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Congratulations to all the Texans who will now be able to enjoy as many McFlurrys as their hearts desire.

We're reaching the end of the AAA-studio system as it buckles under its weight and the AA and indie studios continue to run laps around them producing higher quality games at a fraction of the cost and much higher overall job satisfaction.

Well, I was responding to someone talking about poor balance in what, I think at least at the time, was a reference to 5e. I agree that 5e is the most balanced version of D&D. Especially the 2024 version. That's a really low bar, and one it doesn't clear by a lot, but I definitely think it's...

What do you want him to say? The man has a voracious appetite for set dressing.

Well, you've already discovered the one thing Civ VI definitively has over its predecessors: you can play it on the go. If you compare it to Civ IV one-to-one you'll walk away disheartened, but if you have that itch for "one... more... turn...", and if you're a Civ fan you absolutely do, it's...

I suppose you have a point there. Far be it for me to badwrongfun somebody else. It's an approach to TTRPGs that is, frankly alien to me, and runs counter to the spirit what I feel the potential of the genre, but I also can't deny that it has a major role in the history of the genre

Torn between the anarcho-capitalists and the buddhists????

I mean, definitely the Revolutionary League, with shades of Bleak Cabal.

"the good die young and pricks live forever" - Lewis Black

That's entirely fair. But then, the same is also true for you.

I guess this is kind of my point. It's a personality problem, not a game design problem. There's a lot of memes about "inventing a person to be mad at"... this feels a lot like inventing a person to be concerned about. A person who truly cares about how much they are contributing are much more...

I will say that, at least anecdotally, I have only seen the number of people playing TTRPGs going up and up

I will say, the one thing I don't get and probably never will is this idea that you shouldn't/can't have optimizers and non-optimizers in the same group. It all ties into this idea that every PC should be balanced... I just don't get it? It's not only okay but specifically designed to make some...

Oh course, I will take those sculptures for a pittance of coin and a luxury good I have five copies of, why thank you