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🎃trash🎃 @dollarpbr.gay · 10h

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Turbiales @turbiales.bsky.social · 1d

Ayer precelebramos el L aniversario del creador del canal con una entrevista con la gente de Blagadross edicionas sobre el mecenazgo de Ars Magica.
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Ars Magica Edición Definitiva - Entrevistas entre dados

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Dr. Sobek @sobex.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#arsmagica #ttrpg
For those who don't speak Spanish, there's still one awesome goody in this crowdfunding:

A custom Ars Magica soundtrack, which you can easily get with the 1€ tier + 20€ add-on.

(And even small backers count when we have awesome stretch goals in number of backers) […]

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Alejandro @lusoclemens.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Broad the GOAT

🍂jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Broad, a guy who lives in and has made his living as a sort of cultural ambassador of Japan, made a video about the emerging content slop genre of "immigrants and tourists are destroying the pure, unconquered land of Japan" that ties in with its current right-wing swing.
very interesting

What is Happening to Japan?

YouTube video by Abroad in Japan

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🍂jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Broad, a guy who lives in and has made his living as a sort of cultural ambassador of Japan, made a video about the emerging content slop genre of "immigrants and tourists are destroying the pure, unconquered land of Japan" that ties in with its current right-wing swing.
very interesting

What is Happening to Japan?

YouTube video by Abroad in Japan

youtu.be

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Alejandro @lusoclemens.bsky.social · 1d

Otra vez el tema de las rules elide no, por favor 😅

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Antoine Lavoisier @antoinelavoisier.bsky.social · 4d

There are ways to make gay art that also includes exploration of dungeons and fighting of monsters which is what the actual substance of the book supports

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 1d

Side note but one of my favorite parts about this scene is the news chyron in the background that says “Gender Fluid Immigrants May Be Entering The Country Twice”

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Sweet Daniel @dansheehan.bsky.social · 2d

harpers.org/archive/2025...

The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz

Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 2d

Also included thanks to lines, the person who sent me this: very high resolution scans of the disc, the cover, the obi, and the liner notes.

The insert, that shows lyrics and the songs.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s.

Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.

archive.org/details/tats...

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 4d

All of this is why DnD's director competitors will never replace it: Functionally not playing DnD turns into "playing DnD" in peoples minds; "The game can't be bad and I don't think my ignoring of rules is a rejection of it", so DnD becomes the game that just magically does everything...

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 4d

And to that I say great! I love hanging with friends (when social batteries allow)! I love playing pretend with funny hats! I love talking what-ifs about my fiction characters and having them get into shenanigans and smooch!

But wouldn't you rather the game HELPED you about that?

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 4d

"Some of our most fun / most enjoyed / most memorable sessions and experiences have been the ones where we went shopping and improv'd out conversations, or attended festivals and played games, or had a Regency-era ball and played through that" ok! I believe you! Have you considered WHY?

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Apr 7

just learned about the slay the spire mod that replaces the entire game's artstyle with all original gacha waifus up to and including an incomprehensibly busy sci-fi ui for no reason. i need to summon the council to debate if this is objectively hilarious or a harbinger of the endtimes

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 4d

tbh lets add "gatekeeping" to the list
i can't remember when I last saw somebody i actually respected use the word unironically

cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · May 25

as a rule of thumb, if somebody says something to the effect of "don't do x, it's metagaming", you can just disregard their ttrpg opinions entirely as they are terminally stupid.

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Adam @ajtperson.bsky.social · 4d

Hasbro wotc has very intentionally built a brand identity around the game that is a complete misrepresentation of what the game actually is: a game about being violent and inflicting violence. And it's MASSIVELY successful

cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 5d

What does any of this shit have to do with D&D, which is a game about going somewhere dangerous (eg dungeons) to fight scary monsters (eg dragons)?
What relevance does all the twee art like this Hasbro keeps churning out have for a game that is fundamentally about peril, violence and adventure?

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 4d

Dipshits complain about this stuff because it's "woke" but they real reason anyone should complain about it is that D&D The Game fundamentally does nothing to support cozy bucolic fantasy romance, it's a game that is 90% systemized around dungeon fights

cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 5d

What does any of this shit have to do with D&D, which is a game about going somewhere dangerous (eg dungeons) to fight scary monsters (eg dragons)?
What relevance does all the twee art like this Hasbro keeps churning out have for a game that is fundamentally about peril, violence and adventure?

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 4d

I’m curious to see what a game about fantasy blorbos would actually look like because the only ones people have tried to make either suck and are garbage or they’re just more 5e (and thus, suck and are garbage)

cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 5d

What does any of this shit have to do with D&D, which is a game about going somewhere dangerous (eg dungeons) to fight scary monsters (eg dragons)?
What relevance does all the twee art like this Hasbro keeps churning out have for a game that is fundamentally about peril, violence and adventure?

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Alejandro @lusoclemens.bsky.social · 4d

I love you for saying this so eloquently and I hate that a very specific kind of roleplayer is going to want to burn you at the stake for saying it. You are completely right.

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, you can insert freeform sections of non-action roleplay into a D&D game, but none of what comes out of those sections is shaped by the mechanics of D&D; its a creation of the roleplayers at the table, and could be done equally well inserted into a different system, or with no system at all.

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 4d

This is what I'm trying to get at, right?
You can insert cute town scenes or epic sweeping romance or pastoralism or interpersonal drama into a D&D game, but when you do *you* have to do all the work for that, because the actual mechanics of D&D are not interested in that stuff, and dont affect it

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 4d

What WotC has done, with collaboration from AP producers & fandom, is taken everything creative and *un-D&D* about great tabletop campaigns with romance, intrigue, etc., and gaslit the world into thinking D&D, the Product, offers those experiences. It does not. It offers tomb raiding & skill checks.

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 5d

Obligatory disclaimer:
I like games where you go in a scary hole to fight monsters and level up. I also like social games about PCs having emotions at each other. I even like games about queer topics.
My point is that this shit is dishonest marketing on hasbros part, because dnd is only the first.

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 5d

What does any of this shit have to do with D&D, which is a game about going somewhere dangerous (eg dungeons) to fight scary monsters (eg dragons)?
What relevance does all the twee art like this Hasbro keeps churning out have for a game that is fundamentally about peril, violence and adventure?

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