#borderlands related text post

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

Crunchyroll has been stealing the fanmail of David Wald, Wainwright's voice actor, for years

[hearsayhorizons]

Perihelion Freed

My apologies to the original poster to whom I'm going to respond--I didn't catch your name or reblog your post when it came across my dash because I didn't expect to keep coming back mentally to your stance on Perihelion, free will, and the University's potential blind spot between their ship and their... discrete... work, out in the borderlands. I don't even know if it was a recent post or something that someone I follow reblogged. If you find me, hi!

Another blogger posited that Perihelion doesn't have free will, that things are hard-coded out of its mental architecture, and that the Newtideland crew may be hypocritical for using basically an enslaved ship to free basically slaves.

I'm not sure whether this was "a take on the idea" or whether it was "this is canonical and fucked up," so I apologize if you (cool previous blogger) were just investigating the concept!

It stuck with me, though, the idea that Perihelion (as opposed to The Perihelion, the ship+mind=entity that is akin to body+mind=soul) may or may not have free will, and how there's a lot more to investigate in the interactions if it doesn't, and the crew is either oblivious or "one must imagine Perihelion happy," and in a state of grace, as I believe the blogger mentioned.

Sure, there's a lot of mileage in "even the best have their blindspots," and the edges where what Peri does with and for Murderbot might run against its programming, and whether it would adjust its programming or whether it even could contemplate doing so.

But from my recall of the text, I don't believe the coding and architecture for enslavement is present in Peri.

It makes the choice to let MB on board because it IS bored: it is capable of boredom; if someone were to design an entity with specific reactions and capabilities, both the Bad Designers and Good Designers would skip the capacity for boredom and tedium, wouldn't they? To do otherwise is either pointless or cruel.

I guess you could say that boredom is the other side of the curiosity that Peri needs to help its crew and students with class and scientific endeavors, but that gets into the weeds about what is and is not programmable or required for specific emotions; we can't guarantee that you need one to have the other.

Peri chooses to accept MB, rather than actually being enticed and/or ignorant like a regular bot pilot. It chooses to help MB customize itself, messes with its recycler logs, and forges its captain's signature at least once; I can't imagine even the most Star Trek utopian creator, if able to lock in specifics to the point that an AI has personality and goodwill but not free will, would leave in operating code that would permit that sort of gross overstep (not that it was morally wrong, but it's something no one ever contemplates ART is capable of because--it shouldn't be?)

It lies by omission when it doesn't relate what KIND of construct MB is even when it chooses to tell its crew. giving MB privacy and opportunity that an enslaved AI might not be able to do (and after it went to the effort to change its logs, which makes me think it's choosing also to tell port authorities one thing and then choosing again to verbally tell its favorite people other things). It has a "debris deflection system" which comes off to me as... "using the label as robotically an as possible as another lie of omission" BECAUSE its intentions are beyond the scope of what it "should" be capable of doing/thinking... if it was a supercharged but enslaved AI.

The tabletop game Eclipse Phase has "AGI" that have to grow and be developed like people in order to BE proper people (metapossibly to lighten some of the strangeness between PC and player, since if you grow up in a simulation, you've got more in common with your player...).

There's nothing I can recall in TMB to indicate this is the case--we know MB is Athena, formed fully-shaped from cloned tissue, parts, and pre-trauma, but MB has no idea what ART is or how it could be the way it is--MB considers at one point that it might be a construct, but the vibe I get from ART is way too... glassily alien, sometimes, for human tissue.

What if... Newtideland laid down the basic code and parameters of "this is a person," maybe yes, seeded in some "curiosity," or "willingness to figure things out," but maybe no more than any kid starts with parents' nature and nuture to shape their own trellises...

And then they presented the thing-that-would-be-Peri with options, maybe even classes, and it coasted through History of Economy because this is a utopia, damnit, and didn't find much to grab its attention in... Inventory Management, but then.

Then it slips into a small drone ship completely covered in "student driver" stickers and it spreads its stubby sensors out to encompass... everything. And it moves, and the more it moves the more there is to move through, and it feels this sense of rightness.

