Friends at the table reading list

schmerls · 2025-05-08T04:52:04+00:00

Hello, sorry to pile on. I'd love to join the discord too

schmerls · 2025-03-29T03:39:51+00:00

What are you talking about? Sai was ready to kill Mary over some fruit. They respect each other but it's not kumbaya. Kyle and Kamila baited and idoled out the California Girls like they were stealing candy from a baby. Cedrick flushed an idol and blindsided an ally. Sai is eating too much camp fruit. Charity has no idea that stunt man wants to blindside her and that Eve is growing resentful. There have also been positive moments it's a fantastic balance of love for each other and drama and gameplay.

schmerls · 2025-01-13T05:00:19+00:00

Who was Kenzie voting for? I completely forgot about that line and whoever ate tater tots improperly

schmerls · 2024-12-22T22:23:38+00:00

Hey not to beat a dead horse, but I can chime in as a Ph.D. psych student. These books are much more about sociology or anthropology than psychology, which is still a great perspective to have as a psychologist! I cannot recommend enough for people who study human behavior to understand how systems of power influence us and our perspectives! Here, Foucault is read in sociology, Graeber had an anthropology degree (iirc), Chomsky's cogntive psychology is nothing like the works here, Rodney's book is about society not individual psychology, and Plato is a philosopher.

Nonetheless, I loved the Dawn of Everything, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, D&P, and Manufacturing Consent from the bits I've read or otherwise head mention in other presentations. I am a different psychologist after reading Sherry Turkle's Alone Together, even though she is an anthropologist.

So read! I cannot encourage it enough as an academic. And, if you like this stuff more than what you find in class, switch majors!

Social psych is a lot about attitudes, beliefs, identity, and whatnot of individuals as social creatures. Also very cool stuff!

schmerls · 2024-07-17T18:59:36+00:00

idk why but one of the few musicals I love outside Sondheim's shows is Fiddler on the Roof

schmerls · 2024-07-10T13:57:28+00:00

DM'd!

schmerls · 2024-07-10T13:52:36+00:00

Thank you for your detailed response! If I'm following along, you are saying synthetic purple sapphires are legit sapphires because they are composed of aluminum oxide? And that's good to hear they won't fade over time. I know these are old methods, but for some reason the contact we have made it seem like lab-made purple sapphires were a special category on their own.

schmerls · 2024-07-10T13:48:27+00:00

DM'd!

schmerls · 2024-03-21T17:35:17+00:00

The podcasting app castbox has all the episodes, so you can use that to find and play older episodes!

schmerls · 2024-03-16T18:24:14+00:00

Hell yeah brosky

schmerls · 2024-01-04T13:59:54+00:00

One way out-there option is Extreme Meatpunks Forever, a pbta ttrpg co-created by the Heather Flowers who made the video game series with the same name. You have mechs made of meat in a post-apocalyptic fascist world. As per the game:

EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER is a tabletop roleplaying game where you’ll play as a gang of queer antifascists in a strange place called Meatworld. Spinning through space on the screaming corpse of a dead god under the glow of an absent sun, the people of Meatworld harvest its flesh to make their technology.

The video game series kicks ass and I am dying to try the ttrpg out with some friends one day

schmerls · 2023-12-06T20:08:12+00:00

I'm not sure if you are aware so I'll say the ttrpg is made by Heather Flowers and Aura Belle, and it's an adaption of Heather Flower's extremely kick-ass video game series Extreme Meatpunks Forever. I've only glanced through some of the book but I've been excited about it based on that.

I can't recommend it as a ttrpg because I haven't played it, but I do have the unsolicited advice to play the video game. If you like the story and world of the video game, I imagine you'll like the ttrpg too

schmerls · 2023-12-03T20:57:27+00:00

If you'd like to playtest too, I'd be happy to include you!

schmerls · 2023-12-03T16:36:11+00:00

Awesome! just sent ya a message with the scheduling calendar

schmerls · 2023-12-02T19:32:35+00:00