let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no
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let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no
T-shirt that says "I'M SORRY FOR THE PERSON I BECOME WHEN I'M OVERHEATED"
Everybody needs that one friend who's better at piracy than you so you can ask for links to tv shows or perhaps movies and they just Have them. They're like genies. This is a priceless gift when unfamiliar links scare you when you try to google Watch free online yourself. Very literally it does not have a price. You aren't paying for it
All the people tagging this as "I'm that friend" how does it feel being the backbone of society
Proud to report that since making this post I have gotten better at piracy. I'm your local pdf dealer. I have a sizable collection of shit I'm not even reading. The shows and movies continue to vex me if they're not on one of like three websites I'm familiar with despite generally being Far Easier than books but that's just my special talent
Update 2: I can pirate anything. I'd download a car. I have a Very Legal I Prommy communal ebook sharing server, for my pdfs. Fuck with me
I feel like I haven't picked up any interesting games in a while. If you're reading this and you have a moment to spare, please recommend a fucked up tabletop RPG that has fewer than ten ratings on itch.io at the time of this posting.
Posting a collected list of qualifying recs from the notes, both here and via Bluesky. Note that I have accepted only full games, not supplements ("system neutral" or otherwise), and that I will not be taking questions about what constitutes my definition of "fucked up" at this time:
BUNNYJACKS by PennyBlake
Burn and Again by Aster F
Chimera Girls by Sapphic_Flesh
The Concealment Society by Doug Levandowski
The Devil City & its Seventy-Seven Vicious Princes by Dukerino
Doll.Ball by curatrix-ribston
Don't Kinkshame God by Softie
Faith & Sails by Juilian Kay
How I Turned Into a Comically Busty Clown?! by Unishifter
Huit Mille Milliards of TTRPG by The Bit Bet
IN PURSUIT by quinnntastic
LIVING, BREEDING by devours-the-world
Meat Channel by glitterbandemissary
My Tongue Behind Your Teeth by Porter Goldfinch
Oneiroi by Sapphic_Flesh
ROCKS FALL by ImaginationSimulations
Seeking the Wisdom of the Scavenger King by Reizor
Thunder in Our Hearts by Marn S.
Trial By Heresy by TheDreadGazebo
Wet Grandpa by Melsonian Arts Council
YEARNING by Reyes Makes Games
(If you've picked up any of the big itch.io charity bundles over the past five years or so, it might be worth checking whether you already own any of these. There are half a dozen entries on this list I didn't realise were already in my library!)
I've had a couple of people ask for a digestible version of the whole "the real problem with Dungeons & Dragons is false advertising, not anything that's present in its text" thing I keep alluding to, so here's the bullet point version of that argument:
Dungeons & Dragons is owned by Hasbro. Yes, the same Hasbro that owns Monopoly and My Little Pony.
Hasbro wants D&D to be the only tabletop RPG that anyone plays.
In order to accomplish this, Hasbro needs D&D to be a universal entry-level game.
D&D is not a universal entry-level game.
All game rules are opinionated about how the game ought to be played, and as tabletop RPGs go, D&D's rules are more opinionated than most. This is not a flaw, but it's not what Hasbro needs.
D&D is also on the high end of complexity as far as tabletop RPGs go, and it's complex in a way that strongly rewards system mastery, so it's pretty far from "entry level".
Hasbro could produce a version of D&D that's at the very least less opinionated and more entry-level than it presently is, but they don't want to, because they've determined that certain rules features which run counter to both of those goals are critical to D&D's brand identity.
They also don't want to produce multiple versions of D&D tailored for different audiences, because they want every single D&D group to be a potential purchaser of every single D&D product; they'd be effectively competing with themselves for their own customer base if the published game was actually modular in any meaningful way.
So how does Hasbro square that circle?
Simple: they lie. They insist that D&D is in fact a universal entry-level game in spite of all evidence to the contrary, and back their advertising up with sponsored thinkpieces and podcasts and such to "prove" it.
Further, they've spent decades fostering a culture of play which conceals the gap between the game they're advertising and the game they're selling by ascribing any appearance that D&D isn't a universal entry-level game to the incompetence or malice of individual GMs.
