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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Frodo was Gandalf's chicken. Realistically, how much damage to Middle Earth can one evil hobbit cause?

Edit: Just saw the title.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The what visual novel of all time? Longest? Horniest? Most colourful?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Please tag your language if you're posting non-English

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Could be anything, I prefer SF&F and a well written plot that's internally consistent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

I read the article

From the shitshow that's the comments, you're the only one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I've never quite understood what people meant by somebody having a punchable face, until I saw this pic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I wish I had eyeballs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, that's not the game

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What game are you looking at? That screenshot isn't dune, it's some other game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

No, that's an entirely different game screenshot, no idea what parent comment is smoking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

~~You’re fucking nasty.~~ As an American, an armed American, I’d shoot you in the ass on site ~~, if I caught you pissing in my sink.~~

Shortened it for you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Am I the only one who feels sorry for the dog? I suspect she'd have been happier on the island, given how hard she worked to evade humans and recapture.

 

 

Running bamboo is notoriously fast spreading and difficult to remove. What keeps its population balanced in the wild, and prevents it from crowding out the competition? I tried googling, but was inundated with gardening advice, horror stories, and assault / offensive gardening (some of the latter two presumably covering the same incident from both sides). My google-fu failed, I couldn't really find any info about natural population controls of running bamboo in the thicket of tall tales and gardening advice.

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To be clear: They are joining an existing lawsuit for businesses that are being impacted by the tariffs

 

It's been a while since I remembered to post this! I'm so bad at this stuff 😖

 

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/157533

Pile of various classic board games including Monopoly, Scrabble, and Battleship on shelves at a cafe, Bondadoso Coffee, Walnut Creek, California, November 13, 2023.

Less than two weeks after the Trump administration’s announcement of historically high tariffs on virtually all goods imported into the United States, the board game industry appears set for an unexpected reckoning. An ad hoc industry survey conducted by Cardboard Edison reveals that nearly a quarter of publishers polled will simply stop making board games. A majority believe that prices for board games that do get published will go up, and that the size and complexity of those games will go down. It’s a dismal state of affairs for what was once a blossoming part of the larger tabletop games industry, one that has for decades generated hundreds of millions of dollars for the United States economy.

Cardboard Edison is a small publisher best known for its annual game design awards. Its survey, conducted April 9-11, collected responses from 62 publishers. The company claims that “about 90%” of respondents said they expect consumer prices on board games will go up because of tariffs, and “about two-thirds” of publishers said print runs for those games will be smaller. 62% of publishers said they plan to sign fewer new games to their catalogs, meaning fewer opportunities for tabletop designers who traditionally operate as independent contractors. Most tragically, the group says 23% — nearly a quarter — of respondents said they’ll just stop making board games altogether.

The biggest red flag in the survey, however, is that those publishers who want to try and stay in the board game business are actively seeking ways to cut distributors and retailers out of the equation. As margins fall due to the cost of tariffs, which are a tax, selling games at retail using traditional logistics simply won’t be an option. Brick and mortar stores, including thousands of independent local game stores all around the country, likely won’t have as many board games to put on their shelves going forward.


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Hi, I am able to access feddit.org from my wifi, but connecting via my mobile data fails. Is feddit.org doing geoblocking or blocking certain IP ranges? It's negatively impacting the lemmy experience for me hugely, as a lot of images in my feed do not load, and I imagine it's affecting others as well.

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