I am a bit late but Happy Odaiba Memorial Day! #digimon

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Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap is still so heart-rending, how did it ever become a punchline I cannot listen to it without getting in my feelings and I do listen to it like twice a day at this point.

*a voice cuts through radio chatter* God help us, they're reimagining a Greek tragedy. *tracers whiz overhead* Oh fuck, its a bold, feminist retelling of myth that tells her side of the story. *an artillery shell shakes the trench* Its a tropey dark romantasy shiiiiiiiit-

Maturity is letting people have fun and enjoy things REAL maturity is hating until you die.

This just in: Narrative-Focused TTRPG Player has joined the discussion. Sources say they have been thinking about how all tabletop games are about shared storytelling. Incoherent screed to follow.

If I see a complaint that I feel is predicated on a misunderstanding rather than a "real" problem my initial, and strongest, impulse is to cure that confusion. Mistake. Sometimes a person complaining that their guitar isn't loud enough doesn't want a louder amp, they want an amp that goes o 11.

I have been made aware of a Japanese cartoon man named “Vegeta.” He screams himself into godhood, his hair achieving ever more operatic configurations. I confess — I admire him. Here is a creature who refuses the tyranny of restraint, who becomes incandescent through effort and rage.

AI makes everyone who uses it dogshit stupid and bugfuck insane, but at least it's also destroying the environment and jobs and drinkable water and the economy that normal people have to live in

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

Got about 60 hours into Sunderfolk with my girl at this point. I think this is the only bard design I've ever liked. The Two-Step class feature is so clever. I usually find myself playing and preferring spellcasters and anticipated loving the arcanist, but the bard just feels so good to play.

honestly if there was one piece of advice I would give to designers of competitive asymmetric board games it's to get into fighting games

"lore" is fake. its a fake term made by "five nights at freddies" , 2justify a fake"Story" without actualy telling anythang compellingOr interesting. I dont caare about "Lores". give me Your Soul

So many "discussions" around TTRPGs are 5e lifers arguing with designers from positions which imply that game design is a frivolous, unskilled activity because you can just make anything up. Playing pretend and a structured, systematized practice treated with the same weight by a Disney adult.

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

Brainwashing isn't real. A "cultist" may have a motivated belief in something because that belief leads to a socioreligious or sociopolitical outcome that is actually desirable to them. See: QAnon, Flat Earth. The way we talk about NRMs doesn't comport with credible scholarship on the topic.

You know, you hear a lot about the good cops but they seem to be in hiding or something. Every time their department mobilizes en masse to carry out the will of fascists they're punching the air in the locker room with tears in their eyes that they didn't execute change from within fast enough.

That's my GOAT baby!

The WinRAR librarian 📚

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

The AI boyfriend subreddit is so awesome. Every single post reads like parody. Some of these people would fall in love with a WikiHow article for deep breathing exercises if it addressed the reader as "baby girl"

This excerpt is going to become THE copypasta of this stupid era.

vampires are so cool i wish bloodplay and catholic guilt were real

Using letterboxd to track my watched movies has helped me recognize some stuff in my own preferences that can hopefully make future film choices more enjoyable. For example, I think for every minute after 90 that your film runs you should be required to submit 5 page essay justifying that minute.

I can't stop thinking about Gachiakuta. More time establishing that guy as hating poop and being a rich kid than establishing Regto as a character who is kind and I should care about. Jabber Wonger genuinely cracking me up as a character design and name. Twizzted anime jonkler. God lmao. A joke.

not only should HRT be free and available over the counter, you should be able to get an orchiectomy at Claire's

Democratic Strategists: "Don't get sucked into culture war issues like...uhh...civil rights." Republican Operatives: "It is your duty as a patriot to commit suicide by cop to protect the old Cracker Barrel logo."

Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.

We laugh about the "no one wants to play an ai game that gives them exactly what they want with no artisic or gameplay vision" but a huge swathe of people treat playing games as a chore they dont want to be inconvenienced by - as if they are being compelled to pick up a controller by unseen forces.

People with no respect for or understanding of literally any visual medium are absolutely transforming everything into slop. A quick trip down IG reels reveals literally everything getting AI upscaled and looking positively hideous. The desire for bigger numbers in the abstract is killing art.

Imperial boomerang really catches people off-guard if they've been deluding themselves about what the role of the US military has been overseas.

these people think trump has a hp bar that gets lowered by posting

Folks, women are real, they're out there, and some of them are kissing other women. Some of them don't even know they're women yet!!!

I have a physical BradyGames strategy guide for this lol. My first time playing it I was too young to internalize anything but how beautiful everything was, and it is probably the reason I joined the school orchestra and learned to play the violin.

Damn, these are sick as hell.

We need to come to terms with the fact that Skyrim actually sucks ass and that many people are trapped in 2011 with it because that was their adolescence, not due to its merits. That gameplay formula has not evolved in the intervening years, but it is comfort food for a generation of casual gamers.

man i say this as nicely as possible, but no they aren't *D&D* is expensive. Apocalypse World is $20. Strike! is $15. LANCER is $25 but all the player-facing content is free so only the GM really needs to pay anything.

The current moment of American religious psychosis is making me pine for the days of "militant" atheists. It feels bizarre that we just kind of let these lunatics rule the roost while talking total fucking nonsense. It should be a point of shame to have those beliefs.

Azahar feels like having your toes in a vise. It's fine now, cozy even, but when is the vise goblin going to crunch my toes full force (crash this fucking game with no warning or indication anything is wrong)

Over/under on the timeframe for this guy's pivot to the right after getting rightfully dunked on for being an equivocating, spineless dipshit?

It is insane how bad the Hobbit trilogy is. People were too kind to it the first time around, this stuff is genuine garbage. Not merely "bad compared to LotR". Bad on its own merits. A bloated disaster.

I actually do want bullshit self-important liberal natsec freak podcasters and their obnoxious bloc to grovel. I think you should have to earn your way back into polite society if you spent the last six months telling trannies that we personally killed Palestinians by not voting for Harris twice.

"Living isn't gonna work for me brother"

Getting Ralts as a starter in a randomized pokemon run will make you understand that kid who ditched his Charmander on the side of the road in the pokemon anime. I've never hated a creature more for its weakness.

the current fascist upswing is totally disconnected from reality; triangulating is worthless because you can’t address conditions that only exist in people’s brains