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Spike Bones

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A multimedia artist, Gaming Webzine Coordinator and North Carolina Liason for XUndergroundChi.com, journalist in training, aspiring historian and preservationist of Tsalagi (Cherokee) culture and language, and most importantly; allegedly a chill person.

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · Apr 29

I tend to word things really strongly because I'm a journalist in training. Please do try not to take things personally, but also, I am sorry in advance if I fuck up my wording or something and trip a wire in your head. That is genuinely my bad, and as someone with CPTSD, I do understand. I'm sorry.

Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 9d

This is like buying Halo CE on e-bay and it's completely normal but this is the cover:

Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 9d

This is amazing idc if I bought something else this is better

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 9d

Who wants to bet the parents never even asked those kids if they want these hormones

Or told them what they do.

Or had them talk to a doctor about it.

Or...

Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 9d

So a thing quietly happening in the background for awhile now is rich parents dosing their kids with growth hormone.

I think it's hilarious we're gonna have a generation of seven foot three ogres who claim a working class background and get mad when you ask how they paid for that trip to Europe.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 9d

The prison industrial complex’s wide-reaching tentacles. Story via @chicagoreader.com.

The prison industrial complex’s wide-reaching tentacles - Chicago Reader

The prison industrial complex is a vast network of thousands of businesses that profit from mass incarceration.

chicagoreader.com

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Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · Oct 31

reactionary american trad cath types are so funny because like, "my faith is pure but the pope in rome is woke and sinful and leading us to corruption and degeneracy" you're just a protestant. that's literally what protestantism is. you're just reinventing it from first principles lol

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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 10d

My wife sent me this

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Outsider @dissenterbedamned.bsky.social · 11d

I hope other people smarter than me see what the two parties of america are converging on.

eventually, the american right will say to the american "left" (nonexistent) that they must work together else be declared socialists.

the american left hates socialism enough that they will surrender.

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like it's slightly more acceptable bc with the white shirt and blue suit it makes the colors of the Chicago Bears.

Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

This is how I picture you writing this:

a black and white drawing of a stick figure with a tongue sticking out ..

Alt: DiemArchive "Rage Baited" gif. A stick figure sticks out and wiggles his tongue.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 11d

Me trying to retrace my high thoughts so I can remember the post I thought of and then immediately forgot

Still from the television show Game of Thrones showing Bran with his eyes whited over laying on his sled thing with snow behind him

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

HEY Chicago, whadda you say?

smashley @ashleyann.bsky.social · 11d

we’re singing now GO, CUBS GO!

the scoreboard at wrigley right after the W flag was put up

the marquee outside of wrigley field that says “CUBS WIN!”

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

Who's your favorite Jedi? Wrong answers only.

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✨the daniel✨ @intelectconfig.wtf · Mar 27

fuck ICE

mothra stewart @gorl.gay · Mar 27

fuck ICE

natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · Mar 27

fuck ICE

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

Because of how I like to tell stories, there'd have to be a combat system (so that in the worst cases you can punch a Nazi), but by fleshing out social and economic systems more and making them easier than the combat, violence is disincentivized.

Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

Tbh the rules would probably be simple like an OSR game, but instead of being an adventuring party who looks for things to kill, the mechanics would be focused around building a community, with more discission of foraging and farming than death and colonization.

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

This whole thread has gotten me thinking about how I'd write a TTRPG system if kids were part of the target audience.

🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 11d

The problem with this is that, as great an effort as highlighting the work of Jennifer Masters is in terms of facilitating a bespoke game informed both by design *and* child education, the question is likely to be reframed by many people as "At what age can kids play D&D unsupervised?" and...

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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 11d

Is your child ready for unsupervised roleplaying games? A leading paediatric psychologist and an award-winning game designer weigh in on the ideal age to start.

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

OH also I'd like to clarify that I said something *like* the BÖRG systems. I probably would not just give my kids any of those books (except *maybe* MORK ORG? It's set in an office, I imagine it's much less overtly violent than the others) unless I was there and an adult I know was running the game.

Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

It also doesn't help that I haven't been able to branch out very much yet. Hell, I only have the BORG systems because a buddy of mine had the PDFs.

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

it gets pretty ugly for them pretty quick.

I also almost never play vanilla settings tbh. Even settings I really like, I homebrew in a way that makes them unrecognizable and bakes the lessons I'm trying to teach into the context the players find themselves in - like you said earlier.

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

That's fair. I'm so used to the industry standard of "You decide the nuance of violence in your world" that I haven't seen/thought about systems where the mechanics are designed to take a side. I also am a big fan of TTRPGs as consequence simulators, so if someone misuses violence in my games...

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

That's why I love the BÖRG systems so much- despite the aesthetic of rot and medieval violence (or cowboys, or spave pirates, etc.) they actually are built to subvert the worst tropes of the genres

Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

Also, MÖRK BÖRG and the resulting systems go out of their way to tell you that your real enemies are just as often if not more often your rich questgivers than whatever youcwere sent to deal with (NOTE: Deal with, not kill. Diplomatic solutions work too, and so does telling the king to fuck off)

Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

*child not Chile

a picture of the earth with the words " major spelling mistake " below it

ALT: a picture of the earth with the words " major spelling mistake " below it

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

Also, yes system complexity is an issue. I was a hyperliterate chile and could not understand TTPRGs for most of my life. If you are starting your kids on something, it should be simple enough that they don't have to do homework or listen to a lecture before starting their first game (imo).

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 11d

And I feel like the appropriateness of violence has more to do with its context than anything else. Especially considering the state my country is in, I'd rather teach my kids that fascism and racism usually have to be defeated violently than pass on the follies that got America to where we are now.

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