Silentio

That movie is very Crusader Kings-core

ngl that’s the one I would want to read

"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman 1998

Same vibe (and he was correct)

boring answer, but I gotta hand it to de Gaulle

Forces of DuPage Liberation Front Envelop City; Fall of Chicago Declared “Imminent, if Maritime Supply Routes Cut Off”

It’s funny how 90% of the time renegade choices boil down to “do the thing, but rudely”, except here where the PC gets to commit genocide

Looking at vintage game prices now makes me wish I had spent all of my pocket money on them ten years ago

ironically the genre that I find holds my interest less as I get older is grand strategy

now it’s a McKinley fetish

One aspect of this is that it’s become way more common for adults to vacation with their parents

The futurists must have been the most annoying guys you could imagine

Millenials react to internet restrictions the way boomers react to car restrictions, and for the same reason

Our earliest surviving Valentine's letter in English is from 1477

Orwell wrote a great essay on King Lear and Tolstoy

The IDEAL Captain of the Pinafore
-commands a right good crew
-related to a peer
-can hand, reef, and steer
-can ship a salvagee
-never known to quail at the fury of the gale
-never never sick at sea

It isn’t, but they can’t all be winners

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Thingol’s Country Fried Petty-dwarf

My first experience of the Muppets was watching their cover of Kokomo on a VHS at my grandparents’ house

the wispy remains of Deviantart still float through the internet

I see some people using Côte d’Ivoire. Actually, I think being an obscure country helps in this case.

When I was in college a decade ago, a woman in the publishing industry came to campus and told us an anecdote about a writer approaching her about “Christian erotica”.

So this doesn’t particularly surprise me.

“We need the Protocols but woke”

Reminds me of when Victoria 2 called classical radicals “Anarcho-liberals” for some baffling reason

What other trek have you seen?

I was about to say, this happened to me in Germany and it was the worst dining experience in my life

EGOT represents shrinking legacy media to a large extent. I would guess since those pools are getting smaller you get more overlap in the people working in them

drey you NEED to play The Last Days for Warband

That impulse is correct btw

Surely this is one of the main reasons why so many are unwilling to abandon X for Bsky (not to say that this place’s dweebiness isn’t a real problem)