"Luminous beings are we..."

he / him / they bi 41 / Seattle / the cis man you dni

[not-this-crude-matter]

Trying to figure out which variety of my varied opinions about the B-wing will bring me the most happiness

[not-this-crude-matter]

[silvermoon424]

“Who is the internet even for anymore?” is such a valid question. Companies are sanitizing the internet and stifling natural human expression in the name of child safety and being family friendly, but the kids such as fuck aren’t benefitting from this. The internet is becoming too childish for adults and yet still too adult for kids.

[prokopetz]

I don't disagree that telling stories is amongst the several functions of tabletop RPGs (though it's certainly not the sole function – or even the principal function – of many games), but I think a lot of analyses of story-in-RPGs trip over the GNS model's error of treating the activities of play as identical with the goals of play.

Like, if the goal if play is to produce a story, then the act of play must be identical with the act of telling a story, right? Except that's not how most stories we actually tell work. How most stories we actually tell work is a bunch of Weird Shit happens, then we make up an explanatory narrative to help us make sense of it.

In the overwhelming majority of conventional tabletop RPGs, the act of play is not identical with telling the story. The act of play is identical with experiencing the Weird Shit. The rules are a Rube Goldberg machine which outputs the materials of which stories are made, and if they're competently structured, all you need to do is turn the crank.

This, more than anything else, is why putting Rule Zero front and centre is going to give you problems in traditional games. If you start with the exact specific story you want to produce and ask how to get the rules to produce it, you're not merely setting yourself at odds with any particular rule; you're trying to run the machine backwards!

[guerrillatech]

[ch0co-c0rn3t-lov3]

DO NOT DOWNLOAD TUMBLR it will install a virus on your device called tumblr

[polarity-disturbed]

Being able to draw older people as attractive without reducing or erasing the visual signs of aging, and in fact showing that they're attractive because of those signs, is an artistic skill that should be valued so much more. Honestly, it should earn you an immediate fortune because holy fuck is it a rare commodity. There are so many artists who seem to think attractiveness and aging exist in opposition to each other, so they smooth every wrinkle, erase every crease, and de-age the character until they're basically thirty with silver hair. But when an artist can look at crow's feet, smile lines, weathered skin, deep-set wrinkles, and all the little traces of a life well lived and say, "No, that's what makes them beautiful," that's a level of artistic observation and care I wish we celebrated more often.

[naggingatlas]

and fat btw

[sabertoothwalrus]

and balding btw

[not-this-crude-matter]

Fuck the KOTOR references, if Disney wants to bring legacy Star Wars canon back give us WEG-accurate Victory I-class Star Destroyers with 80 concussion missile tubes, you cowards.

[not-this-crude-matter]

You're mad at Disney because Star Wars has POC telling explicitly political stories. I'm mad at Disney because not enough planetary sieges broken with crushing missile barrages. We are not the same.

[rubacmk]

I really had to draw some ukrainian matchstick mascots

[bruzum]

[wenlokholmes]

sorry, prev, your tags are too true to be silenced

[videogameoutofcontext]

[thememedaddy]

[not-this-crude-matter]

RIP MF DOOM you would have loved walking all the way around the block to set up a rhyme for "Jimothy"

[wearemercs]

Study by Krenz

[byjove]

I’m going to have to stop leaving an ‘I’m bald.’ option on music polls. CHOOSE

[aesign108]

but i'm bald,,

[byjove]

[maxknightley]

everyone more pretentious than me is an insufferable poseur and everyone less pretentious than me is a clueless philistine

[maxknightley]

romantic and sexual partner.

[smokingrozanov]

T shirt that says “I ❤️ getting laid” & then on the back it says “to REST” with a photo of a coffin + the name & phone number for a local cemetery. Please follow for more advertising ideas

[solely-ashes]

Forget about torturing your blorbos, putting them through the ringer. I'm putting my blorbo in perfectly ordinary, pleasant situations. Their tortured personality will cause them anguish anyway, making an absolutely mundane scene into the most dramatic, agony filled affair as though the world is ending and it's all their fault

[fakecrfan]