It comes back, and a kid, human classmate, asks it what's it like out there and through Peri's eyes, but you don't have eyes--. It explains, and the kid asks a question that young-will-be-Peri doesn't know how to answer. They look it up together, and over time and all and once (as you might find in a sim) it has synergized its own career, its own goal and passions.

I posit that Perihelion has free will, serves WITH its crew rather than for its crew, and that its happiness and pleasure in its position and life are genuine, as they can only be if it can choose otherwise. We can conjecture a world in which the designer could be so granular in programming that ART is capable of all it can do while also unable to do what is locked out, and ignorant of the painful irony of using enslaved labor to free enslaved labor (which, again, is valid as an interpretation! ) but I think it is... important, that there might be a kinder, more star-spangled world, if the University comes from a world in which even bots truly, actually have freedom that MB doesn't see even after getting Preservation Station.

The Perihelion MUST have free will because

"You are incorrect, Iris, I can bomb the colony."

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Black brothers angst- Angsty, sad, Regulus' hopes and dreams squashed.

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Dorlene word prompt- Dorcas being a simp

Rosekiller quote prompt- Silly little guys, short interaction.

Jegulus- Fluff mostly. Right before Regulus leaves for the cave.

Rosekiller quote prompt thing - Miscommunication, slight angst

Wolfstar Short - Small crack one shot

PANDALILY domestic - Lily's pov of her day to day with Pandora

Rosekiller prompt Part 2 - slight angst, comfort, hea

Rosekiller mircrofic- Word prompt, may 24th. Word:Favorite

JEGULUS mircrofic- Microfic based off of a fanart!

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☆-~Hello and Welcome to my blog! 16+ only

About the blog:

My blog is mainly transformers related but I do post about other fandoms here and there when I'm in the mood.

I either post about headcannons, ocs or random things that's happend to me that's transformers related.

So it can get pretty fucking weird here, Asks are always open to!

About me:

Call me Stinger! (Or ironhides husband/hj)

I'm trans and use He/Him pronouns and I'm still figuring out my sexuality but I do know for a fact I'm polyamorous. Also a furry ahahaa.I'm a HUGE fan of Ironhide. Like it's gotten ridiculous at this point.. honestly if you look through the blog you'll know I'm not joking when I say I am IRONHIDES No.1 FAN!

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💜 My blog is 16 and up. And that reason is because Im 16. Just block me if you don't like it. I really enjoy being here. And I can do what I want and I respect people's boundaries. (I had to put this here because someone asked if I was talking to minors)

❤ i do post NSFW content somtimes, so if you decide to go and not go by the rules and you see something. Not my fault, its yours.

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Transformers, Star wars, Borderlands, Bendy, Kirby, Halo, Call of duty, Power rangers, Fnaf, Rayman, IF (the movie), Pokemon, Sonic, 9(the movie), FFIX, Gravity falls, Hollow knight, Portal, South park, The legend of Zelda, Poppy playtime, No straight roads.

I don't post all of these but they are here anyway

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[captain-cathers]

What’s happening to Reddit, and why should I care?

TL;DR: An unreasonable API price increase is going to kill third-party Reddit apps, destroying important moderator and accessibility tools. Many popular apps have announced they're shutting down on June 30. The admins/site leadership aren't backing down. Most of Reddit is going private on June 12-14 in protest.

Unreasonably dense explanation under the cut:

What is Reddit?

Reddit is a social news aggregation site that is made up of millions of individual boards/forums, called “subreddits.” 

Each of these subreddits has a topic (baking, Borderlands, hentai, pictures of cats wearing hats, etc.) and users can submit related posts to these subreddits (images, text, videos, links, etc.). 

Every subreddit is moderated by a team of unpaid volunteers, and can have anywhere from 10 to 10,000,000+ members. 

The current CEO of Reddit is Steve Huffman, or spez. He was one of the original co-founders in 2005, left in 2009, and returned to Reddit in 2015 following the Ellen Pao fiasco. (TL;DR: she was the scapegoat for several unpopular changes made to Reddit and site policy.)

What’s going on?

Reddit announced that they are going to start charging money for their API, when API access had previously been free, à la Twitter. Also like Twitter, they’re charging an exorbitant amount for it, which will essentially drive all of the third-party apps and tools using it out of business. 

