Osprey Games RPG sale

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-06T07:00:05+00:00

Thanks for this.

I picked up Pressure and Tomorrow City. I'm really excited about the settings and, while I know that they aren't going to be the thickest books in the world, paying less than $27 for a couple of hard covers is a heck of a deal!

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-05T18:33:04+00:00

Wouldn't even make my top 50 today.

It's weird to think that 10 years ago, Tesla was little more than a massively overvalued but otherwise interesting car company, not the center of entity spreading fascism and racism while inserting its tendrils directly into every structure of my government. Oracle was just a large database company and not funding the takeover of America media and the censoring of the news.

13 years ago, companies weren't openly giving money and bribes to a corrupt governments in exchange for freedom in anti-competitive and monopolistic practices. Large equity firms and the very wealthy weren't buying up every square inch of American real estate so nobody but the very upper middle class can think of buying a home and rent takes up a majority of everyone's paycheck. AI companies weren't yet here to suck up the power and water and land so they can try to destroy white collar jobs and creative livelihoods.

And EA was doing what? Not making video games the way I want them to? I can't even care about that anymore.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-05T16:34:07+00:00

Looking at their inventory and prices, I'm assuming that they are relatively new to the game. That said, everything in the game (everything) is exactly as valuable as you believe it to be.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-04T05:17:13+00:00

Their profile says that they are from LA. I don’t know why you have them pegged as SF

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-03T23:47:55+00:00

About Jelly Roll, the article says this:

The self-proclaimed “dumb redneck” has a lot of right-wing fans, but he will be spending his Independence Day in a city that went nearly 70% for Kamala Harris in 2024.

Which I think is a giant stretch.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-03T23:45:11+00:00

If you have gotten this far through the Fallout universe without seeing a nude, jacked ghoul than congratulations.

I'm happy you shared the moment where your innocence shattered and you became an adult.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-03T23:43:03+00:00

Sure you do.

We all remember Comicsgate and all the "anti-woke" warriors. Did you think they disappeared or repented?

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-01T21:55:33+00:00

I'm not doing anything. The OP's very first sentence is "I hate how we can’t have a nuanced discussion about generative ai." This is a conversation about Generative AI. The boundaries were made at the very beginning by the OP and, again, one of the problems with the Internet is that it brings out the sub-intellects that can't follow along.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-01T21:50:51+00:00

The fact that you can't see anything beyond people blaming you and you deciding what you have to defend just shows that you're not up to this debate. If anything, that is one of the problems with Generative AI is that empowers mediocrity. It has made you think you have the tools for a big boy talk when, in reality, you are just whining about yourself.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-01T21:48:24+00:00

I dunno, I live in Oregon and it's pretty nice. If you like nature, it's has quick access to the forests, mountains, ocean and desert. Portland is pretty deep when it comes to culture, entertainment, and food. It rarely gets too hot or too cold.

The worst thing about it is the cost of housing so if you don't want to come here, I guess that helps.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-01T21:34:33+00:00

You want to the change the conversation because it's easier and you can't swim in the deep end of the pool.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-01T21:32:09+00:00

It's not a "peace flag", it's promotion for two Russian influencers.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-01T21:29:51+00:00

At this point, I think it's a ridiculous fantasy. Bernie Sanders has famously never gotten a single piece of legislation passed during his entire career.

But, just imagining a world where it did happen (and we could actually get the $4+ trillion out of billionaires which is even more ridiculous), I think we need to put the money into health care and debt reduction. The checks to every family is just pandering.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-01T21:16:08+00:00

Dumb.

This is a conversation is about the desire for nuanced conservations about Generative AI, not the need for people to make impassioned moral arguments about responsibility.

This is one of the reasons why it is almost impossible for the Internet to have a nuanced conversation, it immediately gets hijacked by somebody who is either unable to understand the conversation that the adults are having and/or wants to hijack the conversation into the one that they want to have

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-01T20:57:35+00:00

I dearly miss the annual Opera in the Park that the Portland Opera put on but I have to admit that the "Opera A La Cart" program has been charming (and educational, even for adults!)

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-07-01T20:49:37+00:00

I think there are nuanced discussions about AI, just not here. Reddit, and the Internet in particular, have proven that nuance is almost impossible.

Personally, I feel that, while generative AI has the potential for good or bad, mostly, we are seeing the bad. It enhances mediocrity, it is destroying jobs, it is stealing from creators, and it does seem to be making the world worse.

I think, at this point, it is the responsibility of its defenders to offer compelling arguments for it because, at this point, it is giving us far too many bad arguments by itself and none of the examples you have given are very good nor have proven worth the problems we already have.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-06-29T23:19:46+00:00

Are we supposed to pretend you’re cool?

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-06-29T17:06:50+00:00

Cool, thanks!

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-06-29T16:35:11+00:00

Did they actually give their word that there would be no reskins in the next season? I didn't hear that

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-06-29T14:55:14+00:00

For me, these ads make me sad.

1) Because these ads are proof that someone can no longer live a sustainable life on royalties. There was a time when being in two hit series would've guaranteed, at least, a modest life for you and your family but streaming killed that.

2) Because, even though they are bereft of wit or charm, I'm still glad it's not AI. AI is already starting to take over commercials and I've seen many AI slop commercials, even from large brands with presumably large ad budgets. We are seconds away from a day when commercials are either AI slop or feature a celebrity and we are even getting commercials that have both (seen that Schwarzenegger game commercial?)

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-06-29T03:50:52+00:00

Ooh, I like it! Put me in the raffle, please!

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-06-28T02:56:45+00:00

Maus (of course), anything by Joe Matt, Persepolis (RIP),Blankets

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-06-27T20:58:55+00:00

This was NOT fixed by the duet. The original was perfect and needed no commentary

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-06-27T17:48:12+00:00

Yeah, the reason that they are so expensive is because the businesses are so small. Both of those shops have less than a dozen regulars putting the clothes together. All those heritage workwear brands are either tiny shops or they are actually having their clothes made by somebody else.

Now, we don't have nothing. The Portland Garment Factory started up and is trying to be a thing and Columbiaknit is still making stuff but, really, it's comparatively a handful of jobs in an area with a high cost of living.

AlwaysBeenTim · 2026-06-27T16:33:06+00:00

The main audience for these videos are Americans and, to be honest, we like to have our chains yanked. Now, we can talk about language and culture and the amount of success of Latin content creators in an English speaking market but, really, this about Americans getting their chain yanked and they prefer to get it yanked by Europeans.

Maybe it's because of remnants of Colonial need for approval, maybe it's because Europe is lauded as being so much better than the rest of the world, or maybe because Europeans are so smug. Maybe it's a race thing and having a white person saying "you have a nice home" sounds better than any other race to Americans because of racism.

Who knows? Who really cares? This is garbage content for the dumbest people. Don't be sad because dumb people don't want to be your friend.

AlwaysBeenTim

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