the newest xmen comics look like their out of 2005 ~ edgy dark art style that clashes with the established krakoa age look, a crossover "event" with a villian no one cares about pushed into a crazy amount of comics so you cant avoid it, is apparently a slog. they never learn huh.

it is a very odd thing to me that whenever i say i dont like the sun, in fact i find it rather hostile, people look at me as if im being weird, and yet i have never heard of the rain or the clouds ever giving someone cancer

reading 'the fifth head of cerberus'; is gene wolfe committed to making all of his protagonists star in a play

Can we talk about how good juon origins was (as someone who prefers curse over grudge)

the galactus design in that fantastic four movie was so shit. like the movie isnt good at all, but they seemed to be really coasting of "its a guy not a cloud this time" that they get away with something so over designed and colourless

im sorry i just cant get over trans girls wondering why they are getting so much hate while posting selfies to X like the fascist transphobia app. what are you doing???

this is related to everybody jumping on "Fae" and not "Faeries" ugh. (also is not "public domain" not "open source" i have an assumption this person is too tech brained)

im finding a lot of short stories fail when they dont present a "story" but an idea, or a visual. although in this context i think "story" is too limiting, it doesnt have to be a typical narrative but like...like a change in or finishing of thought. does that make sense?

not long till dragonmeet omg

lover's spar at the devil bridge🥀

people will be like "young men are being turned away from the left by MEAN comments on the internet like women saying they don't like being groped or transgenders saying they want rights, we surely must think of the poor uwu babies facing such a harsh and cruel online experience"

I'm glad Old World warhammer exists because it remains one of the most distinctive and recognizable fantasy settings out there and that's still worth something in the era of genericslop and warcraft copycats

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

Fuck Shabana Mahmood. Fuck Labour. End borders. Protect asylum seekers. Protect refugees. Protect immigrants.

its also like... if games dont force you to pay attention then of course gamers aren't going to pay attention ??? youre literaly raising a generation if gamers to think of games as thoughtless slop jfc

people try do a softcore "gender role" thing, often by throwing "white" in the front that im sick of ~ i just saw a thing about how "theres always a white guy tryna keep the fire alive" and its like what the fuck are you talking about neither of that is gender nor race specific.

"dont mention the game rules" is one of the worst things to come from narrative games, which is bizzare since apocalypse world never says to do this ~ imo its a designer skill issue, name your moves better if mentioning them kills the vibes you dumbasses.

Love Hemisphere. 💞

i hate "working class": its a restrictive patriarchal aesthetic divorced from any actual class awareness, no matter how much you make or work you can be ousted for being too educated, or for being an artist, or for being too queer or any reason at all, and hence anything you think is "out of touch"

i do not want to play a metroid game with a MAN there 😩

The UK in the 70s and 80s sucked so much it produced like 95% of the dystopian nerd slop we consume to this day.

70% of trans people believe BBC News is hostile. (And anyone who has listened to Justin Webb knows they are clearly right.) goodlaw.social/kyxv

the response is also just a flat out refusal despite how overwhelmingly obvious it is ~ this doesnt mention anything else such as the lack of heraldry or the nonsense armour ect. This is only taking ownership for allowing awful art unrepresentative of the story anyway, all besides the ai stuff.

The thing about james bond is uh anyone can make a spy thriller and nobody does... idk why, but slapping an IP with a fuckload of historic baggage on it isnt going to fix that

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I can honestly say that some of my favorite games have been ones in which one PC is the "main character", IE the "plot" is primarily concerned with their goal, and everyone else is the supporting cast. It makes a much more coherent narrative than five different lost prince stories.

