Lianodel @ Lianodel @ttrpg.network

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I actually want to check that out too, since it's in the Burning Wheel orbit. :P

That and Torchbearer, but as much as I loved the books, I think it's the last among the three. (Though I still really want to play it.)

Ah, Ars Magica is another one. I found it as a teenager browsing the internet. I even downloaded the free PDF they offered and started printing it out, before realizing just how much paper that would be. :P

Shadowrun really has been mishandled by Catalyst. :/ You also get big Shadowrun fans who genuinely love the setting actively discouraging people from using the rules sometimes. "Shadowrun is great, but it sucks, so if you want to play Shadowrun (which you should!) avoid using Shadowrun." :P

I've also heard Amber come up a bunch over the years. I keep meaning to check it out.

I've had the change to play Paranoia, actually! It was a ton of fun, and one of my favorite gaming memories. It ran great as a fun one shot.

Ah, that reminds me of City of Mist, where leaning too hard towards your mundane or supernatural side would do the same.

I've also found it interesting how vibrant the Japanese tabletop RPG scene seems to be, but how little of it makes its way over here. It seems like there'd be a huge market for it.

See, one of the things holding me back is getting overwhelmed by character creation. There's just so much to go through!

What makes me want to try GURPS is that it seems flexible (even light) in play, would adapt to just about any genre, and allows for incremental advancement. But since I'd be the one bringing it to the table, I'd have a heck of a lot to do to make it an easy entry, despite not having played the game yet.

Yeah, it works great! Odds are you might have some libraries that are open to everyone in your county or even your state (assuming you live in the US, but I don't even know if or how Libby would work elsewhere). There are also libraries that are open to anyone in the country, though they seem to be closing that option. And there are some libraries that will give cards to non-residents for a recurring fee.

...and you didn't hear this from me, but you can also, you know, lie. Use a realty website like Realtor.com or Zillow, get a valid address, and sign up for some libraries. Very rarely one will check your IP, but otherwise, you know. I haven't had to do it because I'm spoiled as a New Yorker, but it's an option.

Yeah! I also like that he hasn't Flanderized his content. If anything, it got just slightly toned down, which IMO felt just right.

And he does longer-form content on his YouTube, which is surprisingly very chill. I actually prefer it, but that's just me. :P

Libby! They also loan out ebooks (which is usually what I use it for). Total game-changer.

Also, as a tip: Check out what libraries you're eligible to join. I'm in New York State, and despite not living in NYC, I am totally eligible for cards at the New York Public Library, Queens Public Library, and Brooklyn Public Library. Between those, and all the libraries in my county pooling their resources, I rarely have to wait long for a book unless it's brand new.

Yeah, what were you thinking, OP? Taking one piece of media and altering it to convey a different meaning, providing a humorous juxtaposition. Don't you know how memes work on the internet?! /s

For real, though. I haven't seen these complaints about image macros with the labels changed to make them about RPGs. And if they were... why are they on RPGMemes?

I generally prefer playing with all die rolls out in the open, so this is a really handy way to still freak out the players every so often for no reason. :P

Is there a trope for roughing up the person giving the call, and then all Hell breaks loose?

Asking for a friend. That bastard. :P

Yeah, that drove me absolutely up the wall. Russia's economy was liberalized after the fall of the Soviet Union, and China even invited Milton Goddamn Friedman to consult on their economic plans.

I got the same feeling a lot with Tucker, where he'd say something so specific and so contrary to reality, that there must have been a point to it. I think a part of it is to inoculate the audience against criticism, doubt, and introspection. You flip around, or simply bring up and immediately dismiss what's actually a strong argument against your position, so that people don't take it seriously when it comes up outside of the echo chamber.

I used to think I was low maintenance with dice, until I needed to buy emergency dice to run a game. The store didn't have the regular Chessex ones, but I'm not a brand loyalist, so I grabbed whatever.

The numbers weren't laid out properly. You know how opposite sides (apart from the d4, obviously) sum up to one more than the die size? I.e., opposite sides on a d6 add up to 7, and opposite sides of a d20 will add up to 21. They didn't do that. Bugged the hell out of me, and I still consider them cursed.

So yeah. Even though I'm not as particular about my dice as most players, but there are some dice I find unsettling and will not play with. :P

The entire impeachment theater is directed at low-information voters. People who will find out about the hearing and not bother to read or watch to find out it's a nothingburger, who won't read the accusations but just take it that there's a scandal, and who will throw their hands up and say "both sides are the same" because they're impeaching one another's presidents.

Ah, the Sam Bankman-Fried Defense.

Sure, but I think this example also commingles labor with ownership (as is often the case).

Like you said, your plan involves building a four-family home. That's labor and worth fair remuneration. It's just that, in order to get that remuneration you'd be taking payment from tenants who build no equity for their money. Yeah, you'll have to renovate in 30 years, but you'd still have property and the money paid in rent while they don't.

A landlord can also simultaneously do valuable work supervising and managing a property. That's not mutually exclusive with profiting from ownership, and we can separate how we evaluate the two. It even comes up with billionaires: Bill Gates obviously did work worth payment as CEO of Microsoft, it's just not where he got most of his fortune. It can simultaneously be true that he's a talented guy who deserved to be paid, but most of his fortune came from exploitative business practices and profiting off of the labor of others.

Also, to be clear, there's a difference between structural and individual criticism. Obviously slumlords are pieces of shit, but there's a difference between that and someone who really does work as a property manager doing right by their tenants, or a family renting out a part of their home to make ends meet. I can think that landlords should be judged on an individual basis, while landlording as a thing shouldn't exist.

Just imagine how insufferable the meetings were with the Silicon Valley tech bros pushing this idea.

And they're engaging in one of my favorite logical pretzels: presenting their ignorance as proof in and of itself that their opponents are ignorant. "I don't know what your plan is, which means you don't have one!"

I think they also referenced Animal Farm, a book written by a socialist.