Scarred Muldoon

silver linings

I wouldn’t risk it.

On fire today

This is true, but during a lot of his writing periods there were paper shortages as well, so sometimes the need to use whatever was at hand was even more acute.

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Clutching my dymaxion globe, rocking back and forth

Big Tolkien Energy - wrote Lord of the Rings so he could build out his Elf languages.

The old one is never coming back.

I think we have to seriously consider that this government may be shutdown permanently. Until we get a new one.

In the dawn of time I had long hair and wore a trenchcoat in the winter. One of my work colleagues called me Silent Bob. The Dibs part comes from abbreviating my bachelor name. SilentDibs was my handle for the Gmail beta, back when you had to get invited.

Realized five minutes later it should be Mawlon but whatever.

777 followers? Is that anything?

Mawlin Brawndo?

Happy Sunday. Have a snack. (Not me, a different snack.) 🤭

I mean, it wouldn’t be Cataclysm if we didn’t sell you the rope…

The game’s framework is much simpler than that and we actually abstracted out most of the economy. However if you are a Hawk power you can commit Force to conflicts - but failure creates Disorder at home. You can suppress it but if it boils over the result is catastrophic.

Sorry, the what now?

We also don’t have a counter for the Epstein files 🤷🏻‍♂️

You can’t imagine what it’s like to help design a geopolitical game that has to account for [waves arms in every direction]

We should talk, man!

I should finish that Vassal module…

People. He’s just going to do it. Like every other illegal thing he is doing right now. The justification will never matter.

CATACLYSM: NEW WORLD ORDER (1990-2049), even higher scale and much faster playing than its older cousin. The UK disk is a “regional power” which costs the EU a VP for existing independently in its homeland. The meeple is an EU “Force”.

Some tweaks from testing, some rules tightening… I think we have to learn to play the game better 😅 we are making low-risk moves instead of fighting the most important threats. 2P remains quite fun, but I want to play more multi.

We lose in the 2030s with a second failed state in Oceania.

Fucking Brexit.

That game ended when a second failed state arose in West Africa. New game - we’ve made it to the 2020s with a near-US/EU hegemony but the wheels are coming if. Central and South America are slipping away; Russia controls the Middle East; India is coming apart at the seams.

End of the 2000s… China’s bid for Africa is stymied. EU has cleaned house through draconian measures but Russia uses the opportunity to secure its sphere of influence through force. India files biding its time. The US struggles to stay on top. Current scores: US 10, RU 9, CH 6, EU 5, IN 3

Another test of CATACLYSM: NEW WORLD ORDER the West is the onetime from disorder. China’s influence in Se Asia grows. A failed state arises in South Africa and the UN intervenes.