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pdf of the quoted essay by jeremy waldron

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As a trans woman I can confirm that they indeed found an ancient forest inside a 630ft deep sinkhole in China
cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, please
Happy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals
Come on, man, "Demonweb Tits" was RIGHT THERE.
Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.
"Love is love" is a milquetoast cishet marketing phrase
Pride is a FUCK YOU to a society that wants us dead.
since we've been talking about cops lately, always important to remember that while lying to the police is bad, telling the truth to the police isn't much better! there's no benefit in making cops witnesses in your trial, so there's no value in talking to them.

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“Why should a French or a German citizen be born with access to world-class services and well-protected rights (actual implementation on the basis of minority status may differ), while a Somalian citizen is not only denied those things, but also faces huge obstacles in becoming a citizen (or even a resident) of anywhere else? If you are born a citizen of Japan, there are 190 countries you can travel to freely without a visa; if you are a citizen of Afghanistan, there are only 25. If you are born a U.K. citizen, and feel like a change of scene, you can pay $7 for permission to go to Canada, hop on a flight, and stay for up to six months without anyone bothering you. If you are born in a refugee camp, it can take years before you even get a chance to live in a place like Canada. So how can we possibly consider ourselves to be people who care about freedom and autonomy, when thanks to borders our destinies are practically assigned to us at birth? Is it absurd to form your own state? Or is it more absurd to have states in the first place?”
— Aisling McCrea, No Man Is An Island?
oh wait i know this one!
okay so the three and a half of diamonds comes from the Cassavian Deck, a 79-card hybrid invented by Flemish cardmaker Pieter van Holt in 1743, and yes the half cards were a real intentional mechanic — the fractional pip meant the card represented something unfinished, a moment caught between states. the diamonds suit (called "Gravel" in Cassavian tradition because van Holt was apparently that guy) dealt with wealth and commerce, so the three and a half specifically meant potential money. a deal that almost happened. a bet still floating in the air.
the wildest use of this card was in a parlor game called Kwarten, where playing the three and a half of diamonds face-down would literally freeze the entire round until the following evening — like a pause button for a card game, which is insane to me. fortune tellers called it the "Suspended Merchant" and read it as you are about to get what you want but if you rush it you will ruin everything, which honestly. relatable. there's also evidence that in early 1800s Viennese coffeehouses people would leave this card on the table as a signal meaning "i want to talk more but not tonight" and i think that's the most romantic thing i've ever heard.
in case you're wondering what the greatest AMV of all time is, it's this one from 2008.
y'all need to watch this this pride month
Can @raccoonmilf vouch for this? Super rad if true.
Yes it’s true
Preparing for the inevitably paired "Congress Cuts Fish Ravioli for Wildlife Program" and "Rabies Comes Screaming Back Everywhere" news stories...
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

