magnificentjosh.bsky.social
Ask me about the origins of the Tesco Clubcard, I dare you. (he/him)
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God, can you imagine? Getting a new jerkin, after having the same one for fifteen years. Now you get to decide which colour you get to wear each day. I would open clothes-safe each morning and lose hours just staring in wonder at my two jerkins.
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Mike, its not really relevant to the main topic of conversation here, but can I just say:
a) how much I respect you for being so open about the struggles you have making your YouTube career work, and
b) how fucking unfair that is, because you're so cool
But yeah, also, war sucks.
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Dunno, it definitely seems like I got the best ending.
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I'd already read something similar, but read this too, because I thought I could do with a top-up.
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Nice. I'm sorry to have assigned you such a bad argument.
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And, to go down another track, implying that Draw Steel is a Fantasy Heartbreaker by that definition is pretty wild to me. Have you played it?
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Yeah, I know that definition, but I think even that has a judgement baked into it.
The fact that someone is criticised for making the changes to a game that they want to see, and the assumption that their goal is to try and supplant the original, is a shame, I think.
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Is it? It seems to me to be an idea based on the assumption that every new game is trying to replace DnD and that it has failed if it doesn't.
We don't call every movie set in space that doesn't make as much money as Star Wars a Sci-Fi Heartbreaker.
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It's an interesting difference between the UK and the US. Culturally, we seem to have decided it's perfectly okay to let everything apart from London wither and die. You don't have a financial sector? Go fuck yourself, I guess.
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Wehhhhhr
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I think about Gossip from the Forest much more than I can explain.
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Gorillaz is another.
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Matt Colville has talked a couple of times about how, when getting playtest feedback, he just wants to know whether people think something works in its current state or not, and not what they like or don't like about it, because people are often wrong about what that actually is.
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If you're thinking of buying that big bag of babies, I can personally recommend them. We keep ours in a little pot by the front door, just in case.
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The three hairs on his Adam's Apple.
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- Garnagy Gellweather: A haunted ventriloquist doll, with a love for life and almost no grip on reality. One of the other party members knew Barnaby Bellweather before he died and ended up in the puppet, and now has to watch this weird remnant of her friend try and seduce a boat. (2,3)
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- Gossamer: A socialite opera singer, who lost her voice during the process of framing her husband for killing her lover, and in doing so lost everything. She ventured into The Heart to correct what she considered a horribly unjust series of entirely unearned misfortunes. (2)
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-Djank: A space goblin, replacing more and more of herself with homemade cybernetics in order to better do space terrorism (3)
- Gary: An adorable animated standing stone protector spirit himbo, who never accepted any meaning to his existence other than protecting the party. (1,3)
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Some examples:
- Mita Ramstein: A goatherd boy whose parents tried to sell him after he had a god accidentally manifest into him (Tropes 1,2,3)
- Smord Myron: The son of a great inventor, driven to become a badass by insecurity about his low intelligence and an overdeveloped sense of duty (1,3)
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Hmm, well, on the off-chance that you do, I will ask you please not to end my campaign today.
It would be a very confusing and unsatisfying ending.
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I don't know if you've watched the recent chat between Matt and Quinn on Matt's Twitch, but he (Quinn) explains in there that the things that he's most excited to talk about are the things he likes the most, so it stands to reason that most of his reviews are very positive.
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For a second I read this as
"#DnD #5e players!! Your campaign ends this Friday"
and I actually had a moment of fear before I realised that there's no way you would have the power to do that.
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- The spell Summon Kickboxer seems a little lame if he's only around for one round for a total of 1d6 damage.
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- As you say yourself, the economy's a little crazy. I don't hate having a noticeably different idea about how much (or little, in this case) a gold coin is worth, but a) it might be worth flagging and b) it needs to be a bit more consistent.
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Feedback wise:
- Does "overwhelms HP" have a specific meaning, or do I have to roll a Str save any time an attack deals more damage than my current HP? If my current HP is 0, is that every time? Do I make the save before or after reducing my Str?
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The food system is an incredible addition. I think that the fact that it doesn't have many mechanical benefits is great game design, because these aren't adventurers, they're Meddlers, who are going to set up camp in the early afternoon and cook oysters with their bottle of never ending fish sauce.
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This is so vibey and good, I love it. If nothing else (and there's plenty else), "Meddling" alone is such a fantastic framework for building games around.
You've absolutely gotten across a focus on not just community, but communitIES. I want to meddle in everyone's business, just reading it.
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If it is known that the United States will bomb a target if it the post gets enough upvotes on Reddit, that seems like an incredibly easy system to manipulate if you're an adversary (or just random third party).
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Obviously, it should go without saying that I agree that she acted incredibly irresponsibly, and, if this is what went down, has her share of blood on her hands.
But it should not be part of the world we live in that military targets are picked based on what civilians reckon on the internet.
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No, no, it was the other way round.
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In Heart, I'd say you level apart.
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@midstpodcast.bsky.social You seeing this shit?
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I love the human brain.
In panels 1 and 2, the rock so clearly looks unsure of itself and worried, and then the position of two lines of shading change almost imperceptibly in panel 3 and it reads so clearly as "you know what, maybe this place is alright".
And then you kill him.
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I tried it too, and got most of the same ones, but with a few extras, including this... interesting addition.
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I watched a really interesting video about this history recently.
youtu.be/0m2ZQaxfpnY?...
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He spent his school days taking acid and hanging out at the local pile of cow carcasses where his hawk would gorge itself on rats.
He sailed down the Amazon in what was supposed to be a highly publicised trip, but in the first few days he ate raw rat eyes and gave himself dysentery.
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I genuinely think he would ban yoghurt before he considered that maybe that one set of parents were lying, and their daughter was autistic before she got the vaccine, as they were told many times before they started getting famous.
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Like, he could get rid of all the vaccines and fluoride in the world and we'd still exist. He could go down the list eliminating everything in order, and not be able to work out why he hadn't fixed Autism yet.
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Well... It definitely is rhetoric that supports Eugenicsy things. But his position is even weirder.
He believes Autism is a disease caused by exposure to environmental inputs like vaccines, so, as little comfort as it is, at least he won't succeed in getting rid of it.
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Who is this man?
What sort of devil is he?
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Its some sort of collab between those two and this fella.
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I cracked the code.
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Most people: "Yeah, I'm playing a Revenant Talent. I did Rural, Communal Labor for Culture, and Laborer for a Career."
Matt:
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Not to come of all fanboy.
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Matt has a great bit of advice about this.
Describe the important thing one layer of abstraction out. In the case of the rug, say "the room is lavishly decorated, with fine wood furniture and sumptuous fabrics over every surface" or something. Then leave the players to ask if there's a rug.
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No, that's not supposed to be funny. Its a very profound societal critique of something, and you're supposed to sit there with eyes glistening as you think about poor people.
This is the Parasite guy, and all of his films are like Parasite, and Parasite was a very profound critique of something.