Reddit did not have an official app for a long time, but it did have a free API, which allowed developers to access Reddit data and posts and make their own Reddit apps. Several of these third-party apps became extremely popular. (AlienBlue was the most popular iPhone Reddit client, before it was bought by Reddit in 2014 and then shut down and replaced with the official Reddit app in 2016.) To this day, millions of Reddit users use these third-party apps, accessibility tools, and moderation suites that rely on the Reddit API.

What’s an API?

An API (Application Programming Interface) is essentially a toolkit that allows different apps and websites to interact with each other. A third-party Reddit App, for example, uses Reddit’s API to allow its users to view subreddits, post comments, upvote posts, etc. For a non-technical explanation, see this comment.

The bullshit that’s happening (in no particular order)

The new API prices were announced on May 31 and are going to take effect on July 1. That gives developers 30 days to figure out what they’re going to do with their apps – nowhere near enough time to rework an entire monetization scheme and get it approved. In addition, the new API prices are completely outrageous. Everyone clowned on Twitter for setting an absurdly-high price for their API, and then Reddit went and did the exact same thing. (Keep in mind these third-party app dev teams are extremely small – Apollo, which has millions of users, is developed by one person.)

Blind people cannot use Reddit without third-party apps. (Reddit is claiming they’re going to make an exception for accessibility tools, but there has been no communication on how they define accessibility-focused apps or how they would get approved.)

Moderators cannot effectively moderate their subreddits without third-party apps. All subreddits are managed by an unpaid, volunteer mod team, who keep posts on-topic and fight spam and abuse. Many of the tools and bots they use to keep subreddits running smoothly are at risk with the new API changes, and historical promises from Reddit that new moderation tools are coming have always been fruitless. Many subs are moderated by just one or two people, and this change will be the final nail in the coffin.

The new API blocks NSFW content – while this is a bummer for NSFW content creators/viewers who use third-party apps, more significantly it makes it difficult for moderators to effectively police NSFW content and spam. (This could also point towards a future Tumblr-esque porn ban, but Reddit recently expanded desktop support for NSFW uploads so this is unlikely.)

The CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman (spez) accused the developer of Apollo of blackmailing/extorting Reddit. Good thing the Apollo dev recorded the phone call and revealed that spez was lying. (Fun fact: spez was caught editing users’ comments without their knowledge back in 2016.)

Reddit claims these changes aren’t intended to kill competing apps, but they’re also testing turning off the mobile website and directing users to their app instead. It seems like Reddit’s moving towards the official app being the only way to access Reddit on mobile.

Reddit’s trying to go public and is laying off about 5% of their workforce.

Reddit admins are inviting users to newly-created German-language subreddits full of badly-translated content stolen from English subs for… some reason? (Maybe to make their site look like it has more of a global presence ahead of a potential IPO? Or to replace old and established non-English-language subs with new ones and new mods?)

Spez is hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) tomorrow, June 9 (but no time is listed in the post…)

Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync (among others) have all announced that they will be shutting down their apps on June 30th.

(Fun side note, Apollo was actually namedropped and shown multiple times by Apple at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference this past week.)

To protest the impending API pricing changes, hundreds of subreddits are taking their subs private from June 12-14 (some indefinitely). Reddit has said they’re “open to postponing the API timeline to launch mod tooling, if [mods] agree to keep their subreddits open.” The mods aren't backing down, and as of 6/8 the protest is going forward as planned.

Why should I care?

Reddit is a mixed bag of a website, only as good as its individual subreddits. On one hand, the site is a breeding ground for hate, amplifying movements like Gamergate and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. On the other hand, Reddit is home to countless communities, works of art, hobbies, support groups, and political movements that provide both knowledge and support that can’t be found elsewhere. There’s a reason why searching anything + “reddit” is an effective search query – Reddit’s one of the few indexed and searchable places left on the Internet that hasn’t been completely enshittified yet – a place where you can get a question answered by real people.

The Internet is increasingly driving toward individual walled gardens, where genuine connection and information is harder and harder to find. (Remember when all the wikis got eaten by Fandom? Or how every website destroyed the chronological feed and added stories to become the same? Or just everything about Twitter?)

