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I think I know the series of decision that lead to the disastrous Battlestar Galactica finale. The dominant narrative is to put the blame on a lack of planning. That's incorrect. Lack of planning did lead to some questionable decisions (making football guy a Cylon did not make him more interesting), but the series is not a mystery. Only the intro insist the Cylon have a plan; the human characters do not suspect it and the Cylon never behave as if. The problem is the opposite. The writers have a specific conclusion they want to reach, and are doing anything to get from point A to point B. The real culprit is the very mandate of the reboot to make a grounded version of the 1978 series.

Three things influenced the original Battlestar Galactica: Star Wars, the Book of Mormon and Chariots of the Gods? ("There are those who believe that life here began out there [...]"). From season one of the reboot the characters are following prophecies and witnessing signs from the divine which eventually lead them to earth. This is simply the result of melding influence two and influence three, because they are the same story, only instead of the Toltec, the reboot mention Mitochondrial Eve. I have seen people say that Starbuck resurrection is "unexplained", but I disagree. God did it. That's what the show says. This is not poor planning, this is a continuation of the story they have been telling from the start. The poor planning part is when the colonists decide to abandon all technology because a "clean start" can only be achieve without penicillin.

It's a neat logic leading to a series of bad ideas. I'm an atheist, so I don't resonate with the message "only by trusting in God's miracle can we escape the cycle of violence." Maybe we can't escape the cycle of violence. Also, what does "every modern human is a bit Cylon" says about us? The best "Just so" story have a message. So we're all a bit robot. Okay. What does that mean? Why should I care?

The Battlestar Galactica achieved the goals it set out to do. It never questioned if those goals were worth achieving.

#battlestar galactica remake #battlestar galactica #battlestar galactica 2003 #battlestar galactica 1978 #Chariots of the gods?#Book of Mormon #cylon

Fate is often reccomended as a simple rpg to run, and that's true, but I still remember struggling with running Fate Accelerated, namely: 1) My player and I often forgot to invent and use Aspect for everything in the world and 2) My player didn't engage in the Fate point economy.

From what I understant, you're supposed to open your third eye and realise everything has an Aspect: people, object, weather, genre... Both the player and GM can invent aspect and tag aspects for everything, with the limitations of only three aspects per objects, that the aspects are and remain true (unless the object is destroyed) and that the GM has veto.

I never engaged with that, and I think that's why my player rarely tagged aspects. I tried to compel them, but it didn't do anything because they never spent their fate points.

It's my fault, but I do think inexperienced GM (like me, I haven't run many games) might also struggle with that, so I can't say it's a "run it out of the box" game.

#Fate #Fate accelerated #Fate rpg #rpg #ttrpg

saevity

some emma doodles bc i'm having a tda summer in preparation for my twp fall 🥳🥳 nothing like rereading these books while sweating profusely

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Which subtype of D&D harlot are you?

Slovenly trull

Brazen strumpet

Cheap trollop

Typical streetwalker

Saucy tart

Wanton wench

Expensive doxy

Haughty courtesan

Aged madam

Wealthy procuress

Sly pimp

Rich panderer

Voting ended onJul 30

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sirobvious

Having autism is like going to an unfamiliar store and taking an item off the shelf but you don’t see a cash register so you just sort of meander around for a while until you find someone to ask “How do I pay for this?”

At which point everyone in the store drops what they’re doing to run to you and start punching you like you killed a chicken in Skyrim without saying a word about what’s going on or even answering the question.

And then *if you’re lucky* while you’re watching tv from your hospital bed you’ll see a news headline that says “area psychopath implies he wants to pay for product using severed baby heads instead of depositing money in the box outside the store like everybody else, brave customers rally to defend retail worker.” and that’s how you know you’re supposed to put money in a box next time. And actually I don’t even know if this is really an autism thing because I don’t really see this happening to anyone else with autism regularly and most people who know me as a friend instead of the severed baby head psycho tell me that it really is disturbingly frequent how often this happens and they have no idea what it is about me that causes this to happen so often

#Jesus christ this post hit way too close too home #it's all fucking true

godivaghoul

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Denialists force survivor’s group to shut down comments on socials

With hate crimes exploding in Canada in the last couple of years, Canada’s Senate has passed a bill that would criminalize more Nazis symbols, the noose and make it illegal to block people from attending places of worship. An amendment for Indigenous hatred was rejected before the final bill was approved. Sen. Nancy Karetak-Lindell is Inuk from Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut and she brought the amendment to the senate floor. She included the amendment: “making it a criminal offence to willfully promote hatred against Indigenous Peoples by condoning, denying or downplaying the Indian residential schools system.”

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