Avatar

barrbaric [he/him]

barrbaric@hexbear.net
Joined
48 posts • 6.5K comments
Direct message

I played it for an hour or so and was disappointed. The controls to move around the rest of the protesters seemed to be interpreted as a vague suggestion at the best of times; thematic, maybe, but it made the gameplay more frustrating than fun to me.

permalink
report
reply

Cheer up comrade; I remember reading somewhere that, during the Blitz in WWII, many people with depression and other mental health issues (including epilepsy, surprisingly) actually got much better, and that the same tended to be true during natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. My theory is that they no longer suffer from capitalist alienation; humans want a clear purpose and a community, which these scenarios tend to bring out of necessity.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Already registered, and spreading the word to other people around me. Hopefully this works, but I’m suspicious that the vote being online means they’ll be able to just rig it. Hell, we just saw the Cons have issues with their election with all the shredded ballots, and that was physical votes.

For those not aware, Dimitri Lascaris and Meryam Haddad are both openly socialist candidates, and Amita Kuttner seems like they might be good as well, but don’t use that sort of label.

Also check out this questionnaire from a leftist organization that several green candidates, including those 3, answered.

permalink
report
reply

Neat! I’ve always liked the idea of West Marches games. I have a few questions:

  1. Why 3.5e?

  2. How many DMs are you planning on having, and what will be max party size?

  3. Which resources will be used by players, and how will they be distributed?

  4. Just out of curiosity: how will you deal with the low-key imperialism of West Marches D&D? The subgenre, at least in my understanding, involves a lot of going out into the “untamed wilderness” and killing the “uncivilized savages (orcs, kobolds, etc)”, then taking all their stuff.

  5. Is the gameplay going to be leftist (as best it can, given the genre assumptions and game design), or is this merely meant to be a leftist-friendly space?

permalink
report
reply

IIRC Stuxnet was actually so pervasive that all nuclear facilities have to be air-gapped now.

Source: A guy I know who worked at a nuclear facility in a US-allied country said that one day a bunch of American government types (he thinks DHS) showed up and told them that they could no longer use unsanitized USBs on any computers, because of a chance they’d be infected.

permalink
report
parent
reply

My group’s on hiatus atm, but we’ve played a couple games online through lockdown (all in GURPS):

  1. Neon Genesis Evangelion + Pacific Rim Vs Skynet
    A trio of traumatised nobodies are forced to mind meld with fragments of a genocidal AI to pilot giant murder robots to stop the other giant murder robots controlled by said genocidal AI. The twist was that the “genocidal” AI had been created to stop climate change, determined that global capitalism was not sustainable, and destroyed all of the over-consuming nations. The PCs tried to reach a deal with the AI, but the leader of the project was fanatical that it had to be destroyed and betrayed them, getting one of the pilots on board to launch a desperate mission at its stronghold. They succeeded in destroying the AI, and humanity went back to capitalism and destroyed itself shortly thereafter.

  2. Delta Green
    8 people dropped dead simultaneously across Tuscon AZ, and it was up to our crew of two FBI agents, a DEA agent, and a CIA agent to figure out what the aliens were up to this time. Eventually, they did, and burned down an apartment building (with occupants inside), because government agents are the real monsters. In the epilogue it turned out that two agents had been possessed by aliens the entire time, and one of them had to be executed after being freed because his brain was still contaminated with alien thoughts.

  3. Kung Fu Cowboys
    In the Wild West, 4 martial arts masters fought for JUSTICE against the Outlaw King and his martial arts gangs. Party was a Knife-Fighter who was looking for his estranged daughter, Eagle-Stylist looking for his friend’s killers, Capoerista looking for his master’s killers, and a Sumo looking for food/glory. After battling their way through the enemy gangs (Sumos, Escrimadors, Dragon Stylists, and Roman Cavalry), the party headed to Hangman’s Mesa and the Pagoda of the Outlaw King. During the final battle, the Knife-Fighter failed to recognize his daughter, who had been mind-controlled, and killed her, then went mad with grief and was slain by the Outlaw King. His daughter turned out to still be alive (through miraculous rolls), got back up, and, with the help of the rest of the party, they narrowly defeated the Outlaw King and his lieutenants.

  4. Alien
    Just the movie Alien with some twists: the android was a different character, and there was already an egg AND an alien in the ship’s cargo hold at the start of the game. Kane got face-hugged, then Ripley got killed because she wandered off on her own after getting in a big argument with the others, not knowing there was already an alien to deal with. Lambert got trapped in with the Alien at some point when somebody hacked the doors shut, Dallas suffocated when somebody pulled out his air-hose on the exterior of the ship, and, after putting Parker and Kane into cryosleep, Ash tried to betray Brett, but lost to Brett’s secret android super-strength.

Upcoming games include:
-Post-apocalyptic/fantasy internal coup

-Fantasy game in Bronze Age not!Greece where PCs become gods by fulfilling prophecies

-40k either continuation of an old Deathwatch campaign or a heist on the Imperial Palace, he’s not sure yet

-30k playing as the human leaders of the 231st aka “Two-Thirty-Worst” expeditionary fleet; last campaign involved ferretting out a mechanicus planned coup and mass betrayal, then bringing a rebelling planet back into line.

permalink
report
reply

They’re apparently down a bit (~5% for a 1BR), but that’s apparently mostly due to COVID somehow. So, no.

permalink
report
parent
reply

I fucking wish.

permalink
report
reply

It’s actually their regional HQ in Night City, so it didn’t take out anything or anyone important.

permalink
report
parent
reply