i don't know what's stopping Raccoons from sharing their secrets with us but i trust their timing

Hey bro, I promised a friend I would share this game with you, so do me a favor and share it with someone else. I'll teach you a pretty cool handshake, top secret stuff. splitparty.substack.com/p/zephyr-par...

may life treat you the same way you treat service workers

we're so back! 🩶

The fixation on household gardening as a food supplement is a form of capitalist alienation. People don't feel a real connection to the miracles of wisdom and know-how that allow laborers to sustain our societies. the laborers who triumph over famine and feed the world are being abused—it's related.

oh this is a REALLY GOOD cis opinion though. I had no idea where this was going for the first half but it's really good. Thank you op-op

in lieu of having any real overseas holidays, I should quit my meds someday and violently hallucinate i'm joan of arc again for a bit.

Me and who?

To expand, the whole concept of the fruitful void is just totally opposites to how I see mechanics - it’s like a novelist disdaining the written word. Mechanics are as foundational to the art form as symbols representing sounds are to novel writing.

Tip o’ the hat to jolmy

To me, this is like watching someone smash a home run straight out of the park

If you keep rolling skills to do things, eventually you will fail that Diplomacy check. What then?

So you are just not playing DnD then. Because if you go through any of its mechanics, you will be nudged towards that gamespace. You have to actively avoid to interact with the gamescape-producing game. In video game terms, this would be staying in the pause menu.

"You play 100000 hours and not swing a sword" okay, but you are actively avoiding the game? Because you either ignoring all the mechanics and what they produce, because even if you are rewarding good rolls with not playing the game, eventually bad rolls will cause combat somewhere to happen.

"Combat is a fail state' is not a game state in your game when every outcome leads to combat sooner or later.

You can claim whatever as your desired gamescape and gamespace, but if everything you design DOES not create that gamescape within the gamespace where you draw your lines, then you did not fucking make that gamescape. Someone playing doom on their phone during turns of civ does not make it a FPS.

"The roleplaying is the stuff the game DOESN'T need rules for, idiot" is such a ridiculously illiterate stance (in multiple senses) to hold in 2025, an era in which we have a veritable cornucopia of designer TRPGs to showcase that elfgames can be more than a combat engine draped in vibes

That you CAN play D&D for 1000000 sessions and never once swing a sword is besides the point of what D&D is about as a game. All the non-combat sessions and evocative roleplay in the world doesn't change what the content of the game is focused on, what it gives the bulk of its focus to

The fundamental disconnect I am starting to put together here, which I'm sure someone else has long since beat me to, is people keep conflating what you CAN do with a game versus what the game itself actually IS, and do not seem capable of separating the two out from one another

dont understand all the hype around The Brothers Karamazov. there's no progression system at all. who am i supposed to identify with if none of the characters is improving their stats and acquiring better equipment

Well well well

people you gotta, i beg you, stop reacting to every new trump outrage with "HOW IS HE ALLOWED TO DO THIS?" there are no rules, only power. the question is, as it has ever been, not "how is he allowed to," the question is "what are we going to do about it?"

just watched Escape from L.A. and it kicks ass and also it's so funny that Snake plays basketball, surfs, and rides a glider in the movie like he's fucking Shadow the Hedgehog or something

Let’s go, Thursday.

'Cause I'm leaving on a jet Blaine Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go But jet Blaine's orders must be followed Or he'll kill my family

I'm not negotiating with the damn computer, if it tries to talk to me or anticipate what I want instead of what I ask for I am gonna start removing parts until I find the one the demon lives in

Shot + chaser

Girl dinner.

to me, this is yuri

high fashion tortured eggcore goth industrial beats to kiss your friends sloppy style to

a lot of the hate for us is because they can't even imagine the world we live in, where you can choose your gender and your shape of love and your unamerican dream. the freedom is incomprehensible to them,, , which is why you should make out with your lesbian polycule in public as often as possible

here’s the notes app speech we would have given ✊

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

OK Skate Story Demo that'll do.

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

(Bored and craving conflict voice) You know, for all that we talk about copaganda, no one wants to talk about the parallel growth of doctorganda which consistently distorts the level of competence, empathy and intelligence of the average MD, a subset of whom in reality would be cops if not born PMC

history is back on the menu, boys

the only thing worse than suing someone for winning a rap battle against you is losing that lawsuit. incredible.

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

I extended Mahmouds raffle, as he needs 1.4k more to reach his goal, and I added a new tier! Please help my friend evacuate Gaza. 🙏♥️ Info in the posts below. (1/2🧵)

"why don't the police arrest ICE?" same reason the SS didn't arrest the gestapo, dumbass

Brother Herbert's Big Onion

I don't think people should get over it. I think even if ICE is eventually dismantled as an institution people should hold a grudge against everyone they've ever employed forever.

now what's the point of all this? why do all that? because i think if people can understand sexing the body as a social relationship this opens up much wider ways to think about medical care, sexuality, embodiment, and so on. what beautiful "copy reference remix" possibilities.

when people talk about evolution, they're used to coming at it from the principle of the "essence of biological objects": species, sex, w/e. the category (the snapshot model) is Atomic. this is inadequate, & leads to quasi-creationism. better to grasp it from the perspective of emergent process

"how do we talk about sexual reproduction" well, it's a spatial and temporal process, rather than some universally binary essence of living beings. "where is Sex located"? answer: a bedroom, a car, a forest, maybe an abandoned power plant if two or more are feeling adventurous