Yeah! I voted for you, happy at this outcome :)

Oh no is there lore

Thatch is Bed of Chaos

One of my big thoughts from my own game of Cataphracts is: I should have made the world smaller.

It would erode the infolag, fog of war aspect of the game a little.

But 08 was a proper once-in-a-lifetime event, more akin to the Great Depression than anything before or since (so far).

This, obviously, it not a guarantee that you won't see another one - but AI probably ain't it.

The huge bets being put on AI firms are largely coming out of cash reserves, not borrowing. This means far lower risk of ripple effects. Still ugly, still lots of jobs on the line and likely a much more conservative turn in lending and capitalisation...

Honestly, I'd've believed a much higher number

Someone was selling logs of the Stratemeyer channels! Wow wow wow

One of those was a DM channel with me and one or two, max, other people! GOD I wish I still had access to the Strat channels, WHO RATTED

The 2000 Presidential Election was decided incorrectly but not for the reason people think (it's actally because Arizona doesn't really exist so shouldn't have any EC votes)

I think that might be it for me. ggwp all

It was always going to end this way. Stratemeyer could have survived but not as the single target of hostility for every other faction at once. They needed at least one friend but couldn't get any purchase. I'm not mad, the Board did the best they could!

banger

Over/under is *about* what happens next. What does Jack Donaghy do when NBC is bought by a company from Connecticut? He makes the worst fucking couch and becomes CEO. I think if Josh goes to the Choke then I'll miss out on something fascinating.

So I'm keeping my poison pill in my pocket. For now.

Normally, in this situation, my instinct is to concede defeat. Congratulate the winner, marvel over their good moves, contemplate my bad ones, rue the vagaries of luck. Good game, good game!

But that's not what over/under is.

Well, yesterday I lost. Personally and factionally. Stratemeyer is still in the game, sort of, but it's hard to see a way back, and certainly no realistic path to anything called winning. And all of Josh's big plans to grab at some control got smashed up in its wake.

Yes. I think there's a strata of players, at which I'm on the periphery, for whom there is access to both the TTRPG *and* the wargame - but because both are totalising you can't really give them both full attention. You have to make a choice.