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He/Him TTRPG Designer All my stuff on Itch - https://radmad.itch.io/ TTRPG critique - https://radmad.substack.com/

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 7d

Well folks, unfortunately we did not hit our goals for the All the World's Prey Kickstarter. But don't worry! All the World's Prey will still be released! It just some more time to fully bloom.

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R. Val 🧛‍♀️ @shrikepublishing.com · 14h

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 16h

If you've played AD&D you may be entitled to financial compensation

Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 16h

"became autistic" is the "demonic possession" of the 2020s

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 20h

I think there's a sleeper hit strategy to "the Nazis are in a war with clowns and also they are losing"

Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · 1d

This picture of the frontline of the Portland warzone is priceless.

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 20h

Starring a player who did not read the rules and never internalizes them

Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 20h

I think her being named GrandMother Silk is pretty direct

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 20h

Difficulty means different things for each game - and easy/hard mode has different implications for something like Dark Souls compared to the escalating difficulty tiers of Diablo. It can't be forced into a morality box without the morality part consuming the entire discourse.

Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 20h

"media literacy" is a big buzzword in regards to this idea that someone can watch a movie or read a book "correctly" and I think this attitude has thrived in videogames spaces because it feels like it can be implemented when the artform provides rewards based on performance.

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 20h

Because at the end of the day both sides of the git gud war are motivated by enforcement of a kind of classism rooted in how you play videogames. Because as a culture we are obsessed with Achievement.

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 20h

People have rightly pointed out that language is a powerful motivator of behavior, but every word you use in place of "easy mode" is going to get stale as a general understanding forms that it means "easy mode"

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 20h

I think a lot of people who are aggressive advocates for easy modes and modularity in game difficulty are also extremely elitist about difficulty

Kris Werewolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 1d

renaming 'easy' to 'story' is clearly rooted in some sort of UI research showing players won't willingly change to easy when prompted and will instead hate the game but calling it 'story' alleviates that to some degree, I wonder how long that'll last cause it's clearly a tactic with a shelf life

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 20h

The feminine bleach has succumbed to the masculine mold spore

Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 21h

Appeasing racists isn't the motivator it's the point

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 21h

The appeal to outrage and employee safety is just crocodile tears because they clearly don't listen to their measurably larger audience that does look for this kind of media and always speaks up.

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 21h

Thinking about how in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, actively developed media was edited for content and disaster movies began fading out.

This is not what's happening. This is execs thinking that the right-wing turn has begun and they no longer need to put up with this woke bs.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 21h

Montessori homeschooling but the teacher encourages you to keep hitting each other with sticks

HAYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @dirtcupart.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about naruto. imagine just being in a group of 3 with one teacher and u go to school outside and stuff. i mean besides the child abuse that occurs that seems pretty cool

Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 21h

"Creo que tenemos que matar a este tipo, Stefan."

"Aye..."

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 22h

They literally already have another job.

Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 23h

Feel like starting shit today.

Isn't Lace basically Hornet's aunt

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 1d

Can you read

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☀Hyde Angelus☀ ➡️ GGC @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow I'll be releasing my new kippot and hosting a local friend's lovely evil eye barrettes!! 🫣 If you've waited for the new designs they're finally ready!

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 1d

1850s liberals - I'm ready to vote for emancipation right fucking now

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d

It seems impossible that any of this happened, but it did

The popularity of “John Brown’s Body” among Union soldiers was a testament not merely to Brown’s rehabilitation but to his canonization. Like the Biblical prophets whose imprecations he echoed, Brown had little honor in a country which he believed to have invited divine judgment for its sins. But his words, deeds, and death were sanctified when the war came. In 1857, Illinois Senate candidate Lincoln pronounced Brown a fanatic, insisting that “not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary” to achieve abolition. In 1861, President Lincoln, still hoping to avoid war, was reported as saying that “emancipation would be equivalent to a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale.” In 1863, Abe the Emancipator commanded thousands of troops—including former slaves—who marched to kill enslavers and liberate their captives, singing of a “terrible swift sword” not unlike the one which Brown wielded at Harpers Ferry. It was fitting, then, that at Cooper Union—the site of Lincoln’s most extended denunciation of Brown’s actions—Frederick Douglass recruited Black troops for Lincoln’s army by promising that “[e]very honest soldier who marches into Virginia goes there to carry out the object that led JOHN BROWN to Harpers Ferry.” Reluctantly but ineluctably, Lincoln proved Brown right.

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 1d

Hey dude are you functionally literate

Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 1d

Bye freak

Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 1d

I bring a sort of "actually no state deserves to exist" anarchism that makes zionists really upset

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