My son is rolling strong again.  Did a 300x5 squat yesterday and is on track to have a shot at a 4 plate 1rm DL by the end of May.  I think his goal for squat is 350 1RM by end of May and it looks like he is on track to hit that too.  Not bad at all for a 13 year old (he is not small though, at 5'9" and 167lbs).

I think the outward degeneracy was an evolution that went with the social marxists.  They needed something to sell their rotted goods with so a reskinning was in order.  All of the commies who were in charge have always been trash humans though.  Most political figures have things about them they like to hide, but commies are the worst of the worst.

I keep getting recommended NPC trpg content so I might as well start sharing it with all of you!

QuoteThis is not to object to media products being transformed into propaganda. I'd agree that they're already always propaganda. Refusing to indoctrinate someone is indoctrinating them into neutrality, just as refusing to teach children religion is teaching them nullifidianism. The Wokists have that right: most everything reinforces one political narrative or other.

I would beg to differ on this one, and I think it's better to approach this from a Christian Apologetics angle than from politics or the history of gaming. I will try to circle back after I make my point.

There's one key difference between Atheism and Theism. If you push the Atheistic universe to it's conclusion, you must assume that logic, mathematics, and ethics are self-assembling.  If you push the Theistic universe to its logical conclusion, these could be self-assembling, but it is more consistent with the universe for them to be directly provided by God.

The problem is that since the 1930s and Godel's theorems of incompleteness, we have known that mathematics especially doesn't fit into neat self-assembling boxes. Without this, ethics and epistemology follow suit. This is why pseudoscientific ethics typically resort to non-answers like survival and reproduction and secular ethics fall apart under scrutiny. In this sense I think that it's more accurate to say that as our culture abandoned Christian ethical ideals, it lost the moral fiber to resist Marxism. Marxism also failed--it became Wokeness by switched away from economic arguments to racial and gender arguments--but because the Christian moral authority was exiled from public life and there were were no other moral authorities to call it out, Marxism evolved into Wokism.

And here we come to the rub; Christianity is getting targeted by the Woke because it retains the moral authority to call Wokism out. No one else really does.

So, no, I don't agree with the sentiment that teaching children nothing is actually teaching them nullifidianism. You either teach children functional worldviews or you don't. And if you didn't, chances are they will become Woke, not because they actually believe any of the ideas, but because the only thing which is real to them is the opinions of their peers.

Dark Souls would need a custom system to do it justice because the "Hollowing as a metaphor for the player quitting the game" metaphor is unique to Dark Souls. I actually can't think of a good way to embed this into a TTRPG, which makes me think the definitive version of Dark Souls will forever remain the video game, even if someone does manage to make a TTRPG out of it. It is a work of art which uses the video game medium as a choice.

None of that is true of Elder Scrolls.


Elder Scrolls has a mountain of lore, but to be honest...I think most of that lore is ho-hum at best. The best thing about the setting is that the Khajiit and Argonians are relatively novel races given the high fantasy backdrop. The magic system is merely OK, and the pantheon is a straight-up hot mess. I don't see anything in Elder Scrolls which has enough creative clarity to warrant a custom system. It might be better than "high fantasy as written by Chat-GPT" but it is certainly closer to that than literally any Final Fantasy game (including most of the spinoffs.) You can comfortably run Elder Scrolls with pretty much any generic system there is (and I think there's a fan-made Savage Worlds module for it.) However, if you tried to do that with Final Fantasy VIII, the system would crash.

Believe me; I tried. Way the heck back in my high school days I tried to make a Final Fantasy VIII conversion in GURPS and watched as the system broke down crying because GURPS doesn't have a clue how to handle junctioning.

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I never played the game, but: Isn't absurdist sexy depictions of Lara the whole point of the game.

Quote from: Exploderwizard on April 22, 2024, 03:31:47 PMLucky you! I was playing an AD&D monk that got hit with it and the system shock that came with it killed him.

AD&D Monks are immune to haste and slow starting at 5th level. This is more nerf than buff normally, as monks get a huge number of powerful unarmed attacks (this is their main job).  So either you were below 5th level or the DM forgot that you were not subject to it in the first place- either way, a tragedy!

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As I recall, the saying is "Politics is downstream from Culture." I forgot who first coined the expression.

Still, this all is absolutely a total culture war. Woke must be totally crushed and destroyed. If the Culture War cannot be won, then everything under the umbrella of "Culture" will continue to be corrupted and or destroyed. The TTRPG gaming hobby will be the least of our worries. It too though, will be corrupted and destroyed, just like every other aspect of our culture.

Tolkien is not at fault for anything. The problem is with the Marxist, Woke scum. They are the filthy, diseased rats, threatening to devour everything in society.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

For Battletech, I suggest you add Grummz autopsy of how the woke took over battletech community.  One community manager did Catalyst's Games will to be the fall thing to make battletech extremist left wing.  Very, very good work and read.  It will make you vomit.  Sarna.net appears to be the last main site for battletech they have no control over.

https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1781382248371278217

Quote from: jeff37923 on April 22, 2024, 01:59:41 AMWhen I was playing RPGA games of AD&D2e, that spell was the bane of my existence. I'd tend to play humans while the twinked out munchkins would play elves or other long-lived races who didn't care about aging. One long weekend of playing saw my character go from teenager to middle aged just from the casting of Haste at every combat encounter. After a session stopping argument, it was agreed that Magic Users with Haste would carry some live crickets with them who could absorb the Haste instead of the players who didn't want it.

Lucky you! I was playing an AD&D monk that got hit with it and the system shock that came with it killed him.