Lovely. Which one?

It's a case of profession-warped epistemology (eg lawyer brain). When your measure for validity of knowledge is whether it titillates a certain section of contrarian elites, you end up with bad takes.

This is a good explainer I think www.nehrlich.com/blog/2023/03.... Pretty standard stuff sadly

I have a patch that comes up by my driveway each year. The trick is getting them before the bugs do!

Duke grad

That's my experience - I might just be bad at the game or not engaging thoroughly with the randomness mitigation systems enough!

Like I think what Blue Prince revealed to me was that these games have minimal content, stretched thin. Keep players engaged in replays always hoping to get a busted combo to make progress. That feels like gambling to me

I'm a fan of slay the spire, I think the core gameplay is fun - but it does happen where you get crap relics or a bad string of enemies and the game says 'oops you aren't scaling fast enough'

Its lack of actual gameplay has singlehandedly made me realize that rogue-lites are gambling, actually. Kinda buns me out

Department of Dirigible Operations, DODO 🦤

I think it's partially a backlash to the idea that (generally) people aren't qualified to weigh in other's lived experiences. These people don't like their opinions being devalued

Love it! While the game's thesis feels more and more irrelevant each day, the mechanics are still fresh and interesting. It took me a while to get the 'pax feel' from this one, but it's there. The way the endgame projects itself into the mid- and early game gives a reverse-history vibe to the theme

So jelly!

Nice view of Schuylkill!

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Agreed! Normally, I'm not that bothered by characters making bad decisions in service of the plot, but they're all so dumb and unlikeable it made me check out hard from this movie.

celebrity endorsement reinforces the perception that Dems are part of a larger cultural+political establishment. Dems attacks highlighting 'unfitness' on Trump and W Bush further cement their outsider status

With the exception of 2020, for the past 30+ years the winner of the presidential race has been the candidate who best avoids the 'establishment candidate' label to engage voters. The Biden exception was IMO propped up by BLM movement which had the same turnout effect.