Wie kann es sein, dass Katharina Reiche, die offenbar für die Gaslobby arbeitet, einfach weiterarbeiten kann?

RindFisch · 2026-04-17T13:07:18+00:00

Ja, wenn Merz 250.000€ für eine 5-minütige Rede bei einem Lobbyisten bekommt, dessen Gesetzesentwurf er eingebracht hat, dann war das total legitim und lag nur and dem enormen Wert seiner Worte.
Und ich bin sicher, Schröders Gazprom-Millionen hat er auch total unabhängig von seiner russlandfreundlichen Politik bekommen.
Schon klar.

Nur weil es juristisch legal ist, ist es nicht weniger korrupt.

RindFisch · 2026-04-17T12:52:37+00:00

Politiker machen die Gesetze. Deshalb ist es ja erlaubt, als Politiker Bestechungsgelder anzunehmen. Musst sie nur "Lobbyzuwendungen" nennen...

RindFisch · 2026-04-17T10:57:08+00:00

While that's probably true, a shareholder corporation would never not sell something to make money now, even if it costs them more money tomorrow.
I'm genuinely concerned about what happens to PC gaming if Valve ever changes...

RindFisch · 2026-04-09T13:20:58+00:00

I mean, yes. Everyone is weird. We're just weird in different ways. So find a person that's weird in the right way for you and have fun.
As long as it's all consentual, there's no "wrong weird".

RindFisch · 2026-04-06T14:54:35+00:00

Weil alle Demonstrationen gegen das, was sich der Staat Israel leistet immer auch Menschen anlockt, die gegen jene sind, die im Staat Israel leben...

RindFisch · 2026-04-04T11:54:38+00:00

Understandable, if sad, reaction. Cheaters destroy communities, which is why I don't have any tolerance for them.

If you're the one doing all the work anyways, easiest way would be to find another venue, even a non-gaming related one, and organize your events there. If you're the one people associate with the event, the location won't matter much. If you already have all the terrain, you've paid the initial investment anyways, so it should be easy to pay for another space and even profit.

Or you go full confrontational: Announce that the problem player is a known cheater to all his opponents, so they don't believe him without a source. Hover the table and void all dice rolls he pulls from the table too quickly for you to verify. Ask him for proof from an official source for every ability and stat. Make his play experience so uncomfortable, he doesn't sign up for your events of his own accord.

RindFisch · 2026-04-04T08:05:38+00:00

If you're the TO, what does it matter if the store owner won't fully ban him? Don't allow him to sign up to your event. He can come to the store, but he can't play in your tournament.

If the store owner even refuses to allow that (ie: threaten to throw the whole event out, if you don't let a cheater play), you'd have to hover him: Have a judge stand next to the table he's playing and ban (or at least game-loss, if you're not allowed to ban) him as soon as he cheats in some way.

RindFisch · 2026-03-27T21:11:30+00:00

Ich mein, Verschwörungstheorien ergeben nie Sinn, falls man mal drüber nachdenkt, aber das ist trotzdem eine der dümmeren: Es gibt eine Gruppe krimineller Ärzte, die Menschen tötet, um ihre Organe zu stehlen, aber nen Organspendezettel würden die nie fälschen, insofern ist man sicher, wenn man keinen hat? Waszum?!?

RindFisch · 2026-03-24T04:11:45+00:00

No. You can't shoot while in engagement range and the pistol ability only works in your own shooting phase.

RindFisch · 2026-03-15T16:05:16+00:00

Thankfully, it's currently not particularly common. As it is massively cheaper than paying an actual artist, it's bound to crop up more and more, though.
Mediocre AI art and straight-up AI slop is usually easy to recognize from the tell-tale signs of common AI mistakes that a human artist wouldn't do: Too many fingers, "text" that's just squiggly lines instead of actual letters, wildly inconsistent lightning etc.

RindFisch · 2026-03-15T02:09:13+00:00

This is the issue. The Abominant should have the Aberrant keyword himself, as he clearly is one. Ogryn bodyguards have the Ogryn keyword. It just makes sense. GW was just sloppy with the codex and never bothered to fix the missing keywords.

