Ryan
ratontheroad.bsky.social
Ryan
@ratontheroad.bsky.social
Larp aficionado. Person who calls himself aficionado. Occasional event producer. He/him.
Love you too!
June 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I gotta think everyone knew this would happen but someone insisted he do it himself.
January 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Right? I’m pretty sure I’d like CDPAP if I knew anything about it. But my takeaway was “wow, the Health Commissioner is sketchy af.”
January 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Seriously, my takeaways are “how incompetent is my state Department of Health that they would make this?”
January 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Like, this guy looks guilty as fuck. I don’t know what CDPAP is but I know it’s completely jacked.
January 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Like, he starts talking about “the Governor and I would never let that happen,” my only reaction was “oh no, what did the governor do?”
January 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Also I got to into character. I couldn’t tell people were shitting on me over the sound of how awesome I was.
January 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
God. Playing Kissenger is like worse than a guilty pleasure. It’s like an actual vice.
January 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Do I think he's another middle-aged white guy who is using his platform to be an iconoclast? Yeah, and in a way that's really part of the problem.

(I say this as a middle-aged white guy with a penchant for iconoclastic posts. Which might be why it rubs me the wrong way).
January 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If someone writes a post about "owning the libs," it's not as dangerous as something that suggests, "we should go along with it" or "we should accept this as the new real." Which is exactly what he's saying.

Do I think he's a fan of Trump? Not really.
January 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It might sound dramatic, but whenever he does something, we have to call it what it is. It's an active assault on the rights and lives of people. And to dress it up as "change" normalizes that.
January 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
You're not wrong, but in a way, it's worse.

He's not praising Trump, but he is normalizing him. Putting him in a context. Crafting a story about how he's the next step.

And that, in my personal opinion, is just about the worst thing we can do. Because we're in resistance mode right now.
January 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Then I'm sorry. I don't think you get to be edgier than the vampires with trench coats and katanas. Still cool, just not "fingerless gloves and wrap-around shades" edgelord.
January 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It depends. Did any of your characters walk around like Highlander in a trenchcoat with a katana?
January 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I mean, it's almost nice when people post things like this, because it shows us who we're talking to.
January 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
So yeah, when people show you who they are, let them. And if you love VtM, cool, I get it... no shame on you for enjoying problematic things. But god, try to make it better and edge out the edgelords?

#vampire #masquerade #ttrpg #edgeouttheedgelords
January 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
He's not great, he's a result of bigotry, and this isn't greatness, this is debacle. He's not an FDR or a Lincoln, at best he's a Hayes.
January 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM