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I've had more story games torpedoed by bores with zero imagination than I've ever had OSR games wrecked by power gaming or meta shenanigans or poor planning.

It is possible to play games poorly and there ought to be dialogue about that and there ought to be consideration given to that in critical discussion about tabletop games.

Hit me with your nuanced ttrpg take.

i had the same thought

It takes some real guts or a severe lack of social awareness - or both - to be a shooter for the military right now, Christ

This is a term for medical personnel is it not? They are treating injuries and such? What purpose could they have for treating injuries, I wonder, what mechanism could be the cause of these things? As I understand it, the main reason for joining the Army is to be elevated out of poverty!

Army truck drivers are, of course, delivering nothing to anybody. Empty boxes to morally neutral depots, with no purpose except to be contemplated for their vast, clean, holistically empty and epistemically flat existence.

Where are they driving the trucks and what are their trucks carrying? Who are the corpsman treating and for what purpose? What do you suppose the productive output of the US Military is?

This doesn’t answer my question. If some amount of American kids dodge poverty by means of enlisting, whats your hypothetical acceptable cost in dead Non-American kids? 1 to 10? 1 to 20? Do they get deferments? Can they opt out of the exchange?

okay but what about the dead kids

do you have a path to middle class for them. Do they get a veto on whichever gi bill funded business degree ended their lives before they even started or do we reserve solidarity for people with a choice?

Why are we doing abdication of individual agency for the guys with the guns instead of the unarmed children.

Like by all means if you must hold some space for Whoever on the basis of harmful consequence, go ham, but only one end of this equation involves kids dying, and they didnt choose a thing.

Oh my bad you had already posted about this. Good lord all socmed just likes showing stuff so randomly and out of order.

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"hey rig why are all your rpg characters things that change shape or have ambiguous forms" gee

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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This is a great articulation of how/why a lot of PbTA games fall flat for me

Everythings got history dipshit it came free with the concept of linear time.

3. I think a lot of people bounce off of story/pbta games because they straight up do not possess the skillset required to get anything out of them, and will never play them often enough to develop that skillset.

2. Actual Play media as a concept has done enormous damage to the hobby. I do not think its good to play for an audience, at all. I think it corrupts the art of play and its damaged perspectives on play for new folks especially.

1. Lots of Indie game design is conceptually cool but hard to implement because 90% of people who actually play don’t care about the rules, design, and dont understand or enjoy having to alter their basic approach to playing a game.

Sure I could use some dopamine hits for spicy opinions.

One like= one unhinged trrpg opinion that I actually sincerely believe in.

I am sorry but this is still the core problem with trying to parse anything he says about tariffs.

100% Rise of Skywalker. It was like watching your besty fold to the dumbest fucking bots in a twitter thread. Its not just that it was bad, its that it was pandering to the most contemptible people imaginable, and they wouldnt even be grateful for it.

Man when you really drill it down grown ass adults stomping their feet and huffing “well we *could have* won the election if all the voters weren’t stupid idiot doo doo heads” is exactly as pathetic as it sounds

This seems to be the case in basically all communities I associate with for me which I take as a mark of good taste and/or instincts

I think I'm also averse to this because it obligates an organization commitment to games-as-continuous-practice that exceeds that of my commitment to my goddamn job, shared among a group where like 4 people don't hate each other.

Also, like, hindsight/bleed/meaning are so fucking subjective and there's nothing quite like breathlessly dumping about your post-facto catharsis in a 20 person larp to someone whose like "yeah, that's cool man, I had an awful fucking time please stop telling me how rad your shit is"

I theoretically agree with the spirit of this essay, but there's a huge problem with this approach to play which is that its nearly impossible to distinguish Type 2 fun from the game just sucking shit.

We also have no meaningful culture of critique in TTRPG spaces to help tell the difference.