My pizza hot take is that I've never, ever known a place to get the crust right and fuck up the rest

Fascinated by the idea that some alternate universe doppelganger is telling ChatGPT to make a Ghibli meme of me saying "happy birthday" for the fuckass group chat, as opposed to this blessed timeline, where I'm hand-bashing inscrutable in-jokes for a Discord server of five people

It's hard for me to remember that joy is not selfish. Joy spreads. Seeing someone's joy reminds you what all this is for.

My co-op partner and I have been playing the zombie spinoff of Sniper Elite, which is, no bullshit, called Zombie Army 4: Dead War. A review describes it as being "like a game you'd find in a Dave and Busters" and that is perfectly accurate

Okay I'm gonna try some next fest demos and report back of my adventures here

Gonna be jumping in here in an hour! Come watch!

cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In ONE HOUR we are raising money for abortion access by supporting The Brigid Alliance in PREPARE TO GIVE, a Dark Souls 3 marathon where if you donate $2500 an hour Danni can never level up! www.twitch.tv/rangedtouch/

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7 hours into First Light. Fuck it. James Bond should just be a game series now.

insightful thread

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One MUST resist the urge to lolcow. I'd call it one of the most important urges to resist on the contemporary internet, actually

The Dungeon Crawl Classics equipment chapter is three pages long, so as a money sink, we're using the 2nd Edition D&D Castle Guide to construct a fortress complex. This is what peak leisure looks like

There's about a million things to blame for this, but I think the dominance of "cinematic" prestige campaigns that are both prohibitively expensive to make and not very much fun to play did a number on the genre.

Anton@antonhand.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Man what happened to story-driven FPS campaigns. We used to be a country.

I feel a tension sometimes between my negative outlook on things, which is pretty reality-based, and the equal reality that quite a lot of the ways we've been handling being depressed on the internet are pointlessly self-reinforcing

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“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

The President of the USA declaring that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" is not something that arrives out of a vacuum. It is precipitated by the widespread international failure to hold USA, Israel, and their allies including the UK, accountable for their actions for many decades

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

That is another conversation entirely. And yes, largely I enjoy going through that specific era is because of how experimental things are. But that has nothing to do with nostalgia. And I certainly don't agree with "everything being so sterile". Just have to dig deeper to find things you like.

CitrusFox@widdlywham.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hard disagree. Yes, we can't go back, but the aesthetics where more vibrant and experimental. Everything now is so sterile. Its healthier to move on and keep looking to the future, but that does not mean we can't take insperation from the past. There are blocks that can be used to make a new future.

Character I'm running in a Stars without Number game had "Good Question" under his Home Planet section on his sheet, because I didn't have an answer at the time. That spiraled out into a character essentially dedicated to never giving a straight answer about his own backstory, until very recently.

An RP technique that's been popular in tabletop, and kind of neglected in CRPGs, is giving players options to pick that are specific but unexplained instead of generic. Like instead of "Origin: Mean Streets" it's "a city watchman gave you a scar once," and you decide why (then or later)

based on those Glassdoor reviews, shit would have been straight The Lighthouse

Ben Hanson@yozetty.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The only fan fiction I’m interested in is what if Erik Wolpaw succeeded in moving Valve to Duluth, Minnesota circa 2007.

I've never actually watched Nine Inch Nails stuff before and my feeling, as a taxpaying adult, is that it's the artistic equivalent of pulling 115% into a parking space. You were headed somewhere promising with this, but now you're just short an engine block

You know, I'm a fan of the OSR—not because it's better than other ways of playing RPGs, but because it offers unique insights into them that apply to every genre—and I frankly wish more OSR players realized they could talk about these games without coming off like the fucking Eltingville Club

Seeker@seeker8998.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's probably because of where I lurk, but for years the only sell for OSR games I ever saw could be summed up as "Rulings over rules, trust us." This was less persuasive than "Look at this wild nonsense. Don't you want in?"

Like do you want your starter adventure to be poking around a gray dwarf ruin looking at cobwebs and dodging dart traps or do you want to fight THESE fucking guys. COME ON.

Been in a great Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign the last few years. It's a retroclone of the Basic D&D set, but acknowledges that the game's period-accurate tone was like 50% kickass, 30% funny on accident, and 20% funny on purpose. DCC doubles down on every category equally. (look at this shit)

I don't think art can only be evaluated by what its worst fans like about it. But it feels worth arguing that fascists are not, meaninfully, "missing the point" of 40k. 1/3

Gonna give Fallout: London a shot