I would risk adding something to your comment, but you made a point with such finesse that me trying to add to it would either be redundant or taint it.

Seriously though, your reply is the TL;DR for this article. Fucking A+. I wish I had more accounts to give you more stars.

You aren’t commiting crimes against humanity you’re commanding fake armor divisions in a military game.

It’s a nice sentiment...but for me at least the guests and panels and what not have never been the reason I wanted to go to cons.  It was that feeling of community...of a 3 day party and a few thousand people you know all share at least one common interest.  The internet has made it easy to find other fans online,…

DId you read the article

Write this article but from the perspective of how when playing as the British Empire and Commonwealth forces you’re nearly always in an entirely White army despite the Empire being predominantly made up of Asian and African peoples or how no campaign ending ever has “and by jove, who cares if Bengal starved and…

A million times this. They registered in random island nations to avoid paying taxes and so they could pay their workers next to nothing. Fuck em. Hope they all go belly up. 

Let them register their ships stateside and pay taxes and then we’ll look into giving them assistance in a year or two.

No article on cruise lines is complete without mentioning how much they pollute, and how often they get caught dumping trash at sea.

Okay let's just not have the doctors help this person ever for the rest of their life. You go crashing cars in the middle of a pandemic potentially causing injury and sending more people to the hospital and not only that but you crash into a bunch of cars in front of a temporary hospital. I think at that point you…

This is what BioWare attempted to do with Mass Effect: Andromeda. The results were terrible to the point where many, many reviews specifically panned the facial animations as a low point of the game. The technology just isn’t there yet.

I mean, *shrug*, some people aren’t all that bothered by what you’re talking about. For me, personally, graphical and animation concerns are almost always literally on the bottom of my checklist for “why I enjoy a game”.

It’s fine that it’s higher up for you. For some people, visual presentation has to be spot-on or…

Many people have turned to yucata.de, tabletop simulator, boardgamearena.com and other sites to play during thequarantine. As a result they’re playing and trying many games they wouldn’t have otherwise. Hopefully this translates to sales of physical copies once the quarantine is over.

GenCon is neither the biggest, nor the most important board game expo.
That’s the Spiel in Essen. It has more than 3 times as many attendants, more publishers, more games, more new releases. Gencon cannot hold a candle against it. Just saying.

Tabletop simulator is always a thing. I know for a fact the D&D scene is still alive and well with things like roll20. my own group actually has extra sessions planned since we have so much free time.

Really bummed that the Bloodborne board game I kickstarted a while ago won’t be shipping soon, but I totally understand the delay.

Top guy posting, you “weren’t in the mood” to read like 2 pages worth of typed material, but you really wanted to know the name of a game in a picture, I am restating that correctly, yeah?

Tabletop Simulator is half-off right now and one of the top sellers on Steam, and it’s easy to imagine why.  Board game groups are going digital for now.

Nah, surgical masks don’t protect from getting sick, they protect other people from you if you’re already ill...what you want is an N95 particle respirator, which has a metal tab that makes the mask contour to your nose. Slightly more expensive models also have a one-way valve that allows your breath to escape, which…

I was having some trouble following this and wasn't going to respond, but you called me "mate" so many times I figured I had to.

Wow- first time I've heard of such a thing, and from an IT perspective, it's a great hack to be able to do all of that on a puny little PDP 11.