More honored in the breach, etc etc.
Went to the office, got blamed by customers for not knowing things they hadn’t told us, New Boss T sent LLM output to the customer but nobody except me noticed, ate a stroganoff of beef.
Read (manga): HoriMiya vol 1 (Hero, Daisuke Hagiwara): Apparently this has been sitting on my TBR shelf since the days I thought boys had any place in romance stories. Anyway, she is glamorous at school but practical to take care of her little brother the rest of the time, he is emo and boring at school but secretly pierced and tattooed, together they shop for groceries and entertain the little brother.
Read (novel): The Shattering Peace (John Scalzi): Seventh(?) in the “Old Man’s War” series. Not quite what it says on the tin, although side effects of Consu meddling come close. The main character is pretty awesome. Possibly excessively so, but I like her.
Written (game design): 252:
The name came later, but Harmony was one of the first mechanics I put in
to get rid of spell slots and ten thousand abilities each with their own
set of charges and recharge condition. Now I’m throwing it out? And even
before adding MP, I got rid of health-based HP and now I’m bringing them
back? What is wrong with me? Am I just not smart enough to break free of
the D&D paradigm, even when I have all these other games to steal from?
Am I failing by trying to keep some crunch and not going full
story-game? Have I really reached the point where living dungeons and
black powder masers aren’t enough of a distraction and I have to go back
to the beginning on the system?
And, how do I make any of this anticapitalist, anticolonialist, and
antifascist? Starting with the PCs being outcasts from society instead
of members of a community probably isn’t great. Arguably living dungeons
and meteor monsters are colonizing the world? And wicked people turning
into monsters is spot on as long as we define wickedness appropriately.
And the visitors from the higher realms are definitely colonialist,
showing up and paving over things without regard to the mortals living
there. Whoever recycles souls (I’m pretty sure it’s not the higher
realms nor the celestial bureaucracy that FTWs work with, but some third
group) is also not great in this respect.
But, does the mere existence of colonialist entities presented
unfavorably make the game anticolonialist?