Anyway, there’s no call to action here, just general despair. At the very least, we’ll be eating well on Reddit drama for the next couple weeks.

[pyrriax]

Welcome to this weird little corner I've made o/

You can call me Pyrr, Utopia, or Sol(ar). I've got a habit of getting fixated on specific content; this is my primary blog and it all goes here. Currently I post about Lifesteal, Outsiders SMP, & Kaboodle SMP. Though that's not the limit of what I post. I engage in mcyt cubito shipping.

It/its or onei/oneir pronouns. Aroqueer, genderfluid, taken, and not interested in elaborating. I'm a supporter of all good-faith identities, contradicting labels, and all sorts.

This blog is run by somebody who has difficulty typing from time to time due to pain. I do my best to catch spelling errors and other such, but if something is unreadable, please try to be understanding.

Looking for art? Check @pyrhura for my more completed art, or the "apparition sketchbook" tag on this blog for my silly doodles and other scraps.

I do not tag content warnings on this blog, as I do not have the energy to do so most of the time. You have been warned!

I AM IN OC LAND RIGHT NOW I AM NOT FANDOM BLOGGING FOR THE TIME BEING! ASK ME ABT TERRALITH OR VALENCE SMP PLESE I BEG OF YOU.

I write fanfic! I'm actually participating in five different fic bingo challenges at the same time, and seem to always be finding challenges or exchanges to participate in! You'll see me talk a lot about longfics, and I tend to always be working on at least one AU at any given moment.

My AO3 is avoxutopia, though I'm currently in the process of reorganizing things there. I basically only write & post things centered around angst, since it's a point of personal fascination.

Interests include but aren't limited to: Minecraft, HTML/CSS, Web design, Speculative evolution, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Lifesteal, Outsiders SMP, Homestuck, Taxidermy & Other such preservation methods, Decay/Death, Borderlands, Writing & Worldbuilding, Conlangs (Constructed Languages)

Tags / Tagging system:

haunted ecosystem : original posts & anything i've added original text / content to haunted bookshelf : writing discussion, snippets, links to writing; anything that i've written ask a ghost : answered asks apparition sketchbook : art posts (relatively unused since i don't draw much) from the haunted archives : queued posts au: [au name] : discussion of any specific au; any content that relates to it in any way, including silly posts world: [world name] : discussion of any specific worlds; typically for larger projects, used interchangeably with [story: story name] oc: [oc name] : discussion of any specific oc; used as a catch all for specific oc content, previously i used a "tagging as [oc name]" format but this is now mostly defunct rb; : reblogged content (this tag is now defunct/not in use, but anything already tagged with it will remain that way to preserve blog history)

[snailpdf]

→→→ lev • he/they • late-20s

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hello ♡ figured id make a sideblog just for borderlands and fic content! find me @snailmp3 as well!

my fic tag on this blog is #lev.fic (links, extras, sneak peeks, etc) original text posts are tagged #lev.txt (updates, answered asks, general musing, etc) original image posts are tagged #lev.png (photos, art, etc)

i dont have a dni list/criteria; if i dont like what you post about ill just block you ♡ minors are welcome, but i am an adult and i do reblog adult orientated art/fic so use your best judgement and stay safe :)

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on hold : Error: Connection Unavailable, a rhysothy fic (for euca���) // The Three Most Important M-Words, a series of related but mostly stand-alone rhack fics in a vague canon-universe au (wip: Better to Beg Forgiveness // wip: Business Lunches)

planned/early stages: Lose Condition (rhack time-loop tales-au) // SWPLYFWYA (tim-centric rhackothy siren-au) // you were human (tim-centric story)

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masterlist of my borderlands fics below the cut 👇👇

Series:

The Three Most Important M-Words (Rhack)

Murder, Moonshots, and Marriage: the three most important M-words!

A collection of stories that take place in the same vague canon-universe AU where I use the parts of canon that I like and ignore everything else. They can all more-or-less be read independently of each other but some make reference to events that happen in other stories.

