Choose your Mutations Carefully!

this is the place where i make stuff and put it on the internets

[galaxywarp]

once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)

[balaclava-trismegistus]

American cultural output is so incredibly dire right now that every time a 6.5/10 horror movie comes out everyone starts freaking the fuck out and doing backflips and burning cars and shit and it gets 4.7 stars on letterboxd and they start to kill and eat people who dont like it that much because we need this. we have nothing and we need this. just until tomorrow. just until next week. please.

[gondorrevealparty]

They need to eat less because they're so small and weak. Why are they so small and weak? Because they eat less. Let's base our entire society on this distinction.

[polyvinylist]

sketchin

[ankle-beez]

it's so obvious that people wanted to turn gooseworx into the next rebecca sugar (queer cartoon creator who made an imperfect show who is now the laughingstock of a huge part of the internet) and then got extremely mad when it didn't work and she started actively retaliating

[tzimizce]

I find this issue pretty prevalent in vtm , but the idea that your character participating/accepting/engaging with ingame propaganda or dubious power structure reflects on you or your character as some sort of gullible/morally bad.

I see this especially when people are mousy about engaging with dubious politics and instead circle around and are like well no my character's completely untouched and above politics and thinks it's all stupid and infighting and points their nose down at anyone else who is playing the political game (the game with load bearing lore justifications for why- ) and it often comes down to the player isn't comfortable having their character genuinely sincerely engage with the setting's narratives of uncomfortable power and survival and are instead morally superior.

I find this unfortunately prevalent with autarkis players that think by not engaging with politics in the political game their character is exempt and above and everyone else is just stupid and not as enlightened about it instead, when like there's a reason, there is a power structure and people partake, it's not this arbitrary inconvenience that people do because they're prissy, like this is a political parlour tabletop that especially younger vampires do not have much options outside of and sure you can homebrew whatever but then like, again. This is ap olitical vampire game, with politics, side stepping core playing theme is like asking why there's combat in dnd.

[childeofperdition]

Okay but THIS exactly. 90% of VTM centers around the politics and its unique social structure, so it feels weird and frankly stupid to try and remove your characters from it— Kinda defeats the point of the game? Even in a real world setting, absolutely no one is above having some sort of political stance. That being said, the politics, regardless of whatever faction you choose, is largely what keeps your characters ‘alive..?’ Agree with it or don’t, but the only reason you’re not ash is because some form of structure is keeping you grounded. Even if your character chooses to stand on the outskirts of it, there’s really just no way to remove them from it fully. If you do, you won’t make it far.

It’s far more interesting to— “hate the game” but to play it to your favor, rather than take this weird morally superior high-horse stance in a world where everyone sucks all the time. If anything, it just makes the character really boring and flat. Have your character make tough choices that directly conflict with their morals! Make them take risks that challenge their understand of the world! Have them do things that they ultimately hate, but must in order to survive or protect the people they love! For the love of God, do anything that isn’t “I’m better than all of you because I don’t pick sides.” Please.

[tzimizce]

#I’m actually begging#it makes your characters insufferable and boring as fuck#the games politics don’t reflect your own#your character can be a bad person and that’s OKAY#actually make them compelling#please#vtm#vampire the masquerade#world of darkness#thoughts#really good post

[liquidstar]

"only 90s kids remember-" wrong, if you're poor and/or rural enough, old tech and fashion doesn't just disappear when it stops being trendy. We had dial-up until 2012

[toddycats]

My hope for whoever is reading this is that your life starts making sense and coming together. I hope the good days are right around the corner for you.

[argumate]

LLM psychosis is simply the democratisation of being surrounded by yes-men and unctuous toadies, an experience previously only accessible to dictators and kings and cult leaders and venture capitalists

[polyvinylist]

i hate finals season and being away from my gf i feel like i’m at war writing her letters from the trenches

[polyvinylist]

You know, I would be excited about the notable increase in eyes on WoD, especially Mage, if the perspectives weren’t mostly “WOAW GUYS AREN’T THESE GAMES SO WACKY?! ISN’T MAGE SO FUCKING WEIRD?! AREN’T THE PEOPLE WHO PLAY MAGE LIKE REAL WIZARDS LOLOLOLOLOL”

[odobites]

What is under Sybil's mask? Buck teeth? Horrid pimple scars? Feeder tentacles?

the funny answer is like the infinite void or smth but the real answer is that she DOES unfortunately have a face.

[polyvinylist]

I have terminal WoD-brain. I watched TADC episode 8 a little while after it came out and during the last bit I just kept thinking that Kinger is a Virtual Adept.

[kosmogrl]

april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good

[polyvinylist]

Shit man, this Technocracy war is fucked. I just saw a guy open up Siri on his phone and say "liquidate my assets" or some similar shit, and every one around him turned pale, began sublimating into nanoparticle mist, and was re-encoded on a quantum level into blockchain value. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is using cryogenic pistol rounds and low-frequency neural disruption. I think I just heard some Iterator go "activate throngulator.exe" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

[polyvinylist]

particle man

particle man

doing the things a particle can

what’s he like?

it’s not important

particle man

[meatfag]

My favourite part about WOD is that there are at least 10 different world ending scenarios happening at once and none of them can be stopped and you're just a level 1 emo fag