The Gaming Den

Sounds like the D&D movie captured the spirit of the game well, with fun nods for longtime players. I should go and check it out. Am yet to watch it. You know, I've been holding back a bit on my opinion of this movie. In part because I couldn't figure it out. But that triggered it. I think I un...

Yeah but, I mean, fair enough. He is.

Doesn't matter if he was innocent. The police fucked it up so hard that even a guilty party would, should, and very possibly did get off Scott free. Hell they fucked it up so bad that OJ won despite the lawyer OJ had who to this day is proving he is a spectacular idiot. If you are still arguing abou...

socially liberal but fiscally conservative Heard this one a million times, and yeah its a wildly unrealistic and stupid position to take but people love it. They love it because they are rubes and have fallen for everyone's propaganda. They think taking a middle ground makes them sensible, it does ...

Something like 95% chance he thinks of himself as sensible "left of center" and that the far left and far right have been seducing too many away from the sensible center left and its good friend the sensible centrist right. If not that he definitely thinks of himself as only slightly right...

No, I won't. Betting pool on how many posts until he does? But to be clear, not only is your track record such that your denial now makes it MORE likely you will almost immediately do it your MO beyond that is clear. Once the official flip on the genocide occurs you HAVE to change your position to ...

Don't worry, just as the Biden administration think they have laid the rhetorical ground work to retroactively claim innocence (possibly even legally) and good intentions all along once they eventually switch policy (or the genocide burns out on its own). So too does DeadDM think he has already said...

Quick point. DeadDMs current position "Yes its a genocide, yes I will only use that term rarely and grudgingly but there I said it will you shut up now, Also no we cannot possibly do anything about it." is in the end another way to do what all of this, including his recent adoption of whit...

See I told him that Genocide Joe going all in on the refugee bashing would only make his nation more racist, as proven by international precedents, and now look what happened, the racism got him. Now he's caught a full case of white supremacist, which he should have been on the look out for it as sh...

I'm going to counter your counter with the Trump Abraham Accords and say that DeadDMs shallow name dropping understanding of basically everything resulted in a muddling of that and other NYT articles mentioning diplomacy and hostage negotiations. He was most likely operating under a hazy xerox of a ...

I think DeadDMs wife was concerned about our historical ignorance and then went and looked... I mean indirectly sent DeadDM to go and look up the WRONG articles on Wikipedia about the wrong bits of the history in response to me mocking his MORON LEVEL claim that Jordan and Saudi Arabia could influen...

Now I'm someone who wants to kick people in the teeth when they pretend Israel vs Palestine is a "very complex issue". But, even I still think you just sorta... missed a bunch of stuff, but perhaps just because you raised more questions than you answered while saying a lot of not much at a...

You're always sure what my position is on everything, but you think you can read minds. Yeah, but you so shallow, its easier to read your mind than see the bottom of a crystal clear inch deep puddle. Beyond that, stopping violence when two or more people are willing to die to continue the violence ...

Oh yeah, and one of the aid workers killed in the latest deliberate war crime by the IDF, was Australian. The government here has now been pushed about as close to the edge of outright turning on Israel entirely as I suspect a five eyes ally is going to be permitted to. We now apparently call for a ...

Every excuse they make for each grievous crime needing to be carefully investigated and not jump to conclusions etc... makes perfect sense. IF, and only if you take each one in isolation and assume a genuinely blameless and perfect record of behavior before hand. (and also sort of ignore that some o...

I don't think that's obvious. But since it is obvious to you, I'm sure you'll provide compelling documentary evidence that supports your position. And then you have compelling documentary evidence that there are the same sorts of percentages of Palestinians that want to kill all Israelis as there a...

I woke up one day to suddenly discover I had a brand new device implanted in my brain. It was all very exciting. But I wouldn't recommend it as something to sell to people as a means of playing late night civilization on the PC. I had brain surgery and an implant LESS invasive than Elon's chip and t...

The biggest danger of the AI revolution is that it is an excuse for the stupid people in charge of our economy to make more stupid decisions without taking personal responsibility. If you recall part of my elaborate origin story is that I am a Computer Scientist. 30 years ago, 20 years ago, even 10 ...

Just throwing this one out there. Even Australia has decided to restore funding to UNRWA. When you don't have Australia towing the line like a lackey, who have you got? Oh. And our Federal labor party has now ALSO (tried to) adopt a Trump style Muslim ban. So you know, game show you lose noises anyw...

I see the reach out to the Muslim community is going well then.

Some African lady on some African panel somewhere in Africa had a proposal for getting aid in. Get the American army to truck it in ignoring the Israeli border check just DARE them to open fire on US forces. (to be fair she actual extended that advice to several powerful western nations) But that co...

That one state department guy whose demeanor in press conferences gives the impression any second his voice is going to break and he is going to run away screaming. Explained. You see. If there was a stampede it was because of a break down in public order. Because there are no police. Because the po...

It's also going on the pile of not very urgent investigations because they insist there have been some reports that maybe other people fired guns so perhaps Hamas did it so um get back to you about consequences for actions in um... no timetable that would be irresponsible. Yeah that always works sho...

Thing is multiple western countries right now are pushing such anti-hate speech legislation. And its got that Orwellian thing going on, on the face of it by the titles and so on it looks loosely positive and almost exactly like what say, a pro-Palestine peace activist might want. But it is probably ...

So anyway. Mulch. I can do about an hour long rant about the just total state that mulch is in right now around here without even touching on how to use it or make it. It involves Bikies, organized crime, money laundering, record bush fires, the desperate need for more failed pine plantations from t...