Ruby Soleil-Raine
@IronsparkSyris
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TTRPG Developer, VFX artist @StrangeScaffold, and honorary fae - She/her, trans. Icon @ekkoberry, banner @itscharlienow. Ko-fi: https://t.co/7fNDQgv2ag
Joined May 2015
Alright, since this ship is sinking, i rolled up new accounts, rather than play Nearer My God To Thee as it goes down. I'm SoleilRaine on both Tumblr and Cohost, and any mutuals can ask for my Discord~.
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zombie movies are embarassed to say zombie, so they make up names. mecha shows love mechs so much they create sick ass in-universe names to call them instead of 'mech.' this is the only real horseshoe theory.
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It’s always funny to see people post stuff like this as if this is a bastardization of the designer’s intent or a failure of how to solve the problem as designed when really the game’s entire design ethos is based around encouraging you to do shit like this.
Game Designer: I spent 2 weeks designing a puzzle. Me: Stairs. Made of ice.
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i'm so tired of "why do JRPGs keep fucking putting yggdrasil in their games it's so tired" yeah well maybe they'll stop doing it when massive trees that extend into the atmosphere stop being the sickest shit (they never will).
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I immensely admire Toby Fox for making a smash hit game where the entire idea is that you make friends with your enemies, and then immediately made a sequel where the message is "Some people shouldn't be forgiven, and violence isn't inherantly bad" because that fucking rules.
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who the fuck thinks raw lines are from the Bible. have you read the Bible do you people know what the Bible is written like where the fuck are you getting the raw version of the Bible you clearly have access to.
i’m sorry every ‘tumblr post that goes so raw you think it’s from the bible’ actually does just sound like it’s from a tumblr post.
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Alright folks we are now DIRECTLY responsible for a platform that Elon Musk owns. This is our chance. We’ve gotta amp up the bullshit so fucking hard, we need to make tumblr look like god damn easy money in comparison.
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in a weird fucked up way, "the company that made disco elysium is destroyed by the creative team being muscled out by growing corporatization of the company" is the only way that that game's story could have ended.
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my favorite ttrpg dynamic is "GM who is a fan of the players" and "players who extremely want their characters to get the shit kicked out of them".
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I see Gundam has decided to learn from the followup interview to the notorious Iori Miyazawa yuri interview
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The developers of Xenoblade 3 didn’t handmake replicas of Noah and Mio’s flutes to compose the entire soundtrack around the microtones of the instruments played by the characters to lose best soundtrack.
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I can’t get over the fact that periodically the government reveals that it can just soft lock itself if you find the right series of stupid events like an old adventure game.
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They want you to do this!! They spent years of their life designing an entire tutorial that ensures you see the world as a set of disparate tools to be combined in unexpected ways and you are ashamed of yourself for seeing the world the way they wanted you to!!.
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I think the most underdiscussed element of how horrid the modern internet has gotten is that googling for tech support help exclusively results in 300 articles from diskfixsolver dot com that tell you that the best solution is downloading diskfixsolver.
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I refuse to believe anyone actually uses Opera GX. I could not think of a more embarrassing product than “browser for gamers” if you fucking paid me to. If you caught me using opera gx to watch porn, I’d be embarrassed about the browser first and the porn second.
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the rawest lines in the bible are quotes from jesus that require like, 4 paragraphs of cultural explanation to establish why this was a pretty fucking sick burn at the time.
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holy shit they literally just spent the entire first section of this saying "bridget is a transgirl, she uses she/her, she is not a man, there are no bad endings in arcade mode they're all canon" fuck i love this game.
The latest Developer's Backyard is finally here! Hit the link below:
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Arknights’ character designs ARE sexy, but just for the people who understand how sexy it is for a woman to be wearing a biohazard suit and holding a staff.
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In case anyone wanted to know what Arknights is like, a fan favorite character got a seasonal alter where she’s in a bikini with a water gun and it made people so mad they never did seasonal alters again and they gave her a timeskip design where she’s wearing a sick suit.
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Arknights is so funny. It opens with “there’s no resemblance to real people or places” and then says “anyway this world’s reliance on a volatile substance for fuel is destroying the world and fueling colonialism. Also this is a weapons manufacturer, they’re named Raythean”.
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cool so twitter trending can detail every fucking word of whatever the hell is happening with dream stans but all they have to say about a notable figure coming out as non-binary is "Utada Hikaru went live on Instagram"
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Alright, TTRPG folks, especially the D&D community, we need to talk. Earlier today, I posted this tweet making fun of the D&D community's willingness to overlook the political elements of the game. I wrote it in 30 seconds, just thinking it would be a funny joke for my friends.
