what even

[d34dus3rn4m3]

marce

[devilboyblues]

Is funny when doctors and other peeps act like my problem is that I’m obsessed w/ my disability. Um no. You have it backwards. The problem is I HAVE to be cuz it is a constant problem.

[andreashettle]

I’m deaf. About 25 years ago, I was working for a little while as a classroom aide at a program that worked with deaf children with multiple disabilities. All the teachers and other classroom aides were hearing, but they all could sign.  Not at native signing level, but enough to carry on a basic conversation.

So, one evening, all us adults bring all the kids to a special one-night camping trip. All the kids are put to sleep, which frees up the adults to get into a circle and have some fun to ourselves for a while. People start talking, except they were forgetting to sign.  So I reminded them to please sign so I could understand them.  One of them told me that, no, they weren’t going to sign because this was our night to have fun and not have to think about communication.

So no one signed all night. They talked, they laughed, they had fun. I sat, feeling lost and cut off and betrayed. I remember wishing I had had the nerve to say, “No, what you mean is, you want a night in which everyone EXCEPT ME gets to not think about communication.”

I think sometimes when non-disabled people insist that we are too obsessed with our disability, what they REALLY mean is, “I wish you would stop reminding me that I have a shared responsibility as a fellow member of society to proactively ensure that we all have an opportunity to be engaged in society.  I wish you would just pretend to not have a disability so I can pretend that I don’t have to do anything to enable you to do the same things the rest of us are doing.”

The luxury of not needing to think about disability in a society that is designed to lock us on the cold outside is a non-disabled privilege. 

[aiweirdness]

New D&D magic spells, designed by neural network

I’ve trained this open-source neural network framework on a variety of datasets, including recipes, Pokemon, knock-knock jokes, and pick up lines. 

Here’s the latest: a list of 365 different spells you can cast in Dungeons and Dragons. 

It’s a really small dataset, actually - so small that in almost no time at all, it learned to reproduce the original input data verbatim, in order. But by setting the “temperature” flag to a really high value (i.e. it has a higher chance of NOT going with its best guess for the next character in the phrase), I can at least induce spelling mistakes. Then the neural network has to try to recover from these, with often entertaining results.

I give you: D&D magic spells, designed by neural network

Moss Healing Word Hold Mouse Barking Sphere Heat on Farm True Steake Finger of Enftebtemang Fomend’s Beating Sphere Purping Lightsin Farming Wrathful Hound Q’s Invisibility Cow of Auraly Mind Blark Stone Share Puijune Magic Furs Grove of Plants Conjure Velemert Vicious Markers End Wall Mous of Farts Cursing Gland Growth

[prokopetz]

When you’re just starting out in tabletop roleplaying games, something a lot of GMs have trouble with is demanding player buy-in.

They think they have to let everybody create whatever character they want, and it’s their job to somehow corral that herd of cats into a working game.

This is not, in fact, the case.

Every tabletop game is about something, even if it’s as simple as “a group of people who explore dungeons, fight monsters, and get treasure”. It’s not only okay to insist that your players provide characters who can play nice with the game’s premise, it’s practically required to get anywhere.

As a GM, it’s totally okay to say: “This is a game about a group of people having adventures. Your character must be the sort of person who can function in a team setting in general, and as a member of this particular team in specific. They can be the sort of person who makes great pretence of being a loner, then ends up working as a team player anyway - every team needs its Wolverine - but if you actually try to go off and do your own thing all the time, or if you refuse to cooperate with other characters because you’ve dreamed up an irreconcilable personality conflict, you’re being a dick. Don’t be a dick.”

And it’s not just about group dynamics, either - it’s okay to demand buy-in for the game’s setting and concept, too. If you’re running a gritty, high-tension conspiracy thriller, and somebody wants to play as a literal cartoon character, Who Framed Roger Rabbit style, it’s okay to say: “Yeah, maybe hang onto that one for our next campaign.”

