Morgan Davie

I remember it from a Dredd strip - but it’s the kind of idea they might’ve done multiple times

Here’s Conor Friedersdorf, a master of the trade

Thankfully we still have the media to serve that essential role of providing contex-

-sorry have just been informed the media’s role is entirely to say which side is manipulating voters most effectively and applauding them for it, never mind

It would be nice if some part of the political process was about acknowledging the trade-offs involved in different approaches.

Just watching nz question time replay. Govt ministers saying the last government wrecked the country and they are fixing it. What a useless dead-end for democracy.

Oof!!

!! I was never brave enough to do that but you can bet I pored over those Mile High ads. I relied on the extensive comic boxes at every second hand bookshop (ah those were the days), plus the Wellington comic shop VMS of course.

Thank you, doing my very best to know the heck out of some very inconsequential stuff

You’re gonna kick that passenger in the nuts

And they deserve it

Funded!

Thanks for this. She’s great. Through sheer guts she gave her Sex Education character incredible roundedness and pathos. I like the Film Club series she wrote and starred in too.

Or Potsie/Rowlf if you’re an original lineup muppet show stickler

Potsie/Rizzo fwiw

This is about as wrong as it’s possible to be but I like it anyway

ha!

Also, of course, the story of US comics is almost entirely about a single city. Doskvol gets to be the New York of this parallel comics industry.

Yes!!
Real world: paper production run by the mob. Magazine distro run by the mob. Periodical syndicates below the majors are built on sensational/pornographic content, inevitably have mob interests. Just the infrastructure around comics is full of crime, before you even start fictionalising!

Cover of "Men of tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the birth of the comic book" by Gerard Jones, showing a panel of comic art with many flying figures.

Just finished Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book by Gerard Jones. Full of inspiration. Not a pretty business, by any stretch.

Comics will break your heart, kid, as the King said.

hey it's me! Excited to dig into Doskvol's comics scene. Comics history in the real world is a mess of organized crime and huge personalities in desperate situations, ripe for Bladesification.

One thing I haven't answered for myself yet - are the comics in Doskvol '68 dominated by superheroes? 🤔

That cartel doesn’t get to celebrate anyone’s birthday on our watch

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I encourage everyone to post some of his gif works. If you haven’t seen them, type Van Der Beek into the gif search. He made loads of them and they are all marvellous. How better to honour the Beek!

FWWM is mine. Cinema handed out pieces of cherry pie (I didn’t get one). 💪

Gutting. The Beek was a dude. Endlessly ready to poke fun at himself, huge supporter of live theatre, and gifted us some of the best GIFs humanity will ever see. Vale.

Love & Barbed Wire A game of love and loss during WW1. You play lovers separated by the war. How does it change your relationship? A game for pairs of players.

With Valentines day coming up, what 2 player ttrpgs do you recommend (your own if you like!)

I’m going to recommend my game Love & Barbed Wire - letter writing between lovers against the backdrop of WW1.

How about you?

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Sigh

Tell Me More, Tell Me More! A romantic story game for two players, complete in seven questions. Your heart skipped a beat and you knew there was something special happening, a connection between you that couldn’t be ignored. …

And that's a story of #TTRPG design.

Tell Me More, Tell Me More! is out now for all your Valentine's gaming needs.

Play it with someone you like.

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5/5

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So the final version has the players tell the story to each other. Formally it's a bit weird, because there's no real life context that directly maps to the interaction in play, but in play it just plain works. You and the other player ask and answer questions and the story is there. It works! 4/

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Because it turns out if you have two people playing the two sides of a romance story, they need to talk directly to each other. That pull was too strong, and no degree of clever (too clever by half in this case) design could redirect it.

3/

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Like in the song, the game tried to provoke little contradictions, where the two lovers described things differently. And the audience tried to dig into the things they were hiding.

And it worked - but it also didn't work! 2/

Tell Me More Tell Me More! is of course named after the best* song in Grease, in which a summer romance is recounted to eager audiences. In the early versions of the game, it was designed to be played in front of an audience, and the audience had a huge role in play. 1/

*the best, don't @ me

I would also accept the integration of the phrase "the Epstein class" into everyday speech.

Short. Accurate. To the point.