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The problem with new-school D&D clones is that they like to spend huge gobs of page count on really cool-looking rules toys that you'll never actually get to play with because you only gain access to them at like level 15 and most campaigns don't last that long, as opposed to old-school D&D clones, which much more sensibly spend huge gobs of page count on really cool-looking rules toys that you'll never actually get to play with because the dice rolls gating access to them are so hideously unfriendly that if you engage with them in any way your character will immediately explode.

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prx are one of the teams of all time to me. they don't play the meta, they never win, everyone loves them, their bundle is one of the best performing bundles around, their roster consists of a bunch of dudes from the apac region plus that one russian guy that just so happens to be there with an aim so good he managed to nail three people with jett knives across the site while midair. insane behaviour

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heartbreaking that my imperial superprofits are being used to bomb foreigners instead of being used for ME

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Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Black Rose Saga

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they should invent a special new pulitzer prize for any journalist who manages to cover the trump presidency without doing this:

they could make it award one billion dollars and not worry becuase they would simply never have to pay it out

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The Matrix, 1999 dir. Lana Wachowski · Lilly Wachowski

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The thing that's really fascinating about the incomprehensible word salad that was "D&D is not a simulationist game, it's a narrative (sic) RPG" is that as far as I can tell not only is it incorrect if you use the actual original definitions of simulationism and narrativism as laid out by the Forge, it's also incorrect when using the more common definitions which have very little to do with the original definitions and are just based on vague vibes.

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cool disgust response dude, who taught it to you? your peers? your mom?😂

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i know those posts from graduating college students saying that chatgpt is the one who deserves their degree are a joke but ai use in college in general is so nonsensical to me. you're accepting thousands and thousands of dollars (sometimes hundreds of thousands!) of debt and then not even getting anything in return?? you haven't learned... anything at all??

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heartwarming: found family just as oppressive as real one

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OTOMOKATSUHIRO’S 20K FOLLOWERS CELEBRATION ✧ favorite 90′s anime per member • @itachis

SHOUJO KAKUMEI UTENA (1997) created by be-papas

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Onegin (UK - USA, 1998)

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my personal pet peeve thats emerged post covid is what i like to call "DIY public health". lotta people trying to be public health educators with zero actual knowledge of it or epidemiology in general

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apart from how obviously sickeningly evil the way victory of the daleks treats winston churchill is it's also a really weird and bad performance

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getting big 45 minute vibes from this 15 minute recipe

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its like when i was 12 years old hair dressers would literally try and pressure me into waxing my eyebrows because i have a bit of a unibrow. doesn't matter how little your intention to Be A Gnc Person is if you're a woman who has hair that society thinks you shouldn't have other people are going to decide that you are failing to conform to your gender. that's how this all works.

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i always felt like moralizing about children becoming more adapted to phone by “shortening attention span” or whatever was especially silly because maybe children are adapting to phone because… phone is a vitally important tool in society now and that’s not likely to change anytime soon? they’re literally just adapting to their environment? like just because you think it shouldn’t be that way doesn’t mean it isn’t (coming from someone who has never had a cell phone)

yeah i mean, i think it can be edifying to point out the ways in which this brand of technophobia oversimplifies or just fabricates psychological research, but the political response is arguably even more fundamental. so much of this anxiety about the supposedly deleterious effects of phones (or social media or chat gpt or whatever else) really hinges on assumptions about particular reading practices and skills being uniquely valuable, morally salubrious, indicative of 'intelligence', etc. it's worth asking ourselves where this defensiveness comes from... attention, focus, etc always vary depending on our lives and needs; we talk about these things like fixed psychological characteristics that the smartphone is newly and uniquely threatening to destroy, but in reality they are context-dependent and have always varied (over time, between person, in the same person over time, etc). i don't assume any changes catalysed or reinforced by smartphones etc are inherently good but i also don't assume they're inherently bad; i especially don't assume they're some kind of urgent irreversible damage to the human psyche, because i don't assume that any one particular skill or mode of attention or whatever is universal or necessary to human existence