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  1. I’ve thought about this over the summer. I somewhat doubt it because I think too many people have been exposed to too many awesome games to want to go back to the shitty games many of us grew up with. However, I think we will see a reduction in new offerings going forward, because there’s just so many options available now. There is a bit of a feeling like when the video game market crashed in the 80s where there were too many games produced, and while there were plenty of amazing games, there was also a lot of shit plus people had their limits, financial or otherwise. Compound that by the fact that many of these board games being made now are high-priced and people are reluctant to spend money on something they may not play that often. I can walk into Tanuki Games or Dragon’s Lair here in Austin and I will immediately recognize games I have seen you or others mention or that I’ve read about on BoardGameGeek or Reddit and I’m zeroed in on a few games that I’m considering/wanting and I can be in and out fairly quickly. My middle-schooler will spend a couple of hours looking at every game if given the chance. A casual board game player like my wife would be absolutely overwhelmed unless I point her to one or two sections that I know she would like (Tanuki has a decent setup that doesn’t seem to be too overwhelming for casual players). it’s not in our budget for too many of these games per year, and I have a backlog, so it could be a few years before I catch up. I would bet many others are in the same boat.
  2. I wonder if you asked grok to define what “Western Civilization” is in context to Leon’s rants about it being destroyed, and if the answer would be “the ability to generate shitty AI anime porn for incels to jerk off to in their mom’s basement.”
  3. Cross-quoting? @Gatorubet but you should subscribe to this thread. I loved Broadside as a kid.
  4. So can Poland take Moscow by the end of November, or would it drag into December?
  5. AMC gets money to keep making decent stuff, and I can watch it on Netflix.
  6. In case it's ad-blocked. "pre-production" could mean a lot of things and if they started on sets in mid-July, and he was training, they were probably still a month away (or more) from actual filming. Training could literally be him getting in shape.
  7. Saw a news blurb that one of his employees was "crushed" in a new section of the tunnel they are digging under Vegas. Odd, it was late at night, took a crane and a bunch of EMS/firefighters to help get them out. The tunnel must be woke.
  8. Renewed for Season 4.
  9. Release the emails.
  10. By the way @Parliament this could be seen as a modern take on Red Storm Rising, and Hackett's Third World War and Team Yankee - it gets into day-by-day actions, ranging from infantry at the squad level all the way up to strategic missile launches. It's actually pretty decent. I've watched the episodes individually as they came out, but watched 15-20 minutes of the compilation above, and I gotta give the guy props for putting it together the way he did. I need to poke around his channel to see what game engine he used and how he did it. Season one - Russia rebuilt after losing in Ukraine, and after a coup of Putin in 2026. Season two - China going after Taiwan (Russia went into the Baltics, China goes after Taiwan to split US forces).
  11. Only the best manservants and proctologists who can examine you on the spot reside behind the dumpsters at the Hancock HEB. And if you're lucky, sometimes they are one and the same person.
  12. I'm guessing the golf course dude. edit: Covri beat me to it.
  13. I did peak at /r/conspiracy (pro tip: most of them are not serious and consider conspiracy theories to be fun things for them to make up and/or amplify) and yeah, Provo's airport was mentioned. Surprise, surprise, they had already pegged an airplane or two (tail numbers, owners, etc.) that left within an hour of Kirk being shot, that either had their transponders turned off enroute, or flew somewhere where the transponders didn't work, and then returned to the airport after just enough time to fly somebody out of state. Maybe they are college football fans who are experts in FlightTracker. The current favored theories are A) Mossad/Israel did it or B) It's to deflect from the Epstein business. As far as helping the shooter escape, A) the old man police arrested was a diversion and B) the shooter flew out of Provo. Mormons also entered the conspiracy conversation. So, if you heard any of those items I just mentioned coming from family members/co-workers/acquaintances, just remember, they probably got it 3rd-hand from a group of people who make up conspiracy theories for fun, just to see how far they can get them spread.
  14. Yep. I've already heard from multiple people I know/am related to, all about Kirk and what this all means and how this is bad or good for whichever side they are on or oppose. Two days ago, if I said the name "Charlie Kirk" to these people, they, knowing I like Star Trek, would have asked if that was Captain Kirk's brother (that's George "Samuel" Kirk Jr you simpletons) or dad (George Samuel Kirk Sr). But, social media makes them experts on somebody they didn't know existed or who had only heard about in passing 24 hours before. Charlie Strong was absolutely right about social media being the downfall of society.
  15. I had to look at /r/conspiracy Israel/Mossad did it because he had criticized them/was in danger of turning many on the right against Israel. It was a distraction from the Epstein stuff - the birthday card was the final straw The old man the police dragged away was a diversion to help the shooter escape. Planes flying out of Provo with transponders turned off. Thank you /r/conspiracy, never change.
  16. Nuts usually fuck up band paint a big target on their backs - look at the anti-abortion kook who assassinated the Minnesota politicians. Whoever did this was not some Navy SEAL or Army Special Forces/Delta sniper, but somebody who did think things through quite a bit and who obviously rehearsed it in some way, because he did it one shot. Pulling this off on a crowded college campus is no easy thing, even if he didn't have Secret Service looking for him immediately. This was far tougher than the dude who killed the UHC CEO.
  17. Ben Shapiro doesn't have the balls.
  18. No, it'll be longer than that, and somebody will probably try to keep it in the news for a bit. When/if they catch the shooter, then it will start to die down. Which takes me back to this - after watching the available videos a few times.. Given that the tent/canopy he was sitting under was not very tall and where he was located, that was a somewhat of a flatter trajectory than I originally thought - don't get me wrong, there was definitely some elevation there (and the campus has some dips and elevations around there, plus the building), but not as much as I would have thought to get in under the tent. And I definitely think they were shooting center mass and the elevation/angle of Kirk (and slight movement, there was some) meant it hit his neck. Edit: Just saw the video from the side view - he might have had a higher elevation than I thought. If he shot from the side, a more difficult shot, but he was shooting at his torso. The video of the shooter seems odd, because for somebody who pulled this off, it doesn't seem like they would have exposed themselves to potential discovery. Unless he was sure of himself and had rehearsed it and got in place and fired in literal seconds and then took off. The fact that they got away on a somewhat crowded campus meant they were probably moving while Kirk was still starting to fall over. They better catch the guy. There's no way somebody like that is going to have a list with only Charlie Kirk's name on it. I'm hating FB and all of the bullshit conspiracy theories about shadowy groups. This dude had to be a lone wolf, because the more people involved, the more likely somebody panics or fucks up.
  19. Is "Bidet" French for how you say "Manservant you hired from near the dumpsters behind the Hancock HEB to wipe your ass"?
  20. It's interesting that twitter is leaving up a shitload of videos of the shooting, which is pissing off a lot of people. I've seen calls for Musk to personally intervene and have them removed, all the while these people do not realize that views = money.
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