Anthony Damiani

Oh, yeah, right after he finishes the last two books in the first series.

Yeah, but there you were only optimizing for the PS2. Now you do a big launch you need PS5, XboxS XboxX (an unfortunate split that undercuts the ability to tune), maybe Switch2 and a range of PC specs simultaneously. Steam Box might get added as another specific testing point, but it’s a *lot*.

Demonstrating that Republicans could break with him and survive was a big part of his lame duck vibe the last few weeks. MTG’s resignation seems to restore the prior status quo, no?

No way! In my house, we celebrate the holidays in order! I’m not putting my Black Friday decorations until *after* Prime day, nit a week beforehand.

Tell us about your character!

TN-7, right?

Cf: Whitmer’s career-ender.

I’m all for dismantling the imperial presidency, but our elections are conducted nationally. It dies is no good to apply done kind of post-hoc points system to randomly give voters extra votes based on where they live and what buckets they’re placed into.

I think this is pretty unfortunate, even acknowledging that she’s still awful. Her staying weakened him — evidenced that you could break with him and get away with it.

What’s the absolute tightest you can get the core gameplay down to?

(I’ve seen Fate Accelerated fit on a literal bookmark)

It’s interesting how different the reaction here is to Gretchen Whitmer, who went in with basically the same objective (talk nice to Trump, blow some smoke to protect her constituents), got ambushed by using her as a prop, and it essentially ended her political career.

How crunchy are you making this?
That probably determines what you can parse out.

The PbtA/Blades space does some solid work with one core (digest size with everything), a quick-access core mechanics sheet and a per-class (playbook) handout you can print 1/player with their personal mech stuff.

Oh, gosh. I was so happy when the industry went to ‘just one core book’ from the old multi-book days. I’ll always love a boxed set for nostalgia purposes, but the booklets proved *harder* to carry and keep together.

(DnD’s three-tome core is a bit of an outlier, now and then.)

“That could be anyone!”

Even if you were capable of wearing all the hats, over 18,000 games landed on Steam last year— the success of any of the Indy titles is a crapshoot.

How different do you think pop culture would actually be?

I grant a butterfly effect that shuffles the details is likely, but it obscures the movie’s premise if the entire canon of 60s music is swapped out for a similar-sounding but largely different set of songs and artists.

There was no ‘pop into existence anew’. The divergence, such as it was, wasn’t ‘these guys were never born’ it was ‘these guys never formed The Beatles.’

Yes, we are meant to assume the others lived different lives. But John is the most dramatic because of his early, violent death in our history.

I think people feel there’s an exception for showing AI being bad — funny, yes, but failing and horribly corrupted into sycophancy by the whims of its owner, fundamentally contemptible all around.

But still: the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house, and all that. Should not use.

I think the film wants us to believe that his plan would have been bad *as stated*, rather than bad because he couldn’t deliver.

Yeah, but, uh… that was pretty specifically why *Vance* was in that room.

Cool. But we’re *so* far from building dense, walkable housing for the ~40% who say they want it, why are we getting stuck in an argument about them not being 90%?

I think this is an unnecessary extension of the argument. If we removed the de facto subsidies for sprawl many more people would choose to live in denser environments.
How many? How much denser?
Can’t say with precision.

It’s not zero.

This looks like more of a generic time travel story to me?

Does that really save you? I thought the way the Situation works, taking out the Ottomans would pass the Rise of the Turks to the next most powerful Beylik?

They governed by taking a series of ‘popular’ right-of-center social policy stances.

This pleased absolutely no one and moved the Overton window to the right, while alienating the very voters who had put them into power to be an antidote to years of Conservative governance.

My understanding was that there were still issues getting services like Tidal to play through niche applications— for me, that’s getting music in Discord via Euphony for use during my RPG sessions.

It’s like Google. Sure, Google Reader was killed and Google+ and Stadia and Hangouts and Poly and Wave and Knoll and a hundred others.

Occasionally you make an Android (or, ah, an *android*) and that pays for the rest of it. We just don’t see movies about their successful shipping business.

The NYT headline writers really not beating the rap.

Partly it was that initial Cubs/Sox thing. But I think it’s also part of how Americans specifically are dealing with a Pope who is from our cultural context.

I’m kinda coming to accept it’s a *next* Wednesday kind of book.