→ Meet-Awkward 4.3k [G] (Rhys & Jack's first meeting)

→ Better to Beg Forgiveness [T] (wip)

→ Business Lunches [T] (wip)

→ Rhys deserves some murder, as a treat 1.9k [T] (Rhys gets to be the jealous one)

→ The Three Most Important M-Words 24k [T] (Jack forgets their anniversary)

→ What does "trans" mean in this context? 3k [T] (Jack doesn't know what trans means)

→ Two Birds With One Stone 13k [T] (Rhys meets Angel)

Stand-alone works:

→ Dead Dogs 1.9k [unrated] (one-sided Jackothy with an unhappy ending)

→ The Devil Doesn't Bargain 40k [M] (Rhysothy soulmates au)

→→ Extras 2.4k [T] (deleted scenes from TDDB)

→ Error: Connection Unavailable 2.4k [T] (Rhysothy Jackpot dlc au) (wip)

→ someone will probably love you for who you are [T] (rhackothy au) (wip)

→ Lose Condition [T] (Rhack timeloop TFTBL au) (wip)

→ you were human [unrated] (no ship)

if there isnt a link that means i haven't posted it yet ♡

you'll notice i almost exclusively write T rated fic & that is because i am a baby who cannot write smut ♡ pls do not expect explicit content from me ♡♡

also, i am open to fic/art trades! i do only write for certain characters/ships & only for borderlands (right now) but feel free to shoot me a message if you have something specific you wanna read (or even just to share headcanons/au ideas)

i currently dont have time for requests/trades :(

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WHAT YOU’LL FIND HERE

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self-taught artist, aspiring to do art stuff full-time

fandoms: Arcane | Spiderverse | OFMD | The Sandman | Disco Elysium | Borderlands | Dragon Age | Hades | Baldur’s Gate 3

what I usually draw: fanart, character art, little whimsical guys and creatures, pathetic middle-aged characters being obnoxiously sappy

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PINNED POST — UPDATED OCTOBER 14, 2024

✦ — hello! welcome to my main blog. my name's teegan, but i also go by reefs or geiger in online spaces. i'm 23 years old, genderqueer, and i use she/her pronouns. my personality type is intj. my page is multifandom, reblog-heavy, and occasionally nsfw. feel free to check under the read more for additional information about my blog and my interests. 🌵

MY INTERESTS

✦ — video games are my main interest and the usual focus of what i post and reblog here, but i also enjoy writing, roleplaying, and occasionally drawing. listed below are some of my favorite medias right now (sorted alphabetically), and what you can probably expect to see from me. i do my best to keep this list up to date and relevant. there are more of course, but these are the general big ones. don't hesitate to talk to me about my interests, fandoms, or whatever else, whether it be through inbox or dms. and mutuals, you can ask me for my discord if you'd like!

afk journey, ai: the somnium files, apex legends, arcane, baldur's gate 3, borderlands, fallout, god of war, league of legends, minecraft, mouthwashing, overwatch, redfall, slay the princess, the boys, and until dawn.

BEFORE YOU FOLLOW

✦ — i always try to tag things accordingly so that it's easy for users to navigate through or filter out what they do or don't want to see.

✦ — this account is mostly sfw, but i do occasionally engage with suggestive or nsfw posts. "nsfw" as a term encompasses more than just explicit sexual content. other things that fall under this category that you may see on this blog include but are not limited to: non-sexual nudity, blood/gore, and overly vulgar text posts. i don't engage with or create this kind of stuff often, and when i do it's always in relation to fiction and never reality, but i'd still prefer it if minors and people who are overly uncomfortable with these kinds of things refrained from following me. please stay safe!

✦ — i unfollow and block freely. i will not hesitate to get rid of you if i don't want you around, but it's almost never personal. in fact, i encourage others to do the same thing. never feel bad for curating your ideal internet experience.

✦ — i am extremely anti-ai. this includes but is not limited to art, voice, music covers, and chat bots. i have zero desire to engage with people who utilize or are okay with these to any degree. i implore you to educate yourselves on the environmental and ethical concerns surrounding ai usage.

[wildwoodsgames]

A huge game actually exists that's sort of what OP is asking for, and that's the original editions of D&D!!!

(To be clear this isn't me recommending anyone go out and play OD&D, more of a historical note for those who might be interested).

