Morgan Davie

The strangest post worker came by today, all hard angles and weird geometry. They said they had a delivery from a "Clive?" @fromthemorgue.bsky.social @handiworkgames.bsky.social

a man with a red face is standing in a space ship and saying it 's a trap . Alt: Admiral Ackbar from the Star Wars saga is standing in a space ship and saying it 's a trap .

*tight fixed grin and wild eyes* Oh wonderful news, how lovely, have a great day, have a great day

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Writing a scenario pack of @fromthemorgue.bsky.social brilliant #FiveEvil RPG from @handiworkgames.bsky.social, and was shocked to find my writing contains:

A secret bunker!
Cold War experiments!
Dodgy civil servants!
Fungal mutations!

I'm just as startled as anyone by this.

Shocking! Unexpected! Who could have foretold!

Haha sleep well mate

my wife just asked me why everyone’s talking about “hand pies”

You have united our nation

Wellington people: want to try a larp? A larp about a weird, 1920's magic carnival? A friend of mine is running a little game in February: carnival-arcane.lilregie.com/booking/atte...

FiveEvil:Fiendish 5e Horror hardback book and intensity coasters

Look what's arrived @fromthemorgue.bsky.social from @handiworkgames.bsky.social!

oooh yay!

Yep yep, that sleight of hand is the whole game huh. They hated wildly, then decided all the people they hated weren't actually part of America, so their political project became to get rid of them.

Such laudable politics! If only Democrats had such love for their country!

BEOWULF: Age of Heroes One of the oldest recorded stories in Western Europe, Beowulf  is the ultimate tale of hero vs. monster – and now a dramatic, 5e setting. BEOWULF Age of Heroes has been crafted for one p…

Love Gardner’s Grendel, i return to it every decade or so. It helps that it’s short!

I would also point at the BEOWULF AGE OF HEROES game from @handiworkgames.bsky.social for the mythic mode, loaded with meadhalls and portents.

handiwork.games/beowulf

Thank you! It went through many iterations to get there, I’m very happy with it

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5evil, 5eviler, 5eveneviler, 5veryevil, 5superevil, 5downrightevil, 5ican'tbelieveit'snotevil, 5thirteenisalsoevil, 5stillevil, 5yepstillevil, 5itseviltorunthisjokeintotheground, 5evilevil, 5evenevilverthanthelast, 5evilnearlythere, 5EVILEST

I'm beyond disappointed that a game that's clearly called "Five Evil" has counters that go up to six.

Video cover for The Hurricane Heist, showing... some cars I think? it's all a bit of a confusing mess. Subtitle: The storm of a century... the heist of a lifetime. Quote: "A one-night stand between Twister and Die Hard"

were they getting mixed up with this?

dammit why didn't i think of that

*quickly writes that down so i can claim it was my plan all along*

I have no reason to doubt it! I know Mah Jong was a big thing for years and years, so while it’s very surprising, it’s also believable

Barack Obama is scared of me!
Because I don't swallow knowledge and I spit it for free
Let me clear my throat, ah ha, ha ha!

I don't know what that was, I don't
I don't know what that was

whaaaaat?

(George knows his stuff folks!)

That is a very good question

I actually have a bit of dislike for it too :/ I used it anyway because it seemed to convey the demographic group i was considering. But you're right to give it the side-eye. I certainly mean no disrespect.

For mine, i'll stay on Facebook, and keep reacting positively to good content where i see it, particularly in the community-based groups. And wait for someone to find a better strategy.

Does this mean all the hate comments under the news posts aren't actually that important, because the community groups show more accurately where we are? I don't think so. My guess is dominance of one reaction on the big news posts does spread that reaction around, slowly by steadily.

A generic RNZ post just floats in the ether, disconnected from my neighbourhood and my everyday life, and so it becomes a target for the abstracted political reckons of the very agitated.

But in the community group, it's about what's right outside my door and I will cheerfully weigh in on that.

But the engagement profile is different in community groups. e.g. here in the Hutt, posts in the community FB group get some bigots and weirdos, but most of the reaction is pretty considerate, if frequently underinformed.

We want our own community to be accepting and kind and will make it known??

The one ray of light i see is that the community FB groups, by all reports I've seen, seem to consistently have a much more dominant strain of sensible reactions and less tolerance for the hate bombers.

And that's saying something, because the community groups can be very weird indeed.

None of this is news to anyone, i know, but it's once again stuck in my head. I can't see an effect counterstrategy. System-level responses aren't going to happen with the tech lords ascendant, grassroots post-by-post reactions seem hopelessly inadequate, and doing nothing just ensures it spreads.

Paranoid, angry, fearful emotion drives engagement and the Facebook ecosystem is perfect for this to be cultivated into an identity, which is in turn cemented by spreading the message.

Much, much harder to build an agitant Facebook messaging army around "calm down, you're overreacting".