I love this story, thanks for sharing it.

“Unauthorized Bread” by Cory Doctorow is a short story about this. Great read.

Almost all these smart devices are useless. Just give me a fucking toaster or microwave that doesn’t die in six months, there is no world on which being able to connect my microwave or dishwasher to the internet is relevant or helpful to anyone but the data miners.

I assume one side is going to be clan, though.

King for the IS should be a BattleMaster, just for the name

I’m sure they will absolutely abide by the judge’s ruling and this is the last we’ll hear of it.

Build trust by having AMAs of interesting non-celebrity people.

Jokes on them, we can’t sort by upvotes and downvotes in most cases anyway

In japan they put the handwashing sink on the back of the toilet. It’s smaller, smarter, and doesn’t look weird and gross like this.

Then they brush their teeth in a different room so their toothbrush isn’t two feet from their shit.

Thanks, amusingly someone just posted an unrelated thread about it on the BT community so I got the one-two hit. I’ll see what I can find tonight

I don’t recall which one, I think atow? It’s been a while. In general though, I have a feeling anything officially battletech is going to lean way too far into crunch, but I’d be happy to be wrong.

I haven’t looked at S&V, but BT has a much more hard sci-fi feel than SW… I’m assumed it wouldn’t be a great fit. How much does scum and villainy lean on the “space fantasy” angle?

I’d love to find out that that’s the real Margot Robbie hiding in plain sight.

Who wouldn’t?!?

I don’t think they’d bring anyone from outside Lemmy.

Thanks, regardless of whether this works for BT it looks like a fun game to check out.

Are RPGs expected to contain lots of art? I’d like to examine that starting point. I admit I only skimmed the article but I didn’t see any analysis of if less art means less sales. I wonder if people are trying to adhere to the standard set in games like D&D and PF, but those have art because they can, not necessarily because they must.

Blades in the Dark is extremely highly regarded and has some art, but certainly not tons of it. Microscope and Kingdom haven’t got any, as far as I can recall.

Side note, battletech chess set is a phenomenal idea.

That’s never been my experience in the slightest.

I think the right way to go is fine a good local computer store with knowledgeable people and get their help parting out and assembling it. You get some repair coverage and benefits like that, they do the bulk of the work, and you can put your own options in on anything you’re knowledgeable about. It’s what I’ve done and it’s well worth it for the small extra cost.

No idea, maybe people don’t know the sub and assume it’s Mra? Menslib was an excellent subreddit and I really want to see it back.

These are millenial shooters dangit, boomers were too old for doom. Gen X at most.

More seriously though I just replayed the OG doom and it still slaps, nice to see some folks are trying to recapture that. I should check these out.