If you haven’t played StS: Downfall yet you should.

Tell me you don’t understand what either of those things are…

So is every single Palestinian parent.

I have wanted to play in a game of this since I first heard about it, but I’ve never managed to find a group for it.

I learned to play Fluxx from Andy Loony years ago. Awesome guy, funny as hell. Now I wanna find my old decks…

Edit: You ever make any Fluxx Blanks?

I’ve often thought that I am.

I find that I understand most of the things when I sit down and do a lesson or exercise, but the problem I have is that I don’t stick with it. The gulf between where I am and what constitutes useful programming feels insurmountable, and it drains the motivation right out of me until I wander off and forget all about it.

Control and punishment, most likely, with a side of indoctrination.

I will laugh my ass off if this moron actually takes the stand.

Just don’t play the “drink every time you catch him committing perjury” game; you will absolutely die of alcohol poisoning.

Cry me a river.

Better yet, Big Pharma, bleed me a river, full of the money you’ve gouged from the sick and the dying, of insulin profits and unpaid wages. Bleed until you fucking die, you inhuman parasites.

What, they’re not just gonna get Nolan North to do an impression?

My wife is the programmer.

Instead of a rubber duck, I gave her a plush frog for her desk.

To help her catch all the bugs.

“I Was a Teenage Exocolonist” continues to be an experience; I haven’t seen all 29 endings yet, partially because I can’t bring myself to screw over some of the characters in the ways I would need to to get some of them.

Admittedly, some things will never not be too soon.

I went through that whole thing waiting for – apparently – a Paragon option that never showed up, that would’ve managed to save them both. It kinda put me off the series.

People have already said two of mine (Aeris and Sarah), so I’ll go with a third:

“Had to be me. Somebody else might have gotten it wrong.”

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy thinks so. They rate Texas as the second most unfair taxation policy in the country, with the lowest 20% of incomes paying 13% of their income in taxes, over two percentage points higher than in California.

In fact the only ones who do better in Texas are – to the surprise of literally no one – the top 1%.

The only source I could find that tried to argue differently was The Tax Foundation, which is primarily founded by corporate interests including the Koch Brothers and has a history of advocating for right-libertarian economic policies.

No income tax but more overall taxes than California.

The new Zelda games are what solidified my hatred of durability. Oh look I finished this quest line and got a fancy sword that’s a reference to an older game! Time to put it on a shelf and never use it so it doesn’t explode and go away forever.

The one thing they could’ve done that would have made the whole thing tolerable was if the special weapons from your allies were unlimited. The Eagle Bow, the Boulder Smasher, etc. At least then you would always have one thing in whichever style you liked that you could just use without always worrying about. Instead those are the most expensive hardest to get weapons and they still have fucking durability. It just makes everything worse and every reward less rewarding.

Do huge fucking cliffs and invisible walls count as mechanics?

I know equipment durability does and that can fuck right off.

One thing I love is when the game mechanics are well grounded in the world. A recent good example of this was in Tears of the Kingdom; in one cutscene you actually see Zelda use the Purah Pad to fast-travel out of trouble just like you also can. It elevates it from a gaming conceit to something actually part of the world.

Yay! Another one for the cult of the most plushiest blood mage.

Ok… I’m hyped. Do we have a release date?

She really is exactly all of those things. I can’t even handle the cute.

Every time I play this game, I end up seduced by Merrill all over again. She’s just… so friggin’ cute.

I’m still ardently pro-youth and against exclusion even at almost 40; I would like to believe I’ll still be for age caps when I’m old. Like actual old. I know I’m already fuckin’ old. You know what I mean.

Because old people made the rules. It’s a lot easier to take from people who are excluded from voting than it is to get the guys who made the rules to give up their power.

I dig it!

You should totally do Cleric next. Everybody loves Cleric.

I would second !fubo with Hephaestus as god of automation.

Alternatively, Anansi the Spider, god of wordsmiths and, being a spider, innately associated with weaving. So if you need help weaving your words into functioning syntax… maybe he can help you out.

Damned if I know. It’s possibly the stupidest decision I’ve ever seen in a big name game. But yeah sometimes you’ll be walking around and just all of a sudden get obliterated out of nowhere and it was because you got mapped by an NPC rocket with damage tied to frame rate. There’s YouTube videos of people proving it works this way iirc; I know people used to post testing videos on R.

At least it’s not Destiny 2 where incoming damage is tied to frame rate such that the higher yours is the more damage you take.

If people weren’t ignorant there would be no red states.

I am so happy to find people like you here in fediverse. (I’m viewing this from kbin; not sure where you are; doesn’t matter! Here we are. It’s great.) I’ve been absolutely crucified on Reddit for posting pro-youth sentiments. It feels like most of society treats young people like dangerous aliens or something. So to find a friendly voice so quickly is really uplifting.

Good for them; hope it works.

There is not a single argument against lowering the voting age that holds water.

Try it for yourself: think of any argument against it. “But what if they…” fill in the blank. And then realize old people already do that and we don’t require them not to.

“They don’t understand the issues!” MF’er, do you? “The Issues” is such a vague, broad, and nebulous term that you could use this to argue that anybody who can’t reproduce your exact opinions on demand “doesn’t understand the issues.” And here’s the thing: you’re not required to. Old people can vote literally by throwing darts at a board and not be disenfranchised for it.

“They’ll just vote for a celebrity.” Young people didn’t have the vote when Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse “the Body” Ventura, or Donald fucking Trump got elected to office. Hell, old people elected former actor Ronald Reagan and 40-odd years later we still haven’t recovered from the damage he did to the country and probably never will.

“They’ll vote for whoever is good-looking.” Disregarding that literally nobody on earth is that shallow, young people didn’t have the vote when Kennedy got elected.

“They’ll vote for whoever their parents do.” One would hope so; that’s called “instilling values” and it’s something most families strive for.

“They’ll vote against whoever their parents do!” Disregarding that this is a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” logical-fallacy-circlejerk… one would hope so; that’s called “establishing your own identity” and it’s something most people should strive for.

And on and on. Every argument against lowering or even abolishing the voting age is like this. Either its a non-issue being made to sound like a catastrophe, or its something that old people already do and we don’t take away their rights for it.

Hey look it’s that thing where somebody says something on the internet so brick fucking stupid you can’t tell if you’re looking at an actual moron or a masterful satire.

This is just as useless as requiring people to be a certain age to access your web site. Everybody on the internet was born January 01, 1901 and everybody’s real name is Batman Bin Suparman until proven otherwise.

Also, the last thing we need is even more ways to exclude young people from society. I mean, who looks at young people and thinks “you know what would make this lonely, overworked, overstressed, hyper-regulated cohort better? MORE ISOLATION!” ?