Eh, no one went broke betting the bbc is gonna be racist (I assume, I needed the explanation for Jamie's joke)

I use the forum purely as a distraction when I need to wait for someone to respond to my messages. While more activity would be nice, I hardly see why that activity HAS to be things that break our (pretty minor) rules here. I suppose if the objective was to make the site the same as a decade ago I w...

Are there plans to update the look of the rest of the website? I like the "Dated" look but can live with the new one. But going from the rest of the website to a new UI is too jarring for me so changed it back to the old one.

Didn't we just have this discussion last month? It's not even the 10th oldest thread here. Also what does Finn have to do with Feminism? (Actually been reading through the depths of feminist theory and the sex wars and thoughts I had gone to the wrong website for a minute)

Is it players offering sex to sweeten deals, or will it instead be more artsy commentary on global politics through metaphor of a game, and also sex to sweeten deals?

Are they from the continent of Europe?

I mean, we can go into how every every capitalist industry views people as commodities and abuses them, and yes most industries are evil, but they can at least provide objectively good things to benefit society. Is it really a bad thing if there's no industry that trains partakers to view people as...

I'll ignore some of the silliness in Octavious using a made up story from the British Press that never happened and never was going to happen, and address the broader point about the sex industry being different. I'm willing to admit that yes, the sex industry is "different" in some nebulous liberal...

Look, I like freedom, but is there a single good thing the porn industry has ever done ever? The joke during the old feminist sex wars was that in Porn you can see women lawyers, doctors, and CEOs, and they even get to end the movie with a happy ending. That's something. I'm literally not trolling ...

Oda Nobunaga

And by win I don't mean exhaust all the other players to the point of a cesseation of the game.

I mean coming back from a 1910 position with two units to retaking all my home centers and then taking the fight into Russian cities until Russia is defeated.

Yeah, same system. I can understand the appeal, even though I didn't find much value in it and ended up running the game much more traditionally instead. Powered by Apoclaypse games just hit an uncanny valley for me where it has too many rules to actually be system free and unobtrusive, but way too ...

The whole layout of all the core books gives the impression they loaded all the chapters into a blunderbuss and fired them into the air, then bound them together in the order they landed. That's just accepted practice in Tabletop games, to be fair. I haven't checked out the warhammer book, but I ca...

WotC in third edition decided to make DND the even more biggest name in town by deciding to legalize other writers to make gamebooks that use DND 3rd edition mechanics without paying WotC for the right to use those mechanics. They brought that back for fifth edition (I at least don't think 4th editi...

It is absolutely nuts how anyone non-white playing the villain role is being seen an racist at the moment. There was recently outrage over the Netflix series Wednesday because two of the mean kids were black...and that must have been driven by racism: https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/tim-burtons-wedne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines "In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answe...

As dramatic some situations regarding housing might be, specially during economic crisis, most functional people are able to find solutions in their "support networks" even if they mean a huge downgrade compared to their previous conditions. Most long-term homeless people became so after years of a...