Man of the West, Historian & Gamer. Based Nationalist. The Leading Crippled Voice in Science Fiction. Social Justice is Satanic.
#PulpRev
#Superversive
@Lukewearechange
He's a carpetbagger from Virginia. He cynically came to my homeland to fast-track his way to a seat in Congress via the Dem machine here. He's LARPing as a leader, badly, and if not for the machine he'd be a broke joke slinging coffee for minimum wage for college kids.
"Peter Jackson’s screen adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, flunked the “Bechdel Test,” a now-standard parameter for judging whether or not a work of literature, film or TV show is sexist."
Imagine having write according to ticked boxes.
@SophNar0747
I remember getting suspended as a kid. I gave no fucks. I just got on my bike and went to the comics shop. Public schools were shit 35 years ago, and they're worse now.
@mariagaani51
@Imamofpeace
@IlhanMN
Minnesota makes it a criminal offense to spread false and defamatory matter to third parties. If Rep. Omar doesn't ask MN Attorney General Keith Ellison to file charges, then it is reasonable to assume that the defamatory matter is true.
Any.
Homework is ritual humilitation with no practical value other than to degenerate a human mind into a fleshbot willing and able to do useless bitchwork for a living in return for a pod, vacuous media, and questionable psuedo-edibles.
What makes RPGs as a hobby compelling is that the core of the hobby is about the dangerous expeditionary actions that have been stamped out for most in real life.
But too many didn't get that memo. You're not camping for a weekend- you're with Shackleton.
Now account for why the most influential characters of the 20th century _do not conform to this model._
James Bond? Nope.
Conan? Nope.
Kimbal Kinneson? Nope.
Tarzan? Nope.
John Carter? Nope.
The Shadow? Nope.
Consider the possibility that this model is WRONG.
The Hero's Journey is not just a storytelling model, it's also a path that shapes the narratives of history and mirrors our own personal quest for individuation.
Let's dive into how this archetypal framework can catalyze our journey towards becoming our truest selves.
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Anyone who got real death threats goes to the police, files a report, and then gets told to shut up and let the cops do their job. Grandstanding on fake claims is when you get liars talking big about death threats that never happened.
@SydneyLWatson
@MildraTheMonk
No, they don't. Most people have no idea that this happened at all. It's not covered AT ALL, even at the university level, unless you take very specific courses about it.
NYC Times Square last night. They are threatening bodily & property damage, limiting the free flow of traffic, unlawfully holding others against their will. If NYC Leadership won’t take action, the citizens will need to defend themselves
@EvilHatOfficial
At least Palladium bothered to (a) do their own spin on Skynet and (b) mixed in Guyver when they made their not-Terimator RPG. You couldn't even reach that level of teenaged-boy fanfic mashup.
@jondelarroz
@Cernovich
No, first the local officials have to show that they cannot handle it. Then the state officials have to do so. This failure has to be clear in the minds of the population or political support will NOT be present for intervention. The timing matters, and this nails it.
Facts people need to accept:
- Star Wars is dead.
- WOW's last hurrah was Legion, and that was a Greatest Hits tour.
- The Grand Tour > New Top Gear.
- Post-Tennant DW has been a sliding scale of meh to suck to blow.
- Epstein didn't kill himself.
@TheUnaButters
The Tourist gave away the game.
It's about Clout. That's why they care about who is the face of the brand. They want to BE the face of the brand, because then they control it and can use it to push their heresy.
And yes, they are literal heretics. This is their religion.
Normalize men wearing jewelry.
Normalize men wearing crop tops.
Normalize men painting their nails.
Normalize men having emotions.
Normalize men wanting to show them.
Normalize men wanting to get flowers.
Normalize men being fucking humans.
"Why isn't (X) in D&D?"
"Do it yourself. It's your game."
"But it's not OFFICIAL!"
"Then it's not about what you want. It's about making everyone else see that you got what you want, and making them accept it at their table, isn't it?"
"Of course it is!"
"We wanted to do a Terminator game, but couldn't afford the license and couldn't be bothered to do what Palladium did and make our own spin on it, so we'll use the IP of a guy we hate to make a shit take on the premise and use Woke Scolding to cover our asses." Pass on this, fam.
In Fate of Cthulhu, you don't play a hapless investigator spiraling inevitably toward doom.
You're a kick-ass resistance fighter from the future, sent back in time to stave off the Elder Gods' Apocalypse.
What will you sacrifice to save the planet?
I am noticing a pattern in my RPG blogging.
Complaints, especially spicy ones, get hits- sometimes megahits.
Solutions do not get the same traffic.
Lots of people just want to be mad.
There are exactly TWO rewards that matter in SF.
1) "Pay to the Order Of"
2) "I thought I'd make my own (X), but with blackjack and hookers."
If you want to win either of them, put your ass in that chair and WRITE.
