Embed Notice

>Appreciated! I was mainly curious, since you're plugged into the tabletop crowd, does anyone play it? Has anyone even heard of it? I randomly found a forum post by one of the authors complaining about licensing issues (it is actually fitting that the game should end up in a Kafka-esque nightmare situation) preventing the novels or the game from being sold at the moment.

Paranoia is one of those games everybody in the TTRPG world has heard of but few have played. It's also one of the few I haven't played. One of my friends from middle/high school has, though. He sung its praises for years, and it was off of a really short campaign that lasted like three sessions.

Paranoia doesn't lend itself to long campaigns and in the last fifteen years or so, games that do have taken over in the form of living world, online games. These kinds of games pop up all over the place but the people administering them don't have much technical background and end up using ad-supported meme hosts like freeforums.net, which aren't catalogued that well by Google etc. One such game I've been on for like three years is Dying Every Day, which is found at https://dyingeveryday.freeforums.net/. They tend to also rely on commercial chat services like Discord and, before that, Skype, and most of the real decisions in those circles are made over those. This makes most of the content effectively obscured. Hilariously enough, things that want to be very public end up existing only in whisper networks of TTRPG spergs, creating an accidental opsec that's surprisingly effective.

I've spent dozens of hours trying to convince these people to get off of centralized services like Twitter and Discord and what-not, but it was to no avail because the motivations of TTRPG spergs are not the same as the motivations of FOSS spergs. If you rub shoulders with any of the serious TTRPG spergs you will figure that out near-instantaneously.

I built a Telegram <--> Matrix and Discord <--> Matrix bridge, and might build a fedi <--> Matrix bridge, but I'm really wary of the latter. Some of my guys (@sundowner and @Wednesday) occasionally do post on fedi but, occasionally is the key word here. I was in a voice call with these two just today, though, so they're active, just... not in the same spheres as tech spergs.

I kind of wish we could bridge that gap, though, seriously. There would be a lot of benefit if different spergarinos had better networking.

>The way I usually transfer files is fedi attachments or IPFS or I have a million webservers or I just upload it to Revolver (which, as of last year, also handled FSE's attachments), but usually it's me sending files. bae.st has a filebin at files.shittyurl.org .

I put them in a 7-zip file: https://files.shittyurl.org/kwhpg0rt.7z

It expires in 24hrs though so you should just grab it before it autodeletes.

>Seems ideal to lurk some.

That's fair. Like I said, I've been more seriously considering a digital edition because a LOT of guys have been worried about me doxing them or something since I have to mail print to a physical location.

>Excellent. Where's the endpoint to send stuff to, though? You post there?

You POST to /api/v1/pleroma/scrobble, and pass it a title, album, artist, and length as JSON. I've been using length to be an integer that is equal to the number of seconds, but I think they may have wanted to use milliseconds originally.