So the Black Tapes was interesting, but it ended up feeling like they didn’t know where they were going, so I started Tanis, since it felt like that was where the creative team’s attention had turned.
I contemplated starting Rabbits but their advertising claimed it was Ready Player One meets Lost, and given that Lost felt like it didn’t have a plan and Ready Player One is both creatively barren and morally repugnant, that was a turnoff.
There had been some eye-rolling moments in the Black Tapes, like when they say an equation is the oldest known to mankind and represents a rejection of the Holy Trinity—like I don’t know how to tell you math has been around a lot longer than Christianity
But so I started listening to Tanis and like immediately they’re talking about Atlantis and the Illuminati and I’m like “I do not like where this might go…” and then they talk about “the Hebrew story of Moses…” and I’m like “uh-oh”…
And then in the opening credits there’s a sound bite about “the covenant that has now been set aside…”
and like given that 99% of conspiracy theories end up being just antisemitism
has anyone listened to it and does it get gross?
Like given that the narrator’s name is Nick Silver I was kinda hoping this wouldn’t go to that particular bad place
Ugggh their use of Elisa Lam’s death is really gross I think I’m out
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
-that LG is the "most good" or "strictest good" alignment
-that LG means obeying systems and not trying to change them even if they're harming people
you really start to understand the deathgrip racism & sexism have on gamer communities
*sighs in Jewish*
It's really disappointing that people's takeaway from this is "CG is the only truly good alignment."
I feel like I should do my "charity vs. tzedakah" rant here but I'm too tired and I don't want to talk to any more gamers tonight.
Actually, you know what? I've already done this rant multiple times. The idea that helping others should be based on individual compassion rather than systematized is a very Christian one. Judaism says the opposite.
A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that "editing" is fixing grammar/typos/etc. That is, copyediting.
But RPG editors do a lot more than that.
(Arguably development is actually a combo of game design and developmental editing, but it's a weird beast.)
RPG editors also check designers' math, do layout tasks like copyfitting, work with designers and developers when something in the text doesn't make sense, rewrite portions that are unclear, and do sensitivity reads and geopolitical risk assessment.
Never fucking fails: any time you talk about a harasser, an abusive boss, a toxic coworker, etc. a man will show up to try to shut down the conversation by claiming said person is a good person because they were nice to HIM.
Like oh boy do I have a rant building about the weaponization of the idea that there are “good people” and “bad people” to stifle discussion of bad *behavior.*
And even when that particular rhetorical move gets …sort of… addressed, it’s usually in terms of “abusive people groom allies just as they groom victims.”
And sure, that’s true, but it also misses the point and reduces people to one-dimensional villains.
Yeah, one sees this a LOT when Jews talk about Christian hegemony and the assumption that “true” Christianity is good, and the “I’m not Christian, but Christianity IS uniquely good” crowd is (obviously) white and (not as obviously) usually predominantly female.
White men who argue with this stuff tend to either be Christians or Christian atheists who get pretty openly white supremacist pretty fast (Christianity is less “primitive” than other belief systems, built civilization, etc.).
The white women who show up tend to get at the same thing using a lot “softer” language: *true* Christianity is about compassion, that’s not fair, why are you being hateful, etc.
For both, it’s like, if you’re not Christian why are you standing it this hard?
Union organizing has obviously been underway since before the most recent events: you don't go from zero-to-union-with-a-supermajority in a month. And I don't know how much any of the freelancers knew about internal unionization efforts.
But what the freelancers are doing, which is essentially striking without a union, does two very important things:
1) It preemptively signals to Paizo's management that they're going to have trouble finding scabs if the union does strike.