Notices by Levi Kornelsen (levikornelsen@dice.camp)

So here's a damage tracking idea I haven't seen before (though someone's surely done it).

Damage is a d6 roll, and when you take damage, you mark the box corresponding to that number. ONLY that box. If the die comes up 4, mark the 4 box. If it's full, move up until you find an empty one, or die.

@AnarchoNinaWrites - That is, indeed, what I'm saying. It's not just this shitheel; a little bit of playing to the bluster has been common for a very, very long time.

It's a deeply cowardly game that our political leaders have gotten sadly good at.

@AnarchoNinaWrites - On the one hand, the deal Trudeau offered Trump is not substantially different from what was already planned.

On the other, "You can take credit for what we worked out with the last guy" is very much the kind of ACTUAL appeasement Trump loves, framed properly.

So eeeeeenh.

So, Elon Musk threw up two Nazi Salutes at the Trump inauguration. They weren't unclear, or confusing, or possibly something else.

Pay attention to who decides to be a Nazi Salute Apologist in your feeds, in media, and so on. They're telling you how much you can trust them to face obvious truths.

When Trump cries in the walk-in after getting screamed at during a rush, I will accept that he has worked fast food.

"AI will only get better from here" sounds like a strong argument, but think about software you use every day and ask yourself if it's "only getting better".

Lionizing Terry Pratchett's work as universally progressive and incisive denies the early stuff where he happily used racist tropes for a cheap laugh, and the *climb* he made from there to where he ended up.

This is important because it's not just any given book saying "We can do better"; it's the author, doing better, as you go.

@clarity - They're certainly *more* popular than they used to be (unless you count the heyday of pick-a-path books).

I suspect but cannot prove that pandemic messed up a lot of get-together-ing, and that led to this.

I understand the impulse to put Chocobos in everything, but isn't there another bird-based mount we're all forgetting?

And as long as we're talking about what's fucking weird and creepy, listen:

Minding Your Own Fucking Business is the baseline. You can get a fair ways away from it before you get weird, but when someone starts to *obsess* on what everyone's got in their pants and who they like to fuck, they're getting real weird.

And conservatives and transphobes in many places have blown right past that into fucking RADIATING Peeping Tom energy.

These are genuine look-over-the-bathroom-stall-wall creeps.

An actually smart appliance would be a dishwasher that had exactly one button marked "start", and could figure out the minimum time, water and soap to do the job, and do it.

This is exactly the opposite of the "smart" we're seemingly getting.

If Evil Genius games has been revealed to be, let's say, not genius, while Evil Hat games is known to be not evil...

...Symmetry demands that the sentient hat be real.

RPG safety tools: A set of categories I've used for setup discussion that worked well.

- Hard Omissions are things that are unwelcome, regardless of handling: Just don't.

- Soft Omissions are things that can only be played on after a check-in.

- Soft Inclusions are things that are assumed to be cool to play to and on, but players can opt out of.

- Hard Inclusions are things that are built into the core premise or mechanics of game itself at some level, and which can't really be avoided.

@cwebber - Nut Now November, contrariwise, has roots in BDSM "orgasm training", and is therefore vastly more wholesome.*

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*I made this up, but the chances it exists anyway are good enough I don't want to google it.

Daily.