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Tumblr loves to be like "Potentially mature content. This post may contain content not suitable for all audiences." and it's a fully dressed Thai guy in a chunky sweater.

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Phoebe Bridgers has not aged a day

Miss Unsafe Brakes from the 1939 Chicago Auto Show

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RIP Murderbot, destroyed by a rogue Derek.

I think they'd have fun watching media together.

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Man, I bet there's so many pokémon in there.

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So the original asker is probably going to get a million recommendations for different things for distance gaming, all of which will be very dependent on the system they're using, so let me give my limited experience of several vtts, several systems, and several price points.

- Roll20 would be my go to if you want to run d&d with maps and tokens and suchlike. The free version isn't bad, although you would have to pay for additional stuff from the rulebooks (including classes and subclasses and races not in the basic rules). It's pretty easy to use and supports video chat

- Owlbear Rodeo is cheap and cheerful and incredibly easy to use for rendering maps. However your players will be in charge of their own character sheets offline. If you're okay with that it's free software that can get a map and stuff up quickly and has a dice roller built in.

- if you want to get deeply nerdy with it, Foundry is amazing. It can run almost any game, with community made rulesets. It supports community modules that can do anything from give you 3d dice to ripping pdfs of campaigns and turning them into battlemaps and characters and stuff. However it is more expensive than the other options. 50 bucks for the software to run on your own computer, plus the cost of hosting (Forge is pretty good and pretty reasonable). Basically this is the Nerd Option. However I highly recommend it for running Pathfinder 1e or 2e,its implementation of the pathfinder rules is amazing

- Discord. If you're playing something Theatre Of The Mind, don't discount having a Discord channel, using inbuilt voice and video chat, and just posting images of what you want your party to see. Pen and paper work surprisingly well at a distance.

i‘m about to start a campaign with my friends, for most of us our first one, and one of us lives in another country. you gmed during covid, how did you make the game accessible to everyone? did you use any specific programs?

thanks!!

So I have run a lot of games remotely and I can say with absolute experienced authority that I am NOT an authority on this subject. Back in the day, due to recording limitations I would literally have to call people via Skype and then share battle maps via a shared access to a Google Sheet with coloured cells. Eventually I did progress to using Roll 20 with interactive maps etc. but I hardly scratched the surface of what it could do due to being distracted monitoring recording equipment and everything I used is now wildly out of date and irrelevant. Sorry to disappoint.

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Important update:

So you should get into wrestling

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If the true contest on Taskmaster is to be the contestant everyone remembers, Zouks is lapping everyone this season. What a ridiculous, ridiculous man.

I'm so sorry to interrupt the children's midnight picnic.

TASKMASTER, Series 19 Episode 4 "Midnight Picnic"

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On the plus side there's a very real chance he was there for the world's highest kickflip

The oldest son of my mom's really good friend just climbed Mt. Everest.

My initial reaction when she told me this was a thing he was doing was .... WHY THE FUCK, DUDE!?!?!?

This is a forty-year-old man, with two very small children (as in, I-could-easily-carry-one-on-each-hip-at-the-same-time small) and a wonderful wife. Yeah, they live in Colorado and do a lot of hiking, etc.

BUT STILL.

Naturally, his mom and my mom have been on absolute tenterhooks.

I, on the other hand, spent most of yesterday while we waited for confirmation that he had summited and was now on the way back down from this ABSOLUTE INSANE NONSENSE traumatizing her with fun factoids gleaned from Wikipedia about why he should have known better than to try this shit.

Yay, bro, it's quite an accomplishment. Congrats.

Now get back home and spend the rest of your life atoning for scaring your wife shitless for literal weeks on end with your bullshit.

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So you should get into wrestling

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I'm convinced, let's not check.

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congratulations piracy

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"Oh. You're home early."

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Yes. And that specific reason is "capitalism"

You don't know who the Luddites were. They weren't opposed to technology. They were opposed to wage theft.

I have made a group of the internet's dumbest plastic communists mad by pointing out that Luddism was opposition to mechanised wage theft, not opposition to technology.

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And, like, this isn't a new stance. The book I recommend they read came out in the sixties. But pointing this out is "historical revisionism" apparently.

I have made a group of the internet's dumbest plastic communists mad by pointing out that Luddism was opposition to mechanised wage theft, not opposition to technology.

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I have made a group of the internet's dumbest plastic communists mad by pointing out that Luddism was opposition to mechanised wage theft, not opposition to technology.

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Again, read The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson. You are simply not correct about the motivations of this group.

Right, wasted enough time on this.

it is very cool how before AI nobody cheated at school, people weren't paranoid and getting all their info from whatever unchecked source online, nobody was lonely and trying to fill that with whatever fictional romance or companionship, artists never lost their jobs, there was no global warming or data centers the internet was just floating around on the air don't worry about it..... anyways so sad how AI ruined everything LET'S GET MORE REACTIONARY NOWWWWWWW

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Read The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson. It gives a Marxist assessment of who the Luddites were and what they were trying to do. It wasn't anything at all to do with hating machinery. It was everything to do with trying to stop wholesale theft of labour.

it is very cool how before AI nobody cheated at school, people weren't paranoid and getting all their info from whatever unchecked source online, nobody was lonely and trying to fill that with whatever fictional romance or companionship, artists never lost their jobs, there was no global warming or data centers the internet was just floating around on the air don't worry about it..... anyways so sad how AI ruined everything LET'S GET MORE REACTIONARY NOWWWWWWW