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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 20m

I'm not even convinced that today's students would get away with some of the official SU groups we had when I was a student, let alone get them funded; specifically the Anti Fascist Group, the Hunt Saboteurs and Troops Out. The Sabs got a van paid for to go sabbing.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 28m

I've also never seen a convincing explanation of how universities are supposed to reconcile their free speech duties with their Prevent Duties, especially surrounding "non violent extremism".

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 41m

Ooo, can we get a Rojava veteran to speak there? Or maybe a member of the Animal Liberation Front?

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 49m

It's one of the reasons I'm going completely with historical art for my current project.

Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 49m

As a near completely non visual writer, the quick answer is that I can only tell if it's truly egregious. And I both want to avoid AI and the current cavalier attitude to false accusations of AI. For stuff like stock art, I'm entirely reliant on the honesty of the artist.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 4h

What Pat Mills thinks you've gone too far, you probably went too far.

Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 4h

While we did have our own moral panics (video nasties) it's illustrative to compare TSR's reaction to the satanic panic with Games Workshop.

Mind, what did for the cited Action Comic wasn't fantasy violence, it was real life violence (looking pro football hooliganism!)

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 20h

I try and keep up with politics that isn't UK/US and stuff like who the Prime Minister is elsewhere in Europe. Have to say France, you aren't making it easy.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 21h

Also, ESOL funding has been cut massively over the past 20 years, which one would think was a more effective way of tackling this supposed issue.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite bits from Palladium are when they try to sound like hip goth kids in 90s products.

"Sit back and strap in, because there ain't no red pill/blue pill crap on this adventure. You are already down the rabbit-hole, kid,and Kansas got nuked when you weren't looking."

Groove it, Daddio.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Do I repeat myself? Well then, so doth the discourse.

Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · Jun 12

1/ Thoughts on book recommendations and books being from previous eras. Especially kid's books. Partly inspired by the complaint that recommendations of different magical world books don't work because people are recommending older books. #booksky

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

I find it outrageous that every RPG publisher apart from Palladium promotes the occult, the practice of magic, the
use of drugs, or violence.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to the person defending Ayn Rand's prose style though. That's the kind of off the wall wtfuckery I was hoping for.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck, I posted this than checked the quotes and everyone else is posting "unhinged opinions" like "Comics are really good" and "if you buy a book you aren't morally obliged to read it".

Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Calling 14 year olds "young adults" has strong "libertarian who's memorised the age of consent laws in every country" vibes.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

1. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
2. New Model Army
3. Half Man Half Biscuit
4. Kris Kristofferson
5. Leon Rosselson
6. The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing
7. Hawkwind
8. Daphne & Celeste

Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 2d

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

This is a hard one.

1. Metallica
2. Parl Jam
3. NIN
4. Kalandra
5. Thomas Newman
6. Ithaca
7. Leprous
8. Tool

Unruly Arcana @unrulyarcana.bsky.social · 2d

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

Impossible... But I'll give it a shot, lol.

1. Sublime
2. Tom Petty
3. Godsmack
4. Jesse Wells
5. James Taylor
6. Chris Stapleton
7. The Goo Goo Dolls
8. Cross Canadian Ragweed

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

You can't tell me the designers of 50 Parsecs or Reign in Hell aren't openly aware of RPGs and happily borrowing from them. They quite obviously are. It's just RPG designers who seem to have fetishised a willful ignorance about other game genres.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

It's not that I necessarily think RPGers who like combat should play wargames instead. It's that I think RPG designers making games with a lot of combat should take influence from wargames. (I would say this works both ways, if not for the fact wargame designers learnt this years ago).

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Bad GM advice that people actually thought should be put out as published books rather than restricted to the fringes of the fanzine scene at that! (I'm guessing you deliberately aren't naming names so I'll refrain)

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Calling 14 year olds "young adults" has strong "libertarian who's memorised the age of consent laws in every country" vibes.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

I've been known to argue that Bunnies & Burrows is the first actual RPG rather than a wargame variant like OD&D. Which is partly me being deliberately contrarian, but I also think there's a pretty strong case.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Hah, snap, I just said something very similar.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Also a weird thing where people will still hold onto early D&Dism like the focus on combat, but will be utterly appalled by the idea of competitive PvP in RPGs or adversarial GMing.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Ooo, time for the fun game of "see which of my followers I gain from RPGposting drop off when I start politics posting" again.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

But the idea that's all that games can be about feels like a weird modern devolution from even the broadness of early RPGs. Dallas is from 1980, ffs.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

I think you've also got the weird situation where a lot of RPGers (including designers) have shifted from RPGs being "fantasy wargaming" to terror of being compared to wargames at all. And if your game *is* about violence, then yeah, you're probably wargame adjacent and should embrace that.

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