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That is not terribly Debordpilled of you. Détournement now! Or maintenant, I guess

I have realised that one can indeed make a coherent argument that fun is, in fact, fascistic and thanks, I hate it

I feel like lines of creative descent are different enough from the Seven Nations system that we're safe, but that does _also_ have a lot of analytical power!

Still blows my mind that the new larper who was recruited onto the crew to play Milady de Winter was a schoolfriend of mine

BRECHTLARP NOW

Absolutely - this is actually how I ended up crying in the crew room at Insurrection 1 because people kept suggesting we just do a random bandit attack and That Didn't Make Sense. Purity of vision is so important and so hard to fake.

Hitting people with rubber swords without care for consequences or needing to make any, uh, Significant Choices is delightful escapism tbf. And in a very different way to my West Wing/Charlie Wilson's War/Wag The Dog nonsense!

I think part of it is that I don't think any of us (except maybe the core team at PD Towers?) could have imagined back in 2012 what a behemoth Empire would become. It's a genuinely unique game and that's kinda wild for its massive size because it could easily just be fantasy soup

Hopefully three great tastes that taste great together!

I almost said "DNA" but that felt weirder!

I tend to categorise freeforming as very different to larp tbf - to the point that I use the terms "event" and "game" interchangeably to describe a weekend's instance of a larp

Insurrection was a straightforward love letter to those games, and a specific spiritual sequel to Succession. To a lesser extent, Falling Down was too, but that had way more PD in its fundamentals

The grand unified theory of larp design is "I went to this one game and they did something I have Very Big Feelings about and now I'm gonna write my own damn game to show those assholes/make them respect me"

Aren't there TTRPGs with basically no game elements/rules at all? Or are we calling any format guidance a rule in this context?

(I do think that TTRPGs do more imaginative stuff with rules though)

They never really AFAIK did much outside of Pixie/Kingship/Succession, and I believe the Pixie website is now one of the organisers' blogs where he posts about his faith and such. But their legacy is very large, I'd say there's a distinct post-TT branch that descends from the 90s Coventry scene

It 100% was, the organisers went to Peckforton and fell in love and then decided to make their own

From:Shanson900 Sent: October 18,2014 To: Jeffrey Epstein NYT mag Men of Wellesley - Can women's colleges survive the transgender movement You spoke about it only 6+ mos ago. Now the cover story. Dam!!

don't mind me, just finding lots of bread crumbs showing Epstein and the League of Pederasts were a driving force in pushing transphobic hate.

This email was sent in October 2014, at the start of the current anti trans political campaign and astroturphing.

Three years after the @spacethenation.bsky.social episode about it, I finally read The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch. Absolutely loved it, @anamariecox.bsky.social is correct that the best genre is sci-fi (neo-)noir, whether cyberpunk, detectives-in-spaaaaaaaaaaaace, or something else

I love both games and their DLC, but there hasn't been a mainline Horizon game in almost four years :-/

Using an image from _Horizon_ of all franchises for this piece is absolutely _wild_.

Times New _Roman_, innit? :-(

How do you think bureaucrats (a term which is generally only used pejoratively in this context, so you'll need to excuse my scarequotes) manage what individual members do in a postal ballot?

Political party affiliations are decided by a vote of trade union members, not "bureaucrats".

Is it $1mil per thing, or just a flat fee if you meet any of the criteria? Just trying to do some financial planning here

Green threat is growing. 50 seats where the green party can win.

50 seats...

Time to grow the Green Party even more.

Let's go.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Starmer increasingly appears to be holding his Labour Party upside down.

Currently in the grasp of a GUMSHOE campaign idea I can best describe as "Night's Green Pleasantries," with apologies to both @julian.cartoongravity.com.ap.brid.gy and @pelgranepress.bsky.social

This is what happens when you listen to too many audio-dramas in too short a time, kids

Nuclear war, one assumes, was involved somehow?

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Just signed this, and (if you're in the UK) hopefully you will too

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A man with a beard and a hi-vis vest stands in front of a crowd of people (one of whom is wearing a dinosaur costume) holding banners and placards

A few friends and I went for a nice walk through Leicester today

#WeAreTheUniversity