Rolling for Stew

As a culture, we have to get a lot more comfortable saying yeah it sucks for you that you’re uncomfortable and that is a personal problem that you personally are gonna have to solve. And saying it to cis white women specifically.

There's a reason why the company that produced a string of the best CRPGs ever made no longer exists as of today, and it's not because there's no demand for good CRPGs. It's because our economy has been whittled down to three industries: value extraction, gambling and fraud.

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."

atp you shouldnt be reacting to the first-order content of any publication by any major media outlet. you should be considering second-order effects: why did they publish this. what is this meant to cause or make me feel and who is it benefitting. take nothing in the news at face value

Sunlight breaks through the clouds, birds chirp as if for the first time. The smell of hope fills the air.

"I think Black people should be able to use the same drinking fountain that white people do as long as it's safe and fair."

I'm a bit sick of people on this site suggesting that the anti-AI position is a kneejerk purity test. It's possible that it is, indeed, very principled, and that the socialist, pro-worker position is one of abolition, not control.

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

What's up boys? Tabletop developer from the 90s here. I'm going to refer to players as "he", you know, for clarity.

if I was a young person being told that the best our economic system can ever offer me is working longer and longer hours to live with more and more roommates and eat worse and worse food, I might start getting this crazy idea that we need a new economic system

The whole KS just reads as: "This isn't your whimpy kiddie Dungeons & Dragons! this is for Hardcore Badass Tough Guys who think CHAINS and TIDDIES are HOT! **also dw its called deathbringer but you'll totally get your specialist boy main character moments before your character perma dies we promie"

Hi I’m a Gen Xer whose politics lean neither left nor right, I guess you could call me an independent, kind of homeless politically, maybe the last sane person in an insane world, anyway enjoy my 300 daily posts dedicated solely to bitching about trans people and the left

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

TTRPG where damage is represented by physically setting the target's character sheet on fire. Damage types dictate where the fire starts (e.g., top-right corner) and the amount is how many seconds the player must wait before stamping it out. Burnt traits are disabled until they fill out a new sheet.

was reminded of the best thread title ever posted on the Mothership sub

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Emma Bernard, 25, hasn’t planned to start any beef – but now you’ve said that utterly ludicrous thing, their face is about to do it anyway.

The INCREDIBLE amount of uncritically continued hard and soft eugenics in TTRPGS is wild.

One of the most important moments in my life as an artist was at a summer drama camp in 2014. My teacher said “the audience is everything.” A student asked “so we should be thinking about them?” And without skipping a beat, like it was the most obvious fact in the world, he said “FUCK the audience.”

I have run more combats in more systems than I can count, and my one universal piece of advice to make them fun is: JUST KEEP ROLEPLAYING! - Have the enemies talk shit, taunt, joke, monologue, confess! - Ask how PCs feel! Why? - Make actions emotion driven! Hatred! Fear! Jealousy! Envy! Love!

- Traveller is an ALL TIMER imo. - The Wildsea is good for you DnDers who wanna make shit up the way DnD APers do. - CBR+PNK is a favorite tho I'm still 'gitting gud' at it (FitD is tricky to GM for me). - Genesys has amazing dice I'm so sorry they're bespoke (chessex save us please).

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

As an autistic person, seeing Tim Walz aggressively pushing for reading TTRPGs they will never play scares me.

On the 5th of May, we honor the victors of the Battle of Puebla, which helped keep Mexico free and end slavery in the United States. 1/

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

I just put online the chapter from my book that talks about all the myths and mysteries about QWERTY and Dvorak. You can read it here: aresluna.org/the-primitiv...

oh shit. I guess I'm part of trans day of visiblity now. hap gender (or lack thereof)

Did people jump on that guy too fast and too hard? Maybe. I also noticed he immediately deflected his own responsibility and very proudly Took His Ball. Two things can be true: -a marginalized group that was hurt and reeling after its millionth body blow was not charitable -you fucked up dude

At a certain point it became Unfashionable for poets to care about Meter. they just started writing Whatever they wanted Into a vaguely poem-like shape. Whatever happened to sonnets? Are rhyme-schemes trying too hard? Or did we forget to teach people how To read

ace watkins we need you now more than ever

I am what I like to call a positive nihilist, which is to say that there is no inherent meaning to existence except that which we create, and that this is not something to despair over but to rejoice upon, because it means we are free.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

Hunter S. Thompson wrote this about a week after 9/11 and god he nailed it

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.