[Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

[lyonhaert]

<looks askance at Precursor Golem and giggles>

[Yatsufusa]

You know you aged when just replying quote-by-quote on one topic got you like "That's enough forums for today and probably the next few days as well".

To think I was able to do that with multiple hot-topics and still feel energized back then (mostly during Salvation's heydays, I was already toning down alongside its decline).

[Jemolk]

Weird token generators? How about Volrath's Laboratory?

If only it weren't so overcosted. Still, weird fun card.

[Dunharrow]

Gutter Grime is pretty neat

[DirkGently]

Gutter Grime is pretty neat

Actually pretty messy tbh.

[Toshi]

Thoughts with everyone affected by the events unfolding since last night.
I sincerely hope for everyone's families rooted in Ukraine to be safe and sound, not forget to feel seen and sided with.

[vandertroll]

It's so weird to witness this war unfolding when they use your neighbor's playbook (turkey) which was used in the 70's to Cyprus, breaking the island in two parts. It's even weirder when those two countries, Russia and Turkey, have aligned interests. We are in a new age unfortunately, where international law is openly disregarded. I hope everyone stationed in Ukraine is safe.

[BeneTleilax]

I mean, they tried the "inflame ethnic tensions to get a loyal breakaway state" shtick and it got them an opportunistic mess in the Donbas that would collapse if they stopped dumping money into it. Shelling peoples' houses is not going to win them any local support. I'm not sure what Putin's planning, other than the sort of "total war" wank that was discredited by the London blitz. It's certainly destructive, and my heart goes out to the people of Ukraine, but I struggle to see what anyone stands to gain from this once the smoke clears.

[Jemolk]

I struggle to see what anyone stands to gain from this once the smoke clears.

Control masquerading as risk-minimization. That's about it, really. If you can't trust anyone, and any reliance on anyone else is seen as a liability, then the logical outgrowth of that is that your only option is to slowly conquer the world. It's silly and self-destructive, but it's also a flawed pattern of thinking that we humans are eminently susceptible to.

[BeneTleilax]

Control masquerading as risk-minimization. That's about it, really. If you can't trust anyone, and any reliance on anyone else is seen as a liability, then the logical outgrowth of that is that your only option is to slowly conquer the world. It's silly and self-destructive, but it's also a flawed pattern of thinking that we humans are eminently susceptible to.

Yeah, the old imperial neurosis. In fact, what he stands to gain is a violent failed state next door. As dumb as the Iraq war was, at least Iraq didn't share a land border with the US. Putin really stuck his dick a blender here.

[DirkGently]

"I don't need a ride, I need ammunition."

Damn dude, Zelensky is 80s-action-hero levels of badass.

[Airi]

o/ Long time no see.

[benjameenbear]

o/ Long time no see.

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Lol, welcome back @Airi!

[toctheyounger]

o/ Long time no see.

Hey, was thinking overnight when we'd see you again! Welcome back and hope you're doing well!

[Airi]

Lol, welcome back @Airi!

Hey, was thinking overnight when we'd see you again! Welcome back and hope you're doing well!

Thank you! ^.^ I'm doing all right, just been muddling my way through the pandemic like a hermit.

[Hermes_]

Lol, welcome back @Airi!

Hey, was thinking overnight when we'd see you again! Welcome back and hope you're doing well!

Thank you! ^.^ I'm doing all right, just been muddling my way through the pandemic like a hermit.

A Hermit Druid ?

[Ulka]

o/ Long time no see.

Oh Hai Nerd! Long time no Chat

[Airi]

A Hermit Druid ?

I'm not nearly so powerful

Oh Hai Nerd! Long time no Chat

Yup, its definitely been a long time. It's not like you have to be held hostage by my web novel adventures in your own server regularly. Not at all.

[Ulka]

I mean it has been since Saturday I looked at the thread sooooo

[Janky_as_heck]

Wildly unrelated. If you could ask a member of the diversity team from Neon Dynasty a question, what would you ask?

[vandertroll]

Wildly unrelated. If you could ask a member of the diversity team from Neon Dynasty a question, what would you ask?

''How does it feel to work for such a gimmicky business unit?"

[ISBPathfinder]

@Airi somehow not having a cat as your avatar I still don't notice who you are at first glance lol. You haven't had that for years now but it still gets me.

[Janky_as_heck]

Wildly unrelated. If you could ask a member of the diversity team from Neon Dynasty a question, what would you ask?

''How does it feel to work for such a gimmicky business unit?"

I mean I was hoping for a constructive question but

[FoxHybrid]

Wildly unrelated. If you could ask a member of the diversity team from Neon Dynasty a question, what would you ask?

Were there any cards that you had to change? If so, why?

[Airi]

@Airi somehow not having a cat as your avatar I still don't notice who you are at first glance lol. You haven't had that for years now but it still gets me.

I'd offer to change it back, but I don't even have the image for the original icon anymore.