the miracle is still waiting. this is the darkness.

healed ⚕ she/her

[txttletale]

oh, lucky me, born under a meteor!

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oh hi. i see you've wandered into my labyrinth of horrors. i'm w.s. healed, although i also go by rose quarter-drifting. i make silly little posts here and publish tabletop roleplaying games as the HORIZON MACHINE. i'm in my mid 20s and i go by she/her pronouns exclusively.

i'm a tactical goodness confidence queen and a very very smart girl with something like a university degree in Truth; rave reviews have described me as 'a strange woman with odd ideas about how the world works' and 'an organism hostile to all human life'. i post about communism and roleplaying games. above all else i am on this webzone to have a nice time on the computer.

reading my posts explains my posts.

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before asking me a question, you should check out my faq

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[phorusrhacidae-lesbian]

little miss auditory processing disorder would like you to repeat what you just said then immediately respond to you before you finish

[wholesalemagnesiumoxide]

[txttletale]

genuijenly firmly with my wehole heart believe that disney missed out on literal millions of dollars by not callign it "the baby yoda movie"

[txttletale]

i really really like how both of aow4's non-military victory conditions will have everyone who isn't your ally declare war on you to try and stop you while you defend them for 15 turns. it makes ending the game feel very climactic and suitably dramatic as opposed to e.g. civ where you'll spend the last several turns just kind of twiddling your thumbs

[brushwork]

Weather camera self portraits (2012— )

Tatu Gustafsson

[txttletale]

I'd like you to know that "Kramer reads settlers" went triple platinum in my friend group. Thank you

[nodding] You sold 3 million units of 'kramer reads settlers'. to your friend group

[txttletale]

This isn’t meant to like be provocative but i genuinely want to know if you have any thoughts on ECT as a treatment on a whole?

[txttletale]

what do you think of modern tcgs removing resource systems like magic's lands from the main deck?

i haven't actually played riftbound or lorcana which are the two takes i've seen on this, so i can't say for sure how i feel about how it plays. however lorcana and riftbound (and hearthstone and legends of runeterra before them) are making big concessions in terms of limiting deckbuilding with hard faction systems, right? like, i really like how magic allows you to splash at a cost, how even in the formats with fetches you will see people split between a more consistent two-color version of a deck or archetype and a less consistent three-color version that gets a few extra tools... definteily lots of cool stuff in how newer games are handling their resources systems but i on principle dislike the hard deckbuilding limits that tend to come with that

[txttletale]

I think the Marvel set would be better if they just choose a storyline to adapt.

hard disagree, if there's two things that draftable full-size mtg sets are bad at conveying it is character and/or plot-driven narrative . i think the only way for the marvel set to have been good would be if it was just a set of precons

[txttletale]

is 'to the court astrologers' in any of your poetry collections? it's one of my favorite poems like. ever.

i don't think so, no... i should probably collect up all my odds and ends over the last couple years somewhere honestly like i did with to you, a recurring person. i'm glad you like it so much. a fun triva fact about that one is that the 'trample trample trample' came from an ai-generated magic: the gathering card called 'general flying' i saw in a youtube video once

i was tickled by the three redundant instances of a keyword, and by the fact that it's not the keyword that's in the name of the card. which kind of tied nicely into the whole set of ideas re: sorting and taxonomizing i had on my mind at the time. and it has such a pleasing exuberant sound to me, "trample trample trample" !

[55ludovicoplace]

Oops I had to pay an unexpected medical cost because my tooth split open!

Owie! I live off $200 a month, which barely covers my routine medical costs because I don't have insurance! Anything you might be able to spare would help tremendously- I will still need to pay for food, the bus, and so on for the rest of the month and am very very afraid!

Paypal

[txttletale]

okay i will say one good thing about MSH, i think it's cute that they pritned a doctor doom card specifically to synergize well with the pre-existing card doomsday

[txttletale]

Any thoughts on Zero Parade?

im not playing that shit

[mesetacadre]

marxist seinfeld: what's the deal with liberalism?

[txttletale]

S19E17 - The Literacy Program

Jerry gets into hot water when he can't figure out if his new girlfriend is a Maoist or a Trotskyist. George pretends he can't read to get out of his responsibilities as party secretary. Kramer reads Settlers.

[txttletale]

Are there any Vic 3 mods you recommend?

honestly i havent played in a bit so it feels like all the qol mods i used got integrated into the main UI

[miraclemaya]

very suspicious about any talk of needing to base your politics on empathy. like any emotion empathy is very easily manipulated, and even besides that that is a meaningless statement. im sure plenty of white supremacists feel pretty empathetic about the plight of the white man or whatever