I’m in this same sort of boat. It’s not that I really want to play but I have a friend who wants me to play and I’m happy to go along with it. So like you, I can’t justify the prices for something that I might (and probably) won’t even like.

What I’ve found is what are called “proxys”. Basically you can just print the cards you want for free off the internet. I’m sure there are groups out there that aren’t approving of playing with proxies but if your group falls more on the side of playing and having fun rather than collecting and you’re not trying to pass off proxies as real cards then you should be fine.

It seems to me like a great way to get started and see if it’s something you like without much investment at all

And not just the Iranians. Every regime everywhere has taken note and learned the lesson: you’re not safe… without nukes.

See Ukraine as well. Gave up their nukes for guarantees they would not be attacked. Any country with the means to develop the bomb and aren’t are not paying attention

I’m just finishing up listening to the first one and I’m really glad there are more

All hail the emperor!

Look into the history of the black panthers. They armed themselves which caused new gun laws to be passed in the state of California. The irony being that those bills were signed into law by Reagan when he was governor

Yep. When my now wife was like 13 her dad (who was in the early stages of being eaten by Fox News) didn’t want her to get the hpv vaccine fearing that she’d just be out having sex. What a wild thing to think about your own daughter. Especially for a guy who had unprotected premarital sex which made my wife

Armed minorities are harder to oppress

I can assure you it is not worth it. In fact, can I come live in your country? I’ll buy the first round at the pub

As far as anti-vaxxers and raw milk people go, despite not trusting modern medical science boy will they use it when their lives are on the line. Hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance at it’s finest

A feddit.uk account winging about Americans having too many guns? You planning something lobsterback? (This is a joke btw)

This is the answer right here. The ability to rock up and fill a quart size insulated tumbler with bubbly water on a hot day is literally one of the best things in my life right now.

I need to work on getting one of the corny keg lids that has a water input post plumbed to a water source and an internal float so it is self filling thus replenishing

Hey hey hey, don’t forget about the “one other thing”. That’s the lynchpin that brings it all together! /s

Subnautica as well. Such a great game

He came as he went

Ok I’m going to be that guy who sounds like a musk fanboy but rest assured I fucking hate that Nazi. That said, people don’t care about spacex launches because they have become so routine as to be boring.in a historical context there came a point where people stopped caring about airplanes because they stopped crashing. This is good. Rockets becoming reliable enough to become boring and routine is a net gain for humanity. I just wish spacex weren’t owned by that goose stepping fascist

I think there should be documentaries about fictional worlds. Can you honestly say that you don’t want a history channel style documentary about how the axis powers won ww2 which created the world seen in The Man in the High Castle?

‘Ello guvnah

Huh, I thought it would have been more knowing him

OP be aware that this is a series that is unfinished and will likely never be finished. Good books but don’t read it expecting an ending

Yet