The Gaming Den

I read through most of this game at PAX last year because it was in the beer garden but almost nobody was playing it in spite of free copies being right there. The game seems pretty straightforward, but it's just a card-based dungeon crawler iirc. And a drinking one, like Drinking Quest. But it come...

Andrew Cuomo is collaborating with Trump (in a very direct way, like literally talking to each other about how to win) to try and beat Mandami in the general. Liberals doing the "better a fascist than literally anyone slightly to the left!" thing they always do, just in a much more obvious...

Zohran won! It's just the primary, but it's NYC so he should have the general with no issues. His competition in the general is what, Adams as an independent, Cuomo might run as an independent, and there's some loser Republican with no chance? NYC should be getting a good mayor!

Loving that lunamancer said every review of the game has been wrong instead of considering that maybe they are the one who has a distorted view of its quality. That's a real power move.

While this isn't stupid, does Zohran Mamdani stand a chance at beating sex pest (or is regular old sexual assaulter?) Andrew Cuomo for mayor of NYC? It'd be pretty sick to see a socialist get elected there. Doesn't look like it's that close of a race but polling is stupid and Mamdani seems to have a...

Trump is really going for it with the tariffs, we are in for some lean times. Maybe also the destruction of the US empire? That would be a nice silver lining for the massive amount of misery and death that will be caused by nuking the world economy.

I didn't scan the headline correctly, I thought it was calling the person who was dead a CIA leaker (which would make it even weirder to think Russia would go after them). Still highly skeptical of Russia going after someone for at one time investigating stuff about Russia. I suspect we'd see a lot ...

Russia tends to like it when people leak information from the US government, don't they? They're the ones who took in Snowden. This nazi administration has been pretty shit, though. I've got to be an accelerationist to stay sane now, because what hope have we got if not something better rising from ...

An update on my Starcraft journey: To better learn the game I entered the Coach Pupil League, a league for beginner and intermediate players to help ease people into the competitive scene, for their 11th season. The league has tiers of players that range from tier 0 (real tournament competitors) dow...

I don't think Trump has an ideology beyond "do stuff that makes Trump richer/more powerful." Right before he became President Trump released a stupid crypto coin for both himself and Melania to steal from his stupid fans. Yes, those have already lost a huge amount of "value." Yes...

The US government is just Calvinball, right? The President can do anything and it's not a crime, SCOTUS can say anything is legal to make it not a crime, and Congress writes laws that the other two branches get to ignore if they get in the way. Stupid fucking country. Anyways Trump is going after bi...

Thanks! And yeah, the martial law order did not take and has already been rescinded (with the President still promising to go after all the secret commies). Hopefully South Korea can ditch this loser and get someone better in charge. This is good news for the striking doctors as well, part of Yoon's...

Martial law was declared in South Korea. I've been lightly following SK news for a while because it seemed like that country was driving head first off a cliff with the whole "run by a cult" thing and their medical system seemingly coming apart at the seams, but I did not expect martial la...

Good to hear that Elden Ring fights do get more interesting than dodge roll timing, that makes me feel much better about how well reviewed it was. Kind of dumb that I didn't see that shit during an hour of playtime, but also maybe I just misread some things as I did get killed by some huge guy on a ...

I'm an Elden Ring disliker, but it's entirely based on personal taste. I tried it earlier this year; I either made a new game or continued an existing one (I don't remember which, alright?) and then played for ~1 hour. During that hour I killed some cat statue boss (I think it was a cat statue? It h...

I don't quite understand the dislike of anime characters (or is it just overdesigned ones, but then what is the breakpoint where we go from good design to overdesign?) and I fully agree with fuck cutscenes outside of introducing an area or setting the scene right before gameplay. I mostly wanted to ...

One of the weirdest things about Trump's return is Biden's actions. Is he trying desperately to secure rights for people here and trying to do things like forgive more student loans? Fuck no! Biden is going whole hog on starting WWIII, we approved strikes on Russian territory with long-range missile...

If I'm being pedantic it's not US news because it's not about the US (though it did happen in the US and only because of a lawsuit in the US), but I just didn't want to bump the US news thread or make a thread for what is really just a funny little news story. If we want to redirect to Ausfailia, I ...

We could all probably use some news that makes us laugh, right? Well, The Onion (satirical news site) has purchased Infowars (Alex Jones' insane conspiracy platform) at an auction. Delightful.

Not that bots think, but imagine thinking that the Democrats haven't suppressed political dissent, supported dictatorial power, or embraced extreme nationalism. They've done all 3 of those things during the Biden administration, hell they've done all of that just during 2024 and the year isn't even ...

The NYT has announced we should be mad at Latinos for electing Trump. A part of me wonders if the Democrats going hardline anti-immigrant is to blame rather than Latinos, but they seem to think the Democrats ran a good campaign and it's the fault of the people for voting incorrectly. But I guess we ...

A single event happening or not happening does not determine if a bet as to whether or not that thing would happen was a good bet. This is like declaring the Fool's Mate in chess a good strategy because it worked for you once. Things do not always happen the same way every single time! There are var...

Are you claiming Trump not getting murdered (a thing everyone said was unlikely, but that it is still the most likely way he'd die before the election) is proof your number was correct? That is a good example of why people are calling you innumerate and stupid. Trump not dying isn't proof your numbe...

Any company that handed all its money to SVB for safe keeping was gambling Technically some of them were merely complying with the terms of their loan contract in which they got a 5 million dollar zero interest loan from SVB in return for banking with SVB. I consider that to be a reason they knew t...

Deliberately conflating deposits and investments are misleading. In January 2023 there were 60 million shares valued at $300 each meaning the company was valued at $18 billion. A few short months later that value was gone. Owners of the stock lost $18 billion in their investment. Now unless you thi...