Kurt Vonnegut: In my book I drew an asshole as a cautionary tale Anthropic: At long last, we have created the Vonnegut Asshole

Leo: The choices you've made are responsible for who you are today, so you have no one to blame but yourself.

My thought whenever I see people complaining about the "guys in their comments"

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Logging on for my daily dose of 1 piece of interesting news, the monthly rehash of one of the 5ish discourses, a couple instances of begging referred to as mutual aid requests, and a cool post from my brother.

Explosive Crab!

Sometimes when there's news of an embarassing failure from corrupt elites people repost it saying "we will win" I'm always reminded of all the card games I've played where my opponent played like a blind ape and missed lethal, but their opening lead was so good they were impossible to beat anyway

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.

ah yes i can’t wait to get answers that are ai generated and far more intelligent than before

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I've been thinking a lot about the death of friendship lately. "Somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-...

Great thread but wanna push back a little here: those words all mean diff things. Assuming your DM doesn't freestyle remix the english language, Id say theres as implicit a distinction between those as there would be with explicit mechanical distinction. PbtA is just more mechanical, more explicitly

“You could lose access to 6 years of your Gmail history” man I would like to lose access to the last 6 years of all history get out of here

a future

The Official Bizenghast RPG

There be no shelter here

To hammer this grotesque and duplicitous slagheap of a world a little more into shape. why do YOU #write?

Omg I verbalized this same joke to people right after I read it, v cool to see it visually.

ABACUS TOAD

Incredible piece. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

I get the sentiment but like, Icarus died horribly for his hubris. These people are still flying higher into the sunset than any of us will ever experience, they're just getting marginally more embarrassed. Not really a substantial comparison.

Fittingly, a white flag that no one can read unless you pull it out and wave it in defeat

Every single PbtA session I have ever played in has largely been players asking "how would I do X" followed by a solid 3+minutes of the GM shuffling through papers with a prolonged "Uhhhhhh..." Almost as if the game isn't really all the clear to understand despite its rep as a one size fits all!

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It is moments like these I hope adults remember the next time they ask a child to participate responsibly in society and get treated like they're a rube.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

Dem response to No Kings protests be like

Would be less of a problem if more people didn't pretend this wasn't the case. Maybe one day there will be the actual resources to have rigorous academic discourse but until then I think we'd all be better served by keeping our tone like what it is: BSing on the back porch with the homies.

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

Most dystopian thing that's happened in our lifetime *so far*

Saving this to communicate what counts as misc inventory in all my future games.

FOUND IT

Pokemon Tarot pt.2

Imo it's more shorthand for "unprofitable" which really exposes the rotten core of the discourse for what it is.

We lost a million people to covid and nothing changed, death is just a number to people now. One more statistic to train yourself to ignore, like carbon emissions or the planned number of Avatar sequels.

Make peace with the terror of being alive

#TRRPG discourse always looks psychotic to me bc somehow I only follow people who vaguepost about assholes without ever referencing enough context to identify what their beef is even supposed to be. It's like watching a shelf full of furbies spontaneously freak out in their made-up witch language.

Pretty rad that the way the world works has only increasingly become like how I assumed it did as an angsty teenager.

A motherfucker sporting the Travis Bickle executing a woman named Good

Bobson Duggnut's time to shine!

Either that or

I have been saying for a while it’s like we have firefighters who refuse to do anything more than piss on our azaleas but this is a more apt description.

In Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing" when the titular character visits the underworld, the demon Etrigan reveals that Hell was not naturally occuring or part of gods plan, but man-made by humans in the very beginning.

Actually this answer is true for the question regardless of which game you would ask it about.

Unless your position is that we just need the *right* senile madman for the job, and now you're speaking MY language comrade! Welcome to the Latter-Day Bonapartist party! #NapoleansGhost2028