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the best part about arknights is that it is a deeply political narrative that trusts the player to understand its difficult themes without needing to directly spell them out for you. the second best part about it is the sound mudrock make when hammer do spinny.
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Hi TTRPG fans. *catches basketball thrown from offscreen.* I'm sure you've heard the news that Paizo workers are unionizing. *extreme close up.* But what is unionizing? And how does this effect you? Well, think of a union as a sort of adventuring party, but for your work.
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i know that a lot of my followers have no interest in arknights but at the very least please read Glaucus' module flavor text at least once because i have literally never read any text in any video game that has ever hit me harder
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D&D Stans be like: this is a completely apolitical game about adventurers exploring an uncharted world, killing the people who live there, and then taking their stuff. please stop bringing politics in, we're just trying to have fun exploring ancient ruins at the order of the king.
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send me your personal favorite terms for "mech." i'm personally very very partial to Skells and ACs.
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been thinking about that lately for no real reason, it's not like resistance against irredeemable systems is a hot topic right now or anything.
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People, we gotta start shipping Jerma and Dream. I am going to need media literacy to plummet through the fucking floor right now, let’s get discourse the likes of which god nor man has ever seen. send your senator a goatse. get hank green off the site for old times sake.
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There are four types of places in Arknights’ setting:.- Dealing with a potentially world-ending catastrophe (cosmic horror).- Dealing with a potentially world-ending catastrophe (late stage capitalism).- Dealing with a potentially world-ending catastrophe (colonialism).- Laterano.
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there's a subreddit called redditemblem where people fully play out fire emblem maps with their ocs, and they converted the mechanics of combat from actual FE games into TTRPG format, and then RP during / between maps, and as a TTRPG developer it fucking ENTHRALLS ME.
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The fact that the Mickey Mouse symbol is in Smash Bros is the single greatest accomplishment by copyright lawyers in our modern age.
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I am now being subjected to people who have opinions on the Bible so this may be one of the worst things I have ever posted.
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I don’t know why everyone talks like the DM is the evil, vindictive overlord of the story, when in reality the players are the ones with the power to bring the whole facade crumbling down simply by asking for a random NPC’s last name.
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There is something I deeply hate about corporations commodifying the ability to see the moon and then showing you a fake moon. something about this just sucks on a very deep level that makes me uncomfortable and sad in a way I didn’t think I could be.
Reddit user ibreakphotos discovers that Samsung's 'Space Zoom' simply replaces user's moon photos with higher-res images of the moon through a clever testing process. This isn't computational photography — it's inserting imagery that simply isn't there.
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obviously horrifying but i do have to appreciate the dark comedy of having a float that measures how non-binary you are.
Discord has been using machine learning models to determine the gender and age group of some of its users since at least August 2022. The data can be found in the "activity/analytics/events-[. ].json" file of some Discord data packages, though the exact requirements are unknown.
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@LeftAtLondon I always get blank stares when I mention that ADHD makes starting and finishing tasks INCREDIBLY HARD and it's really frustrating that that's not the part people know about because it's the part that actually effects me the most!!.
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wow this blew up, uh, black lives matter, fire mike mearles, play Songs for the Dusk, and that Heart of the Woods is coming soon to the Nintendo Switch.
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Because the unfortunate reality is that the D&D community cannot handle criticism of D&D, and especially cannot handle it from minorities. And that's horrifying, not just as a trans woman, but as a person who loves this medium.
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I shudder to think of how many brilliant PoC, how many trans people, how many disabled people, were turned away from this community for this exact reason. There's a reason that indie developers are so aggressively queer - we're driven out of D&D spaces by this harassment.
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Folks, if you ever feel tempted to reply to a TTRPG design post with "You can do that in D&D homebrew" please remember, we're trying to push the boundaries of the medium, and we can't really do that if you melt down every single radical structure and idea into "just homebrew D&D".
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Again, I don't want to discuss whether or not you agree with my post. Because frankly, I don't care. Because what I want to talk about is the response. Because this is inexcusable amounts of toxicity for what was just a joke at the expense of a game I've played for a long time.
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Here is the suit by the way I mean holy shit I’m so gay actually
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We understand that Breath of the Wild was a design achievement that revolutionized the way open world games played. And so for our next game, we made the core mechanics so wild that they’re going to be logistically impossible for any other developer to steal. Try us motherfucker.
