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@HazelAppleyard Step into a river. Everyone knows that you can't step into the same river twice.

… NO??

@RaymondDuke @SandyofCthulhu Let me count the ways.... Invasion of Ukrain Torture and murder of prisoners Kidnapping and indoctrination of Ukrainian children Continuous bombardment of civilians Want me to continue?

@SandyofCthulhu Why do you hate Putin's Russia?

Russia suffered similar effects to having lost a real war. Their economy tanked, their government was overthrown, there were riots, an attempted coup, and other ill effects. The USSR literally broke up - they lost Ukraine, Byelorus, the Caucasus, Uzbekistan and the other "stans", the Baltic States. What they did NOT suffer was massive loss of life and wanton demolishing of industry. So it was better than a real war, but it hurt them. If they'd given in earlier, the bad effects would have been less, just as if German in WW1 or WW2 had sought peace a couple of years earlier. These same ill effects weren't seen in the tributary states such as Poland or Romania, because they saw the end of the Cold War as a liberation - again, just as in a real war. So it was a war. The best kind of war because we didn't have to lose millions of lives and neither did they. But the stakes were just as high as a real war, and the USSR suffered from its loss, and deservedly so. It was a terrible system. I hate Putin's Russia but there is absolutely no doubt his Russia is more benign than the old USSR.

@SandyofCthulhu Ask the folk in Ukraine today, the prisoners tortured, the children kidnapped, the continuous bombardment. A cafe in Lviv was hit in the middle of the day. Yes, I know the Soviets were bad, but using them as a comparator reduces the effect of what Russia is like today.

@SeaSpitfires Too late, consideration happens in January, I understand. It will have to be 2027.

Trump has ended another war! Start engraving the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

@joemccuiston17 @SecRubio Not actually true. Ask the NATO allies.

@SecRubio If diplomacy is to be carried out over X, could the President at least check the grammar first - WITCH, really? Also, all upper case makes it less rather than more readable.

@Bricktop_NAFO I've missed a few in the 20 months or so I've been taking them, perhaps because my (23 year old) youngest has never reminded me. More likely because sometimes when the alarm at 10pm goes off and I think "I'll deal with that in a minute".

Since I had an operation on my leg, and subsequently ended up having 3 pulmonary embolisms and being put it a rather serious condition. Naturally I’ve had to take blood thinner medication. I’m been taking them for 100 days since this day, in the morning and nighttime. I have an app on my Apple Watch that reminds me to take them to make sure they’re not missed. However, although my son is still a young child, there has not been a single morning, or a single night since that day that my son hasn’t come up to me to remind me to take that medication on time. I’m so blessed.

@TitusLos Titus, it's not an exclusive choice. It may be that the Iranian command has been so disrupted that some are talking and some are not. But forced to make a choice? I think it likely that Trump is lying because his lips moved.

Who do you believe: President Trump when it comes to the current peace talks, or the Iranian political leaders?

@JDVance Are they trained for this?

⁨We’ve all seen the chaos unleashed by Democrats at airports across the country. It’s preposterous that Chuck Schumer continues to hold TSA funding hostage. Thankfully, ICE will bring sanity to our airports starting tomorrow, but it’s far past time for Democrats to fund DHS.

@SandyofCthulhu Saving throws can distinguish between the accuracy of an attack (constant for a given attacker) and the effectiveness of the defender (armour, weapon skill if appropriate) and still just use a D6. Particularly useful in pre- gunpowder settings, less so in later periods.

I own Featherstone's book and I always thought the idea of saving throws in wargames was stupid. You already have to roll dice for your attacking units. Then you have to delay play to see how many of the defenders were actually hit? As I see it, if the attacking dice were killing too many defenders (which is what Featherstone says below), surely the better solution is to have those attacking dice inflict fewer casualties. For instance, instead of rolling 1d6 per 5 troops to see how many hits you get, roll 1d6 minus 1. That will reduce the total deaths to 70% as many, which is almost precisely the same as you get when instigating a 66.6% "saving throw". This doesn't apply to roleplaying games necessarily, because a petrifaction saving throw for your hero who just got bit by a cockatrice isn't really the same.

@SilenceInPolish I had to get made redundant in order to finish mine. I handed it in 7 days ahead of the 7 year deadline...

@SilenceInPolish That is the way.

Setting aside the next four weeks to polish off the final chapter of the PhD. I'm going to turn a blind eye to the badgers setting up home under piles of laundry, and my children scavenging for scraps. Full on 'monstrous selfishness'

@GrumpyOldLab @wylfcen He'd come across in a small boat and eliminated Christianity and the British language. Why would he think our society had gone backwards?

@wylfcen If he was dropped in Tower Hamlets or Bradford, he would think our society has gone backwards.

@wylfcen I don't know. He'd just migrated on a small boat, and was in the process of destroying Christianity and the British language, so he'd be glad at least one of those projects was complete.

@SandyofCthulhu That's not the good thing you seem to think it is.

Did you know that the embargo from the US means that Cuba isn't allowed to trade with ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD?! You'd think it would be only America, and that the EU or China or Japan or Russia would love the cancer vaccine. But nope. My British friend who went to Cuba on holiday 10 years in a row was amazed when he learned that he wasn't allowed to visit. The blame is Donald Trump's of course, because my British friend started vacations to Cuba in 2002, and Trump was a living person then.

@LauraLoomer Worse than a crying baby on a plane? Starting a war you haven't planned for and don't know how to finish. I'm looking at you, Putin. And you, Trump.

Is there anything worse than a crying baby on a plane? I wish parents would control their children. It’s so disruptive. I refuse to believe a baby cries for 10 hours. At some point this is just bad parenting, right?

@SandyofCthulhu Bretwalda, because as well as being a good game, it's beautiful.

I actually get this a lot, because people know I’m a designer so they assume I know all about games. I pick games with simple rules, physical components, and not too long play time. While there are many possibilities, here are four: Once Upon A Time Betrayal at House on the Hill Monster Factory Ticket to Ride How about you?

@nikitabier @XCreators @premium @Support Hi team, I’ve submitted my official appeal for paused monetization some time ago which has gone unanswered, could someone please review it? The pause stemmed from a stupid comment. I’ve reflected on this and will now handle debates with decimation via knowledge and wit, rather than cheap/snide insults. Thank you for your consideration! 🙏

@Bricktop_NAFO @FredFellaIMO I thought it was because you like Lego.

@FredFellaIMO My name isn’t really Bricktop. I chose it because I also feed people to pigs.

I have a confession. My name isn’t really Fred. I chose it for anonymity. Everything else I have ever shared about me is completely true. Please, keep referring to me as Fred.

@klara_sjo 1) it's EITHER 'actual' OR 'apocryphal' - can't be both 2) if it's a quote from a Nazi propogandist, it's not part of an 'honored tradition'.

Here’s an actual (if apocryphal) quote that always makes me chuckle from Goebbels’ diary: “All astrologers, magnetopaths, anthroposophists, etc. arrested & their entire activity paralyzed. This finally puts an end to this swindle. Strangely enough, not a single clairvoyant foresaw that he would be arrested. A bad professional sign." The key takeaway from the above: hating on astrology hoes is a time honored tradition!