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I would have said Let's Game it Out, but only back when it was a two man show and only lightly edited. Now it's mainlining open world Vinny without commenting on anything in the actual gameplay. But apparently it's 100 times more popular now so yay YT algorithm.

But my interests are a lot more niche. I miss the days of Flight Crew and Dave (or Austin) trying to cram a meaningful session of Crusader Kings into a TNT slot or QL.

IDK, it's not exactly much different than what they normally do. UPF is basically that in appetizer form. They've done longplay formats in many different flavors and since they've moved on from the Endurance Run those are mostly with chat open and folks watching live. Maybe Brad's dabbling with being an animated fox-man or sentient hamburger has awakened Vtuber life for the boys.

I don't really have a video game one. Usually my opinion aligns with if not the majority opinion then one that has a reasonable audience.

More out there: Klingons and Romulans should either be absorbed into the Federation or at best minor regional issues. The idea that slavers and conquerors could keep up for centuries with an egalitarian, peaceful society is pretty antithetical to the entire point of Star Trek. I mean by accident, they've shown the Mirror Universe requires cheatcode, after hack, after mods to even keep some level of parity with the prime. From stealing Vulcan tech, to being handed TOS tech, to having to steal a later Defiant's plans. Hell, if beefy TNG era Klingons had shown up and fought some away mission squad, only to eventually be called off by their masters the Ferengi, that would have done a lot to cement those new aliens as a real threat. And of course had precedence in history where nations rise and fall often because they have a threat to one side and cannot deal with another elsewhere. Same with maybe the Romulans and Cardies.

EDIT - To piggy back on the previous post. I wouldn't mind a Battletech version of Crusader Kings. Its the recognition that the spies and the people that order them around that are the real power in a setting of 100 ton mechs and spaceships was what made me fall in love with that setting.

@old_school_gaming: oh I agree. I was a dummy and forgot that second part, i.e. High level threats should always be on the map no matter your level, but low level threats do everything they can to avoid you.

My problem is enemies in games typically have no morale. They are ALL suicidally committed to their opposition to you. Doesnt matter if you look like you are on your last legs or you've just murdered a hundred other folks. They will keep coming.

So I'd be fine with level scaling if the combat only happened when these high level characters happened upon you, rather than mysteriously never existing until they needed to show up.

IDK, DLC being flashy, sure, but incongruous doesn't strike me as an especially critical component of DLC.

I mean I love Hellboy, but fighting Superman with him has not ever crossed my mind. Now if it was Thor or something then we are getting closer to the mark, but in a weird way that makes more sense than a Dark Horse character.

No big deal, but I don't think it's some crazy idea that a game about DC characters would draw DC fans that would in turn be really stoked about the possibility of minor DC characters being DLC. Frankly, I hope the next iteration to come out in 3+ years will go further with the custom skins so even more minor characters can show up.

I think someone mentioned a weighted vote. That would be where this would play out. Would Austin putting Invisible Inc number one be enough votes/points over a few other Bombers putting a game in their 8-10 spots.

Given we already get their individual Top 10. Assuming they put the right amount of thought into those, we can already do this ourselves I guess.

When Ben was talking about his game having FOUR separate rules book I just really wanted someone to chime in with, "Well no wonder you were bored. You were playing a baby game for babies."

Did you have to take into account local barometric pressure? That the previous Tuesday fell on an odd day of the month WITHOUT being a prime number day of the year? Are you sitting near a taller person? But is THAT person sitting near a person wearing glasses?

That said Ben's game does sounds kind of crazy in its granularity, even if my tabletop games are of the RPG variety that actually require a minimum of 4 rules books often enough.

I think it's a silly thing to get hung up on, but it's not hypocritical to be completely cool with allowing a bonkers thing without wanting everything to be weird. Just about any zombie narrative or alien invasion story pretty much requires you to accept an almost fundamentally impossible premise. It doesn't mean the internal logic should now be Looney Tunes.

EDIT - In regards to Origins, I'm hoping the origins of the Assassins in Ancient Egypt specifically have something to do with the death worship they engaged in. This being a culture where one god of death wasn't enough and the god with the head of a scavenger was replaced by basically an undead god.

I wouldn't worry. This game is based on a setting that had an NPC from an NPC-based splatbook that was famous. She was famous because she was once on the cover of Time as a six year old. That six year old was dirty and wild eyed and sporting a holdout pistol in the ruins of her once middle class neighborhood during the Collapse in the US that makes up the backstory of this setting. That Collapse has a lot of topical factors. Ongoing ambivalence to pandemics happening elsewhere, a neverending war on drugs and engagement in foreign brush wars, and of course serious social stratification based on lack of economic mobility. Another brief flavor passage clearly details (from the point of view of the abductee) a teenaged girl that was in the most generous viewing used as a surrogate womb and more likely as a victim of repeated rape to provide a child to a wealthy family. Which is about as economically dystopian as it gets.

That said it's also a setting where in the Bay Area two old Techies by the name of Steve run some electronics kiosks in the local Mall Megaplex that have a certain...fruit based iconography...

And REO Meatwagon is the name for the number two company for emergency (and AGGRESSIVE) ambulance services.