My Brain is a Collection of Lesions

Imagine having gyri and sulci. Lol, lmao even.

[trench-rat]

[haveyoueverusedthissoulsweapons2]

Have you ever used Gavel of Haima? (Elden Ring)

Guilty

Not guilty

I don't remember

I haven't played this game. Is it an Ace Attorney spinoff?

Remaining time: 13 hours 29 minutes

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[weepingchoir]

I performed the 27 Heart-Rending Hell Chasm Kata on a man in Reno just to watch him die

[arturigon]

they say a sword chooses its wielder but they say that about a lot of things. I think sometimes you just wanted the sword

[underpaid-tamamoland-employee]

[mortalityplays]

whether they're Good Media™ or whatever aside, I think mainstream liveplay ttrpg shows have been a fucking disaster for the hobby. it's hard to imagine anything that could have fucked the expectations:results differential for people more than having celebrities do college improv with dice (and an entire media production team behind them) and telling a generation of new players that's what tabletop gaming is like

[mortalityplays]

liveplay ttrpg shows are not 'professional gaming', that's the whole problem I'm talking about. they're entertainment products which make format, content and form choices that would be nonsensical or obstructive at an ordinary table. it's not just "oh if only 'hobbyist' gaming groups (🤮) could pay for all that kit and lighting and professional writers and voice actors".

liveplay production involves story meetings aimed at making the narrative maximally entertaining to a watching audience (not the players, who are also professionals who are there to entertain that audience!). It involves editing (trimming out downtime, uninteresting mistakes, technical issues, moments where the vibe is wrong or there's friction in the room). it involves a room full of production crew watching every move the GM and players make, sensitive to wastage of their time and effort if things don't go to plan. and not for nothing, it involves an entire team of people who need to keep game publishers happy by playing and displaying their products correctly and certainly never criticising them or openly adapting around their shortcomings for the sake of the group's enjoyment.

I've played at tables where we've been lucky enough to have fun props and miniatures and printed maps and sound systems and even a bit of lighting, and where everyone in the group was a seasoned player with writing and performance backgrounds, and the experience was still full of normal natural constructive frictions that are largely if not completely absent from entertainment liveplay shows. player disagreement is normal. stopping mid flow to argue about a rule and look it up and help each other with system technicalities is normal. the music just not working today is normal. the party choosing a direction the GM didn't prepare for and having to adjust their in-character choices a little and tolerate some hastily cobbled together fluff to meet them halfway is so normal it's a running joke. someone finding a scene a little too much and asking for a break or redirection is normal. someone saying something a little ill judged in the moment and having to walk it back with as much grace as possible is normal. storylines not going to plan and petering out without major dramatic resolution, or npcs being ignored and cast off with a shrug is normal. all this shit and more is normal because a normal table is structured around the organic decision-making of a bunch of players who are primarily in it for their own fun and sense of transport, not for an invisible imaginary fandom slash consumer market. which are all the things that make ttrpg play inherently a pretty bad vehicle for storytelling, incidentally!

someone else in the tags expressed their frustration at these shows 'professionalising' the hobby, and while I do recognise and sympathise with the feeling that these shows normalise a level of polish and commercial buy-in that's destructive to the diy culture of tabletop gaming, I still have to push back on the idea that these shows are representative of 'professionalised gaming'. they're not. they're sports anime.

[thevampirecrow]

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

[mizuform]

[milaisa-art]

Zero sketches

[maidthings]

"they took pluto from you" "they took dinosaurs from you" "they took neptune from you" grow a second personality trait and stop getting upset that our understanding of the world has grown since you were in 3rd grade

[yasmin1000000]

They took naptime from you

[nessa007]

how it feels to avoid fandom tags and just staying in your own little bubble where you can enjoy your fave shows/movies/artists etc in peace

[tothechaos]

we need to find the beating heart of The Job Market and we need to plunge a holy gleaming blade into it. its the only way to be free

[gvalesdraws]

here i abandon my own self

[medievaljournalist]

great. a chivalric order has started nesting under my porch & theres no way i can afford a warlock to come clear it out so i guess now ive got to deal with men-at-arms swearing oaths of valor right outside my window at 4 am every morning

[thispleasestormod]

NEW STAR FORCE SHORT COMIC FOR THE SF COLLECTION RELEASE. IT'S SET AFTER SF3. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

[mariinetact]

my holy grail, i'm so happy to finally have this thing in my hands. :)

[almoststedytimetravel]

Everyone say Ogre stupid and it true! Ogre has been playing Hollow Knight, but Ogre can only understand surface level themes like Perseverance and Breaking the Cycle and can't comprehend deep ideas like "Don't dash directly in an enemy's hit box" that make Team Cherry's metroidvania an indie gaming classic! Ogre so dumb! It make Ogre sad! At this rate Ogre will never understand Silksong!