservatives have about trans people, it’s so fucking lazy and boring.