I think it used to be a bit easier to organize small groups of people to put together their time without having to actually employ them but also having them still subordinate themselves, so you could actually do very disciplined political activity.

Stresemann was an outlier in that he was actually willing to try to use diplomacy instead of pure intransigence to manage Versailles and was successful in playing the powers against one another. He was killed by a nazi assassin, and the Bruning government went back to mostly intransigence.

In fact, the whole 'wheelbarrows of cash to burn' situation came from the socialists paying the striking miners by printing money when the French came in to try to get reparations in kind. Everyone in that country knew how powerful and popular waving the red shirt was.

I think, from a broader perspective also, Hitler didn't actually invent revanchism against Versailles as a political force- every ruling coalition and opposition party used it to their advantage when they could, from socialists to communists to centrists to nazis.

most people's enjoyment of ttrpgs is having long discussions of them and design without ever playing because playing a ttrpg is a lot more challenging than posting on the internet about them

I wait eagerly.

It's always sitting down there with Death when you decide to get into a firefight in GURPS. Even when you ostensibly have a fairly significant advantage.

Does do a good job of capturing my thoughts on tactical games post XCOM 2012, I think, except, i actually do like having the numbers in front of me, i just also like having TUs and lots of options.

I do appreciate that they actually did just decide to cast a guy kinda big enough to maybe fit what Lee Child had in mind for Reacher, because Lee Child is writing airport novels.

Though i think they'll skip the part in the books where Reacher's muscles block a bullet from going in.

It was a modern supernatural monster of the week thing that evolved into multiversal stuff including some IE stuff

Carl Douglas is a great interview in any documentary, but yeah the only real advantage the netflix doc had was that they got Chris Darden for it.

I've always joked that the Quality Control guys at concrete contractors are there mostly to sell you on whatever they've brought you, and tell you it's fine when the guy at the truck is hosing water into the mix willy-nilly.

I'm pretty sure it's so the driver can see out the right side hatch when buttoned up.

That result kinda makes sense, i'm surprised the Pope couldn't do more but they probably got wrapped up in that anti-French alliance.

Honestly I think it was inevitable- that kind of stuff was novel and interesting when it wasn't force-fed to you all the time, but the algorithm creators glommed onto it, and people followed up, like the guys in baseball who figured out slugging was more important than batting average.

Here's one for you.

That'd be extremely Method for the player of Sgt. Beck.

Yeah i think MOBAs were part of it but i think Total War did more to eat their lunch than League.