(By that I mean the system, not that illustration. The illustration is sick)
The oxygen feels better on the DCC side of the space because while it's possible to take the game seriously, you cannot take yourself seriously because you play this game
You know, I'm a fan of the OSR—not because it's better than other ways of playing RPGs, but because it offers unique insights into them that apply to every genre—and I frankly wish more OSR players realized they could talk about these games without coming off like the fucking Eltingville Club
People talk about art that's so bad it's good, and how you can't make something like that on purpose. But you can. The catch is that you can't aim higher and you can't aim lower, you just have to aim straight at the forehead, hard as you can
If they live long enough, they get to pick a class level. Then you basically just go on gonzo fuckfest after gonzo fuckfest. Every adventure is full blast weird, funny, twisted, fully unselfconscious cheese. It's good stuff
You start out by rolling two to four characters. They are basically villagers from Beauty in the Beast who decided, fuck it, I'm just gonna go fight evil with whatever prop I happened to be holding at the time. You've probably seen this; it's from DCC.
Like do you want your starter adventure to be poking around a gray dwarf ruin looking at cobwebs and dodging dart traps or do you want to fight THESE fucking guys. COME ON.
Been in a great Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign the last few years.
It's a retroclone of the Basic D&D set, but acknowledges that the game's period-accurate tone was like 50% kickass, 30% funny on accident, and 20% funny on purpose. DCC doubles down on every category equally. (look at this shit)
I have a variant where I roll the whole thing flat with a rolling pin, which melts the chocolate and makes the bread kind of crispy. I call it a "croque mistake"
I will go so far as to say I've never seen a better use for Subway sandwich bread
I eat buttered, toasted hot dog rolls with chocolate or nutella on them sometimes and they're really fucking good, so I'm on team Cadwich
Historians investigate and conjecture imperfectly but meaningfully on what has happened before, but it's pattern work, abductive reasoning. "Historians confirm you're screwed" feels misguided on basic principles
Setting aside quite a lot of other problems, I don't think "Historians confirm" is a pair of words that often belong together in a headline
Which makes sense! It's a wargame franchise! That's what it's for!
If you'd like to direct me to more nuanced poltical or social satires in the fiction, I would take those as a credit to the specific authors, and, also, argue we are now the ones missing the point of 40k. It is a game first. It works just fine if you only want theming and don't need any ideas. 3/3
The Imperium is a cultural monolith that does horrible things and fights chaos, kind of ineffectively. Fascists think that's splendid. They want to be a monolith and do horrible things, and if they want to do them effectively they've probably noticed it rarely works out, so no dealbreaker there. 2/3
I don't think art can only be evaluated by what its worst fans like about it. But it feels worth arguing that fascists are not, meaninfully, "missing the point" of 40k. 1/3
Hey, installing mods is a giant pain in the dick
I don't think I've ever made a melee build work in anything. Is it just more effective than usual or are guns actively bad?
Gonna give Fallout: London a shot
It's a flat circle of brainrot and it goes all the way down
If you asked me whether I'd rather have "pootis" as a last thought or "oh no, the jaguar came back to eat my other testicle," I'd have to think seriously about it
I once joked that when I died, the last thought to run through my head would be the "pænis cupCAKE" soundclip from GMod shitposts.
At the time I made that joke, fifteen years ago, it was very unlikely to be true. Except I've thought about it unbidden, at least once, every year since. Stay tuned?
There feels like a lot of difference between "he/she, as in that's the word I don't think about" and "he/she, as in that's the things I take for granted"
Like I don't mind people thinking I'm a guy but not wondering about it, mostly. It's mostly when someone who doesn't know me well puts me on the spot *as a guy,* well-meaningly, that I feel exhausted: suddenly there's a conversation I need to either have or not have
I'm sick and mildly feverish and after someone linked this I realized I was opening it and closing it over and over again for five minutes, caught in a broken robot loop between "I need to see this shit" and "I can't fucking look at this shit," which really nails my relationship with his brand
Not to get too mean girl about it but this is exactly what I, someone who hates Doug Walker, thinks a Doug Walker plush face should look like. I see it and think "this is a portrait that captures his soul"
I know I'm late to the party, but this is the interview equivalent of Agent 47 assassinating somebody and them not even noticing.
draft dump
E3: Mark is scammed into campaigning remotely, through the power of radio, for political office in the NCR. Jeremy buys combat armor, realizes it's too heavy for him, and gets addicted to Buffout until his dealer is crucified.
