peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A bunch of guys throw a 30th birthday party for a friend. 000
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Went to a conference last year where someone did a presentation on this and found it fascinating. Did you know there are several revival projects around its upcoming anniversary? Out of curiosity could you (briefly) name your points of difference with the work? 111
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Wake me when he quotes Ian M Banks. “A guilty system recognizes no innocents.” 041
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Nobilis, specifically the Second Edition, the “Great White Book.” Beautiful in terms of being a physically gorgeous artifact that also is conceptually amazing and contains some lovely writing. 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Thank you. I will be interested to see it when you’re done! :) 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 24/04/2026But doesn’t intent matter? I’ve argued that CR really isn’t an Actual Play. E.g. The Mercer Effect happens because learning from “performative” role-play is like saying you now know how to play basketball because you watched the Harlem Globetrotters. It’s intent: to entertain rather than share. 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 21/04/2026About as far as you can get from the genre’s roots of dungeon crawls and combat. :) 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 21/04/2026In sketching out the further reaches? CONTIUUM is truly bizarre and considered unplayable by some. There are some I can’t believe exist, like the Dallas Roleplaying Game. Games like Amber Diceless and Everway pushing alternative mechanics. Games like The Romance Trilogy and Bluebeard’s Bride. 140
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Is this fundamentally different than the class in May (12th, 19, 26) with the same title? 110
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Escape. From the Latin: excappare. Literally “an empty cape”. Because that is what you leave your pursuer with when you escape. 040
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 10/04/2026“…our cancelled Legacy of Kain…” ExCUSE me?media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with blue eyes and a beardALT: a close up of a man 's face with blue eyes and a beard 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 03/04/2026CoNTINUUM: Roleplaying in the Yet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continu... I actually played it with (I believe) one of the creators at a con. Functionally unplayable from what I can see. Utterly fascinating to read/think about. I hope one day for someone to prove me wrong and run a campaign of it for me.en.wikipedia.orgContinuum (role-playing game) - Wikipedia 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Go with god, my fellow. We tried watching it a few years ago. It was an enjoyable experience especially after we quickly learned to start jumping to the Friday episodes. It was easy enough to keep up with changes n the GLACIAL plot and Fridays were generally when things actually happened. 101
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 23/03/2026I started much the same. I got a copy and started a little one shot with some friends for the same reason. 2+ years later we’re almost at the end of a full campaign I’ve been running every week. I don’t know if you’ll agree but I found it the best edition of the game in terms of mechanics, ever. 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 07/03/2026*side-eyes 110k work currently in peer review.* 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 07/03/2026media.tenor.coma man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiersALT: a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers 000
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 02/02/2026If I had to put it in D&D 5E terms, the Vampire character is probably more like an Eldritch Knight, which is a sub-class of Fighter that can use spells. The Summoner might be implemented as a Warlock who takes the Pact of the Chain, but that class requires a “patron” which might not fit the concept. 110
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 30/01/2026And this to say nothing of DFW’s other works. I love how his non-fiction takes me in directions I’d never planned. Consider the Lobster’s central question of morality and pleasure in food, for example. And his speech “This is Water” is such a beautiful grappling with life, pain, empathy & truth. 000
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 30/01/2026There are other “difficult” books I deeply despise. Gravity’s Rainbow was an unmitigated and painful slog with no point. I think Finnigan’s Wake is a ridiculous and pretentious flex. I know folks who hated this book and I totally understand their perspective. But for me, it is a seminal work. 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I know it is not for everyone. I admit that it found me at the right time and place - a supposedly ‘gifted’ young man in my early twenties. I allow that it IS a lot and asks a lot. I also love this book the way I love many things: deeply, unconditionally, and with a full awareness of its faults. 110
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 23/01/2026A Wrinkle in Time changed me. I saw so much of myself in Charles Wallace and Meg. Apparently I showed up in my grade-school library afterwards asking if they had anything on tesseracts. I loved some of the sequels as well but none of them touched me the way the original did. 000
