carien moossdorff

The Last Submarine: a larp taught me how to ignore scientific warnings There is a risk to refusing to communicate simply as scientists.

As experts, we can't be stingy with our knowledge!

If we, with our years of learning and study, refuse to offer ways to make the world better, someone else will. And that person will have worse intentions, or understanding, or both.

A larp lesson.

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

You can’t post your way out of fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

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I like that! It *could* get better, I forgot about that for a moment! Because yeah, I agree about the alternative.

As you said, a scene outcome is impossible when you cross boundaries of what is possible in the world. When someone starts talking about airplanes in a fantasy setting, what *can* you do, without breaking the scene?

But if you let them and they continue, and other people pick it up, what happens?

Too often we're not operating within in the same frame of meaning anymore, so we are constantly crossing boundaries. Those boundaries are deeper than feeling uncomfortable, they're super deep taboos that when you cross them, the whole system of meaning shakes. Singing a pop song at a fantasy larp.

Yes, that's so important! That's why it feels like we're playing in different settings, more and more. You know how in larp, there is a taboo to mix In Game and Out of Game, or to randomly start about topics or people from other larps? Society is starting to feel like that.//

And the other thing that I worry about is that it seems like people are polarized to a point where it seems like we're not even playing the same game anymore. Or at least, like we're so bent on winning that we don't play to lift, as soon as someone disagrees. So playing together stops being fun.

Like, many people that are boss of a specific island in 'the game' would have had the opportunity to get on a soap box and call out to *everybody* that someone is going full villain and breaking the game. And probably some of the right people have, but not nearly enough. //

Oooh, let's go on for hours, soon!! Thanks so much for your perspective, Eveline!

That's such a good question - who has been enabling people to rig themselves into the game? From a larp perspective, I guess everyone, but especially people who are responsible for specific clusters of status quo.//

Hehe, love that! I'm really curious about your response by the way, do you recognize any of this?

All the world’s a larp: how do we stop playing limited roles and open up societal space for… Facing a dark future requires open-hearted darkness. People are fed up with the roles they’ve been playing.

In response to @joostvervoort.bsky.social 's earlier blog about the role strain that comes along 'larping' specific social roles! anticiplay.medium.com/all-the-worl...

Larp lessons: the art and politics of showing up What roles do you play in life, and more importantly, what roles and scenes do you forego because you feel out of your element in them? Can…

Society is a larp! Check out my blog on how live action role play can show you how to claim power, and how to resist other people's claims over you.

These are serious topics for serious times, but you CAN learn these deep skills from gaming. Show up!

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2. You have different stats for mana, HP, energy, food, and drink. Which seemed like such a given to me until I realized I have some weird-ass debuff that makes paperwork cost about 50 times as much mana as energy.

1. The easiest way to explain my completely absent sense of direction. Every time I turn a significant corner, my brain starts a totally new render for the world, no relation to the previous scene I was in. Like in an RPG from 2003.

On a lighthearted and hopefully helpful note: Let's collect metaphors from games that make life easier.

@joostvervoort.bsky.social and I have a few blogs coming up that are related to this, but why wait with the fun?