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[mint-swirl]

*trying to come up with rules for my new society after successfully leading the revolution* why don’t we just repurpose 5e

[txttletale]

if you've followed me for a while, you've probably seen me mention Underside, my dark cape TTRPG inspired by deconstructive superhero stories like Worm, Astro City, Watchmen, and the first season of Gen V.

it's a project i've spent a lot of time on, trying to build a system that tells the kind of superhero stories i like; the shit that treats them as a subculture with a body count, that digs into the dissociative tension of the secret identity, that asks what it means to feel so completely ejected from regular society that you can only go out in a mask and costume.

for a while now, a playtest edition of Underside has been available on my patreon; now, as it's slowly become more and more complete over the course of a year, i'm putting the most recent one up on itch.io

i want to be clear: while this playtest edition is enough to play a full campaign and contains all the mechanics that are going to be in the finished book, it's still a playtest. there's no fancy layout and an entire section (guidance for the Administrator, the game's GM-equivalent role) hasn't been written yet. but for a while, every time i talk about Underside i get the question: "where can i get my hands on it?". so here's an answer to that question; right now, while it's still in beta--if you want to support the project and help me get it over the finish line, or you just can't wait until it's out For Real, you can get it here.

UNDERSIDE Playtest Edition by the HORIZON MACHINE

costumed violence in the dark

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[spitblaze]

[guy who doesnt watch shows voice] yeah ive been meaning to watch that show

[pandapecha]

Music Ask Game: Titles Edition!

A song with a color in the title

A song with a number in the title

A song with a name in the title

A song with a place in the title

A song with an animal in the title

A song with a plant in the title

A song with a food in the title

A song with a time in the title (time of day, time measurement, etc.)

A song with a pronoun in the title

A song with a single-word noun title

A song with a single-word verb title

A song with a single-word adjective title

A song with punctuation in the title

A song with a symbol in the title (emoji, unicode, etc.)

A song with no capitalization in the title

A song with an all caps title

A song with 5+ words in the title

A song with a title in a foreign language

A song with a title that's difficult/impossible to pronounce out loud

A song with a Pokemon type in the title

[what-even-is-thiss]

A lot of people’s idea of “California” is just Los Angeles and also I think specifically the rich parts of Los Angeles

[pile-of-worms]

As a European, my idea of “California” is honestly just. Warm America. With beach? I think?

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s cold rainforests and snowy mountains there

[what-even-is-thiss]

All California.

[prokopetz]

Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Just kind of dumb

[sesiondemadrugada]

Aşur Horoz (Soli).

[iphigeniacomplex]

grounding tips for the stressed aspiring tyrant: acknowledge 5 people you can sway to your cause, 4 methods you can use to persuade them (2 violent, 2 nonviolent), 3 people in positions of moderate power you can manipulate and usurp in order to gain access to 2 powerful institutions to destroy, and 1 foundational lie

[iphigeniacomplex]

people are starting to character tag so i’d like to state upfront that this is part of a new branch of pop feminism i’m pioneering called despotette and as such is specifically advice for women trying to break into the world of tyranny, so if you must character tag it’s really only appropriate to do so if the character is a woman, thank you

[silvernevermind]

small town diner waitress voice: Omelas? Oh, oh no, easy mistake, you're in oh - MAY - las right now, with an A. Plenty' people get the name mixed up. Nope, no utopia here, just our small little town. *face gets really grim* We do still.. Okay well we do still have a kid that we... I mean it isn't working but- well- You know. It- It's fine. I'm sure it'll start working soon.

[girl-blorbo-polls]

shout out to characters who died for womanpain. u may have died but at least u gave a bitch something interesting to reckon with. ur sacrifice will be appreciated o7 o7 o7

[romchat]

In general, Sinners has great cinematography, but I think this tracking shot that follows Lisa Chow across the street from her parents’ Black storefront to their White storefront is one of my favorites:

Look at how it immediately establishes the rules of the movie's setting.

This is Jim Crow Mississippi where Black and White residents essentially live in different worlds. The continuous take forces us (the audience) to experience that segregation in real time as we walk behind Lisa crossing the street. There are no cuts or edits to interrupt the discomfort of having to witness all those visual reminders of racism against Black Americans.

I think it's also significant that it's Lisa, an Asian American woman, who the camera follows. As someone who exists outside the Black-White racial binary, she’s able to traverse these two worlds but the bright red of her shirt still demarcates her as a conspicuous outsider amidst all the blue and brown on both sides, representing the uniquely precarious position of Asians in the U.S.’s racial hierarchy.

[saucefunk]

preacher boy

(EDIT: now on inprnt!)

[jerkeline]

One way to get tasks done in the day is to make yourself a Chekhov's List. Put all of the things you have to do on a list, and now that they've been revealed they'll need to be completed by the afternoon (third act) and when you've completed something you can Chekov that task from the list

[frostedmagnolias]

I hope it rains everywhere tomorrow that people are expecting to do fireworks for the 4th and cannot do fireworks 🙏

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[liminalweirdo]

Stricter Covid rules could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives, new study finds

Restrictions in Northeastern states likely ‘saved many lives’ say researchers

The US could have avoided almost 250,000 Covid-19 deaths if every state had adopted stricter mask and vaccine requirements seen in the Northeast during the height of the pandemic, according to a new study.

Researchers say that the country, which saw more than 1.1 million Covid deaths, could have been spared an estimated 118,000 to 248,000 more lives.

covid is still killing people btw. in 2024

wear a mask

[punk-pandame]

covid is still killing people btw. in 2025

wear a mask

[lunaxio]

covid is still killing people btw. in 2026

wear a mask