GallantFool

Incensed Hard-Left Anticapitalist TTRPG creator working QA for the most profitable tech company who can't even afford to pay me a decent wage.

Also i'm queer.

[project hail natu ₊˚⊹ @rylandstars]

"Rocky's crew died due to radiation, something humans studied, feared, and could fix.

Grace's crew died because they didn't have anyone to watch them while they slept like the Eridians."

oh my...

[Naoki Ohsugi @Ohsugi]

高専時代にやったTRPGで印象深いもののひつとがメックウォーリア。重装武器を積んでは、放熱板が重すぎて外しの繰り返しで、ゲーム始める前に数時間使い、敵側に黒い未亡人がいるっつー噂を聞いて震えるみたいな、高専生の青いエンジニア心を掴んで離さない。

[Just Ken @YoungerPope]

The Expanse, Fast and Furious, Mission Impossible all posit that at a certain point you prestige out of standard criminality into a sort of robber knighthood where you have so much ability you have a responsibility to use your powers ethically

[Pugs4days42 @Pugs4dayz42]

Everytime I see these object reloads, it makes me want a game kinda like 'Date Everything' where almost every object you can pick up becomes a gun with unique reload animations and effects.

Some indie game dev better make it happen.

[rocky happy not alone @HeirPlain]

Andy Weir on the ending of 'Project Hail Mary'

"I think it’s a perfect ending for Ryland because he really liked being a teacher, and in the end he gets to be a teacher and hang out with his best friend. And he’d be returning to an Earth where something like 75 years had passed since he left."

"Everyone he knows back on Earth will have died. He doesn’t really have anything to go back to. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙚’𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚. 𝘼 𝙟𝙤𝙗 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙨."

"𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚?"

"I knew that was going to be the end of the novel before I started writing the first page."

(via @nytimes)

[LazerGroove | Vanripper saga @lazer_groove]

This kind of stuff makes the whole Mechanicus "we don't know how to do it anymore" thing a lot more believable.
Yeah I can see a lot of DOT stuff being relied on vibes to actually produce

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The Adama Maneuver in Battlestar Galactica is one of the coolest sci-fi TV moments. Dropping a battleship through a planet’s atmosphere for a midair fighter launch was already insane on paper, then the show somehow made it feel grounded & epic all at once

[Spum @spumdonor]

Cartoon Network being owned by a benevolent, eccentric, cartoon-loving hillbilly billionaire with a hands-off policy towards creatives up until about 2003 explains so much honestly

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

These indie devs are making a game where you don't fight monsters, you cook for the people who do

- The meals you make build the hero's battle deck
- Feed them well, they fight better
- Cozy farming meets deckbuilding RPG

It's called Beastro. Would you play this?

[Ex-Soldier 🗡 @Ex_Soldier23]

one of the best compelling arguments I've ever heard for "survival of the fittest". he still wrong ofc but it's well written enough to be hard to argue against in the moment imo

And there's just something abt him being so casual abt this that I love😭 he's such a good villain

[Empire-Builders @EmpiresPod]

“During his nearly ten months on Elba [Napoleon] reorganized his new kingdom’s defences, gave money to the poorest of its 11,400 inhabitants, installed a fountain on the roadside outside Poggio (which still produces cold, clean drinking water today), read voraciously (leaving a library of 1,100 volumes to the municipality of Portoferraio), played with his pet monkey Jenar, walked the coastline along goat-paths while humming Italian arias, grew avenues of mulberry trees (perhaps finally expelling the curse of the pepiniere), reformed customs and excise, repaired the barracks, built a hospital, planted vineyards, paved parts of Portoferraio for the first time and irrigated land. He also organized regular rubbish collections, passed a law prohibiting children from sleeping more than five to a bed, set up a court of appeal and an inspectorate to widen roads and build bridges.”

