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people often talk about how d&d 5e is a horrible starting point that makes players struggle with other systems and that's true but it also does this for GMs. so many people i know had their first exposure to ttrpgs through d&d 5e and so view any GM or facilitator role with absolute dread assuming that it is an unpaid game design role that requires not only hours of prep every session but also to carefully micromanage every aspect of the game to singlehandedly balance it for the specific outcome of 'the party wins, but, like, it feels difficult' while simultaneously remembering everyone's rules for them & being treated like a substitute teacher

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I love telling people that Gary gygax was a biological essentialist because they always are so reticent to believe it. Like. he literally proudly said it out loud. Also have you ever actually read D&D? like. 3/4ths of everything is ontologically evil from birth

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"OP why are you mad that your words are being misinterpreted you're on the piss on the poor website" actually i think it's very reasonable to demand people pay attention to the words they use, the choices they make, the things they believe, and their capacity for empathy and comprehension and that it's sort of weird that you're finding humor in making excuses to just believe that there simply is no possible way to improve your actions

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Have you played To Change ?

By usducktape

The impending threat, promise, and fate of being permanently transformed into something unrecognisable to you. Uses a dwindling deck of tarot cards to resolve skill checks, or you can Succumb to the change to automatically succeed

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The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

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While D&D used to very much be a game for the white cishet crowd, in recent years it has become home to an increasing number of queer folks. This is not surprising, because while D&D is not in and of itself a queer game, its escapist fantasy does resonate with a lot of queer people, and a queer reading of the game does allow for reframing its gameplay in queer terms: the basic gameplay of D&D involves going into dungeons (gay clubs) to fight (have sex with) goblins (goblins)

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the silliest sun god

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Tumblr once again coming up with a feature I’m not gonna- hey whats going on back there

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Francesca Ramsey and Kat Blaque deserve their flowers for holding it down the way they did until breadtube became a thing. Like a lot of people wouldn't even have a platform if they hadn't laid the groundwork for it.

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someone pointed out how a majority of detransitioners that are transphobic grifters happen to be past trans men who are white. and because of this they are targeted by these predatory terfs "to save white women from the evil left and to have more white babies"

it's all white supremacy/fascism.

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I've been accused of thinking men are ontologically evil a couple of times, and to be clear, I would never absolve shitty dudes of responsibility like that. Men who are evil have the opportunity to choose otherwise.

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I’m starting to sound like a nutcase at work because upper management keeps trying to implement AI programs and AI assistants and Chat GPT and my middle-of-the-road, don’t-infodump, don’t-engage response has been “I don’t like AI”, “I prefer to remain in control of my own tasks”, “I’d rather make my own mistakes”, and “I don’t trust any machine smarter than a toaster”

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Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

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Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

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Calvin and Hobbes was magic--and sometimes a little creepy--when it embraced surrealism. And this was in the funny papers alongside goofiness like Garfield and The Family Circus.