Zompist Bboard Again

We had Kay-Bee Toy and Hobby. It was a sign of progress when playbooks and modules began to appear at Waldenbooks. names don't mean anything to me, but like... are they general-purpose bookstores? here RPG material can still only be found in game shops: you know, the kind of place where there's pro...

kids these days, taught D&D by their fathers. in my day, we had to walk *without podcasts* all the way to the copy shop and scavenge the unclaimed jobs bin for roleplaying materials. or, if we were feeling lucky, scavenge dialup internet sites for homebrew rules.

it never is, brother. it never is.

Well, I mean... on the one hand, yes, apalling, not one step back, no pasarán blabla but, on the other hand, what else was to be expected? the nazis weren't like totally purged from the state, as I understand it a lot of the judges in early post-war germany were nazis, or ex-nazis (one can never tel...

Indeed I have to think hard to find any achievement of the working class and/or progressive forces, you know votes for women, weekends, blablabla, that have been achieved without some violence (and against violent opposition by reaction). we don't call it class warfare for nothing.

couldn't have said it better, but i think it's morphin to a multichannel strategy of say the quiet part quiet where it needs to be said quiet and say it loud on, whatever, truth social or something.... or I guess twitter? I heard musk lifted protections for trans people.

Yeah, I didn't much like rop either. it feels like a dungeons and dragons movie tbh.

speaking of which, the latest one i rather enjoyed.

The link is broken. aw, shucks. let me see if i can upload the thing. I think this comes down to keyboards: I don't even know how to type latin comillas in my latin american keyboard layour: it's not written into the plastic chiclets. it makes me think that none of the languages that wiki and that ...

plenty of hopefuls in the fascist pundit sphere, but a w is a w.

next week on fox news, It's the jordan b peterson show, everybody! don't forget to make your bed.

tokenism in tolkienism. it truly don't take me by surprise. na but seriously, this is a species of tokenism that i don't think I object to. Tolkien's original vision is not thaaaat relevant, and whomsoever wants it can just go and read Tolkien anyway, and if it makes rightwingers triggered that muh ...

makes sense, plus he did say repeatedly he strongly disliked allegory. thogh his stuff is very racially... informed?

but if you go along with it you *also* play into the enemy's hands, by joining the psyop. It's a wargames thing, the only right move is not to play (the game of 'condemning the violence'). I agree with you that one should not *defend* it if, like, interviewed by the TV or whatever, but what you don'...

but let's look at how these things function: people protest, fascists provoke violence, six dudes ransack a tea shop, and then the coverage is all about the poor tea shop owner blablabla. Then when leftists go "okay, but what about the protest tho, what about the pensions, what about the old pe...

na. I'm not pro ransacking shops, that would be illegal and I would never advocate anything illegal (please mister CIA man don't tag me) but to let a massive protest be *about* the actions of six or seven dudes who do some crime is, well, kind of exactly playing in the hands of the fascists. better ...

as in every other protest I've been a part of. point is, those things happen in protests, for a number of reasons: some of them are that the police criminalize the protest almost immediately, unless it's a right-wing protest, in which case they don't. And when you criminalize protests, the cops are ...

sure, but like... do we abandon prostesting? this is my original point! if we don't do anything the fash don't like, well, we may as well join them or limit our praxis to, I don't know, peer-reviewed articles or something.

i do about 95 wpm in english, i don't think i'm must faster in spanish. oddly enough i was never taught to type that I remember, and still got to the type of typing where you don't look at the keyboard at all. but my technique is very different from what's taught in typography classes: someone who u...

but protests, violent or not, are very good and effective praxis^TM.

forgotten realms isn't as bad as other conworlds (insert almost any YA book as example), but it certainly isn't good either: the thing is, it's built to fit previously existing D&D tropes, which are in turn built to fit previously existing tolkenian tropes, which in turn are built to fit previou...

I don't think i've seen the «…» marks in spanish a lot. apparently those are called spanish, latin or angular 'comillas' (that's what we call quotation marks), whereas what I think of as the "normal" ones are called english comillas. the Real Academia recommends angular comillas as a first...