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Somewhat interesting because theres a lot of largely uncontroversial fantasy settings they could have chosen with large fanbases to make instead, I’m sure something like a TES or Dragon Quest splat would be super well received (I know fallout has a fully official ttrpg but i think TES lacks one rn?) but mirroring MTG they chose a franchise that hasn’t been relevant for 20 years and is generally polarizing, and whose fanbase is primarily like. groypers who think your game is Woke

Meant to say dragon age, though i imagine people would like a DQ one too lol

and as i type this they announce a star wars collab??????? it seems that wotc’s new strategy is to just make those awful licensed 5e hacks just like. official WOTC products

Also also fallout is based on gurps

Somewhat interesting because theres a lot of largely uncontroversial fantasy settings they could have chosen with large fanbases to make instead, I’m sure something like a TES or Dragon Quest splat would be super well received (I know fallout has a fully official ttrpg but i think TES lacks one rn?) but mirroring MTG they chose a franchise that hasn’t been relevant for 20 years and is generally polarizing, and whose fanbase is primarily like. groypers who think your game is Woke

Meant to say dragon age, though i imagine people would like a DQ one too lol

and as i type this they announce a star wars collab??????? it seems that wotc’s new strategy is to just make those awful licensed 5e hacks just like. official WOTC products

My muscles, my muscles involuntarily flex

Electronic bene geserit music

I think they are drunk maybe

The only reason blackberry failed completely was because the keyboards got shittier

i think maybe aesthetics are real in a very tragically reductionist way

we are 5 years out from the ability to compute how beautiful any given thing is

The gopher for the HOA comes around my house with a meter and says the maple out front—the maple I love more than I love most people—is 0.37 kalons, does not meet the minimum of 0.75 kalons, and must be replaced

Ah yes, the base unit of objective beauty. Named for Lord clavicular of the looksmaxxing theosophical school

GM advice: if you read the rulebook cover to cover and go "wow this is ass, I'm going to need to do a bunch of house rules and ignore half the text" you can just. Talk to the players like. "Hey I'd rather play something else"

If the players are like "noooo but we want to play the ass game that sucks" you can just go like. okay. you run it then.

It took me a long time to realize that the failure state of a romantic relationship is being in a bad one, not being without one. Gaming groups have a similar dynamic.

the progression of generative ai from images with fuzzy shapes to completely believable videos in the span of a few years is an incredible leap in technology, and i'm not even one to handwring about copyright or the soul of art or whatever, but i still can't really appreciate it. knowing that the time where you could reasonably trust what you were seeing in a video clip is now decisively over kinda sucks. seems like it'll cause infinite problems for very little benefit - fun to input prompts, i guess? but then again this is probably how people felt when the first big photography forgeries and hoaxes like the cottingley fairies started coming out.

Yeah it sucks that this is what people are being paid to spend their time on. But wow think of the cool stuff we could do if the incentive structure of society was to fuck the poor into a thin paste

have always been obsessed with zac and ally. doesnt matter the campaign you already know zac is gonna do a silent bit and ally’s gonna be the only one to see it and they’re gonna laugh in the middle of a completely unrelated scene. you already know zac is accidentally gonna make eye contact with ally and they’re gonna be hysterical and no one else can fully glom onto the bit bc there is no bit. they will interact maybe once in an episode but they are palpably best friends who operate on the exact same comedic wavelength and its extremely crucial to the intrepid heroes and also mainly me

Let them sit next to each other, or at the very least with lou between them to manage superego style

If they had said "me car" instead of "my car" I would have realized this was a crab much faster. Thought it was nugs or dreadlocks or smthin

Ok, good, why is no one talking about the coffee table made of semi full trash bags? Why is it outside? Blocking a door?

Anyone out here claiming burgers are 15 dollars because inflation is complicit in the scam. Inflation is better than the alternative but ain't no way shit need to cost this much.

And anyone talking about "natural law" should be ignored and shunned

47 lawsuits in my litigation account

theres this delightful phenomenon i keep seeing where some loudmouthed asshole financial sector rot of a person will go online sounding like a pretentious asshole claiming to make "money moves" and how it put them on top and then 5-10 years later we learn that aforementioned money moves were - A: securities fraud - B: Inheritance - C: workers rights violations - D: some mix of the above

Not fast enough. Those are rookie numbers, 5 to 10 years, get those numbers lower

doomsday preppers always keeping rusty tins of food in their basement but never building springhouses and smokehouses and paddocks for future livestock 🤨 those canned peaches are only going to bring you so far babe

are you going to study medicinal herbs and their cultivation or are you just going to keep stockpiling weapons like a little bitch 😩

going to shoot your way out of an infected cut, dumbass?

The fantasy of preppers is never "thriving after the societal collapse" it is always "I will be lauded and rewarded for my desire to shoot people, and my haters will all perish asking me to protect them"

Don't try to keep a straight face! Let them know they are funny! It will help them be cooler longer