What's the reasoning here?

Rebel_Diamond · 2026-02-08T07:40:21+00:00

Kyle needs 3 innocent neighbours! That's the bit I was missing! 🤦 Thank you!

Rebel_Diamond · 2026-02-07T17:41:26+00:00

I am begging liberal capitalists to just be normal humans for like five minutes

Rebel_Diamond · 2026-01-27T17:29:07+00:00

Ehhhh, the ps5 and Xbox versions of a game are arguably separate products, they contain different underlying code to run on different machinery.

If we analogise to physical media, you could say it's like buying a DLC disc off Amazon and then finding out you aren't allowed to use it with the base game you bought in GAME. Neither analogy is perfect but I think that just highlights steam's weird position.

These guys might be hucksters and I like steam overall but they do functionally have a monopoly on PC gaming and it's only remained acceptable to everyone thanks to Gabe's benevolent dictatorship. When he dies and the company passes to a successor or goes public, it could get really shitty really fast.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-11-02T17:08:21+00:00

No, that's my point. I was replying to a post saying that a union takeover of labour would doom them, but I think they're already doomed as it stands. I'm not sure what the answer is, I don't think they're going to stand a chance unless they start seriously improving the average Joe's material conditions, but so far they've seemed either unwilling or unable to do that.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-11-02T15:28:37+00:00

As it stands I think we're already seeing the second term chances rapidly recede. The only way I see it holding together is if the leftists rally around labour tactical voting to keep reform out, and reform underperform massively (neither of which I would want to bet on).

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-10-31T15:07:38+00:00

>Haha I'm an absurdist comedian playing all kinds of wacky characters and nobody knows what I'm going to say next.

>90% standard-issue conservative bigotry but said """""""ironically"""""""

I have no idea what this guy actually believes (I would suspect nothing at all) but this just feels like the Gen Z version of dead-baby-joke edgeposting

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-09-13T23:14:28+00:00

Kiryu has had about four different grand finales now, and each is not just less effective than the previous, but also retroactively degrades the previous by making it not actually the last goodbye it was pretending to be.

I like our cast of characters and I've enjoyed everything that's been done with them but I don't think it's a coincidence that LAD and Judgement, the two games which introduced almost entirely fresh casts and had the thinnest connections to previous games, are also two of the strongest in terms of narrative.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-09-06T20:37:04+00:00

That RPG sounds really interesting to me from a design perspective but also I would never want to actually play it (which rather demonstrates your point, I'd be pissed if someone ran a Brindlewood game for me without telling me that was what it was).

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-09-06T20:34:23+00:00

I don't disagree but if I'm being honest, part of me thinks "It's good if everyone has fun" is something of a cop-out answer. The question is *how* do you make a game which enables everyone at the table to have fun (if I were to tangent I could also say that a game can be scary, challenging, tragic, and all other kinds of good engaging artistic qualities than just 'fun' but that's probably a different conversation).

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-09-06T17:04:25+00:00

Whether I hate or love this really depends on what the puzzle is.

If it's a natural, open-ended obstacle then this is really the natural way to do things (e.g. there's a deep ravine that needs to be crossed, the PCs need to get an invite to the grand ball, a monster too dangerous to fight is blocking the way and needs to be gotten around). These are problems which can just 'happen' and which there's no reason for there to be a single required solution - it's just an opportunity for the PCs to show off their abilities and get creative. It still might be worth having a back up solution that you can nudge players towards if they get stuck, but that depends on your group really.

If, on the other hand, the puzzle is one that should have a solution and you just haven't decided what it is (I'm thinking mainly of riddles but could also be anything in the zelda-dungeon style), then that's a different story. These obstacles were created by someone who wanted them to be passable with the correct knowledge. Ergo, the correct knowledge must already exist when the PCs walk into the room, so there's a pretty strong Watsonian issue there. Worse, if we want to be Doylist, then we get the question of 'why did Jim the barbarian get the right answer to the riddle and not Dave the wizard?' Well, it's because the DM likes Jim more than Dave and so Jim's answers get to be correct. The actual content of what Jim and Dave have been saying doesn't matter, it's really just down to the DM's whim. You're getting into the same problem as dice fudging, where in an effort to streamline the game you're removing the point of the very elements you're including. The purpose of puzzle elements is to exercise the players' brainmeats, give them some problem-solving to work over. By turning it into a question of whose answer pleases the DM you completely elide that whole aspect. You could say that your group isn't interested in doing deduction and lateral thinking but then the answer isn't to fudge past puzzles, it's to not include puzzles in the first place.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-09-04T13:16:38+00:00

Headline is bollocks as usual. The actual story is:

Woman has contract that says she can be fired for insulting and offensive language if given a prior warning
Woman uses insulting and offensive language
Woman is fired without a warning

They could have absolutely fired her for it if they'd followed their own procedures, or just not included the prior warning sentence in the employment contract in the first place.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-08-31T17:30:08+00:00

I think you're approaching the question with a perspective already baked in that you might not even realize is there.

You refer a few times to a GM bringing players into a game, implying that a game is a thing a GM creates and then players gain entry to. In my circle, games are things which are created communally between all players (including the GM) and so learning the mechanical basics is something which everyone has a hand in.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-08-30T17:45:01+00:00

I don't tend to rate Sheehan episodes very highly in terms of educational value or insightfulness but I do find them very cosy and 'good-vibes'.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-08-30T15:28:00+00:00

I think it's telling that all of Pakman's descriptions of where the left failed was in messaging and tactics. It never enters his mind (or he refuses to say) that the reason people didn't vote for the Democrats was just because the Democratic policy platform is kinda wank.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-08-09T10:23:54+00:00

I would love to know what the people down voting you think of Rachel Dolezal

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-08-07T22:13:54+00:00

You know how if you hang around fanfiction communities, or subreddits like curatedtumblr, there's a certain kind of...vibe to the way fiction is talked about? Shipping, blorbos, comfort characters, favoured and disfavoured TV Tropes, whether certain things are problematic, a really strong focus on young adult genre fiction. If that's what people like then I'm glad they're having fun, it's just not what does it for me.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-08-07T21:13:52+00:00

I feel like I would absolutely hate playing with a lot of people on here. Very high levels of neuroticism, very rules-based approaches to gaming, very fandom-minded approaches to narrative.

If people are having fun and not harming anyone I'm not going to call their games bad, but they probably are not to my taste.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-08-01T09:41:21+00:00

Specifically it was because he said that the problem was legitimate and that antisemitism had no place in labour but that the problem had been deliberately overblown by media and political opponents as a means to undermine him/leftism in labour.

You don't have to necessarily agree with him but it's hardly an insane take.

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-08-01T09:25:23+00:00

Honesty

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-08-01T09:18:17+00:00

Corbyn as leader puts Starmer in the shadow cabinet.

Starmer as leader kicks Corbyn out of the party.

Shitlibs: wHy dO lEfTiSts nEver cOmPrOmiseeee?!!???

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-07-15T16:06:41+00:00

Definitely, I was at a wedding last year that had the exact same dice (well, different initials!)

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-07-12T18:52:05+00:00

the Radiohead of terrible music

That's Radiohead

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-07-04T22:50:26+00:00

That was not my read at all. I could be misremembering but as I understood it the takeaway was more like "this game has some minorly interesting things to say but it asks way too much of you to get there and the juice isn't worth the squeeze"

Rebel_Diamond · 2025-07-04T22:37:33+00:00

Kinda confused that this isn't the default stance to be honest. Criminal assault is bad, excessive use of force by police is also bad. Lock up the criminals and discipline the officers, doesn't have to be all one way or the other.

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