tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post7895827062358667938..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: New, Rentable Patrick (DRM INCLUDED DO NOT REMOVE)pjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-64968811014918372102022-09-16T19:15:30.432-07:002022-09-16T19:15:30.432-07:00Mmmm, consumption! When you consume with me, tu co...Mmmm, consumption! When you consume with me, tu consumi con Sumption.<br /><br />Sorrynotsorry<br /><br />Anyway, out here in Ignoresville it's always nice to be reminded about The Idolatry (no autocorrect, I said Ideology, but I'll let it stand) That Ate A Planet.<br /><br />(I'm guessing this post probably alludes to something that happened in The Real World™, but as I'm allergic to That Place® I won't enquire)dansumptionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06403248887250857638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-30865854745651512612022-09-04T05:49:37.466-07:002022-09-04T05:49:37.466-07:00While I think that both imagination and system-cre...While I think that both imagination and system-creation parts of TTRPGs cannot be (yet) bridled into walled garden, it strikes me as true that (and I am using massive air quotes here) "prestige" of one and only "true" DnD is something that will be manufactured, parcelled and sold/rented. One can have the most interesting system and the most rich world and be the best of DMs, but if there is nobody to play with, lured as the players might be into "one and only true" game, it is a loss. <br /><br />The hope could be that if people in the walled garden happen to be even anywhere near the mindset of people of previous editions, eventually it will splinter, and may crumble enough for the company to change directions yet again. Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-30898120044429861162022-09-03T00:18:14.873-07:002022-09-03T00:18:14.873-07:00IA! IA! A glorious future awaits! We shall all be ...IA! IA! A glorious future awaits! We shall all be safe and perfect, inoffensive and pure, our hands once filled with bloodied dice shall be clean, and a new age of bloodless peace shall reign over a land shriven and inviolate. No longer shall we have conflict, no longer shall warriors slay monsters like fell handed demons while soft drinks spill sticky and cold over the brims of our cups, and our teeth gleam as we laugh at the deaths of creatures given life out of imagination and camaraderie. We shall not roll dice, gamble with violent dreams, or tell stories of greed, guile, or gore. We shall do no harm, and our tales shall rub no skin raw, all shall be soft and still, and gentle. No harm shall be done, we shall say no harsh words, no teeth bared, in snarl or grin, no offense given or taken. We shall not play games, we shall create experiences, and they shall fall with the soft sounds of snow until all is blanketed in the velvet glimmer of insentient and comforting immunity. All for one low, low price paid at an interval least offensive to us and most profitable to the beneficent high ones handing down our storytelling randomization engines, and experiences of fantastical happenings that shall neither excite nor offend.<br /><br />IA! IA! A community is born, be one, be one, be free from the tyranny of isolation. There shall be only ONE. There shall be only ONE. There shall be only ONE. And all shall love it, for it shall be all they have known, and all they will know, and all shall be made right by the changes it hath wrought, for they will seem familiar, as though nothing has changed, and yet they will render all swords blunted, and all courage spent. As heroes pass into slumber, and all storytellers pay RENT!Lurkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13648658376559737272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-39922611111232035842022-09-02T16:29:34.782-07:002022-09-02T16:29:34.782-07:00"What will these changes mean for YOU? And fo..."What will these changes mean for YOU? And for the META? We gather a group of employees from random parts of the company in front of a webcam to read bullet points from an off-camera whiteboard. It’s like a circle of friends who are paid to be here and told exactly what and what not to think. Community."<br /><br />2 real 4 me mr patrick Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17880802426609994235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-35136689328853478222022-09-02T11:36:12.256-07:002022-09-02T11:36:12.256-07:00Well, yes. We were warned, repeatedly, and now it ...Well, yes. We were warned, repeatedly, and now it has happened. All the hyperbole about proprietary software and walled digital gardens being the tip of the authoritarian spear, and about wokescolding and cancel culture being a tool of corporate power, sounded sort of silly at the time. Even I thought so. Picadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01244353406711565712noreply@blogger.com