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Unless you have concrete evidence, "The government did X thing to distract from Y thing" is conspiracy thought.

#things are very rarely meant to distract from other things stuff just happens a lot

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they should replace grades in schools with a point system that has zero bearing on anything, but school points can be redeemed in the cash shop for unique cosmetics for your school avatar (things like hair color and outfits) and skins for your pencils and notebooks and so on. this would be purely visual of course for balance purposes. and universities could have unique university specific cosmetics to encourage people to apply to them

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religion is the copium of the masses

#tattletxt #this is uirnocally more or less what he meant compared to the like pop modern reading

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hello! I seem to remember you posting a list of some of your favorite movies on here at some point but the tumblr search function will not let me find it. do you have that or did I invent the memory of a post

#ask #passerea

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Do British people refer to Jay-Z as "Jay-Zed"?

british people are unfamiliar with music or musicians

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obviously it is cynically deployed as a cudgel against trans women and so is primarily a transmisogynistic sentiment but it is in fact also on its face hugely transphobic in general when people say shit like "trans men don't have male privilege because nobody sees them as men", like. do you not see how that is just straightforwardly transphobic towards the trans men you are talking about lol

#tattletxt

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could you please entertain at my daughter's 7th birthday party

I will blog at her party

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last time there was lancerposting going on you had a pretty good write-up of how you'd tackle a lancer game that wanted to play the premise fairly straight (i.e. Lancers Are Good Guys) while addressing that Union is awful. I remember liking it but I can't find it now for the life of me; any chance you know where it is?

i think it was this psot? glad you liked it :)

#ask #splittheeadam #ttrpg

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Hey! Just wanted to let you know the way you speak is rude, and maybe you should just.. take a deep breath? Whats up, bud? I'm being genuine ab this, do you want to talk?

hey man! you know what’s rude? approaching a stranger online and telling her to talk a different way on her blog. do you tell girls on the street to smile more too?

#jesus fucking christ

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Sorrys if this went through before and you already saw it, but what did you use as the set icon for those I Think You Should Leave MtG cards? I want to try my hand at a few

THAT'S A CHUNKY

#ask

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it is also explicltly not supported by the text or by anything the authors have said optside the text ever.. you are doing The Thing This Post Is About. you can make up wahtever lore you want for lancer thats how making things up works im talking about the Lancer Book And The Things What Are Written In It

lancer is the only topic on the ocmputer that can actually make me angry because of how dedicated lancer fans are to misunderstanding the things you say about it. you can repeat 100 teams in 72 point font that you are Aware that the creators have said 'utopia is a verb, it's an unfinished utopia, it's about striving to make an imperfect society better' but that that, itself, jars so terribly with the neofascist imperialist slave state that union textually is and they'll still come into your notes and say 'okay, CLEARLY, you've misunderstood, because, union, is supposed to be a Utopia In Progress,'

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you: girliepop i dont think you can improve this sandwich. i think you need to start a whoel new sandiwch

me: no you dont understand, a fight has been won for this sandwich. it used to have even more glass and bombs and batteries and exdpired custard and an angry cnetipede and paperclips and dirt and mud and bluering octopuses and asbestos in it., and now it only has some of those things.

you: but the sandwich isnt just flawed its like straight up bad and inedible--

me: sandwich is a verb. you have to fight to keep the sandwich this good because if you get compalcent the utopian sandwich falls apart. i didnt awnt to make a nihilistic gritty sandiwch. this sandwich at least has the capability of changing, and its done a lot of things right .why are you so creatively inflexible

lancer is the only topic on the ocmputer that can actually make me angry because of how dedicated lancer fans are to misunderstanding the things you say about it. you can repeat 100 teams in 72 point font that you are Aware that the creators have said 'utopia is a verb, it's an unfinished utopia, it's about striving to make an imperfect society better' but that that, itself, jars so terribly with the neofascist imperialist slave state that union textually is and they'll still come into your notes and say 'okay, CLEARLY, you've misunderstood, because, union, is supposed to be a Utopia In Progress,'

