It is so disappointing we millennials lost our culture war to incels. It is honestly just humiliating.

It is kind of sad that Mega Chesnaught's spike shield animation is worse than normal Chesnaught's.

Sorry opponent, I've twisted the dimensions, now you're too slow, get stepped on!

Pokemon Champions may be a buggy mess, but still fun.

My thoughts on new boltyn cards post-PEN and AHA YouTube video by elly bird

youtu.be/SvE1hfDIGX4 #fabtcg ok finally committing to putting out videos. will prob do some more but gonna try 2 keep this casual-conversational stream of consciousness style

I'm glad to see it looks like Klei is giving us a third Don't Starve game! It is weird how different elevation can make the game feel. And MP from the jump means I can play it with the wife!

What is the logic of the 'Best' sort on Reddit?

What is Best about a post at 0 score? Should it not be showing me posts with a lot of commentary and high upvote ratio?

It feels like it is designed to show inflammatory or controversial stuff, twitter all over again.

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I'm not a big enough pokemon player that I need Champions to be perfect, don't care. I am just sad none of the pokemon I was ready to build are actually in there. I spent ZA using my Absol Z and Scrafty, and now it is like... Yeah forget about them. Not even Mega Malamar is in?! Come on!

I assumed there was no way Pokemon Champions didn't have the new ZA megas available.

I was wrong, Scrafty isn't even in. I've been planning for nothing!

I was tempted to imagine a negative podcast called 'you didn't understand x' where X is like... Star wars.

But maybe the opposite is better, because most of us did understand. 'You understand Star Wars just fine'. Reaffirm that nerd media had progressive and noble messaging, grifters are just nuts.

A beige brick wall with a central section of mismatched bricks forming a patch-like rectangle, casting light shadows; conveys a sense of oddity.

Definitely coming back here when I unlock bombs.

I guess that is what is different for me, because if you asked me ten different times what makes MTG unique or interesting, lands would never be it. So many games have done it but better, the math has been done on optimal mana values, and the most unique mechanic is also the most toxic, landfall

I played Magic for... like a decade? Played other games during that time, quit multiple times (I remember quitting during Mirrodin? and then again at some point). If it wasn't for wotc, I would probably still casually play mtg. But the land system is 100% the worst part of it, lukewarm take.

Meme image 'leave alone the multimillion dollar company'. An overweight man with glasses and an unkempt mustache is brandishing a knife, with the text 'leave alone the multimillion dollar company' attributed to him.

That other place is having a discourse that amounts to 'maybe the land system in Magic the Gathering is flawed.'

And the response is magic players acting like the game is being called absolute trash, the worst game ever. I know this is a sensitive issue for MTG players but christ on a cracker.

'I typed that word wrong? I forgot an extra R didn't I?'

- Me 90% of the time I get a word wrong

Every paragraph I learn something new and horrifying about this man.

Way too much of my future hinges on what ability Gamefreak decides to give Mega Scrafty.

Knowing their habit of making pokemon trash on purpose, it doesn't look good.

I've never read the rules for blades in the dark indepth because I was made to believe it was derivative or Powered by the apocalypse, was I led astray? Too many ttrpg to read man.

You will learn about the powerhouse of the cell!

Every friend you know has those topics where you can't exaggerate or be goofy about them because it is their special interest and they will start quoting wikipedia at you.

Navigating that in a discord server is the center of nerd code switching.

The You are not immune to propaganda meme. Garfield's head is on a sky blue background and dark blue text says 'You are not immune to propaganda'.

The more you learn about American history, the more righteous indignation you'll feel.
(Watching an essay on Cuba to research for RPG stuff.)

Bananza is definitely a nintendo game that is designed to amuse old fans and literal children first trying it, but even through that the expressive design and beautiful aesthetics made it a wonderful experience.

Just look at that final moment.

You found me

It just says in plain text The 'fascist minimum': An (often nationalist) political stance built on a cultural crisis in opposition to perceived degredation of culture from 'degenerate' forces, requiring a return to a mythologized past that promises a 'national palingenesis' or 'national rebirth'. It is my best summary of the idea of the fascist minimum.

When fascists start saying you just call everyone you hate a fascist, you NEED to be able to pin down WHAT about their stances is fascist. I've been trying to paraphrase it down as best I can.

Online fascism: Metapolitics & the New Right Explained YouTube video by Fredda

I was listening to Fredda's new podcast (called reaction I believe) and he brought up the 'fascist minimum', as he did in this history video essay. It has made me realize how much normal discourse is hurt by most people NOT knowing how to define fascism.

It is a slippery term, for slippery people.

I've got the ashcan for this, but I might have to back the full art version too. Very interesting little RPG that inspired me to work on RPG game ideas and campaign plans.

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I read He Who Fights With Monsters, the other foundational LitRpg series, and I feel like a big difference is how incredulous litrpg characters are about being in a system, while isekai characters usually accept it by the end of the first episode. Some are even genre aware of isekai.

I find it interesting that it treats itself as separate from the Isekai genre, even though they are pretty much the same.

It feels very 'Isekai, but not asian', and I don't know who is enforcing that split, Isekai fans or Litrpg fans.

Decided to finish Donkey Kong Bananza last night. The final boss was the first time any of them was actually challenging, and really only the last phase. But the game was a blast.

DK is kinda a non-character in his own game. You can see Pauline realizing he is kind of a silly monkey at the end.

Played Microscope today to actually do some #ttrpg worldbuilding with some friends.

It is hilarious how far we got off of our own defined rails. In the end we told ourselves the setting would include a galactic war, and we didn't even get to war until the last 40 minutes of playing, lol.