british english is like you can use " or ' for speech, do as you wish unless you have an authoritive professor or publisher on your ass :) but they still demand i capitalise my i's how does that make sense its a personal pronoun i'm not god

seething angry because random guy online who writes for games i enjoy is WRONG about his theory of funtime playing >:(

cant get over how much attacks of opportunity suck in dnd 5e like the core concept makes sense; If you move away from a foe they get a chace to hit you BUT it just doesnt care about what that incentivises the play to be - stopping any tactics outside of rolling to hit everytime until their dead

my politics teacher used to say BBC was a good source of new because "both sides hate it" (and he was a rather liberal man, not shy about his views) ~ The entire point of the right attacking an already right wing pushing bbc is to normalise their transphobia and farage-platforming as "neutral"

its just another step of widespread anti-intellectualism (alongside ostracising the failing of gender performance) ~ we've had years of protein-wanking gym bros flaunt themselve online, and its only the men reading that get labeled as "performative"

The eternal struggle with rules discourse is trying to get a majority of people to understand rules are the medium. Rules. Are. The. Medium. We are an artform where we're still discussing if a movie needs to be a series of sequential images.

I actually think a big problem that has been endemic to RPG design for decades is simply that designers don't consider their game mechanics ENOUGH, like the story of Greg Stolze asking the oWoD guys "why do you have variable TNs AND variable success thresholds" and getting blank stares in return

one thing i do love with del toro is that he understands that gothic can and should still be colourful! it stems from the romantics after all! i am myself always torn between loving the gothics and yet being a hater of fully black clothing and he establishes a blueprint to life i find nourishing

del toro's frankenstein is as subtle as a bag of bricks and as meaningful; its gorgeous but i feel like im watching fan art. thoroughly enjoyed it but at the same time ive come out of it feeling very hollow, and ultimately nihilistic about the endeavour of adaptations.

I AM WAITING for my girlfriend to get home so i can watch frankenstein ahhh reading the short stories of mariana enriquez has put me really in the mood for gothic fiction

This is my grandfather, Brigadier G. B. Vaughan-Hughes MC in 1919, aged 22/23, ‘somewhere in France,’ on Joey, his army mount. He bought Joey off the army and let him live a long and happy life in Wales. ‘Tommy,’ as grandpa was called, had entered the war early in 1915 as an 18-year-old 2nd Lt …1/

starting "all quiet on the western front" today, which i found in a castle's second-hand bookshop. I was disappointed in the movie adaptation and even more pissed off with the reddit comment I saw saying it was "too nihilistic and one-sided about the war" so im glad to be reading it finally.

everything that has happened to video games will happen to ttrpgs - hell it already has, look at all the american defence contractors connected to wotc and critical role.

not sound like a liberal, because the contradiction IS the point, but by god its crazy that those who wank over the poppy the most are the same tory/reform fuckers who call for mandated military service for the youth. Respect the symbol, but never the message is the entire bit of right wingers.

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

okay but what the fuck are those minis (positive)

every clip people post about northernlion is him saying some "you need to touch grass. engage in earthly virtues, the pleasures of the spirit and the mind. reject dopamine. seek transcendence" while he plays 'Subway Surfers But It Makes You Addicted to Slot Machines' in the background

what does it say about me when my first thought is "dam i cant wait for the northernlion clip about this"

Friendship ended with glass and LEDs now woodgrain and brass with bare or finished steel or aluminum is my friend

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

the bookshop/pub combo is selling copies of moby dick brand new for £2 hell yeh

‘Biological pronouns’, now part of a decision in the US courts, was workshopped in plain sight by British GCs. British GCs have been ascendant in large part due to US funding of their associated fake charities and activist orgs. Transphobia is an organised, international war effort.

Great thread; This definition of ruling is gonna be rattling in my head for a while i feel. It relates to something I was thinking about recently how an issue i find with some OSR games but not others is when theres too many options for a particular ruling, fixed by having "tight" rules.

charades is a weird fucking game; its starts with performing a set of arcane gestures that everyone else seems to know that fundementally comes across as cheating. Its a noun? Its a film? Its 4 letters? What the fuck am i guessing then??? This shit doesnt fly in pictionary!!