JohnBrownsBussy2

JohnBrownsBussy2, 7 days ago

Samurai: feudal landlords

Ninjas: basically just peasants.

Gotta go with the working peoples.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 14 days ago

While I live on Liberal Mountain, I can testify that Iowa seems to have no culinary tradition. It’s south of Midwestern German/Scandanvian/Polish food, and north/east of the Southern/Tex-mex food.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 14 days ago

An immediate vote might be a win. A months away vote is a defeat for the student movement here.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 16 days ago

It’s been an absurd mishandling of the IP by Take Two. Will probably be permanently stuck in early access with only maintenance development at best.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 18 days ago

A lot of people (myself included) had the update installed automatically by Steam with no option for rollback, so it caught people off guard.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 2 months ago

I can’t believe that some actually Vax-maxxed. Absolute legend. chad

JohnBrownsBussy2, 2 months ago

I thought you weren’t supposed to reveal that you have a network of spy bases. Isn’t that the whole point of secret facilities? Motherfuckers are desperate.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 2 months ago

It’s obviously sad and very disturbing, and should be the kind of thing that wakes people up. Unfortunately, the US media is very careful on downplaying/misreporting self-immolations, even though in theory it’s the type of macabre story that they’d capitalize on.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 3 months ago

Kinda sicko-wistful.

I don’t think Tencent would be a particularly great owner for the D&D brand, but they might have been more hands-off than Hasbro went it comes to mucking with the business model, and a major shakeup for D&D could be good. Honestly, WotC (or just D&D) could be doing better if it was an independent operation as opposed to subsidizing the Hasbro revenue sink.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 3 months ago

I agree that D&D will always exist, I am just personally uninterested in the direction the game is going with the OneD&D, and I think the source of this muddling path is do to the failure of the original business maneuver with the OGL revision. I don’t really see things getting better under Hasbro, so any major shakeup might be a good thing overall.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 3 months ago

Hasbro has no clue what to do with the game since their games-as-service, closed ecosystem plan went kaput after they backed down on the OGL revision (which would have been necessary to shut out other VTTs and ensure player & DM subscriptions). I think the recent lay offs of senior people in the D&D related teams suggests this as well. This article doesn’t seem well sourced at all, but a shake-up would be very interesting at this point.

Side-stepping some of the speculation and impact on the traditional market/fanbase, I am curious about the interest in D&D in China, as a Tencent acquisition would presumably make it much easier to market the game there. From the searching I’ve done, there doesn’t seem to be a ton of interest in D&D, and there’s no official translation into Mandarin. The movie didn’t do great at the Chinese box office, although Baldur’s Gate 3 did fine? Obviously, if Tencent does put together a subsidiary to design a version for the Chinese market, I’m not sure if they’d want to start by translating/adapting existing books or using the ruleset to design a bespoke version (either with a fantasy setting or based on relevant Chinese IP.)

JohnBrownsBussy2, 3 months ago

If the US dropped the sanctions regime against the DPRK, I am sure that they would also compromise with western capital to facilitate investment/modernization like China and Vietnam did. Just like with Cuba, it is US intransigence and maintenance of war footing (the illegal blockade for Cuba, and the US military occupation of south Korea against the DPRK) that prevents cooperation.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 3 months ago

I love the concept of Moon Cabin Retreat as a SCP/OOP/spooky artifact. It was here when we arrived, and we have to complete it. I need to write a Delta Green shotgun scenario with it as the villain/macguffin.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 4 months ago

I literally can’t tell if you’re serious because every you make is facetious regardless of comm.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 4 months ago

Every post you make is a lie or a joke. This is a real “boy who cried wolf” moment.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 4 months ago

At this point, it would probably be a major boon to the Democrats, since Biden polls incredibly poorly compared to a generic Democrat (as long as they pick someone other than Kamala or Gavin Newsom).

JohnBrownsBussy2, 4 months ago

As far as I can tell, not really, but there are certainly democrat politicians that are quite loathed. Simple indifference would be a massive improvement over the attitudes towards Biden.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 4 months ago

I don’t think this is necessarily the case. I think that Hezbollah has been allowing for a slow and steady escalation that puts increasing pressure on the zionist forces, but obviously they want to avoid a sudden escalation that pulls in the US directly.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 5 months ago

Since OpenAI is a kayfabe “public benefit” company, it sounds like the board actually decided to stand up for the company’s chartered values, which are essentially the creation of a AI god to solve all humanities problems. If you’re a tech worker just trying to make bank, it’s not a hard decision to side with the people who want to make money versus the people who actually believe that bullshit.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 6 months ago

Epstein would have 100% gotten a masterclass if they didn’t kill him when they did.

JohnBrownsBussy2, 6 months ago

Place your bets:

A.) Intra-police-gang conflict.

B.) A hilarious training accident.

C.) They knew too much.

D.) They all saw a bag of fentanyl, inducing psychosomatic asphyxiation.

E.) He’s back…

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JohnBrownsBussy2, 6 months ago

I honestly thought that Biden would scrape out a win prior to the escalations in Palestine, but yeah he’s a goner. This, plus the continued economic doldrums plus the resumption of student debt payments plus the clear failure of the war in Ukraine means that he is sunk.