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Your canvas is as empty as your soul!
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Dec 2, 2022 16:46
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Wargames ill needs a pallet such as you.
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Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more
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FMguru posted:RIP to classic wargame designer (turned academic and analyst) John Prados (1951-2022). Probably most famous for his influential 1974 classic for Avalon Hill, Third Reich. Ah man, my dad was close with Prados. I should give him a call
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potatocubed posted:Apropos of nothing, but this picture and the others like it are giving me powerful nostalgia. I used to love a hex-and-counter wargame. It’s a genre I wish saw more effort outside the $200 ASL-level-of-complexity things, like I know computer war games took over some of it but most computer war games focus on 4x play over simulating specific conditions.
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Maxwell Lord posted:It’s a genre I wish saw more effort outside the $200 ASL-level-of-complexity things, like I know computer war games took over some of it but most computer war games focus on 4x play over simulating specific conditions. Honestly I think ASL-level complexity stuff is way overshadowed by other game systems at the moment. I mean, you've got 22 games in the COIN series, a bunch of card-driven games, and a whole bunch of smaller games on a surprisingly wide range of topics--and that's just from GMT. Most of them are in the $80-$100 range because that's what games with boxes and countersheets and maps tend to run these days. You can certain find monsters that run a couple hundred bucks but I'd argue those are the outliers these days.
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I agree with Hypnobeard - there are a number of war games that are quite playable and don't rise to the level of ASL, but they're also not nearly as noticed by the rest of the hobby if you're not already a wargamer I still have a Battle of Midway boardgame that I've never been able to play with another human yet because I picked up from a game store in Japan... in November of 2019
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Yeah, there's wargames of a lot of different complexity levels these days, it's really never been better in terms of how much gets published. There's stuff from Almoravid  to Empire of the Sun  Forgive the "strategic bombing" markers- they're marking the edge of the South Pacific scenario area. Which, by the way, is a really good way to learn EotS.
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I’d even go to say that nowadays, complex hex and counter games like ASL and OCS are the anomaly, not the rule. It’s only really MMP that is still somewhat profitable making them.
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Tekopo posted:I’d even go to say that nowadays, complex hex and counter games like ASL and OCS are the anomaly, not the rule. It’s only really MMP that is still somewhat profitable making them. Well, all the publishers do publish some monster stuff but it's not really the main course of any publisher right now.
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Xiahou Dun posted:theyrethesamepicture.jpeg. Speaking as a visual artist nobody knows what mauve is. It's one of the great unknowables of art like 'what do horses look like' and 'how do I draw a bicycle'.
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Panzeh posted:Yeah, there's wargames of a lot of different complexity levels these days, it's really never been better in terms of how much gets published. I love how lower barriers to publication have enhanced the sheer variety of games available to people.
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HopperUK posted:'what do horses look like' 
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Is that a goddamn Jacob Horse
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Ah man, my dad was close with Prados. I should give him a call Update: I talked to my dad and he was pretty shook up early in the week. He was actually planning on visiting Prados in a couple weeks. They talked in November and he never mentioned he was sick or anything to my dad. This was a big shock to my dad and most people apparently. John Prados is more famous for his books and academic stuff, but to my dad (and me by extension) he was a quirky wargamer who held a celebration for Napoleon's Birthday most years. I dont remember ever meeting Prados (If I did, I had to have been really young), but he was an important figure in multiple fields and lived a very interesting life who will be missed. 
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HopperUK posted:Is that a goddamn Jacob Horse Can you believe to learn that it is! (it's the og Jacob horse)
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HopperUK posted:Speaking as a visual artist nobody knows what mauve is. It's one of the great unknowables of art like 'what do horses look like' and 'how do I draw a bicycle'. I got you fam  
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Cessna posted:I got you fam https://the-toast.net/2016/05/17/two-monks-invent-horses/
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Looks like Jamison has decided to crawl out from under the stone he's living under and show he doesn't know how to spell lich, among other things. https://twitter.com/JasonTDnDDM/status/1599806082771169289?t=tBk_uuL6y7T80vVQitMsFg&s=19
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He's kind of wearing a shirt. That's progress!
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Don't need to cover up your torso if you don't have a torso
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He’s a real son of a litch.
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What the actual gently caress is "suffering as a cudgel" supposed to mean. That's barely grammatical ; clubs aren't exactly known for their emotional depth. And even if it made sense it wouldn't apply to him.
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if you make "suffering" a noun, then someone can use it as a cudgel like it's awkward phrasing but I understood the intent he is saying that people are using suffering as a weapon against him because he is the victim
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Leperflesh posted:if you make "suffering" a noun, then someone can use it as a cudgel I guess? Means you need an unsignaled break in who the unspecified topic is though, which isn't any better from a writer perspective.
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Given the author, we already know what the topic is (himself, always always himself), and I'm certainly not suggesting this is good writing!
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Bicep tassels close off the circulation to your brain, I guess. Somebody in the comments called him a troll doll who discovered hot yoga, which made me laugh.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I guess? Means you need an unsignaled break in who the unspecified topic is though, which isn't any better from a writer perspective. poetry is often ungrammatical
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Dawgstar posted:Bicep tassels close off the circulation to your brain, I guess. The history of the Ultimate Warrior proves this theory correct.
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I'm going with the interpretation that he means he suffered because he was used as a weapon, because it's absolutely the funniest interpretation considering that their entire dipshit plan was "Jamison takes the blame so the real moneymaker doesn't get wrecked."
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Eastmabl posted:Looks like Jamison has decided to crawl out from under the stone he's living under and show he doesn't know how to spell lich, among other things. This is the guy who'd stiff his writers on their pay because he had to spend so much time cleaning up their work, huh?
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No, that is definitely not Kevin Siembieda.
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Halloween Jack posted:No, that is definitely not Kevin Siembieda. Have you ever seen the two of them in the same room?
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Halloween Jack posted:No, that is definitely not Kevin Siembieda. I know that was a thing KS did constantly. I thought it was also one of the things Jamison was accused of, as well.
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Dawgstar posted:Somebody in the comments called him a troll doll who discovered hot yoga homullus posted:poetry is often ungrammatical
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Falstaff posted:This is the guy who'd stiff his writers on their pay because he had to spend so much time cleaning up their work, huh? "Why don't they understand it's spelled ghoblyns, ghoddamnyt!"
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He genuinely thinks he can position himself as Just Too Cool to be ostracised, doesn't he? Like all he has to do is show off his biceps and his audience will flock back to him, because the allegations weren't real and everyone loved him really. This should be entertaining. Hopefully he hasn't got the money for a Zak S-style wave of defamation lawsuits.
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Loxbourne posted:He genuinely thinks he can position himself as Just Too Cool to be ostracised, doesn't he? Like all he has to do is show off his biceps and his audience will flock back to him, because the allegations weren't real and everyone loved him really. This is apparently how he operates by accounts from some people who interacted with him. He's got the colored hair and the tattoos and muscles* and intensity and tries to get in your face by overwhelming you. Works really well on a certain type of person. *I will never not laugh at one of his complaints for a project he was paid to shill was the t-shirts weren't black and sleeveless.
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