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grim reaper claw machine meme

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

@reforest-kelley.bsky.social made several of my favorites.

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Socials really are where you can minmax for glory, pretty much in every edition. Getting thaum that runs off socials was some OP bullshit.

I'd almost be curious about which I'd get questioned over, the outspoken anarchism or the 500 copies of gay Vampire the Masquerade fanfiction I sold on DriveThruRPG...

Yeahhh, given what I've posted online, I REALLY don't want to see how tolerant they are when showing up on a tourist visa.

Shit, that's over the top, and I say that as someone who forced a Dark Ages game to reset after blood bonding half of England.

I'm stealing flesh eating ghoul scarabs for use someday.

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From Revised. Playing someone who believes in shuffling Kindred through them, and has gone through them themselves, leads to dark places QUICK.

I once sold someone to be diablerized on the condition that I got to watch...and addict the diablerist to the high.

Hot take: Vampire LARPs should be a single event game and done. Long running chronicles devolve because people don't accept risk or loss. If the game is over after the weekend, story triumphs.

Playing the Gates is a really good way to be the worst possible person you can, if you commit to it.

Ravnos should likewise be banned from live play, unless you trust the players or have bouncers willing and able to throw players out of the game. Physically eject them from your social circle.

It's also pretty straightforward capitalist metaphor. From the first-edition setting of the hollowed-out American Rust Belt to the fifth edition's omnipresent authoritarian Second Inquisition, the vampire is something that takes but does not create and the player character coming to terms with that.

And here I brought shame to the Ventrue by playing a frat bro failson. The other half of their modern prejudice-their handpicked Embraces just don't deliver the way they think they do.

They're going to bring this post back for 2036 when Ella turns her legendary shitposting career into a presidential run.

Make tools for people to curate their app experience if they choose to. Make tools for communities to self moderate, because humans can apply context that AI will get wrong or can be manipulated around.

Work together, not apart, because people problems require people solutions.

Make tools for people to curate their app experience if they choose to. Make tools for communities to self moderate, because humans can apply context that AI will get wrong or can be manipulated around.

Work together, not apart, because people problems require people solutions.

But the big takeaway is: Manipulating the experience in ways that mandatory puts to lie the part where you customize your experience. It puts another way for bad actors to play the refs, and that's Twitter shit we can leave behind.

Maybe a rule for "lock replies once I get X replies", "stop quotes once I receive X quotes".

Hell, want to use AI moderation? If you can identify a way to stop quote dunking with screenshots, that would actually be pretty great.

Re: The upcoming changes, there's a lesson in the big accounts pushing back. You could really easily poll the big accounts and the ones that get a lot of attention to ask what tools would help.

From what I can tell, tools that stop a post from escaping your social circle would go over better.

This reaction would be blunted with a more horizontal power structure that made decisions more deliberately in community, but that ain't happening, thanks corporate org chart!

Instead, reading the comments is leading to vibe coding posters madness, and a deep breath and a step back would help.

100% cooked - Paul's Leaflets Some reflections on the product design discussions from the last weekend

In regards to this:
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I got some thoughts. First, BlueSky Team, I am BEGGING YOU to stop posting under your dev names, get an anonymous account for who you want to follow, and stop reading the comments.

It seems like people are using labelers more or less as intended now? Shit seems to have calmed down, maybe work on community trust instead of weird automod shadowban bullshit.

He's right just enough of the time, and insufferable all of the time, to get people to come back and spread his shit around.

That and I in particular hate upper middle class white boys from suburban Minnesota, because that's the brand of asshole I grew up with.

I am jealous, having muted him and occasionally muted his name to make sure.

Just listened to the It Could Happen Here folks running Pathfinder. Full points, you lovable rogues gallery of fuckups, that was one of the most entertaining let's plays I've listened to, and I've listened/played in my fair share!

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Mamdani and Kat Abugazaleh seem to have the answer: Authenticity, a consistent message, hiring people who are good at the meme game, and importantly, utterly writing off big media as enemy propaganda.

Then find a way forward that works, or abandon democracy and have a revolution.

Either way, it's accepting there was a failure and hopefully not hiring the same people for the job.

If Biden didn't want me to put responsibility on him for his team's failure to meet the moment, he should have never sworn the oath of office. Fuck him, he can live with that legacy, he earned it.

I acknowledge it's difficult. It's still Biden's literal fucking job. And the DNCs job. The minimum when you fail your fucking job is to own that you failed and to have a plan for going forward. And if you can't do that, a good performance review is lying and we shouldn't hire you and yours.