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Guilherme Xezz @guilhermexezz.bsky.social · 7h

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 10h

Riscos: Coisas que pessoas vivas sofrem

Para diminuir os riscos: Continue sendo uma pessoa viva

Se fosse uso de café, anfetaminas ou remédio de rinite seria o mesmo artigo, maravilhoso (nada maravilhoso)

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 10h

Essa deu trabalho de lembrar cada detalhe, mas tivemos dirigíveis e dois esqueletos nada relacionados entre si

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Recap de Aventura — Beyond the Borderlands — Sessão 4

Apesar de teoricamente ter saído da mesa, meu primo Rafael passou aqui em casa pra buscar um notebook que ele pediu pra Olivia concertar…

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Celebelian 🦦 @celebelian.bsky.social · 15h

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 11h

If the image that sparked all of this implied relationship drama instead of just being "people in a town plaza minding their business" I would let it fly, but god dammit it was just people in a town plaza minding their business

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 11h

The rules imply there's a "civilized" world you want to protect, do business with and expand

Is that itself problematic in its own ways? Heck yes

But fuck it, the civilized world I want to protect, do business with and expand are a bunch of gay people kissing

Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 11h

In fact, classic D&D implies and straight up doesn't work without a town plaza with people minding their business

Spending money at one is how you level up

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 11h

I didn't even like the thing, it was phony as shit and just straight up didn't look all that good

But to say it misrepresent D&D? Heck no

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 11h

If the image that sparked all of this implied relationship drama instead of just being "people in a town plaza minding their business" I would let it fly, but god dammit it was just people in a town plaza minding their business

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 12h

Oh no we are having "if you have anything cutesy and gay in a trad game you are playing the wrong game as they are clearly meant to be all frowns and gore all the time" discourse again

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 15h

O negócio é que eu não sou a única pessoa que percebe isso, mas eu sou a única que tem coragem de falar, aparentemente...

Algumas coisas nunca mudam...

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 15h

Essa sexta eu fui num rolê com Adriana, tinha uma mina trans mais velha, mó gata

Foi só eu falar que queria fazer um cover de Black Sabbath pra ficar horas falando como quem escuta é horrível, que tem que parar de escutar e tocar coisa velha, etc

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 15h

I've talked with many of them in person and in earnest to know that unfortunately many are not just doing marketing speak, they believe that, for realsies

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 15h

História das últimas 5 pessoas ou coisa assim que eu considerei beijar mas desisti de beijar no processo

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 15h

And them call everyone else that isn't a "proper member of the club" "uncritical" while failing at doing the most basic forms of self reflection or just, like, talking to people normally

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 15h

In general, the indie TTRPG bubbles suffer a lot from weird beliefs like

"trad players don't exist, they do what they do because they don't know that MY game exists, if they knew they would be playing MY game"

That everyone keeps parroting to themselves in a reinforcing cycle

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 16h

I know it's tempting to believe that the "modern" way people play D&D is completely derived from its near monopoly in the US (hint. hint, it isn't as prevalent elsewhere, yet we observe the same with "our" trad games), to believe it's nothing but ignorance or lack of options, but it isn't, at all

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 16h

I elaborate further down the thread

But the gist of it is that the moment some of those things are "supported" some emergent properties of them are lost, and we might not want that

I, at least 90% of the times, do not

Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 16h

I know, most of those makes me very uncomfortable, sometimes in ways I can deal with, work around it, or even enjoy it if it is really well made and I jive really well with the people involved

But those are the exceptions, not the rule

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 16h

The thing is, having interpersonal relationships and explicit personal goals as part of the game explicitly gives a kind of weight and constraints you might not want

Heck, you start to be able to "fail at it" objectively, you start treating those things as "pawns", it is what they become

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 16h

I've played most gay themed PbtAs, and I even enjoyed some of them

I've played freeform phpBB forum stuff

I've played the weirdest indie Brazilian games you can dream of

It doesn't scratch the same itch

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 16h

"If you want to some gay shit, you should play a game that supports that, instead of playing D&D or some variation of it"

We did, we tried, we are not all as incurious as you think we are

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 16h

It doesn't make you sound like you have a higher understanding of games, how they work and why people play them, quite the opposite, really

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 16h

"D&D is a game about killing monsters and gaining new levels, how could anyone care about anything else, it's not in the rules" is something that will make you sound like an Alien to most trad players

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Vitoria, Lamashtan Mage @vitoriafaria27.bsky.social · 16h

"Caring about stuff" is completely emergent and decoupled from the rules in trad TTRPGs

The thing is that perceived as a good thing by the kind of person who flocks to these games, I know as I'm one of them

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