The game the rules want to produce disagrees with the game the group wants to play? Nonsense – even the rankest beginner should be able to produce any experience of play using any set of rules, and if your GM can't, they're a Bad GM.
The game is hard to learn? No, it isn't – your GM is merely gatekeeping you. This wouldn't be a problem with a Good GM.
The upshot is that the published rules are more or less irrelevant with respect to achieving the desired experience of play, because they're operating within a culture of play which dumps 100% of the work of making that desired experience of play happen on the GM.
Indeed, much of what modern D&D presents as GMing best practices are really methods of working around the fact that the rules you're using disagree with you about what kind of game you're playing.
(It's not a coincidence that D&D's entrenched culture of play also insists that it's normal for GMs to be miserably overworked and treats GM burnout as a big funny joke, then turns around and loudly wonders why there's a constant GM shortage.)
The trick is, because you're still at least notionally using the rules of D&D, the fruits of all that GM labour are perceived as the product of "playing D&D", not of the GM's hard work.
In essence, Hasbro's business model for Dungeons & Dragons is selling you your own GM's labour with a D&D sticker on it.
It's a very neat trick, if you can pull it off.
Now, at this point some readers may be asking: well, sure, but not all GMs are doormats. What about "killer" GMs who do gatekeep and railroad their players and otherwise act like complete tyrants? I hear horror stories about them all the time.
That's the second trick: these are not opposites. The GM as human Xbox and the GM as tyrant of the table both represent the GM doing all the actual work of making the game happen. The latter isn't the outcome that Hasbro wants, but it's a logical conclusion of the position they want the GM to be in.
I want every ad on the subway to be this one. And then I want this also posted elsewhere. And then I want people who don’t use earbuds or headphones while listening to music or watching their videos in public to have their phones explode in their hands and faces. Or they get shunned and banned from public spaces.
Sorry I listen to YouTube and such in public places, quietly cuz like. Not sure how it’s different than having a conversation.
Either way, I’d much rather be wearing headphones but sadly headphone jacks don’t exist anymore and I’m not paying 80 dollars or whatever for AirPods. I don’t want dumb fucking Bluetooth headphones that I’ll lose an hour after buying them. This is mostly a systematic problem imo.
Okay but none of that is true or is something you’re making into everyone else’s/a systemic problem
Also, girl, you can buy a dongle
You can still use wired headphones
You can also get cheap over-the-head wireless headphones for about $20.
It's not as harmful as smoking/vaping in public, but it is as inconsiderate because you're violating the social contract and making everyone listen to some shit you couldn't just wait to hear later. Target has a USB-C to 3.5mm Aux adapter for $5. Apple has it for 10.
People making excuses for being inconsiderate douchebags about this are the same people who were saying "Bro it's just vapor" while making subway cars smell like cotton candy and butane or whatever because they had to have their vape now now now. You buy the 5 dollar Aux adapter, you use your headphones, people on transit, who are stuck in proximity to you as you make yourself the main character do not have to consider your existence.
I assure anyone who thinks it's not worse than a conversation that it is in fact orders of magnitude worse than a conversation.
I would argue that the two most perfect critiques of Harry Potter come from a pair of 4chan posts, which take opposite approaches to their critique but reach equally damning conclusions
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me when i like the 2-3h movie: directors should never have to compromise their vision to appeal to something as fickle as people's "patience". anyone complaining about the movie's length is simply a tiktok-addicted philistine.
me when i don't like the 2-3h movie: once i become god emperor of earth anyone trying to make a movie longer than 90 minutes will be shot.
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THEME: Player Vs. Environment (Scavenger's Reign)
I received this lovely request from Sam Richardson! I haven't seen Scavenger's Reign, so I did a little bit of a research deep dive, and I came away from my rabbit hole to conclude that what makes Scavenger's Reign involves: - a planet that feels truly alien, - an environment that will change you, - the horror of the unknown, - learning how to use your environment to your advantage, and - the smallness of humans compared to the natural world. This week I'm including recommendations that fit parts and pieces of this, with the hopes that something contains just the right element for you!
This is a long one, so I'm putting info under the cut.
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MOST of my problems could be solved by carly rae jepsen cut to the feeling. the rest will have to be solved by carly rae jepsen run away with me.