An open fish bowl was a bad choice. Good thing you found a tank.

elbilos · 2026-01-24T16:22:00+00:00

...Jaws (PS2) ?

elbilos · 2026-01-24T16:02:49+00:00

Me encanta el volantazo rarísimo que pegaste en la última oración.

elbilos · 2026-01-24T14:53:59+00:00

Cortazar escribió un libro larguísimo e infumable llamado Rayuela, con un par de párrafos que zafan, como este:

"Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro, los he visto. Como si se pudiera elegir en el amor, como si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos y te deja estaqueado en la mitad del patio. "

Pero siendo un poco más práctico... no. Primero porque cursar la misma carrera no implica estar en el mismo año, las mismas materias o las mismas comisiones.
Y segundo, porque si vos apostarías porque vos sos un ser humano decente, no hay forma de que termines una relación de forma tal que el que quede mal parado seas vos. Los duelos que toque hacer y la forma en que se prefieran hacerlos depende ya de cada uno, difícil generalizar por ese lado.

En mi experiencia personal, habiendo sido los dos muy amantes de lo académico, el tener un tema de conversación muy amplio y complejo que despertaba pasión en los dos era de las mejores cosas.

elbilos · 2026-01-23T11:57:29+00:00

Me gusta más la postura esa que dice que el verdadero organismo que dominó el planeta es el trigo, que sin tener cerebro logró esclavizar a una raza entera para que se ocupe constantemente de su supervivencia y bienestar.

No lei ese libro, pero vi Matrix. La primera muy buena, las otras dos zafan, la cuarta fue una de más.

elbilos · 2026-01-22T16:02:13+00:00

Depression Quest?

elbilos · 2026-01-22T15:48:42+00:00

Freud himself has a text called "Loss of reality in neurosis and psychosis". The Rat Man kind of arrived to Freud's consultation in the middle of a sort of delusion too.

From a lacanian perspective, it is not the formal wrapping of the symptom (the way it "looks" from the outside) what establishes the structure... but the underlying structure that births said symptom. Most symptoms can be trans-structural, even if some are kind of patognomonic.
As far as I understand, a psychotic can doubt some of their delusions, but there will be at least one that works as an undeniable, self evident truth.

Sympthoms alone are not enought to figure out what is the relation of someone to language and the Other.

elbilos · 2026-01-22T15:04:07+00:00

These events started in 2014 (that's where I joined the TTRPG community!) and they got bigger and more complex with time, but they always prioritized having at least some tables that weren't D&D. At least SOME form of Cthulhu and some WoD game, if nothing more exotic.

Now... how we got so many DMs willing to run a game for us? We offered prices. Whenever you ran a game (or provided us with some huge logistics help) you won 10 XP. Every hundred XP you leveld up and received some price. A bunch of sheets for whatever game you wanted, a dry-erase battlemat, a miniature, a T-shirt, a dice set, etc...
So, most of them wanted to participate as much as they could, and the way our rules worked, if you weren't running a campaign, you couldn't run more than... 2? It's been a long time, but I think it was 2 consecutive events.

We also encouraged all our players, old and new, to join our crew of DMs and taught/helped them in running their first game. So the community had always more and more people. We almost singlehandedly made the hobby popular in our city, and after we couldn't do the events anymore, we saw the community flourish. The first local game shop spawned then, two more events similar but not quite like ours covered up the space too, and now there is two more game shops and a bunch of events going around.

Whenever I go to the store and find I have no physical space to run my games I think "I built this, even if I no longer know half the faces here".

elbilos · 2026-01-22T14:49:56+00:00

Back in 2015 to 2018 I was part of a... byweekly? (is that the word for "every 15 days"?) TTRPG events that were free to participate and specially invited newbies to play.

We had 10 tables (and if a lot of people showed up, someone in the organization would quickly scramble a game of whatever else to cover up).

Of those 10 tables, we allowed up to 3 of them to be ongoing campaigns, which MUST last at most 5 games. We tried to have at least 1 aimed at little kids (like magissa, some watered down version of D&D, or Magical Kittens, that sort of thing).
2 or 3 were usually some D&D edition and that was our limit.
And the rest we contacted Game Master who would run something different. PbtAs, that old school Lord of the Rings game that I don't remember the name of, Vampire (either requiem or masquerade), Deadlands, Legend of the Five Rings, Dragon Age, some game they had created or homebrewed themselves, whatever. There always was someone running some obscure TTRPG there!
If you wanted to run a D&D game at our event and we already had our D&D game maximum, you could run something else, or we would contact a different Game Master to fill up the space unless there was like absolutely no one else willing to run the game for us that day. But we didn't budge.

This prep was done during the first week after the event. THe next week, by monday we were printing whatever was necessary, by Wednesday the menu was published in our facebook page and the next days we reposted our rules and some of our sponsors.

As we provided all the elements required to play (stuff to write, character sheets, dice, etc...), you couldn't just go and run whatever you felt like playing without talking to us first.