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 30/12/2025I hung out with Quentin Crisp before he died. He was hosting an event in Philadelphia and held court in a bar afterward. My 22 year old gay ass got to hang on his every word. I told him I wanted to be him when I grew up. “You will be, dear,” he replied with absolute certainty. “You will be.” 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Oh I’m not saying ALL of TNG managed it. Nor that it managed to be good when it tried. Code of Honor? Up the Long Ladder? The Child? There’s some truly miserable (and weird) stuff in there! 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Then TNG jettisoned the pulp and just did the morality play. 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I’ve always described it as as two-fisted pulp adventure crossed with a morality play. Yes, it got intellectual and would confront its protagonists with moral quandaries, but they were usually solved by punching the right guy and sweeping the right girl off her feet, then discussing it and laughing. 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 13/09/2025HBO’s Carnivale felt like it was literally written for me. The period, it’s view of magic, the writing, the acting. The opening speech gave me chills: “And so it was until the day that a false sun exploded over Trinity, and man forever traded away wonder for reason…” Shame we never saw the end. 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Do we just need better spells? Maps that match the territory of the real as well as the emotional landscape that led these people so astray? Ignorance can be cured but stupidity is a death sentence. The forebrain is never going to defeat the hindbrain in a fair fight. So again: what’s to be done? 020
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 08/09/2025So where does that leave us? When people fervent believe objectively wrong things about reality in a way that literally harms all of us (for example, parents refusing to vaccinate their children) what’s to be done? A magic spell (read: story) got them there. Logic is not going to get them out. 110
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 08/09/2025That last part resonates with me particularly these days. Alan Moore’s book on magic has made me re-examine my own thinking on human belief, magic, imagination and stories. People don’t think their way into their beliefs and they’re not going to think their way out of them. 110
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 08/09/2025“Someone believes God exists because a book tells them he does; they believe the book is true because lots of people have told them that it’s the word of God. Plus they like what the book says—that’s the most important thing. If they didn’t like it, they wouldn’t believe it.” - Thomas Ligotti 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Six pence none the richer? In this economy? 000
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I love LeGuin. Reading her is the intellectual and psychological equivalent of touching grass: centering, grounding, and something one should probably do at least once a week. 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 05/08/2025The irony is that, some 45+ hours on, FFXVI might be my favorite in the series since XII. Gameplay- and story-wise it’s solid “What if Gams of Thrones but FF?” with all the good and bad that entails. Love how grounded it is even as insane stuff is going on. It’s just the opening hours were terrible… 000
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 18/07/2025going to fight some goblins. I can’t remember playing a game with as poor an opening as this one in a long time. I only just got to the world map and it’s got have been nearly an hour. 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Every time I think I can play it’s another f’ing cutscene. The story is there are Crystals and Blight and War is Coming. The bishonen is clearly the older guy we played earlier but with An Important Mark that indicates he is One of the Downtrodden. Exhausting cutscenes explaining you’re… 000
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Jesus god. More cutscenes. More humping. To say this game has a problem with women is putting it mildly… One maiden and two whores so far. And the maiden in question is the “bubbly girl next door who’s also a shrine maiden.” This, by your lights, are nuanced, interesting characters? 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 18/07/2025And then…just when the game gets a little interesting…more cutscenes. :( 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 18/07/2025The sheer amount of money spent on making this non-game so far is mind boggling. If you want to make a movie, make a movie. But please don’t pretend any of this is “gameplay”. 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Finally after a half hour of this is we cut to COMPLETELY DIFFERENT characters and our, of course, young bishonen protagonist finally starts the Combat Tutorial. I have done nothing so far but yawn and press “up” on the controller. (Oh, I shot fireballs and dodged somewhere during a cutscene.) 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 18/07/2025I know nothing about doing things I don’t care about nor have the context to see why they’re “epic.” A war is on. A sexist stereotype of a woman humps a stereotypical tough guy after “deeply important” things are said in a war council I have no chance of understanding. Nonsense place names abound. 000
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Finally got around to playing Final Fantasy 16. Its opening is everything wrong with video games. If we use “what the player does” as judgement of what’s actually happening — as Jordan Mechner does — it’s 20 minutes of barely interactive cutscenes, hallway walking and watching characters… 310
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Any suggestions on panels, etc? I keep staring at the website and planning, unplanning, and replanning. :) 100
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 02/05/2025We’re literally at a Kate Pierson show tonight. They did “Dead Beat Club” — one of Neil’s favorite B-52 songs. :) 010
peccable.bsky.social @peccable.bsky.social · 01/05/2025When we did the countdown of top episodes for our full-watch podcast of TNG, her performance in “Half a Life” put that episode over the top. 000
