#indie basketball

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Norah Alsuairy

[sp1nnenlilie]

I hate being an alternative person in norm based fandoms/communities

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[clubhoops]

A'ja Wilson modeling the Nike Light Support Indy Bra.

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Have you ever ruined a good thing and cheated on a wonderful woman? Check out the song "Messed Up This Time," performed by the soulful artist Todd B. The lyrics were written by Sunday Rose and Darin Vamp Johnson. The song was produced by Sunday Rose and Darin Vamp Johnson for Blueboy Entertainment VIP, where we focus on making records, not just beats, in Atlanta, Georgia.

[fantasyfantasygames]

Losing Arguments

How I Keep Losing All The Arguments In My Head, Sprog Troggson, 2021

Sprog Troggson, who swears up and down that it's not a pseudonym, wrote a graduate thesis on self-talk and then went on to make it into a roleplaying game by splicing it with his webcomic.

No, wait, stick around, it's better than that makes it sound.

Losing Arguments is a slice-of-life game based around some semi-loser characters in a small city. They're not total losers, but you could see how they're not toooo far from it. You play out, as the back cover says, "day-to-day inanity plus random table insanity". You might start in the generic coffee shop, roll on the "intelligent animals" table, and have to defuse an argument between a bear and a drunk rabbit. This sounds potentially fun with the right group, but it's only part of the game.

The self-talk part comes at about halfway through the session, when there's an enforced bit of downtime. It might be staring at the ceiling before getting to sleep, or sitting down to look out the window with a coffee. You do a soliloquy in-character where you think about the places you screwed up and how things should have gone differently if only you weren't such a fuck-up. Then you play out the second half of the day, where you try to turn that into something useful.

If your soliloquy ends with you learning something, and you use that, you get +2 to your rolls in the second half. If not, well, some characters are fuck-ups. (Or, more accurately, are just not in the right mindset to take advantage of productive self-talk.)

The rest of the mechanics are fine. 2d6+modifiers, no HP just changing situations, best-of-three occasionally required for longer tasks. Your stats are your job, your hobby, something about your upbringing, and your favorite kind of music. You assign +1, +2, +3, and +4 as desired.

As you'd expect, the art is all strips, panels, characters, and in a few cases stripped characters from the webcomic. As with a lot of slice-of-life webcomics, the main characters are white, everyone seems to be 25-35, and the background scenery is sporadic. It's in the vague area of Questionable Content, Something Positive, Girls with Slingshots, and presumably also whatever US-style strip-based comics are out there that actually started in the last decade. I would love to see what Losing Arguments would be if it were based on a Webtoon-style manhwa-esque vertical-scrolling style instead. There would be the same amount of drama and potential for portal fantasy, but more speed lines and better backgrounds. Usually.

It feels like a good short-run game. Maybe too much emotional depth for a one-shot, not enough cohesion for long-run, but I'd play a few sessions of Losing Arguments.

[pcnthers]

k.c. rolls up his sleeves with a confident grin as he steps up to the hoop shot booth. "watch this, i'm going to win you the biggest bear here."

[freshthoughts2020]

[ratsinthecinema]

Basketball diaries (1995)

Dir. Scott Kalvert

&

Close (2022)

Dir. Lucas Dhont

[hmvw2015]

There was a Halloween-themed fan art contest on the Pieces of Powder Discord server. I thought it would be fun to dress one of the characters as Caitlin Clark (one of biggest names from my birth state).

I don't know what is going on with the public library's printer.

[selamat-linting]

amazing that "whats your favorite cm punk panties" can be a normal discussion in the fandom like its the weather. im talking about reddit and message board guys talking about his gear. no matter how much you want to go on a high horse and claim it was all about presentation... trunks, boxers and tights are still a form of underwear. the boxers he wore when he's at home chilling in the summer with his dog is just as long as his basketball shorts and less revealing than his long bois!!!!!

[illaurastrates]

Thought about how cool it'd be to draw a wheelchair basketball comic one day! 🏀 here's a referenced practice doodle

[crowsandmurder]

Now that I have re-emerged, have a Nathan Scott starter from One Tree Hill. I have missed him and everyone I write with. I replied to all his things, obviously. Like for a starter. If you're a multimuse, specify who you want to use.

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