Hmmm… I have hilariouschaos.com blocked in my settings, but I keep seeing posts from the site owner’s sock puppets.

Is there a way to block ALL USERS from a site, not just the communities?

Enough to block the instance now. (I’m so glad Lemmy provides that to users now!)

Personally I’ll embrace the technology by putting tire puncturing strips all over the place.

I’m confused. You say it’s non-political for left and right, then you name two right-wing parties.

Does anybody actually think he’s going to see the inside of a cell?

I’m kinda partial to this vibe for my games:

Or this vibe:

Yes. “Creations.” That’s what I would call AI (=Always Incorrect) music. A “creation”. Not “a bunch of talentless twits feigning being artists”.

Literally 15 seconds to find.

I’m pretty sure the other states have similar incentives.

Fifteen. Seconds.

The Model 3 is an overpriced, shoddily-assembled car. The only reason it’s the “affordable” one is because of the huge amount of tax incentives E-vehicles get. If you had to pay the actual cost of a Model 3 you would not be calling it a “fantastic car”.

I know it’s hard for the Tesla cultists to accept, rather like the Apple cultists before them, but Tesla products are not good products for the price.

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I wouldn’t call “I need to go home because it’s 11PM and I work tomorrow” a “short attention span”. The fact that you’re characterizing it as such is … problematic.

Tonight it was Terraforming Mars, where I was told it would be a 3 hour game, but by hour 4 we were halfway done.

Irrelevant side jest: everybody knows that the Apartheid Manchild always lies about how long things will take.

That sounds like my experience with Star Fleet battles. A ‘simple’ and ‘introductory’ game at a local games club that three hours later had us only finished the second turn.

Back then I stuck it out to be nice. Now I’m far more likely to just apologetically say that the game is not working for me.

There are a whole lot of trick-taking games in traditional card space:

• the Hakka “Six Tigers” game
• several games of the related “Six Red” deck are trick-taking
• the Thai game จับหมู (Catch the Pig) which uses a western-style deck
• a bewildering variety of tarot games
• … and a cast of thousands.

You know it used to be Taiwan (Republic of China, properly) who was a permanent member of the Security Council, right?

Catan really did remind me of Monopoly in this regard. Once you pull ahead you stay ahead and move further ahead faster and faster. And if you’re trailing, you trail further and further. With all the tedium that involves since you can’t leave.

Weirdly I find Catan suffers exactly from this, and you have the added problem of if you fall behind you’re just waiting for your turn so you can offer a trade nobody wants and then do nothing. Hour after hour, doing nothing. But you can’t leave the game because that would throw everybody else off.

I won’t play Catan any longer.

Star Fleet Battles. On paper it was a gateway game for me to get into wargames (a genre of game I’d always found tedious and lacking any fun of any sort) because it was a subject matter I was interested in. My SO introduced me to it because I liked old school Star Trek and he was a fanatic player of the game.

Four hours later and we were on, like, turn three. The game systems were inconsistent and incoherent. Planning out your moves made the game into a career bureaucrat’s wet dream of paperwork. And when, finally, the two ships actually REACHED each other, there was about two minutes of dice rolling and … while the game wasn’t formally over, it was clear that there was no point in continuing; the victor was a foregone conclusion.

But we still played another two hours before the game ended.

So not only did I hate the game, I also had my hatred of wargames in general hardened.

Replace “Lemmyverse” with “the American left” and you’re closer to the truth.

• The American left is against racism … yet harbours an alarming amount of antisemitism and an increasing amount of sinophobia.
• The American left is against ageism … directed at young people. Old people are open season.
• The American left is against religious bigotry … except Christians. . . .

It’s just tribalism cosplaying as idealism. (And it’s why, for example, Chinese LGBT groups have been quietly removing themselves from interaction with American LGBTQA+ groups over the past few years.)