Your Approval Fills Me With Shame

30 // He/Him // Bi Watch https://www.twitch.tv/themdave I play ttrpgs there sometimes

[great-collapsing-hrung-disaster]

WATCH OUR STREEEEEEAAAAAM

So for the last... three(?!?) years or so, I have been playing TTRPG's on my buddy Dave's twitch stream - Salt Circle RPG. Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themdave Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemDave Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaltCircleRPG We're currently playing

Scum and Villainy every other Sunday from 3pm to 7pm EST (our next session is TOADY, 1/18/24, at 8:00pm EST) but we have played Dungeon Crawl Classics, Scum and Villainy, Paranoia, Mork Borg, and the obligatory 5th ed D&D. I played a 1-on-1 game with Dave a few years ago - you can find the first episode here. If you're like me and have trouble watching unedited game footage, then these little edited bite-sized chunks might be more up your alley! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=597y-lA6chY&list=PLvZSRXhHlI6Fkcz_3yJILbh2-7VzbmkmN Lastly, here's a clip of Dave (on the Free League channel no less) following his instructions to the letter and burning his copy of Mork Borg after the world ended. What a guy. https://www.twitch.tv/freeleaguepublishing/clip/BetterRacyPoultryMikeHogu-f2AoKXoOBWS4qeZr?filter=clips&range=all&sort=time

[teaboot]

So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently

[teaboot]

Breaking the law, even an unjust law, has consequences that not all can afford. But also a very large number of us are also very stupid, or very confused, or very lazy, and so it’s not unreasonable that someone at the bottom of the chain of command might make a typo, or misplace some paperwork, or leave a Friday afternoon email for Monday morning.

When something goes wrong, or an operation slows down, because a low-level worker somewhere sent a package to the wrong address or left someone on hold for an hour or didn’t fill out a particular form correctly- Do you immediately assume malicious intent? Or do you usually just brush it off as some underpaid idiot being bad at their job?

[teaboot]

You also gotta not brag about it. Keep your political opinions on the down low. Be noncommittal or ignorant or undecided. Say things like “I’ve never heard of that”, “where did you hear that?” or “that’s interesting, I heard a conflicting story from here, how weird”. Never be outwardly confidant of what you know. When there is a silence, don’t fill it- leave the space and let the other fill it for you. That’s how you get information, that’s how you find sources, that’s how you reduce the value of anything others get out of you.

Virtue signalling by wearing pins and ribbons and loudly declaring your place is not safe in some environments. It will place scrutiny on you and everything you touch. Nobody believes the guy who says “fuck my boss and everything he stands for” scratches the boss’s car by accident, even if it is an accident.

If you want to slow the march of a tank, filling the path with mud is going do more than laying down in front of it.

[ispendtoomuchtimeonline]

Also: PLAY. DUMB. All the time. Make sure whoever’s in charge believes you’re the kind of person to make “stupid mistakes”.

Black people who were enslaved in the antebellum U.S. would intentionally act stupid and lazy in front of their overseers/masters. This way, when they performed small acts of resistance (like intentionally slowing down during work, “accidentally” breaking equipment, and “forgetting” orders) their enslavers would just chalk it up to “Oh, well, they’re just stupid and lazy. They can’t help it.” The stereotype that Black people were dumb, lazy ne’er-do-wells was widespread back then (still is, tbh, but not as prevalent) and black people played that role to a HILT. This allowed them to fuck with their oppressors while minimizing the punishments they would receive.

[great-collapsing-hrung-disaster]

Another use for the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Luckily, many of these suggestions are completely indistinguishable for normal corporate culture.

[8-possums-in-a-trench-coat]

so are they just only making ornaments of the gay moments or what

[whitepeopletwitter]

[energyprison]

Rumours speak of a powerful lich stirring beneath Baltimore

[greatnorthernofficial]

BIG BILL HELL AWAKENS

[puckspoetry]

POV: you wake up from a mouse bite induced coma

[draconym]

At a festival. Small child is lying on the ground nearby with a large rock on their chest yelling MORE WEIGHT!!! GIVE ME MORE WEIGHT!!!

[draconym]

wait hold on gotta look something up

[draconym]

oh no

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Condiment but badass! Spreading power!🎵

[tax--payer]

playing my touy

[argumate]

*gently rattles computer* hope all my friends are comfortable in there

[squareallworthy]

[girlnephew]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[ruinedchildhood]

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

Owning a chimpanzee is unethical and dangerous but keeping an orangutan is actually fine as long as you give it an astrolabe, several worn volumes of esoterica and a meditation chamber

[mousenemy]

this is my son i use him when i am on my laptop but also want to use my leaf blowere at the same time. for reasons i will not disclose here

[mousenemy]

hey guys. want to apologize for the above post. i was a different person when i made this post, i've gone through change, i've grown, and i've aged. so please don't give me or my son hate saying he's a "fire hazard" when he literally has to be plugged in to be alive. thanks

[oleander-teacup]

and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

[vixensdungeon]

Here’s how you play Dungeons & Dragons: you are presented with a situation. You have three options.

Do nothing

State an action

Ask a clarifying question about the situation

Riddle me this, dungeoneers: which one of these is “can I roll an Arcana* check?”

*could be any check, really

[honkbird]

hrm a riddle... dungeonmaster can I roll History or something to solve it?

[vixensdungeon]

One moment your head is on your shoulders, as it should be. The next, a fountain of blood as you come to grips with your new decapitated lifestyle.