[–] [S] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

The Bastion style boxes? They're all transparent and hard plastic, aren't they?

Truth be told, I'm looking for something thematic to hold Star Trek decks. I'm gonna make a Landfall/Strange New Worlds/Blink deck that's starting with the Landing Party precon as a base. The box doesn't need to be Star Trek specifically, as I realize there's licensing issues there, but I like it being somewhat related. For example just got a new playmat for it that isn't specifically Star Trek themed:

https://krakendice.com/products/nebula-playmat

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    This is my favorite deck box. It's a Boulder from Ultimate Guard and I love the size, sturdiness, and lack of opacity. I love that it's themed based on a set (as all my decks are themed to a single set), and that it doesn't have text on it. I was really looking forward to Ultimate Guard having the license for the upcoming Star Trek sets, but they just revealed their Boulder boxes for this set and they're transparent and covered in text that gives me big "Live, Laugh, Love" vibes.

    Anyone have any suggestions for something as compact as this that's already themed? I'm not opposed to Etsy, but I'm wary of 3D printed things that end up feeling low quality.

    I loved the idea of the RTE series from Ultimate Guard, but the build quality of the two that I purchased were terrible and neither of them closed all the way with standard sleeved cars.

    [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    The issue wasn't just support, it was also appeal. SWG was designed as complex layered game that required community for nearly every aspect (even crafting had an end game that required support from multiple players). It intentionally avoided delivering on the fantasy of the universe by making it impossible to become a jedi, and leaned into the reality of the universe by forcing players into becoming background characters like the cantina band and moisture farmers. SWG found the audience it sought, it was a niche game for players who wanted to live in a simulated version of the Star Wars universe. WoW was a mass market game that sanded off the rough edges of previous MMOs, getting rid of things like experience loss and naked corpse runs. It replaced vast open world that required arcane knowledge and research to navigate with optimized play sessions that layered easy to achieve short term goals with tons of direction through an overflowing amount of quests, neatly joined with a hub and spoke progression as you leveled up.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Nobody commenting on the fact that this good scientist nearly shares a name with the largest fast food chain on the planet on the planet. I like to think this Dr. Chris Macdonald is rebelling against their father, Ronald.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    I was in Tokyo in 2007 and everyone was wearing jeans under jeans. I was convinced it was going to come stateside. I don't think it was a full pair of jeans beneath an outer pair of jeans. But that's what it looked like. It seemed like the response to how extreme the trend to wear your pants sagging had gotten. Sag as hard as you want, just wear another pair of jeans underneath so you're not in your boxers.

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    Every year, my partner of a decade and I have Christmas with her family. My family is Jewish and we also spend at least one night of Hanukkah with them. For all gatherings (including birthdays) the gifts are almost exclusively chosen and purchased by the one who is more directly related to the recipient. It always feels a little weird to me that their family gets me gifts, but they never receive anything exclusively from myself, it's just very vaguely implied that the gifts are from us as a couple. To be fair, their parents give gifts as a couple (always from their mom). Also, I would never ask my partner to purchase gifts for my family in addition to theirs, they're already stressed enough by finding something for their own family. I've never brought this up with my partner as I don't want to make them feel either obligated to or guilty about implicitly declaring that they don't want to.

     

    I see news articles that the vote to release the files might not happen until the first week of December, but yesterday saw a massive dump of emails.

    Are these two separate things? Why are they categorized like this? Do we know how different they are from each other? Who has actually seen what's in the files?

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