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"Why would you publish an original OSR game that's just a very lightly modified version of OD&D/Mentzer Basic/etc. when those already exist?" you need to understand that nothing is more old-school than writing and publishing a whole-ass game just to "fix" one paragraph of some random version of Dungeons & Dragons.

(For clarity, I'm speaking 100% literally. The practice is genuinely old-school, in the sense that folks regularly did it when Basic was contemporary. The entire reason we have the term "fantasy heartbreaker" is that in the pre-Internet era, folks used to self-publish their BD&D fixups in hardcopy and bankrupt themselves in the process!)

My unpopular sci-fi/fantasy opinion is that "humans are the best community-builders" is just the old "humans have the greatest Will to Power" trope wearing a progressive hat.

To be fair, there's not a lot of traits humans have, that other sophonts wouldn't have, that can't be squeezed to 'superior Will to Power' by an audience looking for it. Good colour vision is eye for detail is inquisitiveness is Will to Power. Being good at throwing things is Man The Hunter is ambition and drive is Will to Power. And I don't need to tell you what happened with 'relatively oversized penis'!

Well, yes – you're talking to the guy whose Tumblr post popularised "anomalously high cardiovascular endurance due to an evolutionary history of persistence predation" as humans' Special Hat and ultimately gave rise to the Humans Are Space Orcs meme; you don't need to explain to me how even relatively innocuous traits can be twisted around into "superior Will to Power"! – but my point is that the humans-are-the-best-community-builders thing isn't even a twist. It's a more or less direct attempt to rehabilitate old-school science fiction's "humans are naturally suited to Lead The Lesser Races because of our superior Will to Power" thing into "oh, we don't have an inherent right to dominion, we just coincidentally happen to be meritocratically suited to being in charge owing to our natural superiority at the virtues of leadership".

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id be careful now gimmick blog

it implies a "postcum"

the postcum movement encompasses a variety of artistic, cultural and philosophical movements. it emerged in the mid 20th century as a skeptical response to cum,

postcum Europe had to deal with a reduced and impoverished population, many unable to adapt back to daily life while suffering from PCSD from the cum's effect

personal computer stress disorder

come on you can figure out what the C stands for from context

i'm being intentionally obtuse dw

me when I'm over 90°

You can tell how disconnected someone is from other people if they by default assume someone does not have an experience unless they volunteer the information to all at all times

I notice this a lot with sexual abuse in particular like do you know how common it is to experience that you have to either be genuinely dumb or trying to intimidate people into silence to expect people to divulge that information to you before talking

I think we should figure out what age we’re living in now so we can say how it’s collapsing to each other

Our age of plastics is collapsing

The whole "but what about making sure artists receive credit for their work?" objection to copyright reform is especially irritating because treating moral rights (i.e., the right to attribution, etc.) as descending from or strictly subordinate to commercial exploitation rights is a uniquely American perspective. Not only are these two things separable, they are in fact separated in the vast majority of intellectual property regimes – it's basically just the United States that treats attribution rights as a strict subset of commercial rights. Hell, the US schema is arguably worse in terms of ensuring that artists are properly credited than nearly any conceivable alternative, as treating the right to attribution as a subset of commercial rights means that the right to attribution can be signed away. There are lots of places where it's simply inalienable!

(Of course, this also goes for US copyright abolitionists banging on about how giving up the right to attribution is a necessary sacrifice – like, no, it isn't. These things are separable. Treating them like the one inherently descends from the other is literally just you guys.)

Here is the podcast (audio only), here is the text (the top text is Chinese, scroll down for English)

Maybe I should reskin my homelab...