User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?

Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

true crime brain has fucked people up so bad and they get really mad when you point that out. and also that the entire true crime industry is predatory and exploitative

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

they should uninvent whiteness.

That sub is hell yeah

dear ttrpg guys,

you might have knowledge but you definitely don't have wisdom based on how you talk to people.

Knowing the history of the RPG hobby weirdly alienates you from the people who love it.

*sigh*
If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it.
If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it.
If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you.
I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

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Hey y'all, Firestorm co-op is a really important part of our communities here in Asheville, and they're struggling.

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I promise nobody will hold it against you to be a kid again for a few hours.

Let go.

The loudness of the voice of not a man, but a boy calling out across the decades to be heard, seen, acknowledged for following the patterns of the big kids, of the men.

You want to be recognized, then be recognizable. Not in a trite, unremarkable way - as you.

months, years at a time. Our skin and hands are weathered and weary of trying to reach you, and you smile as you tell us the heat doesn't bother you.

Except it is that deep.

The anger you all exhibit when tactics mistakes will cost nobody nothing.

The petulance on display at hearing 'no'.

kludge I'm asked to wade through, every behind the scenes pawing and pestering for more only to place yourself further from ever feeling anything besides a liminal dopamine hit of graph madness, of bigger, more.

You choose to dwell in hell despite people once strangers extending a hand to you

Allow yourself to fail in front of others, we won't shame you.

We are all here to escape those hurts together.

You can't have imposter syndrome when you're pretending to be someone else. We haven't had the benefit of years, there's no hurry.

Every new build idea, every batch of optimization

I see you my brothers but you cannot hear me.

You choose, in fact, not to.

Whether it's because you were hurt long ago, or even quite recently, the walls you unconsciously maintain show up quite clearly in the close space of the table.

Allow yourself to feel things, deeply. We won't judge you.

and dare I say feels like some hollow pantomime of colonialism and its pale horsemen.

The notion that play can't exist simply for the joy of play in and of itself, and just be an activity unblemished by fears staked in us by the germ of patriarchal thought.

nothing to non combat scenes or beg and cajole for there to be treasure where reasonably there's none.

There's aspects of these folks that feels out of touch with the self and others, and yet deeply attuned to something insidious.

That every interaction either means violence or extraction,

talks about with adolescent boys is so visible in so many adult men who are threatened by the idea that a game doesn't follow the same rules of success they've grown comfortable with living under threat of.

The psychic crippling she describes emanates off some folks so loudly when you contribute

don't get directed at femmes played by dudes.

You think that I'm a safe person to be bigoted around because I'm "one of the guys".

You refuse to be engaged with the table and show any emotional range.

Then I'm happy to act as if it never happened.

The psychic mutilation of the self bell hooks

Men of ttrpgs: a deeply melancholy appeal to stop and think about how you show up.

I hate kicking players, it sucks to vaporize someone's lore and jokes at the table along with their character.

Except when:

It involves creepy misogynistic comments leveled at femme N/PCs, that mysteriously

Iran just reportedly hit an Oracle data center in Dubai and i can't stop thinking about how good it would feel to see my tax dollars spent firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at data centers.

two of the hardest things ever written are "face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters"

one of them came from a tumblr shitpost and the other one came from a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals

the internet truly is a magical place

Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

I'm just wary of the type of player that's going to try and compel everyone else at the table to think this way to satisfy their vaguely held notion of what someone else is allowed to do.

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Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.