site banner
PaperclipPerfector  12hr ago (text post)   629 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 16, 2026

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

Top Bottom Old Controversial Comments
Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

Video game thread. What have you been playing?

Posting mine in a response to this because it's long and I don't want to derail everyone else.

Frosthaven digital just came out. It's a port of the coop legacy board game. I played the board game to completion with an ex-friend several years back. We were doing absolute addict shit like coming home from work to play 6 hours of it before bed, I think we averaged 40hrs a week for like a month to finish it. So I'm very excited to get a group of friends together to play the digital version which should reduce all the clunky setup mechanics that made the BG take so long.

YES!!!

My wife and I have 300 hours in Gloomhaven on Steam. We dated long distance for several years and I credit a non-negligible part of our relationship success to playing hours and hours of Gloomhaven on the internet with voice chat. I've had this on my wishlist since it entered early access, but was too busy playing other games and didn't notice it had finally come out for real.

I've never myself had the pleasure of playing Gloomhaven digital or cardboard, but I wish I did! I really wish they'd update the Gloomhaven digital to Gloomhaven 2.0 with the revised, rebalanced characters, but my understanding is that it's not in the cards, which saddens me.

I'm trying to get my friends from back home, for which who physical distance has become an insurmountable obstacle to maintain the relationship, to join with me in playing Frosthaven so we can stay connected. Just playing missions while over voice chat would be a wonderful way to stay connected.

What is this place?

This website is a place for people who want to move past shady thinking and test their ideas in a court of people who don't all share the same biases. Our goal is to optimize for light, not heat; this is a group effort, and all commentators are asked to do their part.

The weekly Culture War threads host the most controversial topics and are the most visible aspect of The Motte. However, many other topics are appropriate here. We encourage people to post anything related to science, politics, or philosophy; if in doubt, post!

Check out The Vault for an archive of old quality posts. You are encouraged to crosspost these elsewhere.


Why are you called The Motte?

A motte is a stone keep on a raised earthwork common in early medieval fortifications. More pertinently, it's an element in a rhetorical move called a "Motte-and-Bailey", originally identified by philosopher Nicholas Shackel. It describes the tendency in discourse for people to move from a controversial but high value claim to a defensible but less exciting one upon any resistance to the former. He likens this to the medieval fortification, where a desirable land (the bailey) is abandoned when in danger for the more easily defended motte. In Shackel's words, "The Motte represents the defensible but undesired propositions to which one retreats when hard pressed."

On The Motte, always attempt to remain inside your defensible territory, even if you are not being pressed.


New post guidelines

If you're posting something that isn't related to the culture war, we encourage you to post a thread for it. A submission statement is highly appreciated, but isn't necessary for text posts or links to largely-text posts such as blogs or news articles; if we're unsure of the value of your post, we might remove it until you add a submission statement. A submission statement is required for non-text sources (videos, podcasts, images).

Culture war posts go in the culture war thread; all links must either include a submission statement or significant commentary. Bare links without those will be removed.

If in doubt, please post it!


Rules


Recommended Posts And Communities

Recommended Realtime Chats