Endymion_Mallorn @ Endymion_Mallorn @kbin.melroy.org

Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.

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Yes, but that's a reasonable take, so it gets drowned out.

I'm okay, thank you for asking. Work was a little frustrating, but it will pass. My GF's life turned a corner, which makes me happy. And I saw Sonic. I'm not great, but today was a 'nice' day.

Tsuro is a very quick, Zen game. It's tile placement and stone movement.

Obviously if you don't like S.H., you probably won't like The Resistance or Avalon. But from the same publisher, there's Coup (a game of creative lying), and Grifters (an engine-builder made up of resource collection with a crime theme). I like them both and they're very quick.

I don't think Fluxx could lead to long term frustration, because it's just so wild.

Catan is a classic and it's never caused tempers in my group.

Hence why it has to be a huge, concerted effort. Quantity has a quality all its own.

Unfortunately, the only way to "take back" the spaces you're talking about is to go back to them and start flooding the channels. You'd have to bring enough people to overwhelm the current tones. Across MeWe, Facebook, Xwitter, you name it, you would have to go back and bring your voice to overwhelm what you perceive as other tones.

Brand? Bic.

Jinkies

Big guy like that must have BIG guts.

Does collaborative writing for fun count as games? The communities involved call them games, but there's no thoughts about control schemes or graphics, and no need to do anything outside your browser. That, chat, social media, reading (both for work and personal time), and the like take up the bulk of my PC time.

Totally agree with this. It's part of why I dislike that DC writers sometimes import traits from the Watchmen into their Charlton counterparts. Obviously, if you scratch the surface of Rorschach, you find the Question staring back. If you look at Silk Spectre the right way, you see Black Canary. Nite Owl 1 & 2 are the Blue Beetle (I'm glad that Moore never got to adapt Jaime).

I want most of my superheroes to be clean and honest. I want to know that when I read a story, the Question follows leads responsibly (even if they do sometimes involve aglets) - whether that's Vic or Renee under the no-face. I want to know that Dinah Lance comes from a loving family, has a man she loves and trusts, and is dedicated to being a hero and a mentor to those who aren't in the same place. And so it goes for all of them. I want those characters to be heroes and in the right - or at least, in the realm of responsibility.

A dying old man yes, but no less an evil bastard for it. The problem is that Rorschach was deluded by Ozymandias. The evidence he had about the death of a friend pointed to Moloch. He pursued the lead. And like any human, he got angry because someone he'd respected had been murdered and thought he had a lead on the murderer. And the murderer was someone who'd killed in the past.

Ozymandias was wrong.

He wanted power over a world scared of an "outside" threat that didn't exist. As soon as anyone with any knowledge was able to debunk the 'attack', regardless of how, it would get even worse. The difference was only how far in the future. Rorschach didn't die because Ozy was right. He died because he couldn't be complicit in a world where evil got to win.

Ozymandias wanted to believe a heroic ideal as much as Rorschach - one that's just as self-deluded. He wanted to believe that there was an end to "history". He wanted to decide when the future began. But he forgot just one fact that Rorschach at least was cognizant of:

Nothing ever ends, Adrian.

None of those characters were right.

I now have even more reasons to go into Costco if it crosses a Teamsters picket.

Not the Boo Box!

They had to have meant Space Marines.

I don't know where you are in the USA, but in my area, home-school kids are tested the same as the kids in the classrooms, and if they fail, they're put back in a remedial classroom.

That keeps the real troublemakers out of the classroom, and reduces the student:teacher ratio. I'm honestly struggling to see anything resembling a downside here.

Sorry, old terminology strikes again. I call any thin portable computer without an ODD or FDD a netbook; because all the damn things are good for is getting on the Internet. My actual laptop, I've had to do physical modding to the case to give it an ODD (and it still uses a USB port because of laziness).

Very much the opposite. The only broken USB port I've ever had was a USB-C port for a netbook charger.