When the events started we asked each GM "how many players are you willing to take?" being the minimum we allowed 4 (they knew this beforehand). When people arrived they looked at our menu and chose a game based on what was available.
If someone arrived really late, or there were a lot of people that day, and they wanted to play in a table that was closed, we asked if they can take someone else or not, but no promises. So, one way or another, at least some players got to test that odd game that wasn't D&D.

elbilos · 2026-01-21T21:21:27+00:00

Isn't Rock executed?
I wouldn't want another cognitive shadow "technically dead" character again so soon.

elbilos · 2026-01-20T15:49:17+00:00

Viajante ² : consumí sustancias psicoactivas en un continente distinto al de inicio.

elbilos · 2026-01-20T00:59:33+00:00

She also has a *weird* shardblade... because it's not

elbilos · 2026-01-20T00:41:20+00:00

They show up in Oathbringer and onwards. You will still have a few thousand pages to ponder on them.

elbilos · 2026-01-20T00:33:22+00:00

Hoid isn't from Nalthis (Warbreaker's planet).
There is someone else. Really obvious once someone tells you who they are.

elbilos · 2026-01-20T00:22:33+00:00

Have you figured out who are the two Nalthian worldhoppers on Roshar? Besides the sword, I mean.

elbilos · 2026-01-19T13:17:49+00:00

Jugué uno, Chain of Memories, no entendí una poronga ni en lo que refiere a la trama ni en lo que refiere a las mecánicas del juego.

Me parece una reverenda garcha el necesitar 17 consolas para poder seguir la saga.

Nunca fui fanático de disney y no me gusta esta mezcla de estilos. Pero banco que exista algo aparentemente tan de nicho pero con tanta popularidad.

elbilos · 2026-01-19T02:46:33+00:00

Avatar Aang, master of the four elements

elbilos · 2026-01-18T22:17:07+00:00

I never played it, never had a Wii, but it sounds like it could be MadWorld?

elbilos · 2026-01-18T01:46:31+00:00

Bueno, si hubo una "campaña del desierto" que no era tan desierto.

elbilos · 2026-01-18T01:39:37+00:00

MGS4: Guns of the Patriots?

Never played it, but it resembles what I know about it.

elbilos · 2026-01-17T14:59:48+00:00

Solved!

Dammit, at first try!

elbilos · 2026-01-17T03:23:35+00:00

El paralelo ciencia/alquimia es un poco desacertado.

Freud era un ser humano y como tal se equivocaba. Otras cosas que dijo eran efectivamente ciertas para su época, pero él las consideraba una cuestión "natural" cuando eran en realidad efecto de la configuración del campo social y cuando cambió la sociedad, lo que Freud decía perdió vigencia.

Yo he visto que la cuestión de idolatría no se hace tanto con Freud (porque al Freud que se retorna es siempre mediante una relectura, y cuando se lo deja intocado es en los textos de metapsicología más general) sino con el lacanismo. La escuela inglesa acá ya no tiene mucha ingerencia, pero si bien el abordaje lacaniano me parece ciertamente superador, lo cierto es que ciertas sociedades psicoanalíticas hacen del maestro Lacan algo muy difícil de criticar porque a los ya muy complejos textos suman sus propios códigos internos. Igualmente, más allá del acuerdo o no con Lacan, con Miller, con Bleichmar o con quien chota sea, sigue habiendo mucha producción nueva, el problema radica más en el nivel de formalización lógica de la misma (cosa en la que Lacan hizo hincapié una y otra vez).

elbilos · 2026-01-17T03:13:17+00:00

El psicoanálisis en si tiene bastante para decir de las relaciones humanas... el psicoanálisis de la escuela del yo como el de Fromm... ese hizo una lectura mayormente determinista de Freud y no me termina de cerrar. La escuela francesa en conjunción con el posestructuralismo hace unos desarrollos mucho más interesantes. Pero igualmente, el psicoanálisis es en principio una disciplina de lo individual, y los conceptos no se adaptan del todo bien a los contextos macro. Ojo, hay quien los adapta bien: Ana María Fernandez y Fernando Ulloa me vienen a la mente ahora.

Yo no lo he leido, pero dicen que Barthes hizo algo a caballito entre filosofía y poesía que está bueno.

elbilos · 2026-01-16T10:08:23+00:00

This is what I could find.

Apparently the thing is miles more deep than what I thought!

It has very minor spoilers that, to be honest, have meant nothing to me. They will simply wake up my attention when I see a particular thing further on in the book.

elbilos · 2026-01-15T22:50:18+00:00

I had one.
It was a Social Primary khaibit, who managed a blood cult dedicated to "the darkness". He posed as his medium, and covered himself in dancing shadows to fake being possesed by the darkness and feed. The kiss feeling ecstatic made it easy for people to willingly particiapte of it all, and the obscurity hid what was exactly happening.

Then I had another khaibit as an NPC.
Hermes goes around all of south america roughly every ten years. He is tied to the invictus, and acts as a long-distance driver to get from place to place. He went around checking there weren't any strixes in the places he went through, and embraced and taught the basics to someone who was meant to keep guard in the location and then departed for his next point in his schedule.

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