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Ben Green@bengreen.bsky.social |
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(H/T) Board game and TTRPG designer. US tax advisor for creative weirdos @ Brass Taxes. Outdoorsy. Anti-Zionist Jew. The lives, needs, and dreams of historically colonized, queer, and trans people are vital to humanity. Anti
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If everyone accepted "switching to new garbage" until it stopped being garbage, we might not have a social media landscape dominated by such utter shitass nonsense.
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Whenever a new social media platform comes along, everyone nitpicks it to death and then sticks with whatever garbage we've been using that wouldn't hold up to the same standards.
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I went on Facebook yesterday, and of the top 20 things in my feed, 4 of them were from friends or groups I had joined. The other 16 were ads or awful rage-bait suggestions.
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Wow, critics absolutely hated it.
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I saw Pacific Rim for the first time recently and didn't get why it's so beloved at all.
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This is totally fair. If we strip away what came after (for good and bad), and set aside the innovative SFX, it was pretty bad in a lot of ways.
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Hook is a classic kids' movie though. It's got a 6.8 on IMDB. It's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's not bad
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I don't know anything else about it but those doohickeys make me want to play it.
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Your honor, with all due respect, fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.
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You'd probably like this GDC talk by my friend Alex. This was the topic of his dissertation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=miu3...
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I read that "kindergarten revolution" the first two times.
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Did you fill it out? Was there a space for written answers like "what the fuck is wrong with you?"
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Bluey should be mandatory viewing before becoming an official adult. The simple premise "adults must play along with kids" would improve the world nearly 100% of the time.
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I've been reading @stephenking.bsky.social's Dark Tower series and thoroughly enjoying it so far, but I'll be damned if it doesn't seem like the central revelation of Book 4 is going to be "teenagers too horny to send a letter destroy civilization". I'm still liking it, but that's a hell of a reveal
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12 Inconvenienced Men
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It's about to get a lot more fundamentally broke as Democrats noblely refuse to use this power but Republicans absolutely won't.
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Elections have a real "render unto Caesar" vibe.
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Bandit and Chilli are my parenting goals
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Seven Samurai
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It wouldn't have occurred to me to say Comfortably Numb, I doubt it's even in my top 10 fav Pink Floyd songs. Fearless Time Shine on You Crazy Diamond (I-V) Empty Spaces Are probably my favorites, I'm not sure what order.
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Behind the Bastards has hilarious fake ads for the military industrial complex
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It's so bleak how those two guys are literally the only options our political system is capable of presenting us with.
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Afrofuturist prog metal?
youtu.be/97Xh2YqWAbk?...
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Lovecraft: I'm a racist.
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Ayooooooooooah!!!!
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In middle school I made a hypercard RPG and a 3D racing game in logo and I have never stopped wishing someone knew to tell me that it was a career path.
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You should absolutely not be paying Self Employment tax on your gross income - even after agent fees. Writers have many other expenses that, in situations like this, should dramatically lower or eliminate their taxable income.
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A swirling vortex of light, like froth on a sea of consciousness has stabilized in a place and time and shape and awareness called you for about 38 years. Happy birthday.
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I haven't done it recently but I used to talk to players about where they'd like their characters' arc to go and ways they'd like them to end.
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Historically because they were tough, cheap, easy to repair, and versatile. Now because vibes.
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What does fungus need money for?
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The key to feeling like an adult is to break the things down into such tiny pieces that accomplishing minor tasks allows you to check off like four things.
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Not necessarily those verbs but yeah, the players need to be able to verb with the lore somehow through game mechanics for it to be gameable lore. In some of my games, the discovery and transformation of lore is the game. In others it's more about discovering, juxtaposing, and understanding it.
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So I ask players a lot what some piece of their backstory looks and sounds like.
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This reminds me of acting instruction I got in college, "your character's thoughts, feelings, and memories only exist insofar as their effects are visible to the audience. You have the luxury of having a lifetime to show who you are. Your character has a handful of minutes."
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In this context, I'm using lore to mean narrative and context other than the events immediately happening in the players' experience.
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The way I interpret the phrase "gameable lore" is lore that can be meaningfully interacted with through the mechanics of the game. Contrast with lore that may be story relevant but only motivates player choices without being directly engaged through the game system.
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My 6yo daughter is telling me about her friends at camp, including Crater, Aholomi Fridrator, and Stranded. None of those are real names, but I think maybe they should be.
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The syntactic structure of the sentence was not unique though, it was a pretty common formulation. And semantics is just the syntax you don't want to bother articulating.
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The IT industry has the core assumption that all things "reduce" to IT problems and are - as a matter of dogma - hostile to anything that resists this characterization. The arts have long been the symbol of that resistance and its bastion, which is why it's the first commercial target of AI.
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My kids just started Portal 2 yesterday too.
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Yes. In reality there's just The Force flowing through the universe shaping reality around it. It was obviously built on Daoism but unsurprisingly George Lucas didn't really get it.
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I feel bad. He said he's lived in an apartment building his whole life and this is the first time he's grilled stuff. Of course he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing, where would he have learned that?
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A protest vote only "makes sense" if that's the only kind of protest you're willing to participate in. It's purely symbolic and low effort. If you want to protest, literally anything else is a better way to go about it.
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So recognizing that sections are problematic and rejecting them or - as she does in the podcast - flipping them is part of that process.
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Tradition tells us that the Torah is always only partly understood and that it will be known better in the future, even the great sages like Maimonides expected us to know the Torah's meaning better than he ever would, so endlessly reinterpreting and challenging it is expected - needed.
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In the podcast she talks about how reverence for the Torah is such an important part of Jewish tradition but very few Jews outside right wing conservatives spend much time actually reading it. And so when we do, it can come as a shock that a lot of it is stupid and boring.
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Yesterday, my wife became a bat mitzvah. Her Torah portion was the really weird, sexist, bureaucratic thing. And she was really struggling to connect with it in a meaningful way.
Our rabbi talked about it on her podcast, Chutzpod here:
open.spotify.com/episode/2RoD...
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In one of my games, the capitalist voluntarily maxed wages on middle class worked companies in exchange for support tanking the minimum wage, etc.
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Every 3+ player game of Hegemony I've played so far has the middle class as the fulcrum. If they end up acting like petite bourgeois, it can be between them and the capitalist. If they side with the working class though, capitalists get wrecked. So the capitalist has to really court them.
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