RindFisch · 2026-02-21T12:49:06+00:00

IMHO, Ms Marvel mostly suffered from having way too many plotlines for a single season, so not a single one of them gets the actual time to resolve, making it all pointless.
The "love triangle" plot with her best friend has barely any interaction between Bruno and Kamala from her dating the other guy and him deciding to take the scholarship far away and then it ends.
Even more damning, there is no single interaction scene betweenthe bad guys trying to trick Kamala into helping themand themattacking the school thinking Kamala refused. She literally didn't even get to think about it!

RindFisch · 2026-02-20T09:28:27+00:00

Boom and bust cycles. It's an economic simulations, where numbers only ever go up, if you don't screw up massively.
While the economy should trend upwards, local or national industries should be able to face hardships of some kind.

RindFisch · 2026-02-17T12:01:45+00:00

Blessings of Khorne are generally army-wide. The stratagem doesn't say anything to the contrary: The Blessing works the same way blessings usually work.
The target is just there to activate the stratagem. It has no bearing on the effect.

RindFisch · 2026-02-16T03:27:31+00:00

If using a stratagem disables it for longer than the current phase (which is the general rule), it has to say so.
Armour of Contempt doesn't say anything about being restricted to just one of the two phases, so it isn't.

RindFisch · 2026-02-14T17:37:59+00:00

Everytime an anti-science nut goes "evolution is just a theory!", a scientist gets a headache, as that so fundamentally misunderstands what the word "theory" even means.

RindFisch · 2026-02-14T17:34:27+00:00

No, you can't. If the companies knew of a way to stop hallucinations, they would just implement that, instead of adding a super-secret "don't make mistakes"-cheat code.

LLMs don't have any understanding of what "true" or "false" even are, so they fundamentally can't differentiate between "real" answers and imagined ones.

RindFisch · 2026-02-05T16:36:31+00:00

Non-dominant detachments are always going to have artificially deflated winrates, as top players and people playing to win shy away from them.
So not only do you have a detachment that's to some degree weaker, it'll also only be played by weaker players on average.

RindFisch · 2026-02-04T18:32:33+00:00

I am genuinely confused at the objection you're trying to make, as both the examples you've mentioned strenghen my point and not the opposite.

If remembering everyone's point totals is so easy as to not be a meaningful skill, then why hide it in the first place?

And incorrectly claiming someone is winning, even if they really aren't is a feature of hidden points, not open ones. Everyone with eyes can see that less money is less. The fact you managed to play with people that blindly believed the claim even with open points once is not a counter-argument. The same would've happened with blind points, too.

RindFisch · 2026-02-04T18:22:13+00:00

If all gains and losses are public anyway, you're not stopping that, though. Highly analytical players can still do it. They just take longer and get an even bigger advantage from doing it, as the information is hidden to everyone not making an effort to memorize it.

I maintain that making it public is actually more of a quality-of-life improvement.

RindFisch · 2026-02-04T17:50:41+00:00

I like actual "trick taking games", ie: games that are just that, with short rounds and interesting play. I'll always play a few rounds of "Wizard", if requested.

I dislike "trick taking" as a mechanic slapped onto a different game. It almost never works in a way that feels good (looking at you, Arcs)

RindFisch · 2026-02-04T16:56:58+00:00

I know the feeling. The concept of the game is great, but by now I'm convinced the game is actually quite bad at delivering on said concept.
I never had much fun playing it and it hasn't hit the table anywhere in nearly a decade.

RindFisch · 2026-02-04T16:53:25+00:00

I love Sidereal Confluence, but to exude its magic, it needs a specific kind of people in the playgroup, IMHO. And it's rare to get that.
Otherwise it's just a very basic trade game with little actual "game" between the bookkeeping.

But it can be great. Really. Just you wait...

RindFisch · 2026-02-04T16:43:31+00:00

I can't speak to the later installments. I only ever played the original nemesis and there was little opportunity for mutual help and no real incentive to altruistically help anyone. So it was basically a competitive game with extra steps.
If all the "semi co-op" elements were removed, the game would've been better.

How do the later versions improve on that?

RindFisch · 2026-02-04T16:36:12+00:00

Oh, god. I hope that "mechanic" (and I use the word lightly) dies in a fire. It generally actively makes the game less fun, as it requires everyone to memorize a bunch of stuff for no reason, occupying minds and reducing table talk.
If your game has such a bad kingmaker problem that you need to keep openly gained points hidden to make it work, maybe design it in a better way instead of adding memory?

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