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can anyone pls send me some money for food. my other post is getting a lot of rbs but nobody’s sent me any money and i don’t have anything to eat. i hate asking like this but i haven’t even heard back from any of the jobs i’ve been applying to. my cashapp and paypal

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Ma'am did you seriously just gainax while crushing a woman to death

#dunmesh #dunmesh spoilers

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god imagine seeing this happen like every single day

bonus:

#dunmesh

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DJ bunny rabbit has got the whole club burrowing into the soft loam of the dance floor

#bun

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what if i just rest my eyes for a second

#......... #oh no

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tallman beauty standards

#dunmesh

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Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975)

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Hey, ive launched a GFM for my rent costs and medication post-ceres vet visits. Things are very dire in all aspects of my life rn lol. Here is the link , i appreciate any and all help sm its been a rly stressful week. >_<

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Postcard from the National Reno Gay Rodeo, 1981

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Suicide rule

#noooooo #loz

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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.

#dnd

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Removed the top of my desk for cleaning. Cat did not understand 

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Okay, I said I wasn’t gonna spend too much time on twitter but oh my god!?!!! This is so COOL!?? He looks amazing, omg…!

I’m glad they gave the actor another hairstyle because every black person is absolutely tired of the Killmonger mohawk/comb over 😭!!! One day, we will be free- but anyway, it looks like the name of the anime is “Kawagoe Boys Sing!”

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these kinds of posts are my favorite because they explicitly state that talking about male privilege and misogyny is not talking constructively about gender theory. gender theory is when trans men have no privilege and trans women talking about transmisogyny is infighting, got it