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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 1h

I genuinely find it strange that 5e/5.5e is so allergic to adding new classes. Given the pretty restricted and choice-light design of classes, it seems like a really rich area to focus on. Like, apparently the new WoW DND folds WoW's classes into existing stuff (e.g. Deathknight being a paladin

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 6h

It's kinda funny that this situation is directly downstream of patriarchy given how manly 40k tries to be.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I lowkey think this is mainly a neurodivergence thing.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After ruminating on it for too long cause this should be obvious, I think the whole "how do we do restorative justice regarding Jacob Geller?" discourse is just a smokescreen for not wanting to feel guilty for enjoying his work.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also Fabio's relationship with Dietrich gives big PG Psycho Goreman energy

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ALT: Psycho Goreman Hunky Boys

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm playing through Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave. Finished Cai's route and maybe halfway through Dietrich's now, and it's really stark how much Cai is clearly the intended first route. Like I'd be fairly lost if I started with Dietrich instead.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every Dragon Age is pretty good, but in specific ways that make them someone's obsession. If Veilguard is an exception, it's maybe that I don't see Veilguard obsessive's the way I do with the other games, but I kinda think that's more a symptom of modern gaming fandom than anything else.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In case anyone needed confirmation that it was indeed this Jacob Geller.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Feel like a lot of pbta discourse could be headed off by looking at bad pbta games as bad games first and foremost rather than examples of a bad framework. I kinda wonder though if part of the confusion comes from the other big RPG acronym of that era, OSR, being a framework for making variants of

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've gotten into watching a fair bit of linguistics YouTube and my two primary observations are that the Descriptivism vs Prescriptivism debate is a false dichotomy (because it's actually about power and enforcement of authority), and I feel like a lot of people are dancing around the fact that one

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A close reading of a game's text without playing it can lead to useful critique of some games, but so many games are centred around emergent experiences that can only come out of gameplay. We can't divine game-feel from text nearly as well as you think we can, however it is worth examining why some

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What's fun (i.e. annoying) is that the D20 is largely a cultural and aesthetic signifier and that'll trump mechanical integrity with so many players because they don't wanna think too deeply about mechanics. Like, who cares about your well-designed probability curve when you can chase the gambler's

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dude out here plagiarising the Devil from the South Park Movie. But yeah, always remember that Thiel is at heart a contrarian prick and says shit like this to be a contrarian prick.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bit late to this but here's the 9 games that shaped me.

A picture of a 3 by 3 grid containing the 9 games that shaped who I am. The top row (left to right) is Pokemon Diamond, Ratchet and Clank, Dragon Age: Origins. The middle row (left to right) is Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Final Fantasty 14. The bottom row (Left to right) is Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Dark Souls, and Persona 4 Golden

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Living in environments with longer sightlines than in a forest and benefitting from non-verbal communication in those environments would be be my guess. Being able to gesture without gesticulating or vocalising would be very useful in a grassland while hunting or in the presence of predators.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you've come to DND via critical role and dimension 20 and want that style of storytelling rather than a logistics management dungeon crawler, might I suggest world of darkness because that's what those APs have draped their DND skinsuit over. That style of ap is literally just DnD by way of WoD

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The problem isn't that people like DND as a resource management strategy game, because it is that, and that's fine to enjoy. The problem is the marketing of and culture around DND pretending it isn't so that people don't play the games that better suit their tastes.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just finished Star Wars Zero Company yesterday. Very good game, but one with loads of room for refinement and iteration. I hope the furloughed team members get paid and rehired because I'd love to see more from them. If I have one major issue with it, it's how it's

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Obviously these guys are lying for marketing reasons but there's probably an interesting thread to pull in the way they claim to be worried about a god they made personally hating them while ignoring the relentless but depersonalised threat of climate change.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I watched an @scenefour.bsky.social video recently where he was asking what people mean when they say the game gets in your way and my 2 cents are it generally means two often related things. Either they don't want to respect the premise of the game or they don't know what that premise is in the

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What gets me with AI evangelists is that not understanding the totality of a system you interact with is completely normal, but when they don't understand it, they claim its a new god. A lot of things cannot be comprehensively understood by one single purpose. That's why we have corpuses of

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A big thing with guys like this is that it's increasingly clear that they don't spend time with people in the real world anymore. Just chatbots and posting. And it's atrophied their understanding of people on like, a basic level.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That's because it's actually about asserting dominance over their family. It's rarely if ever sincerely practiced as it's just patriarchal posturing.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.

Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In
order of magnitude,
antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir-
atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews
. In contrast, demographic variables (including
education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev
f variance. Conclusions: These data help
identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem.
Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.

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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @markoraassina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tiger run (based on a comic trend by k2comix)

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've moaned about this before but even when you move away from the historical innacuracy, you have people insisting that DND's definitions of wizard, sorcerer, warlock, druid etc. are an objective standard rather than part of DND's specific fantasy world building.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Americas broadly have Europe beat on mustelids but the European Badger is pretty peak when it comes to badgers, ye gotta admit.

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fuck you're welcome to buy MY game! #iHunt is such a huge piece of work for just two people. We put so many pages into that game. And pretty much everyone that follows me would have fun just reading it, not even necessarily playing. It's a game about poverty. But from the poor POV.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One thing to bear in mind with Harry Potter recently is that it's clear that WB is panicking and that's why they've been pushing it so hard. Jessie Gender has done some great videos on how wb has been shoving hp references into all their other stuff, and it's clear that they're putting good money

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think a big part of it too was that feeling of inconvenience put them in a state to be very easily radicalised by people like Peter Thiel who are essentially fascist cult leaders. A lot of them probably would have ended up there eventually, but not so quickly nor so weirdly.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A lot of people's lesson from this will be to become a historical accuracy pedant when really the lesson should be that you should be more considered in your worldbuilding decisisions rather than just copying D&D and LotR's baselines.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fun thing about being Irish is our spooky season starts a month ahead of ye due to our Celtic calendar.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One of the new Trench Crusade units is three lads living together in a haunted diving helmet. This game is great.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

PF2e is definitely a bit of an acquired taste, and has plenty of fiddly bits that I'd like to see streamlined in future, but I hate the way people who don't like it so often act as if they're smarter than the game, its designers and players for not liking it.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What must first year orientation be like there "Here's the lockers, the cafeteria is through those doors, it's fish & chips on Friday so try get there early. That? That's the Homeschooled Babadook that stands sentinel at our school gates muttering about Gender. Speaking of, toilets are over there."

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I remember watching this guys retrospectives on different crpgs years ago and they were the most plodding, insightless, shite. Nothing to say and taking far too long to say it.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I recently re-read the Dawn of Everything and since it's come out, there's been a lot of pretty harsh criticism directed its way, and my problem is that nearly every criticism I've read is either some variation of a liberal or Marxist going "I'm in this picture and I don't like it" or people just

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh shit! Extra STLs for the Leviathan Front. Was definitely intrigued by the leper knight subfaction and it's great to see they got kits

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

QGIS as a Virtual Tabletop. Is this anything?

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's kind of apt that carcinisation is actually a pretty specific process that happens to a particular group of animals under particular environmental conditions.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Don't do shit like this if you've never opened an anthropology text as this dork obviously has not. What he's saying here is just rewarmed Hobbsean war of all against all state of nature nonsense. It might have made sense in 1651. It is not 1651 any longer.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It takes a lot of infrastructure to make societies cruel because it doesn't come naturally to most people.

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

An addendum to this is that Brett in making a good point badly, i.e. human societies always have to be vigilant of and actively resist the creep of violent authoritarianism has, has given loads of ammo to people who seem to believe that the only authoritarianism worth being concerned about is the

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Oisin Duffy @oisinduffy15.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Big part of this imo is a lack of holistic thinking between the combat design and everything else. Like how Clair Obscur's parry system makes every option that isn't minmaxing the parry system or alpha striking pointless. Or action combat in previously turn-based series.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026

there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_!

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