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I’m a Marvel guy, so I’m definitely interested in these Secret Lairs… But they’re limited print again, so they’ll be sold out within an hour and then scalped for 4x the price. Yay.

I know ownership will never be loved by the fans, but I do believe that as a sport, baseball is better when the owners care about the game rather than treating it purely as an investment.

Max Fried, huh.

I guess the big question is, what starting pitchers are available as FAs this winter? Because starting pitching is always in demand. I could see the Red Sox possibly paying over market value but I could just add easily see most of the NL West go for that, or the Cubs or any of the fringe contenders who just missed the postseason this year.

I do find myself commenting more on smaller communities, mostly because they’re more aligned with my niche interests. And larger communities get toxic really fast; politics and news just get so, so messy.

If I had to guess, half of my posts are just on the MtG instance, which doesn’t quite have critical mass for discussion yet.

I should probably tune in for weekly “What are you reading/playing/watching” threads a little more often.

Good sound design in games makes playing the game a reward in itself!

I remember spending a long time (probably 2-3 years) on Reddit as a lurker before starting to comment on things. Posting was an even bigger hurdle to get over.

There is no karma system, so there isn’t any “reward” for submitting posts other than getting to inform people and potentially spark discussions. Similarly, comments are basically only good if you actually get responses. When there’s such little activity going on, it gets pretty unlikely, unless a group of people just start forcing themselves to respond to others.

It’s a real shame; Irvine has lots of great food, and it’s another large east-Asian population center within the LA-OC metro area, but it’s also so staunchly Republican that I can’t stand to watch local news down there.

That’s nothing against the university, though. I have family who got their degrees there, and I even took summer classes on campus once. I dig the school and it was my fallback when I applied for colleges (back when it was possible to have a fallback).

Logen is in all 3 books of the trilogy, and plays prominent roles in all of them. It’s just a matter of the constantly shifting perspectives.

I’m with you, the ending of the 3rd book deflated me and actually lowered my opinions on the first 2 books. I’m curious whether the follow-up books do anything to fix it, but I can’t find the motivation to read them now.

This week has been a bit of UFO 50 and Terra Memoria.

UFO 50 hasn’t hooked me with a single specific game yet, but the entire package together is incredibly compelling and fun. It’s just neat to hop in, play half an hour of a game that makes me think back to playing on my dad’s NES, and then put it down for something else, much like how I played when I was 5 or 6.

I’m still very early on in Terra Memoria, but I think it’s pretty neat! I like the combat system as they’ve introduced it so far, and it looks like there will be a lot of depth and choices to make in combat or team-building (maybe). Something about turn-based RPGs feel perfectly suited for the Deck.