Madelaine

I came here from the reddit screenshots and friends :3

[vexwerewolf]

[campyvillain]

strange, weird media made by neurodivergent people with unconventional formatting and storytelling methods delivered in a way that is almost unintelligible but in a cool way is worth more to me than any marvel movie could ever hope to be. if you disagree with this no you dont

[vexwerewolf]

Some of the plot points in my tabletop campaign are told via chatlogs

[vexwerewolf]

Tabletop Roleplaying Systems as DHMIS Stills

Promethean: The Created

Shadowrun

Vampire: The Requiem

Hunter: The Vigil

Shadow of the Demon Lord

Monster of the Week

GURPS

Dungeons & Dragons 5E/D&D One

Starfinder

Call of Cthulhu

Eclipse Phase

Delta Green

Mage: The Awakening

Don't Rest Your Head

Cyberpunk RED

Lancer

FATE Core

Literally Any Warhammer 40K TTRPG

Transformers RPG

Pathfinder

[vexwerewolf]

[madvalkyrieo7]

thank you, big sal

[vexwerewolf]

[vexwerewolf]

Recruiting a team in Lancer

[prokopetz]

The difference between HORUS and SSC is that HORUS starts with cosmic horror and works backwards to construct Dungeons & Dragons, while for SSC the cosmic horror is an emergent property of the fact that SSC frames are Super Fucking Anime. This isn't particularly a secret – it's just that at first you think they're Super Fucking Anime in the sense that if you lose your mech's dorky hand-forged katana, they'll make you write the swordsmith a personalised letter of apology before they'll issue you another one, and it's only once you dig a little under the surface that you realise they're also Super Fucking Anime in the sense that your slick giant robot with the corporate-chic styling and the custom leather gamer chair might possibly be powered by a little piece of a lobotomised alien god.

[prokopetz]

Smith-Shimano Corpro: So image-conscious that each pilot licensed to operate SSC frames is assigned their own personal brand management concierge.

Also Smith-Shimano Corpro: Maybe if we take the mech upgrades that are made of dead god bits and give them really boring names, nobody will notice?

[kassil]

...I really need to get around to finishing reading the core book for this, don't I?

[prokopetz]

You may think I am exaggerating.

I am not.

[vexwerewolf]

So in Lancer, every single piece of gear you get with a mech has flavour text. Often, this will be about the history of that piece of gear, how it works, or some specific instance in which it was used.

But Lancer has this tell, this idiosyncrasy. Sometimes, the flavour text will be an ominous, out-of-context quote that explains absolutely nothing about what something is, what it does or where it came from.

This is Lancer's way of letting you know that The Sphere Is Fucked Up

[petterwass]

I honestly have never seen a weapon in a RPG that is as funny to me as GUN:GUN.

A gun that does not exist, cannot exist under the laws of physics and probably exists on some sort of meta level where it gets to hack the actual rulebook you play with.

It does exactly one point of damage. Each round. Every round. There are no defence against it. It has future-proofed itself to ensure that there will never BE any defences against it. It doesn't even count as an attack.

It will simply plink away at someone for one HP every turn and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it except try and kill the mech carrying it.

Oh yeah and it's heavily implied to be sentient.

[xeansicemane]

This is the text for another weapon on the same frame - the Mimic Gun. The Pegasus' whole concept is that it is the ontological, meta-narrative concept of gun forced into a physical shape by a bunch of catgirl transhuman hackers.

The "This is not a gun" at the end is the chilling bit for me.

[vexwerewolf]

It's also relevant to note that the action you take to force the Mimic Gun to reroll its stats is "PROVOKE." No explanation whatsoever is given as to why this word in particular was chosen.

[k3vxz93pfd28bdw0s2]

its good to know the extremely apt name for this subculture i guess

[methotrex8]

Cringemobile

[vexwerewolf]

I’m sorry, did you mean

[deermouth]

lrb is SO FUN

[deermouth]

[craftycrab]

[ragsy]

Oh this is great news

[alternativeulster]

[vexwerewolf]

[turing-tested]

[turing-tested]

D:

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

this is a legitimate problem in robotics.

like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.

it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).

anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).

[ronthedunedain]

In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it's demise was too inhumane.

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about

[aquilacalvitium]

Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy

Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he's five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge

[xeansicemane]

I think that there is something really hopeful about this - no matter what society keeps trying to imprint on us about our roles and how everyone around us is competition first and foremost, most people default to seeing life and companionship.

Of course nobody wants to see the robot get hurt. Why would they WANT to let it get hurt.

This, of course, must be balanced with the knowledge that those robot "dogs" are ultimately cops in deeply unflattering fursuits.

[vexwerewolf]

[vexwerewolf]

Hey Tumblr did I make this internet chatter authentic enough

[vexwerewolf]

Massif Press released a new adventure for Lancer today, and by now you guys know I had to do it to em

[pips-squeak]

rb to explode a terf ^_^ nonrefundable ^_^

[thickness-protection-program]

[krystal-prisms]

hey sorry, bad news. your boyfriend, we

fossilized him. we can't carbon date him anymore

released him into the wild. he's restoring the population

stir fried him. he's served over rice now

laminated him. fwuhbububfwipububub

recycled him. he's a coffee cup now

drinked him with a twirly straw

put him in a black hole. he's spaghettified now

distributed him among the working class to make everyone equal under communism

put him in the dryer. yeah, he shrunk

did nothing. good lord, leave the man alone

Voting ended onFeb 2, 2023

sorry

[your-fave-is-forklift-certified]

Bingo Heeler from Bluey is Forklift Certified!

[madvalkyrieo7]

she is five, she *can't* be forklift certified

[effinbirds]