I dunno what TS_Gryphon is suggesting, but what I’m thinking is that someone should try to sell the man a Black Lotus but send him a Blue Eyes White Dragon instead.

I’m sorry, cloudkitt, but I don’t get a Mind Crush on men who aren’t my type. Now go away, and leave me to admire my fashionably long legs! In my fashionably leathery leather pants. /Pharaoh

In a few hours, the sun will rise!

So, are they gonna make Skreli a Plainswalker or something?

I can imagine it now:

Martin Skreli, Pharma Bro:

+1 Place a Gold counter on target permanent.
-1 Remove a Gold counter from target permanent. Gain one life, then lose one life. This gain or loss of life does not trigger any activated abilities of spells or…

Speaking of this part of the article you quote:

Noooo! Don’t drink the Kool-Aid!

Well, herein lies the problem: the term “limited government” is vague almost unto meaninglessness. I believe that most of us would agree that government should be limited: they shouldn’t have the right to take away our essential freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc., and should generally allow…

It would be nice if they could add a variant on outposts from Beyond Earth: one-tile cities with no production that only allow you to improve adjacent resources.

No spreadsheets, but the online wikis do help. Civ VI will have a long tutorial that gets players up to speed, since it has everything Brave New World had and more.

While I have one or two minor concerns about Civ VI (or believe I did... I forget what they were at this moment), the last issue you bring up is really my only true objection to Civilization VI.

Point of fact, my reaction when hearing about the new game was more or less along the lines of “Already? But I’m still…

Yess, yess! This is exactly right. Join ussss!

That’s so...let’s face it, it’s people mary-sueing themselves to be a notable character but trying on new personalities - much teen, wow - or trying to create their perfect plaything while claiming Tracer as their own.

Just go to the Holodeck level and you’re set.

Looking awesome by comparison?

Hell, I’d accept it even if they just replaced the crappy NuTrek warp effect with something a wee bit more traditional. The rest of the game seems loyal enough to the Star Trek experience, though I could be wrong.

The preponderance of such people depresses me.

I’m terribly sorry to bother you, but I believe the mind-reading convention is two doors down. Do have a good day, sir.

Get rid of elected judges, to begin with. Judicial positions were never intended to be determined by popular vote, nor should they. They exist as a check on popular will, and “popular” will, in the case of judicial elections, might just end up being that of a small, elite fraction of the body politic.

California can be oddly similar. The Good Ol’ Boys Club is obscured by attempts at meritocracy, and we lack the Wild West bravado, but passive-aggressive conflict avoidance? Oh dear god, do we have that! I cannot remember how many times people have been upset at me for making a fuss over something that I had every…

Ahhh yes... but ten bucks says that every cyborg in the film that’s important will be white, and every cyborg that isn’t will be Asian. That’s hardly an encouraging pattern.