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I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

#heres hoping doomsday bombs and I stop having to see ads for the same fifteen people standing around in various shades of blue or orange

you cant make this up. americopoly. You know america, the monopoly country. Americopoly. Killing myself as we speak

birdofthenight

my favorites rn

#incredible

txttletale

there are many people who like to walk into a ttrpg having invented a blorbo in their mind and have the ttrpg to give them the tools to realize that blorbo and all the best to them i am so thoroughly not one of those people. give me a playbook that prescribes a very specific narrative role. give me a pregen character i have to play as. give me a dozen big stupid tables to roll up a guy on. give me some god damn lifepaths !

txttletale

cast me as though in a play and then allow me the tools to make the role my own!

#about to release a little oneshot game that kinda does this (:#it's called nightwind and you are a ghost on a weird train

txttletale

one thing ive learned about writing ttrpgs is that your first draft, the one you write as you're just scrambling to get the Play down into a usable set of procedures other people can understand, will be filled with some of the most pointless sentences ever put to paper

captainautismo

It appears that halo 2 consists of doing action hero shit with the chief through lush and wondrous environments and then hard cutting to the arbiter running through actual Hell

#correct

toskarin

have you seen the lord of the rings movies? the practical effects look great, but there's also an amazing digital serkis

contemptible-scoundrel

the constable trifled in my affairs so I ambushed him and his associates with a pneumatic cannon packed with fentanyl. it was a flyby affair, facilitated by my marvelous clockwork flying machine

they-bite

part of the fun of the original alien is the horror of the nostromo itself imo. it’s a cell of corporate greed ferrying narrowly-trained workers across barren space. it’s huge and yet claustrophobic, cockpits crammed with machinery giving way to yawning berths dripping chains and water. the supercomputer is named mother in a stroke of human anthropomorphization, but instead of providing comfort or protection, it’s only a courier between its creator and its wailing brood. ripley yells “mother! mother!” at a matronly-voiced computer that speaks calmly over her helplessness. the ship is full of endless details and patterns and unlabeled buttons and dials the audience can’t entirely make sense of; to do anything on the ship is a rigorous, technical process, and we must depend on the characters to know it. the internal mechanics of the ship are so alien that a literal alien can hide among the bits and bobs and not be noticed. it’s great.

#I should review movies on here

silvaurum

basketball dracula isn't real dude he can't-- *sudden squeaking noises from the shadows*

silvaurum

*two pool toys having sex tumble by in the wind* oh thank god

silvaurum

*thunderous slam dunk noise*

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What's your least favourite part of the car to fix? Folks who don't know much about cars might think it's something complicated, like a transmission. Or an engine. Or a differential. Or something gross, like the gas tank, or removing a slightly-exploded deer from the engine bay. And those are definitely not great, but for my money, the worst experience you're going to have is dealing with anything under the dashboard.

Why? Simple: there's no room. Any automotive engineer knows that the only thing that goes there is your feet, so there's no reason to make enough room for your entire body. No problem, as long as they don't decide to fill that suddenly-available space with a bunch of bullshit related to all the controls and doodads by the driver. Wait, they did?

Inevitably, over the course of enough miles and years, something is going to get busted in that area. Sometimes it's just because of the stuff your feet bring into the car with you: lots of salt water flicking around, mud getting into sensitive connectors, pedals wearing out because you tromp on them with your big ol' workboots like you're filming a fetish video. And then you have to get in there and fix it. You'll be praying for engine-bay-deer-removal, because at least then you get to stand up.

Don't blame modern cars for this, either. Blah blah computers blah blah fuses blah blah wires. You sound like a fucking medieval peasant. Old cars are some of the worst for it! When the Soviets wanted to shoot a dude into space, they picked Yuri Gagarin, because he was small enough to replace the brake master cylinder on a 1979 Datsun B210. Didn't even have to go in upside down, either. Just kneeled down next to it and pulled that brake pushrod right out. Incredible stuff, and worthy of the heroic medal he later got for some other shit I don't care about.

So the next time you're working on your car, and it doesn't involve contorting yourself to remove an electronic-power-steering computer from six miles up the car's asshole, feel grateful. It could be way worse. And send me a link to your videos, already.

#as usual switch understands me on a fundamental level

Idea: short-form TTRPG based on this song.

https://tidal.com/track/484360031/u

- rolling up characters from tables. players are dead warriors on the journey to the next life, riding the train through the battlefields they knew. the night wind does not want to make the passage easy.

- moving through gameplay stages in which players narrate how their character encounters, struggles with, and either overcomes the challenge or is consumed by it.

- they die at the end. whether that is good or not depends on how the game went.

Total playtime probably under two hours. Playing the song is part of the rules. I'm seeing a thoughtful, melancholy experience, good for a quiet evening with good friends.

Tell me if this seems cool, I'm gonna write it in the next couple days

#ttrpg #indie ttrpg #game design