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My man's brain no work good no more

Fortunately, they made him a US Senator just in time.

I mean, one big red flag in a color revolution is... uh.. everyone coordinating around a big colored flag.

Can't help but notice a huge fixation on liberal talking points - fixations on "free press" and "free trade" and "no more corruption", particularly absent any tolerance for criticism of western venues. Any time people start waving American / British / French flags, that's a huge warning sign. Insinuations that the current head of state is either a closeted homosexual or secretly about to die are also great signifiers. The hornier the press is for a potential replacement ~~dictator~~ senior executive, the more likely its an Op.

I would simply pay someone to mine the diamonds for me.

Settlers connotate hands-on rawdogging early bloody landholding and industrial capital and its allies

I think all of the above fit the bill.

I am just personally uninterested in the direction the game is going with the OneD&D, and I think the source of this muddling path is do to the failure of the original business maneuver with the OGL revision.

I absolutely agree. Although, I think the consequences of that decision has been something of a "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom!" D&D-knock-off renaissance. And I'm pretty happy with that, given how a lot of my old favorites from Palladium and Rollmaster and GURPS seem to have found some new life.

I don't really see things getting better under Hasbro, so any major shakeup might be a good thing overall.

I would love to see the Onyx Path (ie, old White Wolf) folks find their legs again. Miss myself some old school Vampire: The Masquerade.

that summer it came out in 2016

God damnit, 2016 and 2019 all happened in the same year, I refuse to believe otherwise.

I would go out with friends to play it and you'd run into other groups of people doing the same thing and form larger groups and just walk around and talk. The game itself was pretty meh

Right, but then the "meh" of the game meant the crowds went away and there wasn't a bunch of goofy nerds around to talk to. It was just something you did silently on your phone in an elevator while your coworkers glared at you.

they might have been more hands-off than Hasbro went it comes to mucking with the business model,

Hasbro was extremely hands off for a long while. But then their toy lines fell apart and their board game revenue just became "How many times can we sell you the same box of Monopoly pieces?"

Suddenly WotC was their revenue stream, and the head managers decided they needed to apply their magic touch to the franchise.

I don't really care, because D&D is more a style of playing than a product for sale. Sucks to see Faerun or Eberon cannibalized by these ghouls, but there's just so much fucking material out there that's never going away.

It's just not a game you can ruin (and 4e fucking tried, let me tell you). Too much of it is bound up in what you and your friends bring to the table.

Plenty of them are just Settlers.

South African, Johannes “Jannie” Mouton

Rhodesian, Jonathan Gibson

Italian Giorgio Giachetti

Canadian Eira Thomas

They're all just European ex-pats looting the country from the inside.

"It's right here in my classified documentations"

"Can I see it?"

"No."