Notices by made out of flesh or wood (nightpool@cybre.space), page 15

@gdkar hello?

@rosen https://nightpool.tumblr.com/post/154900769915/the-rosetinted-fool-nightpool

https://nightpool.tumblr.com/post/160806700725/the-rosetinted-fool-we-should-finish-that

(i'm a fool, this was a Kingdom game)

@HTHR 3

@prophet_goddess mastodon i love you but you're briinging me down

@rach even if you DID stan weezer, i hope you'd be able to recognize that this album is a shitty, soulless cashgrab

@alexlaw I think it's based on a world-wide average

I'm going to bed, but happy to talk about stuff in the morning if people have questions

@00dani @lizardsquid but it definitely still seems relevant given that we were discussing pbta more generally

@00dani @lizardsquid I've never actually read the apocalypse world book, I'm getting my GM advice from the dungeon world book, which talks about these principles in detail.

@lizardsquid @00dani but on a more general level, all pbta moves, by design, have a specific effect. *applying* that to the fiction that exists is a little more complicated, but the trigger -> move -> effect sequence will always give you more mechanical guidance then just "the GM does whatever"

@lizardsquid @00dani in general, and this is just a playstyle thing, i've never been in a game where outcomes were determined arbitrarily by GM fiat. Outcomes of a roll have always been the result of a discussion—sometimes a negotiation, sometimes a consensus. the GM obviously has more information about the world and what's in it, but the player has just as equally as valid of a say on what they think would fit the fiction.

@00dani @lizardsquid not every game is going to be for everybody. but I do think you can appreciate a game while knowing it's not for you

@00dani @lizardsquid strong disagree. I'm not just saying their settings are cool, I'm saying they way the mechanics *convey* the settings and, more broadly, the genre/milieu of the story is really cool and good to think about.

@00dani @lizardsquid fate is cool but there's soooo much that apocalypse world and derivative games do in the way of codifying a setting and milieu into the structure of the game that's super super valuable

@jalcine mmmm i feel you but this isn't just blowback for specific actions, this is viral outrage for even requesting feedback on a proposed design.

I'm *all* for collective action to mitigate harms—the webaudio changes were poorly conceived and poorly implemented, and the outcry against them was super important. But when I see people taking that and running with "anything chromium developers suggest is Pure Evil Surveillance Capitalism" it's so, so, so missing the point.

@jalcine well, currently a chromium engineer saying "current web request blocking is a huge performance cost, let's explore a flexible declarative grammar that can be compiled down at runtime to replace it" is being spun into "google doesn't want you to be able to stop being tracked", so no, i don't think it's a particularly extra take.