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I think a big factor is the slide from "FX shots are one of things you take into consideration while shooting along with composition, lighting, costuming, set design, etc" into "FX will fix everything after the fact (and it's cheaper because it's not unionized)"

Everything that costs a bazillion dollars looks so fuckin bad these days. Genuinely believe that mainstream Hollywood no longer understands how to make a movie (or stream TV show multimedia extravaganza whatever) that actually looks good anymore

Everybody's talking about how bad the compositing looks, and it absolutely does, but also let's take a minute to appreciate that the costuming also looks like shit

Once again, if the most venerable corporate media establishment in the country will blatantly, willfully - despite being presented with mountains of scientific evidence to the contrary - repeating lies about a vulnerable innocent population FOR YEARS! What else are they lying to you about?

True to LRG form, he silently delayed his release without proper notice.

I am so curious how people like this experience the world. No sense of history or context, no ability to understand cause and effect. Looking at every moment as a brand new children's cartoon whose heroes and villains and conflicts exist solely in that moment. No critical thinking necessary.

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taking guesses on when we get our first elected official sworn in on a harry potter book

Scott Adams is a lot like Graham Linehan in that a guy whose entire comedic thing is "I'm so much smarter than all the assholes I'm surrounded by" and "women and their dumb brains amirite" is probably not an indicator of good personal politics.

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Really sad how Stranger Things went from being a love letter to the '80s to a love letter to itself. Like, there are so many fun ways to have done this! Character record sheets with stats. A "Money for Nothing" homage. Actual Polaroids! Half the '80s comic and poster artists are still working!

wild how we're simultaneously enacting what amounts to a creeping state-by-state porn ban and also telling everyone the whole future of the internet is robots that simulate CSAM and non-consensual sexualized images on demand

These things are not even contradictory if you really think about what the political project of American fascists is

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I hope 2026 is kind to us all

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he literally stole an election and then murdered more than a million people.

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Dawg he stole the election in 2000 lol he had an active interest in solidifying that the steal was legitimate

Which is kind of a thing to remember: There's combat systems and then there is violence, and those are two different things that TTRPGs can and should engage with

What's interesting is...a lot of those magic missiles in Unknown Armies are special, interesting and useful because you can use them *without* engaging with the combat system. An Agrimancer can just hit you with fucking lightning from across town, which is extremely safe AND effective!

I'm rethinking all of this because now I realize I don't know if everyone agrees on what "fail state" means. I'm not even sure I know what a fail state actually means now. I think *death* is a fail state in most games. I don't think getting into combat, in and of itself, usually is in retroclones

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Happy New Year, lab rats! Let's hope this year goes better than the last one, huh?

I am sending every bit of my love and support to Rawa Duwaji, who is almost certainly about to receive the Michelle Obama treatment of being compared to Jackie O in thinkpieces asking if she is "elegant" or "classy" enough to be first lady

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this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

Well, 2025 was a year. In financial terms, it was god awful, with me losing a job early on and being unemployed since. But in every other way, it was beyond wonderful. My Twitch numbers improved, I befriended some truly lovely people who like me for myself, and I skilled up! BRING IT ON, 2026!

Straight up paying far more to whip a room full of CG artists into rushing garbage on a tight schedule compared to having a union professional handle anything but the bare minimum for sets, lighting, etc.

Everything costs so much more to look so much worse. Lotta grifting going on in Hollywood

Its gotten so much worse though. Compare what s4 looked like to s5. Shocking stuff

wealthy liberals have chosen transphobia as the place to express open bigotry without social cost. They follow through on their evil impulses with an obsessive zeal that implies they hungered for this. It’s on us to show them exactly how much this actually will cost them

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Republican party realizing what they thought were true believers are at least two different sets of true believers of entirely different false realities

All conservatives are self-involved freaks who need to be sent to reeducation camps but only the majority of them are willing the defend pedophiles, not all

MAGA fracturing continues as the type of people who think it’s fine to give a handjob at a family-friendly musical realize that maybe they don’t much care to go to the mat for a pedophile president

the way you can tell gavin newsom will not be the dem nominee in 28 is the fact most people insisting he will think jd vance will be the gop nominee

I mean fundamentally a lot of combat systems are "gritty" or "lethal" or whatever, but that is distinct from "combat is a failure state" which is I think the broader point. Just being gritty or lethal in and of itself does not a failure state make

The problem with the "it's a fail state because the combat system sucks" argument is that regardless of a system's quality, the purpose of a system is to be used. For combat to be a fail state, initiating combat would have to be something with no rewards, only setbacks that might be mitigated.

I think a big part of why this fails is that none of them know how to make an "unwoke" blockbuster that actually has an imprint. They lost the art to making good action films!

Even the right has turned hard against the Zionists. Every premise the dumbest celebs and Professional Thought Havers put all their chips on back in January was straight up wrong

A year in, the defining feature of Trumpism is that almost everybody hates it including a lot of people who thought it would be awesome. It couldn’t even sustain itself as a cultural force for longer than 6-7 months or so. And the overplayed Charlie Kirk freak out killed it permanently

A lot of garbage developed in 2025 will have cultural lag and lead to some funny results for sure. Full on movies and seasons of TV going through the same arc Sydney Sweeney already did in 2025

It’s tough because I think fail states should also be fun, but they should still feel like fail states. I don’t think “fun” can be your only success factor. Null states shouldn’t be fun, though. Like accidentally blowing your cover should still be fun; roleplaying a waiter shouldn’t be.

www.chocolatehammer.org?p=5773 Reminds me of this blog post about how boot hill's absurdly lethal combat actually pushed people away from using combat as a way to resolve things because a straight fight involves getting shot and dying.

It works in Unknown Armies, imo, because Unknown Armies is full of dangerous but useful tools and then asks you if you want to use them. Sometimes, stabbing a guy just really is the best way to solve a problem! ...or...the easiest...