myrrh

^(marshall)^

...that's pretty much ICE's recruitment demographic...

...i though vibe code was strictly a pejorative term: are there people who use it non-ironically?..

…reforge homeland security into the department of civil liberty…

feet.

...it's a tarantino thing...

...where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average...

...yeah, i think that's an essential cultural distinction between tabletop and videogame backgrounds; i started seeing the transition in campaign styles in parallel with the advent of structured narratives around the mid-eighties leading into the nineties...

...by contrast, our groups routinely swap DM roles across multiple tables which all share the same more-or-less persistent world, although individual character and DM experiences can vary within the boundaries of narrative coherence...that sustained investment is the fundamental point of of our tabletop campaigns; it distinguishes freeform from prescribed gameplay and is why we chose open-ended campaigns over closed-form boardgames...

...are you familiar with the old RPGA living campaigns?..ignoring the structured campaign setting, that style of pickup game used to be how most folks played...

...if player characters aren't at liberty to move between campaigns, then ultimately no, they don't have agency: they're just ephemeral labor playing-out the DM's narrative with nothing to show for it afterward...

...mind, i'm not damning that arrangement - some folks enjoy the transient experience - but i have no interest in investing my own creative energy toward anything that i don't keep...

^(i^ ^already^ ^deal^ ^with^ ^that^ ^sixty-five^ ^hours^ ^every^ ^week^ ^and^ ^remuneration^ ^barely^ ^suffices^ ^to^ ^stay^ ^my^ ^contempt)^

...where's spock, the rock, doc oc, and hulk hogan?..

Anyone Who Has a Fantasy

...hot tub time machine; absurdly better film than its pitch had any right to be...