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Cold take but all languages are beautiful actually. Every single one. Every single human language on earth is a collection of stories interwoven into the very fabric of the words that are spoken.

“Oh but this language sounds scary-“ have you heard a child speak it while pointing at a butterfly?

“Oh but this language sounds silly-“ have you heard someone’s grandma recite a recipe with such practiced ease it comes off as poetry?

“Oh but this language is really weird-“ and yours isn’t? Everyone’s language is weird, dumbass, it came free with your fucking humanity.

Every tongue that is spoken is a work of art. Every language a unique window into the world.

Isn’t it wonderful?

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It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

cipheramnesia

They’re looking at each other, comparing cats:

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And Vincent Price was also bi so, y'know, let’s hear it for the bi pride catboys.

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High level adventurers be like

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High level adventurers be like

charl0ttan

to be honest i do have beef with some microbes

yoshspace

shoulda cooked it longer that gets rid ofem

depsidase

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Mark of the Vampire (1935)

nuclearbummer

deepdwellingsteamboat

TWIN PEAKS 1990 – 1991・1x02 Traces to Nowhere

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trying to explain why i like horror to people who don’t: ok so you know how it’s fun to be deeply disturbed and unsettled

faitherinhicks

I’ve been watching Star Trek: Voyager for the first time. Tried to imagine what Seven of Nine might look like if she was allowed to choose what she wanted to look like and retain some of her Borg identity, rather than being strapped into a catsuit and four inch heels to improve ratings.

sirobvious

The state of TTRPGs if it was video games

“Oh I wanna play a Half-life video game; instead of playing Half-life 1, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Half-life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Portal, Portal 2, E:0, or E:02, I’ll just download 10,000 mods for Skyrim until all the draugr are replaced with Combine soldiers.”

sirobvious

dude they have this thing called a rulebook

digital-meat

I watched so many lets plays. None of them installed mario on my computer.

so here we are

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The state of TTRPGs if it was video games:

*tries to enforce rulebook*

*gets thoroughly ignored*

*everyone is still having fun with their bullshit while the guy with the rulebook is sitting alone in the corner*

Yeah turns out people don’t like to be told how to play to the point that they will literally develop hacking skills to be able to do whatever random crap they find funny. Which isn’t always the wisest choice, but it’s the one they found fun. Maybe TTRPGs would be more popular if the modding community was more welcome, which, wait, that’s what lead to the 2010s boom of D&D until Wizards decided to start messing with the rules and suddenly everyone stopped caring again. It’s almost like rule lawyering is what puts people off games, huh. D&D didn’t get it’s rebirth as a game, but as a game engine, during the era when Minecraft and Roblox were succeeding by doing the same thing.

Maybe that’s what Tabletop has to learn from Vidya.

sirobvious

You don’t know what “rules lawyering” means, or really what anything you’re saying means, but mostly that one.

You’re looking at the concept of playing by the rules and seeing it as blind obedience instead of literacy.