Endymion_Mallorn

Careful, you might get mistaken for Thin Blue Line folks.

I mean someone who’s actually been featured in national news, and would be known across the country.

Find me a politician on the US national stage who isn’t funded by AIPAC.

Massie doesn’t count.

Well, that makes Fedora a distro I can marginally trust for now.

Warren Zevon - “Life’ll Kill Ya” & “My Ride’s Here”

My father’s death doesn’t hit me in my day-to-day life much. But there are moments it hits me. Dad and Warren weren’t close, exactly, but they were fellow-travelers and Dad worked the concerts at the Capital.

Mamoru needs to be there. Because when Usagi is in a rough place, it’s his job to save her.

*Hustle.

If voting actually matters, they won’t let you do it unless you’re going their way.

Yes, but are you surprised at SJG not being the top RPG? The media push after GURPS Cyberpunk has faded fully. If they’d stuck with Fallout, maybe it could change.

You know what? Gyromite and Stack-Up, the games made to be played with R.O.B. You play the robot. I don’t know many co-op multiplayer games on the NES. Maybe Chip & Dale, or Mario Bros. (not Super, the arcade game - though in 2025, I suggest Kaetekitta(sp?) Mario Bros., the rerelease). Bomberman might have cartoon violence, but I don’t think it’s going to scar a kid.

On SNES, there’s Secret of Mana if you want to try for depth. I forget if any of the sports games let you go co-op. Pocky & Rocky (and other cute 'em ups) might be fun too.

Actually, general suggestion, cute 'em ups. Cotton, Twinbee, Fantasy Zone, Air Zonk, and many of the Parodius incarnations (obviously Sexy Parodius notwithstanding).

With that avatar, I wonder why you might suggest that ;-)

So, is this going to be a wedge, along with Massie?

Yep.

Holy mackerel! A Republican actually doing what the party talks about, that’s a miracle. Can he run for President?

Neither. They’d cite a precedent for self-defense against a violent prisoner and claim that he was about to attack.

I could name so many tabletop RPGs for this. Unfortunately, since Hasbro has dominated the space like a generational pile of elephant dung for over 2 decades now, and TSR actually did manage to make a few smart marketing decisions before Dragon Dice and the bankruptcy, I guess I can’t be too shocked.

So I guess I’ll go with a board game. Tsuro - The Game of the Path. It’s super-simple to learn and play, can be interesting for kids and adults alike, and it’s just a really solid, fun, game. There’s even an iOS version. I don’t understand why it’s a niche game instead of being front-and-center ahead of Monopoly or Clue(do). It’s not even prohibitively expensive, honestly - the wholly valid argument against Carcassonne and other niche games. There’s no good reason I can think of why Ticket to Ride is more popular than Tsuro.

Half of it is the sunk cost. Half of it is the Clans. Plus, MW2 and forward have had multiplayer Mercs modes with lance-vs-lance combats. Why would most people want to play on tabletop when that exists?

Admittedly, there is something satisfying about a Jenner with every jet in the world and a single PPC making a jump, cooling down in midair, and landing directly on top of an enemy and doing major structural damage before leaping away.

Pringles cans work even better than toilet paper rolls, in my experience.

I think they realized that they won’t get the jurisdiction to bend on this one, and the general response from UK government will be “good riddance to bad rubbish”.

Quietly? My mother watches a lot of the shows, and it’s been pretty obvious that the “game show” elements are overtaking the cooking. The problem is that I’m certain the current shows are doing much better than straight cooking shows.