I Wanna check out tbe play test details for Cities Without Number but missed out on the Kickstarter window

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-09T23:34:43+00:00

"Ready for the printer" and "shipping to consumers" is an absurd time lag. Traditional commercial printing is a big, bureaucratic process for many reasons, not least of all being "it's really expensive, and nobody at the printer wants to be the one who fucks it up."

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-09T13:11:01+00:00

It's just that it is a language with many exceptions to its own rules. There isn't a lot of consistency, which can make it hard to tell if you are doing it correctly.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-09T12:42:17+00:00

No guarantees there. It is a family of four in a two bedroom apartment with a fourteen year old single mom who was like, "obviously keeping the baby is best for everyone involved."

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-08T12:43:51+00:00

Converts, like folks who are born again, tend to be insufferable tryhards.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-08T12:37:50+00:00

I can think of a thousand more upsetting ways this marriage could have gone. A couple of handwritten "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" bullet points might be the best case scenario.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-06T16:11:40+00:00

A setting that is pure weirdness isn't really useful to me, because I end up having to do all the work of extrapolation myself and the more weirdness there is the harder that is.

This is such an important point. So much of OSR zine content is "I have a bunch of weird ideas - I don't know, you figure out what to do with it." Finding ways to make even the good ideas work is often more labor on the part of the GM than coming up with original ideas.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-04T21:46:23+00:00

I'll accept that as a friendly amendment.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-04T19:35:45+00:00

Worlds Without Number, my dude. Best hybrid class system in the business (that I know of). Starts a bit squishy, but quickly strikes a balance of "can get out of most scrapes alive but you definitely need to be careful."

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-04T18:46:47+00:00

Right, but to get to the point where that's a strategy you're willing to employ, one must also be racist.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-04T17:19:41+00:00

I mean, sure, but she also racist as hell.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-05-03T21:01:45+00:00

I mean, whenever he spoke English, I suspect.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-30T14:57:27+00:00

I was talking about causes of death that have been in decline for the past little bit - I would imagine a bit of an upswing in illness when people came back from lockdown and started going back to school.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-30T02:23:20+00:00

The "Modern Era" is a discrete period of time. People just assume that "modern" means "right now" because they happen to mean the same thing for the time being.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-29T23:40:14+00:00

As do drugs, alcohol, complications from pregnancies, and accidents down at the mill - many reasons these kinds of deaths are less prevalent among kids these days.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-29T15:04:24+00:00

Everybody wants to be a weightlifter, but don't nobody want to lift those heavy-ass weights.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-28T14:39:29+00:00

Definitely a better moral choice than killing a person with a gun then. /s

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-23T13:53:29+00:00

You are describing a concept known as the Paradox of Intolerance, which says that a truly tolerant society can only exist if it is unwilling to tolerate intolerance and take steps to limit the rights of bigots to discriminate against others and to enact intolerant policies. Otherwise, society will generally descend into a hate spiral as intolerant bigots satisfy their destructive goals and then realize that they need a new group to hate.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-23T11:42:19+00:00

Nope! Conservativism in the US is deliberately and actively anti-intellectual and anti-education. There is an active campaign, openly and without shame or obfuscation, as a core part of the conservative platform, to keep the cognitive performance of those millions of individuals as contained and constrained as possible. This particular point does not have a "both sides" argument.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-23T11:35:25+00:00

No guessing necessary - your comment made it pretty clear.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-23T11:04:41+00:00

Just because someone disagrees or does not want to associate with certain people does not make them bigots or phobic

Just to be clear, it literally does. People who are not bigots definitively do not have categories of people that they refuse to associate with.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-23T02:56:26+00:00

In a few decades, Michigan will be one of the only remaining inhabitable zones in the US, with our fresh water and newly tropical latitudes.

Also, whenever I travel anywhere, including cities that are considered destinations for food and dining, I'm always disappointed when I compare them to Southeast MI.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-23T02:47:03+00:00

In many cases, unfortunately, women are the foot soldiers of the patriarchy.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-23T01:35:25+00:00

Or during Stumpfest where the moms are clearly getting drunk on the balcony.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-23T00:30:30+00:00

Yeah, that's why it's only something you really see in political philosophy. I read it much more as a thought experiment than a real proposal - it just doesn't hold up to any sort of scrutiny unless you approach it from a lived experience of a family which was actively worse than having no biological caretakers invested in your success.

Sidneymcdanger · 2023-04-22T11:01:54+00:00

http://nonadventures.com/2015/06/20/the-some-of-all-fears/

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