(And no, that’s not a hypothetical example - someone actually tried to pull that stunt in a game I was part of. Obviously if everybody submits cartoon characters, you should recognise that your players are in the mood for something different than what you’ve proposed; if their ideas are all over the map, however, insisting that they get their asses on the same page before proceeding is wholly reasonable.)

“I was just roleplaying my character” is never an excuse for being contrary, because it was the player who created the character in the first place. Everything their character does is ultimately on them, because they chose to define them in such a way that roleplaying them correctly would demand being a dick to the GM and the other players.

Don’t be a dick - and as a GM, don’t be afraid to call dickery when you see it.

[prokopetz]

And this doesn’t just go for the deliberately disruptive nerdbros, either. In my experience, folks who consider themselves Serious Roleplayers can be just as bad. They’re all “oh, but some of the most fascinating roleplaying challenges grow out of friction within the group - it’s just boring if everybody gets along all the time!”, but if you ask their fellow players, nine times out of ten everybody else thinks they’re just being really annoying.

Intra-group conflict will arise organically all on its own; trying to force it on purpose with a thematically inappropriate character concept boils down to an assertion that you’re only interested in engaging with that conflict if you get to dictate its terms, which is - you guessed it - being a dick.

[candystrippers-deactivated20190]

Or… I can just say “no holds barred” and demand order out of chaos. That is my GM style.

[prokopetz]

In my experience, GMs who can say “anything goes” and end up with something workable often don’t properly appreciate just how much buy-in they’re getting. I mean, sure, if you’re running an “anything goes” D&D campaign, and your players hand in a lawful good paladin, a chaotic evil assassin, and a true neutral druid, making them work in the same group is going to be a challenge - but you still got conventional D&D characters for your D&D game. You didn’t get Jean-Luc Picard, Woody Woodpecker and Cthulhu.

(Granted, I can think of games where Jean-Luc Picard, Woody Woodpecker and Cthulhu would be a workable party, but most iterations of D&D ain’t it!)

[darlinggod]

The Get Down Part 2: The Beast Says, This Is The Way

[bro-diddley]

mental illness in a nutshell

literally anyone: are you ok?

me: you mean like your standards ok or my standards ok

[incendavery]

an open letter

(patreon)

[caanubis]

“The ground is so soft”

[lesbianspaceprincess]

My friend explained the spoon theory to our DM and he was like “ohhh so it’s like when you’re out of spell slots and you need to take a long rest to regain them all” and now I keep thinking of myself as being out of spell slots instead of out of spoons

[art-nimals]

A baroque masterpiece (via) 

[punlich]

I love how d&d sorcerers basically have magic because people just cannot stop having sex with dragons and elementals and rift demons, it’s just an epidemic of monster fucking going on here.

[destroyroxy]

are you implying you wouldn’t fuck a dragon

[punlich]

I never said it was a bad epidemic

[justneckbeardthings]

i live in japan and every single australian person i've met here has been from adelaide. Every single one (that's like, 30+ australians omg) since i was 14 years old. What's wrong with your city why does everyone want to leave

if you had ever been here you’d know why

[beyoncewiki-moved-deactivated20]

EOC (Elves of color)

Reblog if u agree

[confessionsofadiabetic]

You know what absolutely boggles my mind? That healthy people exist. Genuinely healthy people. No mental illness, no physical illness, no chronic illness. Just healthy. What a life that must be. 

[geekandmisandry]

This fucks with my head though. There are people who get up and feel… Awake, and then they go and just… Do their adult responsibilities without feeling anxious or upset? They just return phonecalls? Answer calls from unknown numbers? Don’t procrastinate doing important things until is a huge problem that makes you cry??

That sounds fake.

[avoidantdreamer-deactivated2018]

[garfieldminusgarfield]

G-G on Facebook - G-G on Twitter

[bioware-effect]

Reach and Flexibility

So I saw this post and naturally I had to quickly photoshop something for it ;)