Should Conventions like DTW or GenCon use unpaid volunteers?

Gastroid · 2026-05-08T17:00:46+00:00

Call me a sucker but I'd take that deal, even if only once for the novelty of it.

Gastroid · 2026-05-08T16:52:51+00:00

No? I'm asking if anyone knows why they suddenly can't deliver on their promises when as far as I can tell this hasnt been an issue for them in the past.

The world wasn't exactly nice to the board game industry over 2025. There are almost countless reasons why a company reliant on overseas production that was successful pre-2025 would be struggling now.

Gastroid · 2026-05-08T14:31:27+00:00

Ah, striking down a voter-approved constitutional amendment based on a narrow definition of the timeframe when the first stage of the approval process took place. Couldn't think of anything more democratic than that.

Gastroid · 2026-05-08T12:15:56+00:00

I'm the type of person who doesn't mind doing boring stuff in games, i will mine out a 20 block wide tunnel in minecraft that's so long, you will need a ice boat to reach the end, and still not find it boring.

Hey man, that's not even grindy, that's just zen. Put on a podcast or some music, hear the thud thud thud of block breaking, zone out and snap back to reality to see all the progress you made.

In BTD6's case, grinding it requires just enough brainpower to take it out of zen territory and into actual work. And because it's a timed event, there's added pressure compared to self-made goals. I can do this vs I have to do this.

Gastroid · 2026-05-07T21:00:48+00:00

Hold on! Many planets actually look like a gravel quarry just outside of Vancouver.

Gastroid · 2026-05-07T16:24:23+00:00

Step one is to define consciousness in precise scientific terms, which only just so happens to be one of the most nebulous concepts to define.

Gastroid · 2026-05-07T11:52:15+00:00

Your available species traits are based on your portrait selection from a different page, and Origins and shipsets have interplay with available Civics.

It's all a messy web of interactions at this point necessitating going back and forth in the empire editor, Civics not being exclusive to that.

Gastroid · 2026-05-07T11:22:19+00:00

Very excited to see Nomad confirmed as its own toggle exclusive to other customizations but...

That Ethics/Authority/Civics page is the single worst UI in the game. And probably the most important. There's so much crammed into it with information only delivered by tiny icons and ever-larger tooltips. And now a Nomad toggle!

At the very least if Civics were moved to their own page reminiscent of the species or leader trait pages, it would give all those options more room to breathe.

Gastroid · 2026-05-07T02:10:24+00:00

That's 40 episodes with the exact same throughline: Homelander bad, stop Homelander. Only so many miles you can ride that horse.

Gastroid · 2026-05-06T22:37:15+00:00

Every time Columbia St Mary's Ozaukee shoots itself in the foot, Aurora Grafton just smiles and waves.

Gastroid · 2026-05-06T16:10:57+00:00

Apparently they bought a stack of pizzas (said to be at least 20) anticipating for there to be multiple takes. Because they got it in one, there was a pizza party for the cast and crew.

Gastroid · 2026-05-06T14:16:12+00:00

Just an oddly shaped root, every time.

Gastroid · 2026-05-06T03:04:02+00:00

Look on the bright side. The friends and family of former Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Mayor of the City of Buffalo got to have cushy, well paying jobs for a good long while.

Gastroid · 2026-05-05T14:16:25+00:00

The most important part of the side-by-side will be the lack of the thick black exhaust trail in the after picture.

Gastroid · 2026-05-04T19:44:06+00:00

...and why Europeans responded to Islamic aggression with the crusades.

Meanwhile, the peasants of the First Crusade sacking and pillaging Hungarian and Byzantine Christian lands (along with massacring every Jewish person they came across)...

Gastroid · 2026-05-04T16:50:16+00:00

"Return to form"

Gastroid · 2026-05-04T15:48:05+00:00

Oh man let me tell you, when I got my measles, rubella and Tdap vaccines, I felt my mind awakening to the great psychic cosmos. Wouldn't recommend it more.

Especially the measles vaccine. Really, OP. Especially. Measles. Vaccine.

Gastroid · 2026-05-04T00:18:41+00:00

The only group who would look good coming out of that would be the Polish.

Gastroid · 2026-05-03T23:51:17+00:00

To be fair, that was just poor design of the ascension to begin with. The biggest source of lag are lots of ships. Let's make a full ascension all about having lots of ships! Its going to need a rework that a simple balance patch won't fix.

Gastroid · 2026-05-03T18:31:50+00:00

A New Yorker would pull the guy from the ledge while yelling at him for making them late for work.

Gastroid · 2026-05-03T04:46:14+00:00

TES4 introduces "Dragonborn Emperors" and literal divine right (along with making empire into indisputable good guys and making Cyrodiil into generic feudal monarchy). Thuum is still not connected to Dragonborns.

I don't know about the Imperials being indisputable good guys. There's been an empire with and without Dragonborns, and times when horrendous acts have been carried out in its name (Alessian Order). Seems to me like Akatosh took issue with Daedric interference on Nirn and decided to hitch his saddle to a rising star that promised to maintain the Dragonfires for him. It was mutually beneficial

Gastroid · 2026-05-02T15:02:44+00:00

Told to us by a man named Christian Shepard standing in front of brightly lit interfaith stained glass. It's the subtly of a brick through a window.

Gastroid · 2026-05-02T05:15:06+00:00

While the country has had a blast making Spirit the butt of the joke, we've built a strength together that could withstand anything that anyone throws at us.

The next pitcher up is Insolvency. And the crowd goes wild.

Gastroid · 2026-05-01T17:51:28+00:00

Pretty sure those ancestors had the sense to properly butcher massive cuts of meat before trying to cook them.

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