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One piece of advice for anyone wanting to get into tabletop RPG design:. DON'T DO WHAT I DID. DON'T IMMEDIATELY START WITH A BIG PROJECT. MAKE SMALL GAMES. MAKE. SMALL. GAMES. FIRST.
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Sorry but the idea of testament working in construction is the funniest shit in the world to me. Imagine showing up to meet the contractor and they’re dressed like that and every word they say echoes no matter what and they’re just in construction.
Testament works in construction? Nice, and they're normal! Idk why it's so hard for folks to figure that out. #GGST_TE
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i so desparately want to know every single event in the story that lead to this company's current state, i have never been so horrified and fascinated simultaneously.
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writing a ttrpg is like "this game is close to done. it's not even close to done. i have forgotten 80% of the mechanics. i have written 10% of the mechanics. it has no xp system. it has 5 rolling systems. this page mentions a speed system. there has never been a speed system.".
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D&D is a game. Just like any other. It's not a way of life, it's not a minority, it's not an identity. It's media, and should be criticized as such. But if you criticize D&D or its community for any reason, you get called slurs and get sent death threats.
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This is not a one-off. Indie TTRPG devs are actively afraid of our posts reaching to the D&D-sphere, because when it does, we will ALWAYS get harassed. It's happened to me, It's happened to @MonkipiQuinn, it's happened to @yrgirlkv, and it'll fucking happen again.
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twitter, please fix your trending, because if i had booted up twitter and seen this without watching the direct first, this would have killed me on fucking sight
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D&D is, whether you like it or not, a monolith within the industry. It DOMINATES the community and the medium, and TTRPGs as a medium CAN'T grow and develop unless we start to criticize the game that is so big, it's the standard all other TTRPGs are compared to.
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This is a small subset of the replies I received within 5 hours. This isn't even all of it. This isn't cherry-picked, either. I just scrolled down and started screenshotting. (CW: A homophobic slur, lots of harassment, people defending racism and colonialism)
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@feralknights or maybe the part where a black woman is running a pirate radio station that explicitly encourages and rewards violence against the oppressors, telling the oppressed that they're not alone and they outnumber the people keeping them down.
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alright, now that we're moving on to "General D&D Discourse," my ultimate D&D hot take is that critiquing and analyzing D&D shouldn't be met with such brutal resistance by a wave of people who appear in your mentions to call you a "puritan stuck in the satanic panic".
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it's a shame that years of "oh banning pokemon is a coward's move smogon sucks ass" discussion has legit overshadowed the fact that smogon tiering is one of the most ingenious systems i have ever seen created in my life.
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I know there are good people in the D&D community. There's a ton of them. And I'm directly making a plea to those people right now - we can't let this keep happening, and every single one of you needs to help take a stand against the shit in the community.
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Now, the validity of this tweet isn't what I want to talk about. Whether or not you agree with it isn't important right now, because what we need to talk about is what happened next. I wrote this tweet as a joke for my mostly indie RPG followers. But it spread to D&D circles.
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I am pretty confident that, if this gets out to the D&D community, there will be vitriolic responses to this post again. But I hope that every single person who replies to this with hate and vitriol realizes the irony of it.
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@Ian_Gecko get imaginative with it! for example, make elon musk a fursona and then reply to every one of his tweets with porn of them.
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@Alpharad Especially in a game where the pitch is “what if there were several bayonettas” because you KNOW that skyrocketed the line count.
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Roll20 is such a bad app that the current dominant competitor in the VTT scene is a shared google doc and a discord bot.
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Not calling it The 2nd Course is the second worst naming decision in dungeon meshi’s history.
🍴DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON 2nd Cour🍴. The adventure continues for #DeliciousinDungeon in April 2024!. Here is the newest key visual for the next cour! Now streaming on Netflix.
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being an indie tabletop developer is literally just this tumblr post except your income depends on it
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Collaborative worldbuilding TTRPG where one player at random is assigned the role of trying to add as many elements from Homestuck as they can without being caught.
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Literally this was such a big thing that she fell from being consistently top 10 on the popularity rankings to 31ST PLACE.
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the new jacob geller video has reinforced that my favorite kind of video essay is "i don't have a thesis here but i need you all to understand that this shit haunts me".
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right now, this captain is staring out the window, thinking about how he has an opportunity to do the single funniest thing that anyone has ever done.
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i wish this upon every indie ttrpg developer in the world.
