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do i think that ttrpg’s are about having a fun silly goofy time with your friends? yes. do i think it’s inherently vulnerable to sit down and commit to telling a story with your friends where you don’t even know the ending, that it takes trust in each other to let luck in and guide you through the narrative? of course. is it also about bullying the absolute shit out of each other through five layers of narrative distance? i don’t make the rules, but yes.

haunted-skitty-doll

Sorry to post shit I found on reddit but this video has been on my mind for like 3 weeks now

fairycosmos

big life tips dont be neurodivergent dont be poor dont get in any sort of situation and dont let yourself need or crave

fairycosmos

not getting good reports back on your progress with this guys

#ruh roh

depsidase

trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter

🎶Roomie playing mind games! Extra levels!🎵

supertaliart

Happy Star Wars Day! Here’s my other Skywalker Twins comic all in one post!

supertaliart

Happy Star Wars Day!!!

notatzimisce

You know, one of the most shameful consequences of scifi/game authors not knowing shit is cyberpsychosis, or Essence, or whatever in-universe asspull for a mechanical limiter on how much cyberware you can cram into a character sheet.

There is an easy excuse in real life! You may not be able to get both a pacemaker and a DBS device because they're both pieces of sensitive equipment that could theoretically interfere with each other, and nobody engineered them not to. Trivially you can extrapolate this to all cybernetics. If your various augs weren't Specifically designed not to mess with each other (and of course the various megacorps might take things a step further, making their shit actively hostile to mix-and-matching), you might have problems; and obviously, the more pieces of hardware you've patchworked yourself with, the worse things get. You'd have to be one real crazy motherfucker to tell a back-alley doctor to load you up with whatever they've got.

It's more grounded and more realistic and less shitty and it actively enhances the atmosphere of cyberpunk in a way that "losing your humanity" does not. we are missing out on much because none of these writers know anything about how medtech works

dailyadventureprompts

I've got a few thoughts about cyberpunk kicking around in my head for a while, it always struck me that the obvious fix for "cyberpsychosis" was less that you've carved away some irreplaceably human part of yourself , and more that your body has been hijacked by your own tech.

Think about it: you've got a threat analysis module loaded into your optics and a lighting-reflexes aug patched into your arm muscles all the way down to your trigger finger. Both have programming that's been told to optimize its function because that's what you want out of military grade hardware. How long do you think it's going to take for your eye to start talking to your trigger finger and for them to come to the conclusion that the most "optimized" course of action is to stop consulting the sluggishly squishy meat brain they're patched into and start identifying/eliminating threats before they begin?

The danger of plugging too many unregulated mods into your body shouldn't be that you're less human for it, it's that your slowly building a killbot in your own body that's more and more likely to start treating YOU as the disposable peripheral.

You can even doing the same thing with non-combat based upgrades. An influencer who gives themselves over to routine optimization and engagement boosting personality augments could end up watching from behind their own eyes as their social-media persona puppets them through every AI scripted interaction

curioscurio

i see baby yoda and i have a yearning to release him into a little german village with an oversized lollipop. he just feels like he is supposed to be here

curioscurio

have this 2am yoda i drew last night

catboybiologist

Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there

catboybiologist

Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now

catboybiologist

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.

catboybiologist

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives