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Had the opportunity to throw some time at the FF7 Rebirth on my friend’s PS5. I’ll have to wait until June before I can expect to see it on PC, but its been a lot of fun to date. Eager to see more of it.

Meanwhile, Unicorn Overlord on the Switch has been a great travel game.

Diploma mills gonna mill diplomas

Seems like it’s the only way anyone knows how to make money anymore

War is always just the prelude to diplomacy. Gotta wonder how many more people will die before talking starts.

Republicans. Would. Be. Worse.

Behold, the unlimited power of a fully nationalized war time economy.

No Poor Muslims Allowed

More than 122 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war.

America deserves a President Kamala Harris

Looks like they… crossed the line.

Its curious to see the Chinese government called out for being insufficiently dedicated to anti-corruption measures while doggedly insisting that the myriad prosecutions of corrupt officials within both the Chinese public and private sector are these horrible infringements on civil rights. We’ve got Chinese ex-pats who fled to the US and went right back to committing crimes as soon as they arrived. Billions of dollars defrauded from Americans because the US was intent on protecting known malicious actors that the Chinese government had planned to prosecute.

Like, Russia? Fine, sure. Whatever. That place has been a dumpster fire since at least Yeltsin. But at some point, western media isn’t denouncing fraud. It is implicitly covering for these crooks under the “China Bad” banner head.

Somebody explain to me why Eminence in Shadow is good, because I’ve watched three episodes and it just seems like horny Batman.

I mean, the joke is going to be in the enforcement, as a battalion of Australia’s largest and roundest uniformed fascist shitheads march through the streets breaking windows and swinging at the heads of anyone sporting a Palestinian flag.

You’re going to have folks with swastika face tattoos explaining why these anti-Zionist activists just need to obey the law.

Ah shit. Have the Tamil Tigers entered the chat?

M.I.A. is going to have to make a new music video about this one.

Wouldn’t be the first time SquareEnix pissed away years of development time refusing to admit they made a mistake.

Doing another Slay and Say.

Fighter: Barbarian’s fratbro drinking buddy

Wizard: Fighter’s emotionally distant and verbally abusive father-figure

Monk: Wizard’s even more emotionally distant and verbally abusive father-figure

Sorcerer: Monk’s third ex-spouse, mostly along to look after the Fighter because he’s like a little brother to her

Ranger: Sorcerer’s daughter by a second marriage and also the Druid’s husband (which has led to some confusing moments with the cleric)

Bard: Rogue’s legal defense counsel

Genuinely love to break up a combat/dungeon-crawl heavy game with some light-hearted day-in-the-life-of gameplay once in a while. Having the DM describe the lazy cat stretched across the alchemist’s countertop, while some mischievious pickpocket tries to nick the rogue’s enchanted dagger and the knight errant helps an elderly woman cross the street can add a lot of color to a very number-crunchy game. Picking through a flea market of random niche nebulously useful magic items, while a merchant drops hints about the next sidequest, gives you a real adventurer’s vibe.

Genuinely hate having long, drawn out arguments over whether the shopkeep would have the principle material component for my most import spells or basic equipment (there’s no bat guano, one swayback horse, and only sixteen arrows in a fantasy city of 50,000 people? god damn, dude). Or digging through spreadsheets to figure out how many javelins the local economy can absorb. Or bickering over whether the Charm Person spell gets us in fight with town guards. Genuinely do not want anyone consulting a series of random charts and tables to determine why we can’t get a full night’s rest in the town’s nicest inn.

Please just make this a fun story to enjoy and not a pedantic fight over the future prospective mathematical efficiency of my stat block in the next combat.