Jobasha

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I knew a similar individual a a former workplace. Aside from flat earth stuff he believed that cancer is caused by bad generational karma, that any sexuality apart from straight is the result of childhood abuse, that females want to steal his vital essence via sex, that modern medicine is a scam and the best way to heal is through fasting and meditation, that the Bronze Age Collapse was caused by the fall of Atlantis, and a whole bunch of other stuff I can't remember right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Gothic 3, all those years later I am still upset about it. The vast open world traversable without loading screens was an impressive achievement, especially for its time, but it got wasted on a rushed and incomplete product.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (14 children)

This reminds me of a particularly cursed enshittification dream I had where I was in a bar restroom and the soap dispenser was blocked unless you downloaded their app and created an account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, it looks like it's from 3CB, and the faction is called CCM - Chernarus Communist Millitia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Might be, I had a hard time tracking down its exact origin because I tried to run the mainline Antistasi at some point and couldn't find it with any mod combo. Let me give it a check and see if I can pinpoint it because I still have the game and my mod setup installed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You're welcome comrade. If the Vietnam DLC is available, this scenario also looks cool but I haven't tried it personally: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2636944646

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Hexbears are playing one of my favorite games and I have my dominant hand bandaged up aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAHHhh

I hope I will get well soon enough to join in. From my previous Antistasi campaigns I can recommend Antistasi Plus on Chernarus 2020, it comes with a comfy communist millitia player faction with SKS and PPSh as starter guns.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Randomly ended up on my country specific youtube recs last night and there was a three hour video literally titled "My great grandfather owned 7 restaurants and the communists took EVERYTHING from him". Didn't seem like a bit, I guess anticommunism is really indistinguishable from a parody of itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Check out Viva New Vegas, it's a solid vanilla+ setup. I used it earlier this year as a base and added some more stuff on top and it worked like a charm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh neat I played this for a bit when it first launched but dropped it due to not having a stable group to play with. I'll drop in one of these days.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Oh yeah I know how this goes and it sucks big time. Lie in bed, can barely sit still and relax. Get up for a minute to go to the toilet, immediately start feeling lethargic and have difficulty keeping eyes open. Go back to bed, sleepiness goes away. In my case, anxiety medication helped.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

post-scarcity atomic juche sounds 200% banging not gonna lie

 

I am sorry if this is something basic that has been discussed to death before but I feel like I need to get this out of my system before I ruin friendships by wishing centuries of humiliation on people for the way they play pretend.

I had a casual chat with a friend and fellow GM about our current campaigns and worldbuilding. At some point beast races come up and I mention I like gnolls and give a few short details about their society in my setting. In response I get an explanation that he can't have this kind of characterization because of Goebbles level bullshittery about how beastmen are inherently savage and destructive and basically a swarm of pests that has to be put down. And how this is necessary in order to address the moral issues of what to do with beastmen non-combatants. Essentially giving players moral license to commit genocide and still be considered "good" in-universe.

It felt so fucking unreal seeing how normally chill people can almost reproduce word for word the vile shit that Zionists are using right fucking now as a justification for mass murder and not have a single moment of "oh shit wait wtf am I saying". I had to step away from the keyboard and calm down. I hate how concept of "sapient creatures that are completely and irredeemably evil and are specifically designed to be slaughtered" is seen as something completely normal and even expected. Gygax was a piece of shit genocide enthusiast who deserves to rot in hell and it's high time that we move on from colonial plunder sims with dragons and obligatory others that exist only to be killed and looted.

You are building an imaginary world and there are no limits. The genre is literally called imagination. There is no excuse for consciously designing entire species that are designated for slaughter and reproducing some of the vilest ideologies ever thought up by humans as a pillar of your worldbuilding.

That's it I guess. That's the rant. Thanks for reading. I am doing my best trying to give positive portrayals of non-human societies in my games and also trying to get my friends to play other games that aren't built from around breaking into others' homes to kill them and take their stuff.

 

what width/depth should a good moat have?

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