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(+) Which, perversely, works, because there are many fellow losers with that same boogeyman in their heads.

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(+) because that crowd isn't even young-ish now and has done that application and won't go for much past five minutes of "Oh gross". So, you know, they're championing a fight against people who were never that, are mostly not there at ALL now, and doing it to get cookies from fellow losers. (+)

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They're positioning themselves as being out to outrage a crowd that was never what they thought it was (they thought it was overbearing liberal puritans, when it was in fact youngish people discovering social discourse and applying it to games) and doesn't really exist in the same way (+)

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Also, "Just be violent and sexy and cruel and proud of it" requires at least a 90s-era-Vampire level of understanding of what's sexy and cruel in a TTRPG, and they generally lack that.

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it's because they think of themselves AS conservative influencers.

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Turns out the "If AI is conscious then owning it is slavery" argument WAS revelatory in at least one case, just in the bad direction.

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Found a (rambling) review of it (maybe an earlier edition?), which included "In filing off the serial numbers, they also dropped all the good weird shit, like the fucked-up dragon transformations and such", so, like... Very Temu, yes.

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...I am interested in both the specific list of valences and the specific list of feats.

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Thank you! It's fun stuff to make.

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Maybe? I'm struggling to pull up any useful detail in memory.

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Chubby Funster / Greg Christopher

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 5h

I think I might have banned that guy from RPGnet back in the day? Not sure, but, it rings a bell over in that direction.

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I mean, yes, and I'm now interested in the book, because "This dude is interrogating the shit out of something I usually skim past as obvious" often yields good results.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 6h

This looks ridiculous, and I am HERE for it.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 6h

Power vs. Skill vs. Taste makes an even more complicated curve, and also, there's totally a game mechanic there.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 15h

The vast majority of shows where the hero is all "I do bad things so others can have a good life" got nothing, not the slightest patch, compared to Andor's Luthen Rael, I'm just saying.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 18h

There are hardcore anti-AI OS developers, but their rabid core appears to be netBSD, an OS that is... Not casual-friendly.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 19h

As a Linux guy, I am saddened to tell you that the people leading most Linux development have developed serious Vibe Coding brainworms, and I no longer have a strong recommendation for you.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 19h

Now is a good time to figure out what you’ll use instead of DDB if the union calls for a boycott. (Hat tip to our Friday night warlock for thinking ahead and starting that conversation for our game)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 23h

The theological mess might go for "The pope having divine authority on earth doesn't mean God doesn't ALSO have divine authority on earth, are you nuts? Miracles are God exercising his authority; this is a miracle."

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 23h

F. Immediately not only recognize the rando, but immediately attempt to abscond with them to incorporate them into the church. The theology would be a whole mess, but "Heaven interacts with our church and form of ordination" is an earth-shattering win which they would take.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Greta Gerwig did Barbie, and THOSE visuals were see-it-on-a-big-screen-worthy, which argues for that being a yes....

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"Where AI is used, it is used for good" is in reality, like, web page translation, alt-text generation, and a tiny fistful of similar utility cases. It'd be faster to call them out specifically; this vagueness serves only bullshit.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Steam's "Do nothing and win" default position coming through again.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

(For comedy purposes, if that's unclear)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

*Points at the East India Company as a reference.*

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The period where the union as it is now talks to everyone, and the company tries to campaign them out of voting yes, may prove interesting! I look forward to hearing the company talking points.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Unionization vote is the next step; there's a ways to go before picket time.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New Vision show starts entertainingly enough; it doesn't promise to be a "must watch show" or anything, I don't think, but I'm enjoying it.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

(This post was mostly an excuse to put that last bit online, but it's still true, so hey, win-win.)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

LLMs are "thinking" only if you take the "the human brain is like a computer" metaphor and torture it until its screams allow you to access USEnet in 1997.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I mean, it would justify using those little push-sticks to move troops....

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And by we I mean me, in this mood, on this phone, in this playground, watching my child on the slide, so that's a fairly narrow "we".

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If a dude was talking to his fellow dudes about the difference between Shadowdark and OSE, and how he borrows from one to feed the other, at the local game shop, but never online, we might say that he was OF the OSR but not IN it.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I mean, it's basically an online microculture where people have *opinions* on old D&D and on things people make based on opinions people have on old D&D and on the things made about those opinions, and often blogs are involved. And, like, you're in THAT, I think.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

From what I can tell, there are a fair few very vanilla dudes who buy OSR games but aren't "In the OSR" in any meaningful way in meatspace.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

(Which would also mean nearly no "Player table chatter" or "Doing an entertaining player reaction")

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Rules set so that there's no small fiddling and instead large rolls with much in the balance. Then, play in sharp divides and fast jumps between detailed, not so realistic action description / back & forth and character dialogue. All of it filmed, produced, edited to emphasize these elements.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Talking about some REAL Tolkien shit here, I tell you what. Turn that game into a musical.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

*Send the PCs to meet an ancient and sage being from the first age of the world.* *Emphasize that this is effectively a Godling.* *He's got a little jacket and his boots are yellow, and filled with silly merriment.* *Continue the bit until the players join in or leave the table.*

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One of the first pics I found after going "Is this real?"