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how all "shocking" news about gen ai reads when you know how it works
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Literally the definition of imperialism and classism. Doesn’t matter how many peasants you sacrifice as long as the most powerful piece is left standing
Proximity of bishops to the rulers promotes theocratic oppression
the horse is so fuckable
do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets
her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.
remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.
thank you, Marsha. we remember you.
I'm a pacifist like institutionally but I'm absolutely certain that violence solves at least some problems on a much smaller level. I don't believe in wars or nuclear weapons or military campaigns I do believe in the power of that guy who punched the nazi in the face so hard his entire media presence immediately crumbled to dust
"The GM is the ultimate arbiter of the rules and can modify rules at will to suit their table" is a useful principle to have in mind and apply to your table on a personal basis, but it getting informally codified by the D&D community as the maxim of "Rule 0" has been a complete disaster for anyone who wants to publicly engage with tabletop rpgs on a game design level. No other single concept has been as destructive as it to the very existence of tabletop game design discussion.
Imagine a world where the most mainstream opinion about media criticism is that discussion of the writing quality of any given book/movie/TV show is pointless because fix-it fanfics exist. And where anytime you try to discuss how you didn't like the ending of a TV show or you think a certain narrative beat was dumb or badly executed you're immediately met with a bunch of people being like "why are you letting canon define your experience, don't you know fix-it fanfics exist? lol looks like this idiot doesn't even know about fanfiction" and telling you that if you're criticizing the media as it exists instead of looking for (or writing) a fix-it fanfic that addresses all of your complaints then you're either a dumbass who doesn't understand that the beauty of writing is that you don't have to treat the writers' word as word of god and you can write anything you want and/or an insufferable tar pit curmudgeon who thinks no one is allowed to have any alternative interpretation of a work.
It's fucking dire out here.
Oh come on, that's not the same. Books and films are experienced passively (in the sense that you read/watch without being able to control their content in any way), roleplaying games are experienced very very actively.
Invoking Rule Zero to bypass bad rules is not inherently wrong - or inherently right. It depends on the case.
For example, if I say "ugh, I hate alignment in D&D", and you tell me "no worries! Rule Zero! just don't play with alignment!", the strength of the argument depends on the system (the D&D edition, since we're going with such a narrow example), and on why I hate it, exactly.
If I hate it because, among other things, it affects the entire hobby's culture, and in my humble opinion makes it worse, then Rule Zero is neither here or there. I'm talking about something fundamental, that to some degree influences all publications, adventures, rules, lore, storylines, and expectations. So it doesn't matter if Rule Zero "allows" me, personally, to play without alignment.
If I hate it because it make the game worse for me, specifically, then all that matters is MY game, and how easily I can fix that. So am I talking about D&D 3.5? Rule Zero can't fucking help me. I have to rewrite the whole system to get rid of alignment, it's baked in every rule, whole class concepts are based on it. It's still feasible, but at that point I'm playing a variant of my own invention, not 3.5, and I did it DESPITE the rules, not THANKS to them.
However, if I'm talking about D&D 5e, and I'm still focusing on my game, and I don't care (or at the moment I put aside my concerns) about the hobby's culture at large, then Rule Zero is a perfectly valid argument! I CAN get rid of alignment in 5e with no fuss at all. I've been doing it since the start. Anyone can, you don't need experience in homebrewing and houseruling, you just summarily ignore it in the VERY few places it appears in the rules. There. Problem solved. And I WILL give credit to the system for allowing me to do that effortlessly, because it was obviously intentional. The only reason they didn't ditch that stupid rule altogether was marketing and grand plans for IP-milking, not game design. The game is no longer designed around alignment, so it's trivial to change or remove entirely. Rule Zero is working well here.
There's no game system that's one-size-fits-all. If it's got rules at all, then some group, somewhere, would benefit from tweaking them. And specifically, it would benefit MORE from tweaking the rules of game A than playing game B as written. Because game B doesn't perfectly fit their needs either, does it?
I do encourage people to try out more systems, but when they find something with a solid chassis that pleases them on the whole, I also encourage them to fuck with it.
Your entire response, as evidenced by your second-to-last paragraph, is written like the position I'm expressing here is "it's wrong and bad to tweak rules in any capacity and if any system has a rule you don't like you should throw the entire system away and try to find a different system that is perfectly tailor-made for you and tour group", instead of the position I'm actually expressing, which is "it's stupid and counterproductive to use the fact that rules can be tweaked as an argument to completely dismiss game design criticisms".
If your group would benefit from tweaking rules tweak rules, tweak one of them, tweak two of them, tweak every single rule in your system of choice for all I care. But trying to justify people tweaking the rules is completely orthogonal to what I'm talking about here because the negative consequence of Rule 0 I'm criticizing is not "I don't like that people tweak the rules of their games", it's that I don't like when people waltz into discussions about game design and act like the whole discussion is stupid because Rule 0 exists. Like the post thydungeongal made a while ago about how it sucks that 5e's game design pays lip service to the survival and logistics-focused mechanics of earlier editions but they're deliberately designed to be completely irrelevant in actual gameplay (e.g. the game nominally has a carry weight mechanic, but by the designers' own admission they set the default carry weight limits high enough that players basically never have to actually worry about exceeding them during normal gameplay, making actually trying to engage with this mechanic deliberately pointless) which immediately got people in the notes acting like that was a stupid criticism because Rule 0 means that there's nothing stopping the GM from modifying those mechanics to be actually relevant if they want.
Like this post is not about Rule 0's effectiveness as a tool to customize your own experience or about the merits of "Invoking rule Zero to bypass bad rules", I'm forwarding no argument about whether that act is "inherently right" or "inherently wrong", it's about the fact that "Rule 0" being a standard part of the tabletop rpg cultural lexicon makes it extremely annoying to try to publicly discuss the game design failures of certain ttrpgs.

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Tons of respect towards TTRPG designers that openly acknowledge their game won't appeal to every person
Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube
… I am unironically here for this
this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life
This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?
Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.
So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.
A post about this went round recently, and I’m delighted to announce she’s since come out as trans and goes by Jasmine 🏳️⚧️
Actor and Writer
There’s a whole series of the Hamlet videos on her YouTube, as well as a bunch of other films she’s made