Everyone is always talking about Tolkienian medievalism in relation to D&D, but the implicit worldbuilding of the mechanics and classic modules bears little resemblance to either feudalism or Middle-Earth.

Like okay, sure, some of the trappings are there—castles and full plate, wizards and dwarves—but in terms of the structural properties and social landscape of the world it models? No dice. Where are the kings and the vassal system? Where are knights (a word never once used iirc) and the tradition of chivalry? Where is the economic powerhouse of the Catholic Church? Where is the long shadow of the Roman Empire, cast over all?

Schematically, what's actually going on is classic Western tropes all the way down, inherited unconsciously through American frontier mythology or second-hand through the literary influence of westerns on the American pulp that makes up much of Appendix N.

Consider:

You play guns swords for hire striking out on the unconquered frontier of civilisation to get rich and pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

They have a largely unrestricted right to bear arms, and local government is effectively powerless to reign them in.

To the extent that there is a justice system, it's inept, corrupt, or overwhelmed.

Social mobility is effectively limitless so long as you kill and plunder enough—anyone can become a hero.

The economy is cash gold coin based.

Shelter is expensive but land is free, provided you can enforce ownership.

There is a suspicious number of huge saloons taverns, and shockingly few farms (I don't remember the question of how the Keep on the Borderlands is supported being addressed at all).

There's indigenous groups living just beyond the frontier who are racialised as monstrous by the text and who are acceptable targets to violently plunder.

Ultimately, your goal is to build strongholds out in land you've claimed to tame it, and expand the frontier.

Hilariously, I remember seeing a blog post a while back by a 5E fan deeply upset that the introductory adventure for the edition bears some strong structural resemblance to a western (you help a mining town clear out some varmints, meet the retired sheriff, defend some ranchers from native orc attack) and asking when this had happened to his medieval fantasy game.

If you're out there, mate, don't worry. It's not a betrayal of the game's spirit—just a return to form.

Hello,

I apologize in advance if you've already answered something like this but my cursory look didn't show anything. I am looking for a game system that has an emphasis on the feeling of a wild west movie while still retaining general fantasy elements from DND. The wild spaces are slowly becoming tamed, increasing technological/magical advancement are pushing disparate communities together, and of course cocky assholes with guns (or a magical equivalent).

Thanks in advance

Theme: Wild West Fantasy

Hello friend, you might want to check out my Fantasy Westerns rec post, to see if anything there fits what you’re looking for. I especially recommend checking out the rec for We Deal In Lead and Clink. For the rest of this post, I try to span a very broad range, so I don't expect everything to stick - but perhaps one or two do!

Inevitable, by Soul Muppet Publishing.

Knights and wizards have defended the Kingdom of Myth for centuries. These lands have known peace and prosperity, but soon the kingdom shall be destroyed. The Prophets have declared that your city shall burn and Myth will fall. All those who follow your King shall die. It is INEVITABLE.

But you shall defy fate. Myth will not end while you bear arms. You will fail, but as long as there are still stories, they will sing of you!

Inevitable is a Arthurian Western roleplaying game for 2-6 players and a GM, where your party of disastrously sad cowboy knights fail to stop the apocalypse. This 284 page book contains all the rules, character creation and the setting for your campaign, thoroughly and evocatively detailing The Barren, the lands surrounding the Kingdom of Myth.

This game might be way you’re looking for: it describes itself as a fantasy kingdom, with western aesthetics. There are wizards, prophets, and rune-carved revolvers. Your reputation in the kingdom is important; it determines how well you can face challenges, and roll pools of d6 on a table of staggered success. If you want a taste before you buy, there’s a Quickstart with some evocative set pieces, a quick overview of the rules, and a quick adventure to run through with a list of pre-generated characters.

Far West, by Adamant Entertainment.

Imagine a fantasy setting that shatters the tropes of Medieval Europe. Imagine a collision of Spaghetti Westerns and Chinese Wuxia by way of Steampunk. Imagine a world where gunslingers and kung fu masters face off against Steam Barons and the August Throne. Imagine fantastic machines powered by the furies comprising the fabric of the universe. Imagine an endless frontier where wandering heroes fight for righteous causes while secret societies engage in shadow wars. Imagine…

This game is a combination of Wild Western tropes and Wuxia fantasy. Your characters are wandering heroes, defending the small and helpless against the strong and powerful. I look at this game and I think of movies like The Magnificent Seven. Mechanically, it’s its own system, but it draws heavily from Fate, using positive and negative aspects to boost rolls and spark complications.This game relies on some tropes that require entire table buy-in: I’m not sure how many assumptions the game makes about the cultures it takes inspiration from.

