Elda King

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AKA @eldaking
He/him. A++ (aromantic + asexual).
From Brazil, but tooting in English.

I mostly play medium/heavy Euro-style boardgames and strategy videogames. I'm usually more into boardgames, but not really playing much this year... :(

I'm also a general nerd, mess with computers, watch cartoons, do SCIENCE, etc.

Always up forTerra Mystica
With 2 playersAndroid: Netrunner
A light gamePuerto Rico
Never finishedGloomhaven
Elda KingSep 4, 2020
@robert Thanks for doing this in the first place, this instance was great. :)
Show threadElda KingSep 3, 2020
@nindokag Yep, some doctors commented a while ago that this year there were so, so many fewer kids with colds and the flu than usual.
Show threadElda KingSep 3, 2020
@suivran (I assume you are talking about how we burn lines around big forest fires to contain the fire when it gets there and stop it from spreading? If it's not this I don't know what it is about.)
Show threadElda KingSep 3, 2020
@suivran Which is why we use firefighters to put out fires, and not the more obvious waterfighters or earthfighters. Many people think their fire powers are useless, but they are not.
Elda KingSep 3, 2020
Mara, Technopact WarlockSep 3, 2020
Is there a ttrpg term for a warlock pact with a corporation? Best case scenario, I'm gonna need one
Show threadElda KingSep 2, 2020
@nindokag A probably more accurate parallel would be that the USA is finally using in itself all the tactics it used to destabilize other countries and put puppet dictators in power. :/
Show threadElda KingSep 2, 2020

@nindokag Absolutely not.

First, those weapons and tactics have been in use by police forces against protests for decades already in much of the world. The US is just using very consolidated police tactics.

Second, it is the other way around. The US has adopted the "counterinsurgence" doctrine for its military, treating war enemies as "revolts". It isn't new either - it dates back to the Vietnam War.

Elda KingSep 2, 2020

Just discovered that in Crusader Kings 3 you don't choose technologies to "research", you pick what technology your character is "fascinated" by and then it is discovered a few years earlier than normal.

I love this idea.

#ck3

Show threadElda KingSep 2, 2020

@valenoern An interesting macro-economic theory is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/mmt-postcard.html

It is really not an orthodox view, so take the conclusions with a grain of salt. But I think the way it re-frames issues helps understand a nebulous area.

Elda KingSep 2, 2020

@valenoern I'm stretching my limited knowledge of economics here, but I think this would be more an issue of liquidity - turning this into actual money to spend on things.

I don't think it would be an issue of injecting too much money into the economy, either; at least in theory it should be money already in circulation. But are those fortunes just a speculation bubble with no actual value, that could just go poof? Well, probably.