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Not that god of war didn’t slap every time I bitch about it it has to have the asterisk of “yeah it’s also a good game ostensibly I understand but fuck off they HAND. MADE. FLUTES.
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We have gotten one event in their Not-America and it was about how rich people are effectively immune to the private prison system.
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saying that "D&D is too violent" or that "D&D has some racism problems" shouldn't be poking the hornet's nest, but because the industry revolves around this one game to the point where indie devs have to literally beg people to play anything else, any form of critique is a sin.
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fanmade pokemon designs: my region is based on mexico, so i did hours of research to find papers on the biological similarities of birds endemic to southern mexico and designed another new one with the same guidelines. real pokemon designs: welcome to spain here's a sushi chef.
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ttrpgs are fun because you'll find one and it'll be like, "My game is inspired by two fantasy webcomics, a concept album about the voyager probe, jojo's bizarre adventure, and nichijou" and it's the best fucking game you've ever read.
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Viera are now officially the most trans race in FFXIV.- Don't have gender until they're teenagers.- When they leave the forest, choose their own names.- Are all exceptionally tall.- Bun.
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just a message to any prospective TTRPG devs who may be considering something - . anime is not a genre. it is a medium. please stop making games based on anime. that's like making a game based on movies, or a game based on video games. it's gibberish.
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this tweet is about how the D&D community ignores the colonialist undertones of the game's lore and design, and then was met by a huge wave of people saying that it's not colonialist and that i'm an idiot which literally doesn't serve any purpose except to prove me right.
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i am obsessed with the fact that bridget's lore text on the website is very clearly written to not use any pronouns at all
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i will not accept feedback at this time, thank you
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also before you reply with something like "but you can just homebrew it out". A) I'm not talking about homebrew, i'm talking about the game as writ. B) If you have to homebrew it out, you're acknowledging it's a problem, and then showing that it could be removed without issue.
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years ago a friend told me she has a rule that if a game is going to be larger than Doom (2016), ask yourself if the game will be more fun than Doom (2016) and if the answer is no, then don't buy it. this rule has saved my life multiple times.
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Normal maps are probably the coolest thing ever created to be honest.
Despite looking much more detailed, the model for the coins in Super Mario Odyssey is actually 65% simpler than the one used in Super Mario Galaxy, due to taking advantage of modern rendering techniques. Details in image.
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fullmetal alchemist is really cool but i gotta admit that i don't like how uncreative it is with alchemy. like, it's introduced with "know the chemical makeup of everything and use it to your advantage" and in execution it mostly just creates smoke clouds and big spikes of rock.
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I think one of the largest cultural problems with D&D is that people refuse to approach it as a game and instead approach it as The Entire Medium, so they attribute the medium's strengths to D&D, while refusing to critically analyze or understand the impact of D&D's mechanics.
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“capitalism encourages innovation” the web browser for gamers has an official vtuber.
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pull the trigger as often as you can, this bitch's character flaws aren't going to fix themselves.
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And then you get like. There is a fairy tale that people will visit you when you are a child, steal an object from you, and then return it ten years later. This is real, and is an active formal organization who somehow benefits from this to unknown means.
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Please read this interview it’s so much and i think about it all the time. I think it made me a better writer, but I��m not fully sure.
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I had a bit of a realization about tabletop RPGs recently, and I wanna float it by all ya'll in an overly long thread, because I think it's an interesting problem that stretches to both the culture and design within TTRPGs. Player characters are way too reactive.
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"if there's something bad in D&D you can just homebrew it out" well about that,.
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@GhostTypeGirl It’s wild because it’s simultaneously infinitely more unhinged than the first one but it makes infinitely more sense simultaneously.
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Literally the single funniest way they could have addressed criticisms of the durability system. “Yeah just shove a rock on it it’ll be fixed” what are you talking about this is so fucking weird I love it.
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once again i am tapping the sign of "americans riot too but the government will deploy the fucking national guard on you for trying".
it’s funny how growing up I was constantly inundated with with “french are cowards! lol! white flag! surrender monkeys!” memes when in reality the average american is a servile bootlicking little bitch compared to the french who will riot at the drop of a hat.
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one of D&D's smallest but most pervasive problems is that it's mostly focused on the individual (there's no relationship mechanics, it's focused on character builds, turns make teamwork difficult), but yet failure is assumed to be that your character fucks up.
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I can't believe that bridget turned to the camera and said "I'm a girl" and the developers still had to make a statement saying "yes she is a girl now." And by funny I mean tastes like bile rising in the back of my throat.
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