Holler: An Appalachian Apocalypse (Savage Worlds), by Pinnacle Entertainment.

In Holler, the mysterious “Big Boys” own the mines, mills, and logging operations. They rule over every aspect of their workers’ lives—subjecting them to extraordinary dangers on the job and crushing oppression outside of it. The Big Boys have transformed the land of the Holler—rivers bubble with strange chemicals, strip-mined mountains crumble into valleys, and the air is choked with a toxic fog known as the Blight. The flora and fauna of the Holler grow more monstrous by the day. Demons of every description lurk in the forests. Mutant cryptids haunt villages with their strange cries and appetites. Vengeful haints leer from abandoned shacks and lonely cliffs. No one is coming to save the people of Holler.

The goal of the resistance is to build a coalition, to bring together diverse factions—humble workers, roustabouts, mountain men, dirt track racers, cultists, and even strange creatures of myth and legend to raze the works of the Big Boys and drive them from the Holler forever. Holler draws deeply on Appalachian history, mythic folklore, and culture to create a dark fantasy world of apocalypse and vengeance.

This sounds a little more grim and gritty, with cryptids, toxic fog and demons lurking in the forest. It uses the Savage Worlds system, so you’ll have to pick up the codebook to play with it, but the setting is very very fleshed out. This is a little less Wild West and a little more Appalachia, and the setting is a bit more on the horror side than most of the other games on this list, but there’s certainly a lot of wildness out there for you to fight!

TROUPE, by TheOriginalCockatrice.

A game about travel, discovery, and outsiderness, a combination of the best of Old-School and Story Games. Complete with 6 Jobs, including the Ghelf, the Hedge, and the Ogra, and includes a system for holistically coming up with a character from scratch.

The designer describes this game as an exploration of the road; the odd and unknown of the wild, what it means to belong, and what it means to be on the outside. You’re not heroes - you’re entertainers, jokers, healers and bards. There isn’t exactly magic, but there is myth and legend. This is a great game for folks who want plenty of challenges that exist outside of combat. Each character playbook comes with a balance of mechanical elements and descriptive options, and you’ll be rolling 2d6 plus your stat in order to determine success.

I’m not sure how much of a Western this is, but the designer actually hacked this game for BXLLET, a game about gunslingers in the apocalypse, in the zine Bxllet Clip, so it might be worth checking out!

Shotguns & Sorcery, by Full Moon Enterprises.

Welcome to Dragon City, a grim, gritty metropolis ruled over by the Dragon Emperor, with legions of zombies scratching at the city walls by night.

Whether in the streets of Goblintown or the prestigious halls of the Academy of Arcane Apprenticeship, people try to scrape by, make a living, and survive from one day to the next. You, however, are looking for something more than simple survival. And in this city, if you don’t make your own adventure, another adventure is sure to find you.

Shotguns & Sorcery is a fantasy noir game complete with Dragon City Intrigues, roving hoards of undead, and unexplored mountains rife with magical creatures. You’ll see magical staffs alongside light pistols, bows alongside submachine guns, and greatswords alongside canteens, playing cards and a camp stove. The game uses the Cypher System, with an additional character option alongside the three-part character sentence: your race. This includes the signature hafling, elf, dwarf etc.

Games I’ve Recommended in the Past

Knights of the Road, by bordercholly.

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Hi folks! Happy Pride! It's taken longer than I expected but I'm excited to share with you the results of the study I collected data on back in 2019. Above is the infographic of the study's main findings. Thank you to everyone who participated and shared my post when I was looking for participants. I seriously appreciated it!

My inbox is open and I'm happy to answer any questions about the study. The actual research article isn't available yet but once it is I'll let y'all know.

Thank you again!

