jackedward.bsky.social
đ„đ YouTubing/Blogging about tabletop roleplaying, collaborative worldbuilding
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đ„ Organizing and running TTRPGs in Brooklyn
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Absurd. "If you think kindness is good, why then would very evil people pretend to be kind?"
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I saw someone call it âoffensiveâ with a sorta culture-is-not-for-sale rallying cry.
Buddy boy, that apocalypse came and went, thereâs a reason this ad takes place in the past. It already happened!
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Like, half of the galaxy-spanning races in the series are like a literal crab guy or a wavy tentacle dude. Even the epic distributed artificial intelligence nation is like, a bunch of eyestalk toasters. It's so zany!
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I couldn't find any documentation on this, but..
Romantasy has a LOT of vomiting. Like, these girls are throwing up constantly and graphically. And it's not just the "he's taking care of me while I'm sick" trope, it's just all over the place. What is going on here??
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Gotta say as a guy with a mechanical keyboard -- worried about my rhythm now.
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Yeah I hear that. It's funny, I kinda want to see what's going on in Urban Fantasy, cause I have a passion for stuff like, idk, cosmic horror, John Dies at the End, Library at Mount Char, vampire shit, all that.
I just think that the commercial "urban fantasy" genre might be... well, not that.
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Well two things here are like: 1) from my understanding, Rebecca Yarros wasn't a romantasy writer, rather a trad romance writer who decided to delve into fantasy later.
2) I actually think hyper-modern language is a huuuuuuuge genre convention itself, ESPECIALLY in the kindle marketplace
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Me, out loud, mystified: "It's like... it's like the main character... she's totally powerless! She makes literally no choices for herself in the entire novel..." [flipping pages] "All of her decisions are made FOR her by a small cadre of hot men!"
My fiancé: "Honestly, the dream."
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Grimwild looks so sick
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Ainât no polar bear ever seen a penguin.
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I thought the impetus for the consulting thing was just that people were returning this week to their 9-5âs after spending vacation thinking about TTRPGs and suddenly realizing they were they were being paid for TTRPG stuff instead.
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Real fond memories of running Loomlurch. I think this is the first place I had Agdon Longscarf re-appear as the recurring pain in the ass.
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Yep this is real good, love this
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All of âem, in that order
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Look man I agree, but like, at a certain point you gotta to âThis place is Twitter, and Twitter sucks.â
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I need an explanation here that doesnât begin AND end with âif only the Jewish guy were sufficiently brainrotted he could have avoided the allegations of being a Nazi sympathizer, but honestly he had it coming, read more thinkpieces next timeâ
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I donât understand what youâre telling me. That if only Yochai was reading the same articles you were, he would have known to make more saavy decisions? If he was following the discourse he should have what, known better?
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What is the âknown problemâ here exactly? What is the âthisâ that could have been avoided?
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If you do not have the relationship to deal with something privately with someone, you need to ask yourself why youâve determined to take this into your own hands publicly at all.
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I think the word âpublicâ is being used expansively in a fairly noxious way here. Someone tweeting something does not demand ANY sort of public response. You can easily address harm done by social media posts, if thatâs what weâre talking about, in private or direct venues.
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I think people are trying to be generous and not basically name and shame the people who were on his ass, but youâve left out a few steps in the story, like where Yochai took down the link, and people kept on him about, including accusing him of being a Nazi sympathizer.
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The guy weâre talking about is a significant organizer in this space, is a visible Jewish creator⊠like, who the fuck are we talking about here?
Saying âwe need to chase off fascistsâ is a great way to sound unimpeachable while legitimizing the worst behavior possible.
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Anyway I apologize to all following me for the sorta gendered analogy, and also for doing Discourse. I promise I will stop now. And probably not be around here long.
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They say things like âI mean, Iâm just trying to be helpful to try and get you to see that this behaviorâŠâ and it sounds like telling people âYour haircut looks like shit and Iâm just the only one HONEST enough to tell you. As a FRIEND.â
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At the moment, I donât see any of the people who dogpiled Yochai contributing to the hobby. So start your own youtube channel and built a following doing unboxing videos of TTRPGs. Or support Playful Void. Or Between Two Cairns. 2/𧔠ko-fi.com/idlecartulary
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He didnât take anything. Theyâre not âhis toysâ he made things nobody else is entitled to and removed himself from an unhealthy environment. It is maddening to see him somehow portrayed here as the immature party.
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Define âthrowing a fit.â I saw him post a request for people to chat with him about tweeting a video, and he engaged in a pretty level-headed way with people who kept amping and amping up the rhetoric.
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Anyway, I made a big old video with alll of my TTRPG trends and predictions for 2025, and it's gotten a ton of views and debate and I think ya'll will like it.
And if you don't like it, I hope you'll tell me, so long as you say stuff that makes sense.
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Marilynne Robinson's novels are probably just the best novels written this century so far. But her latest biblical commentary, despite sales numbers and ponderous reviews, is incoherent, and I'm not looking forward to slogging through the next one.
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PSA: We have to stop having arguments and debates about TTPRGs with people who have not played the game or even the whole family of games they are trying to evaluate.
Ppl who think they can predict and judge a game based on blogs, memes, and PDFs are just self-deceiving, and not reliable narrators.
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I think it's too bad that many folks in TTRPGs and other mostly-progressive spaces see the entire realm of self-help literature as basically hustle-culture-coded, and the purview only of cringe-worthy careerists and rubes.
The best self-help rn has a lot to offer GMs, creatives, and organizers.
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I feel fairly sure that the best SciFi/Fantasy writing of the past decade is happening at lower word counts, except for Adrian Tchaikovsky, who manages to write at a breakneck speed and still shows genre versatility, solid plotting, and prose that's neither dead nor cheap.
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I don't think TTRPGs are a space that innovates very, very quickly.
That said, it's easier to get good opinions about what's happening at the cutting edge of the TTRPG space than in genre fiction, where folks will recommend the worst stuff possible as though it's the second coming of Le Guin.
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Letâs see some crazy shit like Legacy: Life Among the Ruins. Or maybe Teeth, you guys seen Teeth?
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Yeah sure, letâs give Wilmington light rail, sounds great.
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The community.
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I mean look, my first base game with 4 players where we were all learning it took forever, but I think it goes faster when you become more fluent. Are you into other games like it?
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Just the base for now, itâs got so much going on. There are slight rules adjustments for each player count, and thereâs also optional faction rules we havenât even added yet.
Though Iâm SO interested in the campaign. Weâll see if I invest in all that, haha.