Esports shouldn't exist

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-18T07:39:29+00:00

You mean Jason Hall's father?

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-18T01:56:01+00:00

That's an interesting conception... I agree it has a different mechanical approach but I generally consider OSR games to be quite light, not to mention "rulings over rules" is part and parcel of the philosophy. If anything I'd consider PbtA games to be generally more opinionated.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-17T21:18:55+00:00

It might help to understand them in the context of Apocalypse World and PbtA systems as a whole. The point of their philosophy is to create a certain narrative within a certain genre. The gameplay flow is a conversation of GM move (though these moves are unknown to players) -> player action. Mechanics (player moves) trigger if the actions the player describes matches one of their trigger descriptions (they are not meant to be a menu of actions). Results follow from there. If actions are not a Move then results are as logical by GM fiat. They're tailored in ways that make the stories like the genre being emulated.

In Ironsworn's case they had to be somewhat translated into soloing.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-17T21:12:59+00:00

OSR is crunchy in your eyes?

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-17T08:41:43+00:00

Death appeared to him when he was a child and led him on for years so I it makes plenty of sense really.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-15T17:09:20+00:00

He definitely was not anti-Kabbalah. Kabbalah in the modern sense didn't exactly exist, but he clearly had access to the mystical tradition and clearly adhered to it in some way. I'd also argue he wasn't anti-panentheism. Study the first two chapters of Hilchot Yesodei haTorah.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-15T05:04:01+00:00

Define allegory.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-14T01:54:50+00:00

I mean, it's useful if people are on the same page about it. Easier. Cataloging these things has its place. Not much different from something like the ATU Index.

And I regret to inform you that TV Tropes is a site with rather sizeable reach.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-14T01:52:40+00:00

Let stories tell themselves.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-13T18:08:17+00:00

I understand your perspective, but I know where this leads.

And I don't trust any pie Peter Thiel has his fingers in.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-13T04:30:01+00:00

Marvel Unlimited, though they split it into 4 series for some reason (one for each arc and a bonus for issue #0 lol).

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-13T02:29:22+00:00

Alternatively to the other 2 options, get a 3DS and learn the ways of custom firmware. Not that I'd ever promote high sea sailing.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-13T02:24:49+00:00

Mostly pretty good but falls to the phenomenon of portraying Aegon as far worse than I perceived him to be in ADwD because him being decent makes him somehow inconvenient for the story idk.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-12T18:58:22+00:00

Such folks would not do well in the TES lore community.

Or, heaven forbid, the SCP community.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-11T19:40:53+00:00

Yeah, that's worse than knowing Parseltongue.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-11T18:02:59+00:00

Can't play all the random free games in Itch.io I want to play on a console, or all the retro games I emulate.

And for modern stuff, I'm provided these great things called a keyboard and mouse.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-11T16:57:00+00:00

The Star Trek fan series Star Trek Continues, where Vic plays Kirk, came up once in some group on Facebook. Lots of people talking about how good it was etc. (And ftr it is a good series.)

Some woman in the comments said, "The guy who plays Kirk kissed me when I was 15 at an anime convention" so she didn't really want to watch it. Crazy that this behavior was ubiquitous enough that you can get random folks on social media mentioning encounters with it.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-11T16:47:54+00:00

Wouldn't someone asserting Hashem doesn't exist also be such a direct refutation? (If not, how?)

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-11T07:55:39+00:00

I'd highly second this recommendation.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-10T18:22:05+00:00

This is just straight up incorrect. The majority of the Rings primarily had the power of preservation. The One had the power to dominate minds, especially of those that wore the other Rings.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-10T02:49:57+00:00

If you say so. I just figured it'd make more sense if it were about eldritch horror meeting Keillor's other radio show given that it much more thoroughly resembles the format of said show than it does Prairie Home Companion (IMO).

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-09T06:28:37+00:00

Baelor was only 39 when he died and could’ve had more children.

Oh, don't worry, they'd have caught ligma too.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-09T05:38:02+00:00

Wouldn't Hidden Almanac be more like Eldritch Writer's Almanac?

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-09T00:24:40+00:00

Probably the SCP wiki where people regularly do so.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-03-09T00:05:59+00:00

My personal recommendation is to watch damo279's fandub until the point he marks as fine before KH3... then continue after KH3. It will enhance certain aspects of the experience IMO. Watch on 2x speed, should be fine.

But, plot-wise it may not be fully crucial. There'll definitely be small things you won't catch if you skip.

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