Dogmantra

Dogmantra wrote

Reply to game i made up by oolong

I rate it 10/10 because it sounds fun. I rate it 0/10 because I love word games but none of my board game pals like them so I never get to play them :C

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Dogmantra wrote

https://www.copypastecharacter.com/ is a useful character map (I know there's one built into windows but I find this more convenient due to the way it sorts stuff)

https://thealexandrian.net/ is a blog by a guy who's been GMing tabletop RPGs for yonks, and wrote the Infinity RPG among other things. Lots of good resources on GMing there, and it always gets me in the mood to run a game when I read it.

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Dogmantra wrote (edited )

yknow I've only seen one "joke" so far today and it's been relatively benign... on the one hand I'm glad but on the other I'm on edge because I fuckin hate april fools day and I'm just waiting for the deluge of garbage "jokes"

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Dogmantra wrote

The thing about socialism is it's a group of ideas more than a single idea. Unfortunately this leads to a lot of infighting which, as we know, the left is very good at.

On the one hand you have people like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders who push for things like nationalised/free healthcare, public transport. On the other you have a plethora of shades of anarchists who want to dismantle the ideas of nationhood and government entirely. It can be hard to reconcile the fact that these two groups are on the same broad side.

I guess the best way to describe socialism in very broad terms would be the idea that society should be set up as systems that benefit everyone who is part of society, not that people should work to benefit and perpetuate the systems.

I don't have resources, but I would suggest looking into anarchism in Spain - there have been some successful anarchist communities built there that lasted quite some time before being deliberately destroyed.

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Dogmantra wrote

I'm glad you posted this because I first saw it on tumbles this morning on my phone and a) I was tired and b) it was small

both of these things contributed to me not appreciating it to the extent that it deserves. It's a great draw!!! (AS USUAL!!!!!!)

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Dogmantra wrote

history of rome is a classic and very good! it's a narrative history of Rome from the kingdom of rome to the fall of ravenna & the collapse of the western empire. The narrator is fantastic and entertaining and soothing, and it's real neato.

our fake history is my vote for currently updating podcasts. another history one! it's about historical myths and urban legends, so it'll look at, say, Robin Hood or Lady Pirates, and see where the stories started, how they crept into the modern consciousness, and if there's any historical evidence to suggest there's any truth to the tales. V entertaining storyteller. The more recent seasons are generally more "exploration of a broad topic" rather than "analysis of a single myth" but I don't mind.

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