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[handing you a sandwich full of broken glass and Worms] this is my utopian sandwich :)

you: that sandwich is horrible

me: okay well. it seems like Someone doesnt understand that making a sandwich is a Process, and its up to us to amke this a Better Sandwich, it's not actually supposed to be perfect, just an optimistic take on what a better sandwich could look like,

lancer is the only topic on the ocmputer that can actually make me angry because of how dedicated lancer fans are to misunderstanding the things you say about it. you can repeat 100 teams in 72 point font that you are Aware that the creators have said 'utopia is a verb, it's an unfinished utopia, it's about striving to make an imperfect society better' but that that, itself, jars so terribly with the neofascist imperialist slave state that union textually is and they'll still come into your notes and say 'okay, CLEARLY, you've misunderstood, because, union, is supposed to be a Utopia In Progress,'

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lancer is the only topic on the ocmputer that can actually make me angry because of how dedicated lancer fans are to misunderstanding the things you say about it. you can repeat 100 teams in 72 point font that you are Aware that the creators have said 'utopia is a verb, it's an unfinished utopia, it's about striving to make an imperfect society better' but that that, itself, jars so terribly with the neofascist imperialist slave state that union textually is and they'll still come into your notes and say 'okay, CLEARLY, you've misunderstood, because, union, is supposed to be a Utopia In Progress,'

#tattletxt

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i cannot stop thinking about how evil it is for zionists to handwring about palestinian martyrdom culture. literally "could you please die with less dignity when we kill you (we will keep killing you)"

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[guy who's about to invent quora voice] man i love reddit but its just not racist enough for me

#tattletxt

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I think a lot of folks in indie RPG spaces misunderstand what's going on when people who've only ever played Dungeons & Dragons claim that indie RPGs are categorically "too complicated". Yes, it's sometimes the case that they're making the unjustified assumption that all games are as complicated as Dungeons & Dragons and shying away from the possibility of having to brave a steep learning cure a second time, but that's not the whole picture.

A big part of it is that there's a substantial chunk of the D&D fandom – not a majority by any means, but certainly a very significant minority – who are into D&D because they like its vibes or they enjoy its default setting or whatever, but they have no interest in actually playing the kind of game that D&D is... so they don't.

Oh, they'll show up at your table, and if you're very lucky they might even provide their own character sheet (though whether it adheres to the character creation guidelines is anyone's guess!), but their actual engagement with the process of play consists of dicking around until the GM tells them to roll some dice, then reporting what number they rolled and letting the GM figure out what that means.

Basically, they're putting the GM in the position of acting as their personal assistant, onto whom they can offload any parts of the process of play that they're not interested in – and for some players, that's essentially everything except the physical act of rolling the dice, made possible by the fact most of D&D's mechanics are either GM-facing or amenable to being treated as such.*

Now, let's take this player and present them with a game whose design is informed by a culture of play where mechanics are strongly player facing, often to the extent that the GM doesn't need to familiarise themselves with the players' character sheets and never rolls any dice, and... well, you can see where the wires get crossed, right?

And the worst part is that it's not these players' fault – not really. Heck, it's not even a problem with D&D as a system. The problem is D&D's marketing-decreed position as a universal entry-level game means that neither the text nor the culture of play are ever allowed to admit that it might be a bad fit for any player, so total disengagement from the processes of play has to be framed as a personal preference and not a sign of basic incompatibility between the kind of game a player wants to be playing and the kind of game they're actually playing.

(Of course, from the GM's perspective, having even one player who expects you to do all the work represents a huge increase to the GM's workload, let alone a whole group full of them – but we can't admit that, either, so we're left with a culture of play whose received wisdom holds that it's just normal for GMs to be constantly riding the ragged edge of creative burnout. Fun!)

* Which, to be clear, is not a flaw in itself; a rules-heavy game ideally needs a mechanism for introducing its processes of play gradually.