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From @levelonewonk:

"It’s another new year, and I am once again asking, in one form or another, the same question I’ve asked myself in January for several years now: Why am I here? Why do I want to be here, writing about roleplaying games? Now, I’m not asking this question because the spark is gone or it feels futile (it does some of the time, but hell if that’s going to stop me). Instead, I’m checking in on myself. What am I trying to do? Am I succeeding in that?

This year, I’m also asking: Why are you here? I don’t necessarily mean at this site specifically, but why are you reading about RPGs online? More specifically, why are you reading RPG reviews? I know for a fact that the reason many go to read reviews is not exactly aligned with the reason I write them, and that’s likely why I felt the need to discuss the intent of RPG reviews."

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you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

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Write for us!

Write for us! We are now accepting pitches for "Rituals for Dead Games", our latest zine, and we want GAMES. Pitch us your little rituals for the grief of losing a creative outlet. Full details on the submission form.

Pitch submission form is here: https://forms.gle/SUfZ9aKWBRjJ4Xrz5

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Me at myself while giggling at old Waypoint episodes: nostalgia is a pit, the past is a poisoned casket, do not give in to astonishment

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Oh nooooo i accidentally played Control (2019) for 4 hours straight

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*so horny I'm about to pass out* nono it's fine, keep exposing a lil bit of tummy every time u stretch ur arms up its totally fine I'm so normal about it

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Excuse me, professor? So, um, you paired me with Strawberry Shortcake for this assignment. Yeah so, she proofread my paper, but the only changes she made were crossing out every instance of 'very' and replacing it with 'berry'?

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the game jam page is UP. join now or become cringe #tittyrpg

jam starts Feb 1 and goes til March 15. LFGGGG (reblogs appreciated!)

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Have you played DETENTE FOR THE RAVENOUS ?

By local celebrity A.A. Voigt

This game is about being part of a resistance movement against a theocratic empire that uses giant monsters, former humans turned monstrous through sin, to attack smaller nations, where players will fight back throught violence, subterfuge and building alliances.

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save me bitching

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358/2 days art! this was the only kh game i ever actually got to play when i was little, but i didnt remember much of it. spoilers, its a bummer

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two cups water one cup rice

makes a treat that's very nice

rice for me and rice for you

rice to eat with bowl of stew

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Put together a catalog of over 500 solo games.

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i have broken 10k views in a single video, but at what cost

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hey, we’ll be ok