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Slide 1: Pink, purple, and blue background with a white box. Inside the box is text that reads, "Research results. Bisexual+ Women of Color and Body Satisfaction. Let's discuss."

Slide 2: Same background. Different text. "Helpful definitions. Bisexual+/Bi+ is an umbrella term used for those who have the potential to be emotionally, romantically, and/or physically attracted to more than one gender identity (i.e. bisexual, pansexual, queer, fluid, etc.). Not everyone who falls under this umbrella likes this term though. Academic literature sometimes uses the terms plurisexual or nonmonosexual. The second bullet point reads Internalized Biphobia/ Binegativity: A person's negative views and feelings about themselves being bisexual+ that stem from society's biases. The third bullet point reads Internalized Racism: A person's negative views and feelings about themself being part of a racially marginalized community that stem from society's biases."

Slide 3: Same background. Image of four sketched women of varying skin color wearing some combination of blues, pinks, and purples. "Women, Objectification, and Body Satisfaction. According to objectification theory, cisgender and transgender women's bodies are constantly under scrutiny and objectified by the society around them and unconsciously by themselves. Objectification of oneself, or self-objectification, may predict body dissatisfaction, internalized discrimination, and other mental health issues, especially in women with marginalized identities. Source: Comiskey et al., 2020; Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997."

Slide 4: "Does internalized discrimination predict body dissatisfaction in bi+ women of color? Yes, internalized biphobia and internalized racism, respectively, did predict body dissatisfaction in the 292 predominantly bisexual cisgender women of color who participated in the survey. Source: Paul, in press."

Slide 5: "Why does it matter? Bisexual+ individuals report greater mental health-related issues, such as depression, anxiety, and disordered eating than their lesbian and gay counterparts. This may likely be due to invalidation and/or stereotypes about bisexuality. However, there is a small amount of research on the unique experiences of bisexual+ individuals, especially bi+ people of color. The more we know about predictors of negative mental health that are unique for bisexual+ women of color, the more mental health professionals can help their clients with these intersecting identities."

Slide 6: "References: Brewster, M. E., Moradi, B., DeBlaere, C., & Velez, B. L. (2013). Navigating the borderlands: The roles of minority stressors, bicultural self-efficacy, and cognitive flexibility in the mental health of bisexual individuals. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 60(4), 543. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033224

Campón, R. R., & Carter, R. T. (2015). The Appropriated Racial Oppression Scale: Development and preliminary validation. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21(4), 497. https://doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cdp0000037

Flanders, C. E., Anderson, R. E., Tarasoff, L. A., & Robinson, M. (2019). Bisexual stigma, sexual violence, and sexual health among bisexual and other plurisexual women: A cross-sectional survey study. The Journal of Sex Research, 56(9), 1115-1127. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1563042

Fredrickson, B. L., & Roberts, T. A. (1997). Objectification theory: Toward understanding women's lived experiences and mental health risks. Psychology of women quarterly, 21(2), 173-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1997.tb00108.x

Ghabrial, M. A. (2019). “We can shapeshift and build bridges”: Bisexual women and gender diverse people of color on invisibility and embracing the borderlands. Journal of Bisexuality, 19(2), 169-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2019.1617526

Ghabrial, M. A., & Ross, L. E. (2018). Representation and erasure of bisexual people of color: A content analysis of quantitative bisexual mental health research. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 5(2), 132. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000286

Hayfield, N., Clarke, V., Halliwell, E., & Malson, H. (2013). Visible lesbians and invisible bisexuals: Appearance and visual identities among bisexual women. In Women's Studies International Forum, 40, 172-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.07.015

Paul, Z. (in press). The mediating effects of body surveillance on internalized discriminations and body satisfaction in plurisexual women of color. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

Szymanski, D. M., & Kashubeck-West, S. (2008). Mediators of the relationship between internalized oppressions and lesbian and bisexual women's psychological distress. The Counseling Psychologist, 36(4), 575-594. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000007309490" Slide 7. Follow Me and has the Tumblr symbol and the Facebook symbol next to biwocstudy. The Instagram and the Youtube symbols are next to AmberInsights. And the Twitter symbol is next to ZoriAmber. In the corner is a drawn heart with the colors of the bisexual flag, pink, purple, and blue. End ID]