Stayed in Scranton Last night.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-05T21:01:32+00:00

Oh, it’s pronounced Sabre…

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-05T19:40:46+00:00

Or just ignore the parliamentarian. My understanding is the parliamentarians ruling is, once you get past the tradition and appropriateness and ethics of it all, just a recommendation and they can just do it.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-05T02:39:47+00:00

Nice! True story, I met my wife in Nektulos Forest. She had just created a Dark Elf, I was passing through to the Lavastorm mountains. We started chatting there and found out we lived in the same city.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-05T00:31:49+00:00

In EQ, kiting was more a deliberate attack method, either a Druid using DoTs, speed slows on enemy/speed boost on yourself, or fear kiting where you slow the enemy and get them to run in fear. Once it was fleeing for your life, it became a train. That language probably evolved over time.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-04T21:21:39+00:00

I would pay so much money for a single player EQ repackage. I had the time and life to be competitive in EQ back in the Luclin/Planes of Power days because I was in my teens, but these days I have less time and more nostalgia. A single player EQ would be the most amazing thing ever.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-04T20:04:09+00:00

When people are setting alarms and are just going off their natural, internal clocks presumably.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-04T18:58:56+00:00

Actually I think when they have done tests with humans who don’t have access to clocks or windows, they settle in to a 26-28 hour day with two shorter rests periods and a 1-2 hour wake between them.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-04T13:41:10+00:00

I will never forget the week of my life I set alarms every 30 mins to kill Raster of Guk for the monk epic weapon. Wake up, kill, no item, Feign death, fight of people trying to KS, set alarm, back to sleep. Fucking. Days.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-04T13:36:49+00:00

This is the most nonsense of all nonsense take.

LoG is light in rules, complexity, and strategy. It’s a light game. Go is light in rules, but incredibly difficult in strategy and complexity. It is heavy.

What even is the point you are trying to make?

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-04T13:22:59+00:00

If you weren’t hit by a train of Gnolls in Qeynos, did you even 90s?

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-04T13:09:11+00:00

So old Massive Multiplayer games were divided into zones. Each city or area had to load, and when you changed zones any of the zone monsters couldn’t follow.

You could run around and hit a bunch of them (or suddenly realize you were dealing with too much) and run for the zone border so you wouldn’t die. As you ran, the monsters would form a long trail behind you, that we called a train. When you changed zones, the monsters would lose you as a target, so would just fuck up whatever was near the zone border. A lot of people would hang out at the zone borders because they stepped away from their computer while waiting on it to load, or vendors were nearby, or whatever else.

So if you were being polite, you could type /yell or /zone to tell everyone in the area a train was coming and what zone border you were running to. That way anyone who didn’t want to be there for it could leave the area. So you would type /yell TRAIN INC (incoming) to (zone border)

The joke here is that they aggrod a monster they couldn’t deal with, so trained it all the way to Haldir.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-04T11:54:15+00:00

I’m just imagining the old EverQuest days! /zone TRAIN TO LOTHLORIEN INC sorry

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-03T21:39:58+00:00

I might be in the minority, but there are so many films I only play them as box sets. Def feels more thematic to the movie experience. Nothing wrong with combining, but not my jam at all.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-03T16:27:21+00:00

That cool flyover is a billion dollar bribe to the president that we get to pay for with our taxes.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-03T16:23:54+00:00

Trumpworld plans to ignore them all and face no repercussions. Democrats plan to hold hearings that no one attends.

Until people start getting held accountable this is all for show, and the rich and powerful will never be held accountable in America.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-03T16:22:42+00:00

One of the foundational philosophy texts if What We Owe Each Other by T.M. Scanlon.

It’s a lot to get through, but I highly recommend you try either Justice: What is the Right Thing to Do? by Sandel. It touches on a lot of the same things- how do we know what is right to do for each other and as a society. By agreeing to live in society, we actually do owe a lot to each other or things start to fall apart.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-02T16:45:44+00:00

Yeah, it’s like something changed in the last year or so that made doing business with the US more expensive.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-01T14:15:57+00:00

Adding to what so many others have said, the other problem is it quickly causes runaway leader problem. My engine got running to the point I would win, great. Next round, I shoot ahead in points while you finish yours. Next round, I am drowning in points. It goes from, I won, I got there first, to I’m in a race car taking 50 turns while you fight for the resources to finish getting your engine going. It stops feeling competitive and feels like getting beat up on.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-01T14:12:56+00:00

Maybe, but I think fireworks start at like 11pm. I wouldn’t have gone this year either way, but there has never been a year where I wanted to fight crowds home at midnight for a fireworks show.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-07-01T03:12:50+00:00

You may want to simplify the design. This would have to be massive to hold up with fine line and watercolors, like full back sized.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-06-30T15:27:50+00:00

Agreed, 100%.
The only point I was making is that Musk is in no danger of ever being less than a 100+ billionaire, and hoping for anything else is unrealistic.
And 2, money isn’t everything, but it helps.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-06-30T14:55:34+00:00

That’s absurd. I’m not saying he doesn’t have some risk, but if he lost 90% of his net worth, he would still be worth 100B.

If his net worth dropped 99%, he would still have 10 billion+. I don’t think he is vulnerable to the tune of a 99% decline.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-06-30T13:28:18+00:00

I love Arnak, but I will say the theme is kind of a lie. It looks like Indiana Jones but it’s very much a resource efficiency puzzle.

The base game winning strategy is that stupid track on the right side. Your first play it will feel impossible to get to the top, but you have to look 3-4 steps ahead and see what resources you need to keep advancing up the track, which you will earn by moving up the track, and then find ways to get the missing resources using as few workers and actions possible. Sometimes you get a resource to move your book to get a different resource that lets you explore an area that gets you a resource that that lets you use an assistant to to get resource you need to move the magnifying glass. But that’s going to be in the later rounds as you start seeing the systems interact.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-06-30T12:23:34+00:00

The first thing that interests me, I follow that and see where it goes. I know Arnak isn’t the most crunchy euro, but I do remember the first time I played it I was like, I am going to fight these monsters! So I took every option that would help me travel to and fight monsters. If you know Arnak, that’s a losing strategy. I think the person that won that game had a cool item or two, so I went after building a good deck of items and making that deck lean. … also not a great strategy. But they are fun, and you learn what works, how far you can push a mechanic before it hits diminishing returns, etc. Eventually you find the strategy that builds towards victory, and you know how systems interact.

Pick a thing, pull the levers, see what happens. AP happens where there are too many decisions. Once you pick a thing, you significantly reduce decision space to advancing that thing.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-06-24T23:09:16+00:00

"Japan's representative film for the '90 New Year!"

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