You want a reason for the Feds to step in? YOU JUST GOT IT GOOD AND HARD.
Guarantee of the postal roads is an expressed power of the Executive, and the USPS falls under this.
It needs even less of that.
It needs TUTORIALS. Those creators need to sit down and cut videos explaining _how to use what already exists in Explain Like You're Five format._
Teach the prospect HOW to use the tools to achieve the promised result and the prospect buys.
It's been said many times before that the osr needs fewer new systems and more material to go with what we already have.
Adventures, settings, supplements, etc
And this is 100% true
I know so many great creators with so many great systems that have 0 players.
@2014_judi
@MrAndyNgo
Until they get nabbed by Feds, they suffer no negative consequences at all. Their fellow travelers are the mayor, governor, and respective prosecutors. That means they have the protection of the local and state government. The killer, so long as he sticks around, is a free man.
I said some years ago that the fallback line was the banking system. Now we have concrete evidence that this is the case. Lone wolves and small cells operating independently can't crack that fortress. Concerted and sustained grinding as a disciplined army can and has.
Watching the streamers do the WOW Classic Beta.
Too much racing to the cap. Not enough enjoying the entire game. There's no need to race to L60 in Vanilla because the endgame isn't that big of a deal compared to Current WOW.
*ahem*
Slow down. Life is to be savored.
If you think "semi-automatic" means "machinegun", then you are not competent to decide anything regarding firearms. Sit down, shut up, and go fix your knowledge gap.
and it’s unironically one of the best series endings of all time. “you look me in the eye, and you tell me you can’t do it” has stuck with me for DECADES
Gw "we are a company we sell toys not lore"
Also gw "lets use ridicule a popular politicial and make him sound evil in our novels for no reason"
a small tip to any leaders in games workshop and other companies, FIRE YOUR WRITERS AND EMPLOYEES WHO KEEP ADDING GAS TO THE FIRE.
> Watch "best retro anime OP" video
> See Bebop
> Remember it came out 20 YEARS AGO
> gitofmahlawn.jpg
Yep. 20 years ago. Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and a few more classics turn 20 this year. Feel old yet?
Because this is what folks forget: Diablo is a game, a product, with an existing audience and that audience is NOT ON MOBILE. They're PC and console players, and they expect PC/console releases; they don't do mobile because mobile is trash and we all know it.
To quote a friend of the Shiba of Color:
"Dazexiang Uprising energy.
What's the punishment for disagreeing with the government?
What's the punishment for rebellion?
The same."
If you're going to be treated as if you swung at the king, then you might as well do it for real.
Irish PM Leo Varadker is demanding hate speech laws be passed immediately so the government can arrest Irish individuals who speak out:
"Our incitement to hated legislation is not up to date and we need it through in a matter of week."
@BeigeShiba
"The Humanities aren't worth anything!"
"Hey, why is this crazy cult-like thing brainwashing our kids and making everything ugly?"
SAME PEOPLE!
BOMBSHELL: Biden administration blocked Texas from increasing power as Texas begged for help a week before catastrophic polar vortex.
Texas asked to temporarily lift regulations on energy output to avoid disaster. Biden's DOE refused to help due to "green energy standards".
@OculiVirides
@mombot
@dekuflowerr
Because those aren't the rules. The rules are "Whatever allows me to wield shame and guilt as weapons to strike you down and give me power."
@RichardHanania
A better comparison might be to ask how collective political action has worked out for Jews or Indians. The answer is that it’s worked out quite well for them.
No, it isn't. No, it's not. No, it doesn't, "Get Woke, Go Broke" is a hard truth those students would be better off learning from a distance by watching the failures of others than experiencing themselves.
Game design/art students, please don’t listen to this load of bollocks from your teachers. Diversity in character design is important, nessessary and sells.
@KalebobGrampant
@afrocosmist
*ahem*
"Science Fiction" as you know it begins with E.R. Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars" in 1913.
"Legend of the Galactic Heroes" began as a novel series in Japan in the 1980s before its OVA and more recent series adaptations.
_Both_ are not only classics, but are right-wing.
@navywife617
@Shem_Infinite
He's saying that now because he's got the evidence required to make that statement stick in court. Those three years weren't spent sitting on his ass; they were spent mapping out Antifa on the down-low WHILE clearing out enough Antifa in the bureau to actually go at them.
BattleTech is severely under-appreciated as an original SF property and as a Mecha property, including by many currently administering it. Get a proper team in place and it could be bigger than Mouse Wars, Fake Trek, on part with Gundam and Macross, and respected like Dune.
Side note: Professionals should revive apprenticeships, informally now and formally down the road, because you folks know you can't rely on academia to produce competent successors.
Attacking a genre IP's canon is a confession professional incompetence. This is not bizzare geek behavior. This is competent corporate stewardship, maintaining the value of an asset over time. The Japanese corporate IP owners get this. Therefore, something else is at play.