#dapper digresses

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I was wondering why I wasn't getting as invested in as many shows as lately, and it occured to me that it's just become my reflexive assumption that any show I'm interested in is going to be cancled before it manages to finish. Like I was legit trawling through for some interesting things to watch with my partner: A modern adaptation of 40,000 leagues under the sea, a prerevolutionary france conspiracy thriller, a really slick mystery drama. I watched the trailers and thought "why haven't I heard of this, this seems like exactly my thing?" Turns out each and every one of them was cancled (sometimes before the first season even aired) because they didn't get good viewership numbers or the company was looking to write them off as a loss for tax purposes. ... it's unsustainable right? Constant disapointment is going to train an audience not to engage with new things because they don't want to get emotionally tied up in a story that's never going to complete. Do that long enough and you're going to end up with people who aren't willing to give ANYTHING new a shot until it's gotten at least a few seasons under its belt. Consider it a counterpoint to the same forces causing marvel fatigue, where people check out because the media they were invested in has been so overproduced (both in terms of the amount to watch and in how many edges are sanded down) that they lose all interest.

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Approaching an artist you want to commission but have never talked to before is always so nervewracking like 😬, because you show up in a random person's inbox like...

Hello [user who gets spamed a lot] I am a [completely random blog you have never heard about] unlike all the other [scams] in your inbox, I actually would like to offer you [money] for [goods and services]. Yes I know all the other [scams] say the exact same thing but I am real I [ pwomice🤞]

And then you're on tenderhooks on whether they'll get back to you or not because you don't want to spam them but also have no idea whether you failed an IRL turring test.

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D&D should have a "perfect reload" mechanic for healers where if you nail a medicine skill check you can bring someone back with more HP than just dumping a healing word into them.

Idk it just feels like there would be an inherent benefit to getting healed by someone who knows vaugely what organs go where, right?

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Every so often I'll be browsing D&D youtube/shorts and I'll hear someone talking about ideas that are VERY similar to my own niche takes on the hobby... and while I know it's more than likely it's because clever people looking at the same problem will find similar solutions... I can't help but wonder if I've influenced anyone who's shown up on my feed.

(Hint, if you DO make that kinda content you should totally reach out, love talking with fellow DMs and I'd absolutely colab on something)

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Hey game design friends, is there an RPGmaker equivalent program/framework that could be used to make a Disco Elysium style game?

I've been wanting to play around with making something intractable.

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Had a wild dream where rather than tolkien knockoff fantasy-adventure the primary genre of ttrpgs was "cute storybook animals living in a small town", but the levels of discourse, factionalism, and toxicity in the playerbase was the EXACT same.

The most recent drama was over the fact that the mayoral election plotline in the latest big official release included a murder mystery 2/3rds of the way through the plot. A large swath of people were VERY UPSET that death and violence had entered their cottagecore animal game, which they had been playing conflict free for decades. There apparently had't been this much drama since an edition back when the "canals and crossroads" expansion included the idea of outsiders causing a stir and coming to town

There was also apparently an OSR equivalent traditionalist faction referred to as "The pie guys", because they wanted to refocus on the older edition of the game that was primarily about gathering berries and baking pies out of them to get them judged at the county fair.

After that the dream sort of dissolved as my brain tried to improvise the statistics of 80+ verities of berry and build a coherent mechanic around crossbreeding them.

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As someone who's got a background in history, nothing gets on my nerves more than those conspiracy theorists who claim that ancient peoples couldn't have made X or Y with their contemporary tools, so there must have been aliens involved because the backwards brown people primitives couldn't have figured it out on their own.

Meanwhile the only algorithm-dredged content I actually enjoy happens to be those those meditative "traditional crafts" videos where artisans of different backgrounds take you through every painstaking step of of their work while chill music plays. Nothing will give you an appreciation for the miraculous human talent of MAKING SHIT like seeing a process that took hundreds, maybe even thousands of years to perfect, all to create something innocuous as a tea pot, game board, or wall hanging.

The sheer wilful ignorance it takes to deny that aspect of humanity makes me angry beyond words. I know most of it is a gift feeding into ancient alien conspiracies, crystal healing MLMs and cryptofascism.... but it speaks of a mentality that denies the idea that we can ever build, imagine, or progress to something better.

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Started playing Where Winds Meet because I'm a sucker for all things wuxia and I got caught up on the character creator. Specifically on the inability to get a female character looking sufficiantly scruffy rather than some airbrushed doll. I mean, this character is supposed to be a wilderness wandering vagabond who was raised in the woods by and routinely gets into fights for fun, why does EVERY default look have have big innocent anime eyes and a full face of makeup?

Lowkey this is the same reason I bounced off cyberpunk because I couldn't make my V transhuman OR transgender enough to let myself get immersed in the setting.