In TTRPGs I've met:
labour organisers, worker-coop & affordable-housing advocates; lawyers working in immigration & human rights; card-carrying communists; etc
The Venn diagram between them and the folks who go: "If you like a certain style of game you are a Nazi" are two separate circles.
In my experience the irony of it all is the ones who are the most but hurt like that are the ones that only recently discovered other RPGs outside of D&D. They were often all aboard the D&D train till the OGL scandal
What I also want to know is why proper reporting like this is behind a paywall while the lies these harmful arseholes spread get splashed everywhere. Well, we know why. It’s horrific that the media companies are so complicit in this.
Bit gutted about this, as it contains my best work to date.
That said, I know its in good hands with Evil Hat. I can't wait for it to make its way into the world, however it will end up looking.
Im suddenly being followed by US atheist groups. How'd that happen?
ONE HOUR until #TheSprawl gets Shadowrunny! Actual play for #KiwiRPG
Torn between hiatus or seeking out collaborators to take on the load. Or joining someone else's show to scratch the itch.
Genuinely torn and unsure what to do.
The issue is the work that goes into the producing, scheduling etc. But also, podcasting has always been my baby.
I am reluctant to let it go, but until I know my capacity it would be foolish of me to commit to a new show.
Approaching a new horizon. I start a new day job next month, a leap in responsibility and remuneration. At the same time my game design and consultation is busy too.
I also wrap my long running Actual play series at the same time. Reluctant to start a new show alongside a new job
Bizarre! Nicole McKee in favour of loosening restrictions on real semi-automatic rifles but wants tighter restrictions on Te Pati Māori pointing finger guns🙄
A well dressed skintag
I love it
From The Onion: Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
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Got more colourful last week. 11 hours on the table. Right arm is inspired by my Marae, Rangiahua, while the left is inspired by another of mine, Te Kuha Pa.
Been years in the making, very glad to finally have my whakapapa on display
This. I worked at KO until recently and it's disgusting what's happening under this govt.
We've gone from developing one of the most effective build programs in the world to this. We say we aspire to the northern euro states but in this field they were coming to us for guidance. Now it's gone
There is something to worry about when a major corporation and any number of third party partners like NZ Police have access to millions of unique transactions where your likeness and licence plate are captured. Intrusions come in many forms and this is just the start
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Spotted in Te Whanganui a Tara, harsh but ultimately fair
#nzpol
#radicalgraffiti
Believing their own lies is how so many abusers do it for so long IME
Luxon’s not a ‘drop-nuts.’ He’s just got nothing to say at Waitangi OPINION: It’s shallow apathy, not timidity, that keeps the prime minister from official commemorations. Andrea Vance Andrea Vance
I mean, contender to 2025 AoNZ headline of the year? #NZPol
@tedbushman.bsky.social
Kia ora! Is there anywhere we can get a copy of the gorgeous last caravan map on pg 152 as a single image? Im keen to print it all big for my game table, but the PDF doesnt quite align well.
Thanks in advance
I get genuinely emotional with just how much of it resonates.
Even though I have traveled to the states and spent time with native folk there, it still blows my mind how many cultural crossover moments I feel watching Reservation Dogs.
Some of the smaller details may be different, but so often the show could just be set somewhere on highway 35 and it'd work
Anyway this is just a long winded way of me projecting my deep desire to live somewhere that is the confluence of mounga, moana and ngahere, surrounded by the song of tui and the roar of tangaroa.
I think its telling how in a country with some of the most beautiful nature in the world, most of it is hours away from any significant concentration of people. And, too often, in regions impacted by economic downtown, as if the only savour of nature here is refuge from the predation of capitalism.
I am fortunate to live near the sea, and I love it. But every year I crave to be surrounded by ngahere more and more, I find myself thinking back to the way the forested mountains met the sea over there, with small towns nestled within, an hour from where work might feasibly readily be available.
One thing I think about a lot since my trip to america is how common it is to be able to live peacefully within nature while still accessing job markets like cities, particularly along the oregon coast and the PNW.
Compared to here in canterbury, where any kind of undisturbed bush is hours away
Meri Kirihimete whanau
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