Went to the UK Games Expo over the weekend. Was even more crazy busy than last year. Played some fun games with old friends, acquired some more (my shelf space is running somewhat low) and saw some good comedy shows. Good times.

I would imagine public opinion on this fluctuates a fair bit and is higher in the aftermath of a well publicised and heinous crime. Speaking as someone who just fits into the gen x bracket I think that, were the death penalty ever reintroduced, I would do everything possible to leave the UK.

Picked up a copy of this at the last Dragonmeet. Thought of combining it with Pirate Borg.

It became the only possible destination for them when they started to persecute a minority and subscribed to biological essentialism in order to justify it and whipped up a moral panic to sustain it.

Won't happen. What is interesting to see is the GOP representatives racing to prostrate themselves before their orange overlord, all dignity fully abandoned.

As the Trump administration systematically removes the rights of all women the TERFs will cheer because, somewhat ironically, they're actually misogynists.

Possibly, but it will be much harder for her to defend herself against a true accusation with Frankie's weight behind it. She'll have to keep lying convincingly and I'm not sure she can keep it up. Could be wrong. Of course they won't know the identity of banished players in the final.

First game of Clank in Space. Won by a single point, and the person in third place lost by a single point.

As games go, kind of close.

Grampa Simpson: MY ELON IS NOT A NAZI HE MAY BE A LIAR, AN IDIOT, A PEDOPHILE, A NAZI BUT HE IS NOT Á PORN STAR!

And America installs a fascist clown show administration once more. Only real question is whether they'll ever get the option to uninstall it.

It seems odd that the problem they have with it is its position within the book.

For years RPGs have included sections about GMing and how best to run a game where everyone is comfortable. Having an option to clarify what the campaign is about and what themes will be covered seems only sensible.

Trump has pressed fake nuclear button CIA gave him eight times this week DONALD Trump has pressed the large fake red button that the CIA told him would set off nuclear weapons eight times this week.

Hopefully they can get the new fake nuclear button set up by tomorrow: www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/war/tru...

I mean it's sort of woo woo stuff but it's hardly controversial. Hollywood peeps are frequently up to much weirder stuff than that. Just look at Tom Cruise.

Think it'll mostly pass unnoticed.

Um... probably not.

So I haven't quite yet nuked my Facebook account (it'll happen) and occasionally scroll through my feed and can't fail to notice how the bizarre AI generated videos that spring up everywhere are now authentic ads for actual products. It sort of feels like reality is collapsing on the platform.

I'd like to see that to be honest.

Starmer seems to have done anything he can to alienate progressives in an attempt to win over the centre right. In the longer term this seems to be a losing strategy, since the Tories and Reform are simply going to be better at winning this group over. Effectively he's hollowing out the party.

Also he's apparently paying people to play Diablo 4 and Path of Exile for him, so if that's the case he's not even good at competitive gaming...

So I've literally just reached the point where I recruit Ulfar on to my crew. The voice acting by yourself and the rest of the cast is fantastic in this game, as is the writing. Going to end up doing a second play through for sure.

...yet here we are. Personally I think that we're in for four years of increasingly strained relations between the US and pretty much every nation within their geopolitical orbit (which is pretty much all other nations).

GOP representatives are saying whatever they think will please the MAGA crowd as they are entirely ethically flexible. The very idea that a president elect would even joke about invading a neighbouring country in a public forum would have seemed inconceivable a couple of US administrations ago...

Great Western Trail New Zealand. Of the three versions of Great Western Trail (or four if you count both editions of the base GWT) this seems the heaviest and the biggest change from the original game. Not sure that it's my favourite, but it does have the most setup and gameplay options.

Left wing purity politics can be a problem. I've encountered it myself in conversations that have got unnecessarily heated. the thing is though, I don't think that many people will have experienced it themselves. What people will have been more likely to witness is the right wing exaggerating it.

...see progressivism as something that's driven large swathe of voters to the right (as an aside I'm now remembering how annoying character limits are why typing stuff on social media platforms).

...economy, but for those voters it's clear that progressives fighting for trans rights was never the central issue anyway.

I do think that there are some sections of the left that are somewhat out of touch on certain issues (tankies mainly), but I think it's folly to think that it's folly to...

I'm not really sure what the left did that could be as off-putting to the centrist swing voters as MAGA propaganda. Some people found pronouns a bit irksome but putting that next to pushing for mass deportations.

I know that a lot of people voted Trump in the belief he'd be better for the...

...over if we listened to their complaints and took them seriously but the reality is that when someone's complaints amount to get rid of all the immigrants and repress LGBTQ people more you'll never give them what they want unless you basically become Trump.

We'd still have significant far right disinformation. We just wouldn't have had anyone loudly opposing it; just liberals hoping they could reason people out of it (they can't). The JP rant here is the same as it was in 2016; that somehow MAGA voters - like Brexiters - could be placated and won...

It's a lot of fun. Gameplay wise I find it somewhat similar to Terraforming Mars, despite the rather different (and possibly more appealing) theme, since your actions are driven by your hand of cards which are all unique and you're collecting sets of icons.