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Sade Olutola
Acquired Stardust
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
trying on a metaphor
Love Begins
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
i don't do bad sauce passes
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Keni
Three Goblin Art
hello vonnie
Stranger Things
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
occasionally subtle
Misplaced Lens Cap
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Fascism isn’t caused by long COVID or lead exposure or mental illness or brain damage that’s magical thinking. We have to be materialists about this. Fascism is caused by an excess of both yellow bile AND black bile in the blood disrupting the regular functioning of the humors, all the medical literature proves this. Let’s not spread misinformation or pseudoscience.
the more i design/play/think about games, the firmer i become in my belief that the commonly-espoused divide between 'narrative/flavor/aesthetics' and 'mechanics' does not exist
an example:
"flying" is an 'evergreen' mechanic in magic the gathering, which means it's been used in every single expansion in the 30 years since the game came out, from 1993 to the present day.
flying is commonly cited by mark rosewater, the game's head designer, as the game's best mechanic in part because it's so intuitive: flying creatures can't be blocked by creatures without flying¹. it's elegant and crucially it's memorable. it instantly 'makes sense'. you hear that and think 'oh, they just fly over the other creatures, okay'. very few players misunderstand flying. and even better, the art of the game helps to reinforce that. almost every flying creature ever printed is shown either actively flying/levitating or with huge conspicuous wings. remove the text from cards and ask players to tell you which creatures have flying and they'd get it right 99% of the time.
in fact, the biggest reason why anyone ever has a problem with flying is that the art being such a reliable tell means it can also mislead them: breaching hippocamp got a few players confused because the art makes it look like it flies. rosewater considers whippoorwill's art to be a mistake because it confused players by straight up depicting a winged bird flying on a card without it:
so, you know, the rigid art/flavor-mechanics divide would hold that these are just cases of players being mistaken, of not understanding the mechanics of the card. but as anyone who has tried to write rules text for anything will tell you, if your rules text is consistently misread in the same way, you're doing something wrong! the players who played as though breaching hippocamp and whippoorwill had flying had their mechanical experience severely impacted by the art!
and those edge cases aside, the fact that flying is usually so conceptually intuitive and easy to convey with art makes a huge difference to the mechanical design of cards! a card with a more complicated keyword like ninjutsu, undying, wither or evolve loses a lot of the space it has allocated for complexity. flying, however, uses almost none of the mental bandwidth that goes into understanding a card, and this has an extremely tangible impact on what kind of cards can get flying compared to those other keywords! if you can rely on the art and in some cases the creature type (birds, dragons, angels) to make the 'flying' on the card 'stick' in a players' head, you don't need to worry about how it contributes to the overall memory and complexity issues that card might pose.
& none of these things would be true--i.e. the 'mechanics and gameplay' of the game would be substantially different--if flying were just called "Untitled Ability Keyword #1"
¹or reach, but that's besides the point right now
its called house of leaves because you leaves the house
you won't believe the weather we've been getting [remembers to avoid giving away my location] the sky was turned to darkness and the moon to blood, and the stars fell from the heavens.
wrote an essay about encoding, decoding, 'you missed the point by idolizing them' and anton chigurh—but most of all about designing tabletop roleplaying games
“It’s just you.” Encoding and decoding in tabletop roleplaying games.
it's hard being a polyamorous action hero because whenever i have flashbacks to all my dead wives it takes like 20 minutes to get through all of it
it kind of sounds like youre just feeding local women to the deadwife montage
the cat ended up in the backrooms and will never be rescued because no one cares about the backrooms anymore
this really happened btw
beta 0.3
i just released the ashcan of my new game, dead internet theory. it's about the internet and how we made it make us, and it's about teenagers, and it's about the end of the world.
it's inspired by weird metagames like Dropout's Game Changer and Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal and Hunter x Hunter. And also something else. Shit, there was definitely a 4th inspiration I was gonna mention. Something big and viral and green and pink. With a scary world-ending villain. But what was it?
i think right now would be a great time to give me $3 and figure it out yourself.
was looking for the 4 node chart and stumbled on this
what a chart
imagines Kool Keith rapping "Syncretic Imperial Pressure Cooker"
https://iww.org/membership/
>learn about guys doing ascetic mysticism that rejects the material
>look inside
>full of material circumstances
Since I talk about the difference between history as a hobby and as professional research reasonably often, here are books I think you should read if you want to think more about how history is created:
Time’s Monster: How History Makes History by Priya Satia
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-century Europe by Hayden White
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler
Dust: The Archive and Cultural History by Carolyn Steedman
If other people have books they would consider key, please add them. It might be good to start a longer list.
Georg Igger's Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge has a useful overview of historiography/is a solid place to start in my opnion
Apologies to Thucydides by Marshall Sahlins
Good suggestions! I also saw Orientalism by Edward Said in the tags and I strongly endorse it.
Even if you think it isn't relevant to you, it's very good for thinking about dialectical categories. Also I need people to stop referencing the idea incorrectly.
If you're interested in how some misconceptions start, The Invention of Tradition by Hobsbawm and Ranger is very interesting.
making my own bootleg flegg merch. bootflegg
BIG NEWS FOR WEBCOMIC FANS: The Bible is being translated into vernacular and distributed to the laypeople
Before I talk about what happened to your barrel of gasoline and dog I want to say that I am a fundamentally pure and righteous individual.
I'm a Buddhist Inverse Solipsist. I believe that I am the only guy still in samsara, and all of reality is a truman-show-like act by billions of bodhisattvas who are just humoring me.
I'm a Theo-Illegslist Muslim. I believe that Islam was the original religion practiced by Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. However, I also believe I shouldn't be held by a divine covenant I wasn't there to sign.
I'm a polytheist with high standards. The pantheon only has the one. For now.
I'm a Post-Nicene Navajo Arianist. I believe that Christ was NOT co-eternal with God the Father, and that Coyote is part of the godhead. I actively refuse to explain how.
I'm a protestant accelerationist. I want the Catholic Church to sell more indulgences so god will smite them faster.
I'm a scientific puritan. I believe the only way to truly test if humans have free will is to try and convince Christ to kill himself.
I'm a Judeo-Islamic Para-evangelist. I believe the Messiah will only return once every jinn has converted to Judaism.
I'm a Sumerian Traditionalist. All the gods are dead because we haven't fed their idols in 2400 years.
