Rayvin

No, she lives in Newcastle. I'd imagine she's the best thing that ever happened to the LARPing community up here.

Just in case I hadnt sold MTG enough, here's a fat guy getting unreasonably angry about it

LARPing Live Action Role Play. I've never been sad enough to do that, but I know people who are. Amazingly, one of them is a Spanish girl who is hot as fuck. So it's not all fat pimply nerds.

I had a similar feeling, coupled with the niggling doubt that it wouldn't be work place appropriate

I played that - throwing the ball across the road and having it hit the curb and bounce back?

Now you're getting it.

No, but I occasionally say 'curses' when I want to curse

I wonder if @@adios was into it then I loved MTG. I used to get stupidly excited when I'd cornered someone into a hopeless soul sapping defeat To know that you had the mastery of someone is a great feeling. Yes I know that this is sad. I made peace with it.

To be fair, those aren't actual MTG cards. But they do look a lot like them and developed in a similar style.

It allowed for strategic thinking, betrayal, timing attacks, etc. You would work strategies and counter strategies into your deck. Try to cover all weaknesses, try to have an answer for everything. Was great fun. Allowed for the development of my current strategic abilities used in my job, IMO. It does sound sad when you have to describe it to muggles though

I... don't know what that is Alex. Unlikely though. It has lot of spells, monsters and enchantments. You develop resources and then tap them each turn to produce the power you need to damage your opponent. Was Top Trumps anything like that?

The fake news is now happening for both sides as we race to the bottom: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/06/liberal-fake-news-shift-trump-standing-rock While stories of police violence at Standing Rock have become commonplace, the account that spread last week was particularly shocking. An article from AlternativeMediaSyndicate.com said officers had burned the camps of indigenous activists fighting the Dakota Access pipeline – and destroyed their tipis. The piece, which included an image of multiple large tipis engulfed in flames, was shared more than 270,000 times on Facebook. But the photo was from a 2007 HBO film, and a key premise of the story was fake.

It used to be called Magic the Gaythering at school by people who were too stupid cool to play I enjoyed it but fucking hell was it an expensive hobby.

It's a card game...

I never got into D&D or Warhammer, but fell into Magic the Gathering instead. Wasn't considered any cooler by those who judge such things.

You play D&D?

Renton's questionable taste strikes again.

Wha?! Stranger Things is amazing... The generation gap strikes again.

It wouldn't surprise me entirely if Trump was working for Parky

I was under fire from all and sundry last week for doing just that. Am now back on the fence again The world wasn't ready.

Another good one from the same source - also looks like what he's doing:

That is superb. I still think we might be jumping the shark a bit with Trump being a dictator, but you can't argue that it's well put together. The thing is though, Plato hadn't seen enough of democratic evolution to know exactly where this all ends. Look at Sweden and other liberal democracies in Europe - they're not exactly in danger of heading the same way. Moreover, I don't think it allows for corporatism. Capitalism is just as responsible for bringing us low as democracy itself (as much as I'd agree it is overrated). Thanks for posting that though, I enjoyed it. Something to reflect on.

Fair point actually. I posted an article a few pages back which noted that local Democrats in such areas were dismayed that the Hillary campaign fought the election on identity politics rather than policies to support workers. So you had areas that had voted Democrat for years voting for Trump. Actually, that looks exactly like what we've seen here with the rise of UKIP, so I think you're dead right.

That seems to be it. It's actually remarkable how out of touch it seems that the two groups are with each other. I've never been to the US so haven't seen this divide first hand but given the expanse of territory they have there, I guess it's quite possible that their rural dwelling people are simply much more cut off from cities than ours are here. And maybe that makes a big difference.