Real monkeys paw this. This sucks on so many levels, and given how gutted the studio is, there's no garauntee it'll be any good if it ever actually comes out.

The funny thing is that admitting you got things really wrong with a bit of grace tends to win people over. This, on the other hand, speaks really poorly of you.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

I'm sure more nuanced analyses will be made but the best explanation for how Platner got so far while having so many red flags as well as why he seemingly didn't have a backup plan for this news, is that he's a white misogynist supported by other white misogynists.

from Bill Gates holding a shotgun and wearing a trenchcoat green screening himself in front of Doom E1M2 to try and sell Windows 95 because Doom was just that popular to Microsoft laying off most of iD is unfortunately a too poetic summary of the history of the game industry as a whole

I think one of the clearest examples of D&D, Pathfinder, etc. as cop games (or more accurately people from cop culture meeting the game halfway) is how Paladins are meant to be defined by their moral codes but are more often played as looking for loopholes on that code so they can feel justified

Summary of work today: "That's too many salmon all at once!" I'll let ye figure out what I do.

I guess the issue I have with this position is that the idea that it's flattering rather than really all that true. I don't think people's play experiences are so unique that they can't broadly be categorised and replicated and I think it's kinda interesting that there's such a desire for that

Random thought and this may be addressed in the current drafts of ICON, but one thing that would fix so many of that game's problems for me would be if it had something equivalent to BITD's engagement roll for when you switch to combat. The disconnect between caring so much about fictional

Think we can get a whole Ceviche Man show now?

I keep thinking about how the Xbox One ripped the mask off. "You'll have to always be online" "Why?" "To stop piracy/make us money" "How does that help me, the consumer?" "It makes US money" (confused at the question) They want us to pay more for less, and be happy about it.

There's something funny in how many people treat illiteracy and media illiteracy interchangeably. Kinda ironic either side of the conflation.

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Dan's thread is very good and it has me thinking about why some people really struggle with the tactics part of tactics RPGs and I think it comes from overcautious playstyles for fear of losing getting in the way of experimenting with the game and thus getting better at it. This kind of player

Season 3 of House of the Dragon is kinda showing to me that season 2's problem wasn't really the adaptational changes but rather that it was just kinda meandering and poorly paced. While I don't like a lot of the choices it made because I love the aftermath of the Dance more than the Dance itself,

YEAH BUDDY

Another brainpan-tumbleweeds banger from the least essential columnist in America www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

You do not have to reach for cultural explanations for the lack of AC in Europe. It didn't used to be hot and now it is hot!

I've been woimpilled It's time for some woimposting

Don't think sneering chauvanism is a good look when your own country is falling apart at the seams.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

All future consoles may cost a bare minimum of $1000 but at least you can ask chatgpt if it's raining outside

I hope HotD season 3 can maintain that quality throughout because that first episode was a very strong start.

I never said thank you...

I was wondering how our pre-eminent left-punchers were going to deal with the fall of Keir Starmer and it turns out they've decided the reason he failed is mysterious and unknowable.

You know when you're learning an instrument and there's that first period where you're bad at it but you don't realise how bad you are so you just go for it. That's where we are with the media illiteracy situation. More people than ever have basic literacy and media literacy skills than ever. They

Rereading Avatar Legends and it's kinda weird that so much Avatar media calls Kuvira and the Empire Fascist when they're really not. Like neither ideologically nor even all that aesthetically. Like, she's just kind of a standard military dictator.

Even Dimension 20, the show that did way too many inappropriately D&D seasons got that the best way to play vtm is to play vtm.

Do we think we can get them to adapt that 'Trapped on a Island With Josh Hutcherson' story?

When I see ttrpg takes about the importance of players, I can't help but feel that it's kinda tautological. Is it not kinda obvious that a game is incomplete without someone playing it? That doesn't invalidate trying to be a better designer though. Like the map is not the territory and all that,

Continuing with my Custodes, this time a Shield Captain. #warhammer #horusheresy

We also have an incredible audiobook by @seanburkeshow.bsky.social who did this deadly promo video

I will say that the prevalence of this kind of player is as much to do with DND's hegemony and the archetype of the wandering murderous mercenary. If course the solution here is play a game you actually want to play rather than trying to brute force an unsupported play style into DND while breaching

To elaborate a bit on this, I think HDYWDT gives a pretty bad return on investment. It's a lot of work to narrate and describe something that under all that is still mechanically unengaging. It's like most videogames that tried the Arkham asylum combat style and did it badly (including some of the

Simple answer: There are lots of games with way more fun combat than 5e. Slightly more complicated answer: Games with deep combat systems can often have that combat be a bit of a gravity well. That's why I prefer games either without bespoke combat subsystems, or games where combat is the central

Belfast this morning: families evacuated from burned homes. Near the Shankill, the Guardian’s reporter watched masked men storm a house, a woman at the upstairs window, a voice in the crowd saying “there’s wee girls inside.” That was not protest. It was organised racist terror. (1/5) #Spéirghorm

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Cork City

The "Was agriculture a mistake?" discourse is so masturbatory. Instead of litigating a really pointless question, how about we ask ourselves what we want our current and future relationships with the biosphere to be, given that we currently live in a world where nearly every terrestrial and many

Trying out colour schemes with the new Legio Custodes Horus Heresy models and as much as I usually like Shadowkeepers, I really like the gold I've done here.

It's funny seeing how people are talking about the Backrooms movie because it's main problem is that it over explains itself

There's a dark irony in how while the Jaws Effect isn't real, people thinking it was real was a real impetus for them realising how badly shark populations were declining. Overfishing, climate change and habitat loss didn't start in the early 70s and people being suddenly afraid of sharks had no

"Is horror having a moment?" Yeah, it has a moment whenever things are Bad, which is all of human history.

roguish familiars, which one would you take on adventure?

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 is decent but not great.

Ttrpgs by and large try too hard to emulate media rather than emulating experiences.

RIP to John Blanche, the best to ever do it. Before Warhammer was even Warhammer he understood what it was: weird, gross, unsettling, maximalist.

Tbf, the throughline here is men in their fifties being mad that they aren't having sex with teenagers.

It's no surprise really that none of the prominent social media Warhammer fascists seem to actually engage in the hobby, be it painting or playing. Their hobby is being a Warhammer fascist on social media.

A lot of people definitely overstate the impact fiction has, but this is kind of a bad example because fictional violence is viscerally distinct from real violence. If anything it can probably make the experience more jarring because of the dissonance. But like fiction is still a form of