Fucking vandalism. Had to spend some time round Battersey recently and every time I passed the old power station it was a punch in the gut how they massacred it.

Truly I have lost the most important wrestling: the wrestling of the MIND

Yeah, we've been watching AEW and really enjoy a bit of Orange Cassidy

I mean, I suppose if you're the only one who's realised the human body has a vulnerability to sledgehammers, that does sort of make you more cerebral than your opponents. Or is the implication that he is using the sledgehammer to assassinate the enemy's cerebelum?

Yeah, I'm absolutely not against critique or deep thinking about TTRPGs, it's just some people get weirdly prescriptive and borderline moralistic about it!

Oh yeah, I'm certainly not making an arguement that games can't be better or worse for what a group enjoys, and there are plenty of TTRPGs I think are bad games, but that doesn't mean a group enjoying it are wrong, and 'bad game' isn't synonymous with 'I don't like to play this way'.

And it forces you to believe other people when they say "I like this", which it seems people can really struggle with

Honestly it's so often the use of the word "objectively", or the implication of it, that bugs me in a medium that is entirely composed of big wet messy brains slamming into each other.

Weirdly, this isn't actually a specific subtweet: just seen a lot of posts over the last few months from desigers who've decided their personal taste is the Only Correct way to play or GM a game and keep misusing academic terms to justify such takes.

Like, the most basic aspect of TTRPGs is that its a whole bunch of brains imagining together as a game, meaning every combination of brains will work and enjoy things in different ways. If you don't even understand that, then I think your decrees about Good Design or Bad Design are worth nothing.

I'm a big Greggs guy though - I love a meaty pastry and they're both fine and everywhere, so I end up going there a lot.

This is like how I never had a Nandos til a few years ago. Complete accident, but then it became a whole thing where I'd make a point of it like I didn't want to break a streak. Then eventually I ate there and it was pretty good.

I don't know what this means, but I'm liking it in recognition of your cool costume.

You can never be too careful.

I literally stopped myself going on a massive R.L. Stine tangent at one point because we were already like three tangents deep!

*skull