Ryan W

@zatheos.bsky.social

He/him/they This place is nice! 🦋 Sometimes I make stuff Interested in: Board games, Blood on the Clocktower, social deduction games, web dev, and occasionally some nice pictures and poetry.

DM: ‘You come to large wooden door.’ Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’ DM: ‘An orc opens it and asks you to come in.’ Cat: ‘I do nothing.’ DM ‘He asks you to come inside again.’ Cat: ‘I do nothing.’ DM: ‘Eventually the orc tires and closes the door.’ Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’

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I am foaming at the mouth over this excellent video. Anyone who's known me for a while will know that I had a tendency to never shut up about the Venn diagram of societal upheaval, technological advancement, and the race to national re/identity. This. Is. So. Good 😭🎉

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it