I know this may come across as unreasonable, but I feel like when I pick up an officially licensed TTRPG adaptation of some piece of media, it shouldn't be a coin toss whether there will be any mechanism for playing as the sorts of characters the game's ostensible source material is actually about.
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I know this may come across as unreasonable, but I feel like when I pick up an officially licensed TTRPG adaptation of some piece of media, it shouldn't be a coin toss whether there will be any mechanism for playing as the sorts of characters the game's ostensible source material is actually about.
This one is a great pointer to the colonizing underlines that remain in D&D even today. However, I'd like to digress on top of this article on how old D&D is so deeply boomer-coded, whereas modern D&D is very much millennial.
For you see, the colonozing remains, but *ownership* changed. 🧵+
I wrote about Gygax's characterization of the player characters as "the most aggressive" adventurers in the area of play, how this positions them to pose a unique threat to the established order of things, & how that perception should color every interaction the PCs have with quest-giving NPCs:
This one is a great pointer to the colonizing underlines that remain in D&D even today. However, I'd like to digress on top of this article on how old D&D is so deeply boomer-coded, whereas modern D&D is very much millennial.
For you see, the colonozing remains, but *ownership* changed. 🧵+
Its so quintessentially Democrat to be seen purchasing a book about the evil they perpetuate, after losing an election in large part because of the evil, with barely enough time left before leaving power to read it and implement any change
November 30, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Its so quintessentially Democrat to be seen purchasing a book about the evil they perpetuate, after losing an election in large part because of the evil, with barely enough time left before leaving power to read it and implement any change
when you get to the dailymotion phase of trying to find a piece of lost media it’s always should i kms vibes but then when i find it i feel like i can defeat god
November 20, 2024 at 4:52 PM
when you get to the dailymotion phase of trying to find a piece of lost media it’s always should i kms vibes but then when i find it i feel like i can defeat god
I think it’s notable that some of the first real limits on the use of generative AI were brought to us by labor. Not Congress. Not “ethical” AI shops nestled inside big tech companies. A union.
One of the best parts of the WGA deal: AI has now hit a brick wall in Hollywood, *and that includes adaptations.*
Based on the deal, AI can't be source material. So if you're a publisher, AI novels or graphic novels or whatever just became that much less appealing because *they can't be optioned.*
September 28, 2023 at 2:53 AM
I think it’s notable that some of the first real limits on the use of generative AI were brought to us by labor. Not Congress. Not “ethical” AI shops nestled inside big tech companies. A union.
i finished Dennis Cooper’s Closer a while back and I’d probably rate it a 3/5. Unfortunately, it was difficult for me to connect with the characters and I struggled to see the point beyond “how fucked up would this be”.
September 27, 2023 at 11:03 AM
i finished Dennis Cooper’s Closer a while back and I’d probably rate it a 3/5. Unfortunately, it was difficult for me to connect with the characters and I struggled to see the point beyond “how fucked up would this be”.
any boy born after 1974 can't banish demons...all they know is crème de violette, change their walkman battery, vogue, be bisexual, eat bungeo-ppang & die #fraternitybook
August 18, 2023 at 11:54 AM
any boy born after 1974 can't banish demons...all they know is crème de violette, change their walkman battery, vogue, be bisexual, eat bungeo-ppang & die #fraternitybook