—Napoleon: A Life, Andrew Roberts (2014)

[Indie Freaks @Indie_FreaksJP]

クエストの解決策はひとつじゃない。選択が世界を形作るダークファンタジーRPG『Broken Dagger』

「Daggerfall」に触発された本作は、自由な冒険が特徴だ。
古代のダンジョンを探検したり、隠された場所、予期せぬ出会いを発見しよう。

クエストに正解はない。
村人に味方するも、裏切るも、すべてはあなた次第。
隠密や戦闘、詐欺、交渉など、あらゆる選択が可能だ。
ただし、その決断は世界と人々に影響を及ぼしていく。

[planefag @planefag]

Fantasy writing: build an entire living, logical world that could be based on global economic, social, warfare and environmental dynamics from any point in 5,000 years of recorded human history and also add a magic system that works with all of those things and has rules that are stable enough to be constraining but flexible enough to allow for interesting conflicts. Somehow keep all of this straight in your own head without having a PhD in history anything.

Sci-fi writing: the math nerds have already built online calculators for everything and @nyrath has indexed them all on one page for you and oh here's a printable brachistochrone transit nomogram to tape up by your computer if you're such a window-licker of a writer that you need visual aids to internalize the time/distance relationships.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Shōgun won 18 Emmys in 2024, the most any show has ever won in one season. Hiroyuki Sanada has been acting since 1966. Shōgun was the first time any studio ever gave him a producer credit. That single word in the credits is why.

The tweet you're seeing makes it sound like Sanada walked into a room, slammed his fist on a table, and refused to sign until the studio respected Japan. The full story is quieter and explains a lot about how Hollywood actually decides what to make.

Sanada was first asked to play Toranaga around 2016. He asked the studio one question: would they hire Japanese actors and crew specialists for each department. They said yes. He signed on. The show then sat in limbo for years.

In 2020, the new showrunners Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks took over and asked Sanada to come on as a producer. It was the first producer credit anyone had ever given him in nearly 60 years of acting. His words to USA Today: "It means I can say anything, anytime."

Sanada moved to Los Angeles in the early 2000s and got his first big role in The Last Samurai in 2003, opposite Tom Cruise. The two became friends after a moment on set where Cruise insisted Sanada use a real samurai sword in their fight scene. Sanada swung the blade up to Cruise's neck and stopped just short of drawing blood. Cruise didn't blink.

After that film, almost every time Hollywood made a project set in Japan, they called Sanada. He consulted on 47 Ronin, The Wolverine, Mortal Kombat, Westworld and others as the actor. On set he would adjust how a sword was being held or fix armor that had been put on backwards, then walk young cast members through how someone in 17th-century Japan would have moved.

He kept hitting the same wall. He told Backstage magazine: "I started feeling the limit of saying something just as an actor. It was a hesitation, I don't want to break their pride, the crews."

When you are only the actor, you can suggest things to the director and the costume team but you cannot make them happen. You cannot fire someone who keeps getting it wrong, and you cannot bring in the specialists you know in Tokyo. You are a guest in someone else's house, and there is only so much you can rearrange before being rude.

A producer can. The minute they put the title next to his name, Sanada brought in Japanese specialists for every department, from a master of gestures and period movement advisers to a Kabuki-style stage movement coach and obi-tying experts. Co-creator Rachel Kondo told Rolling Stone it was as if Sanada had been waiting 20 years to make those phone calls.

The show came out in February 2024 and swept the Emmys seven months later. Eighteen wins, beating a record HBO's John Adams had held since 2008. First non-English show to ever win Best Drama at the Emmys. Sanada became the first Japanese actor in history to win a Primetime Emmy. His co-star Anna Sawai became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress in a Drama. The first episode racked up 9 million views in its first six days, beating the premiere of The Bear season 2.

The clip you are watching is the visible top of a very deep iceberg. Underneath is a 63-year-old who had been pushing for the same thing for 20 years, in the small ways an actor is allowed to push, until someone finally handed him the title that let him push out loud.

[fish @fishPointer]

how it feels to study the magic system

[Αριάδνη @vvvanitaas]

damn bro are you the tower of babel because you are stacked in defiance of god and I cannot speak coherently when you go down

[BGY @bgyetherr]

Fransız bir Yu-Gi-Oh! hayranı, 7 ayda kendi başına 3D düello sistemi geliştirdi.

• 3600 kartı tanıyan çipler yaptı
• Kart koyunca 3D canavar sahaya geliyor
• Çağırma anında kamera otomatik değişiyor

[Magnetic Norse @MagneticNorse]

I wonder what they do when they're not observed

[風乃＠ゲーム公開中 @kazeno_]

I want people in English-speaking countries to see this.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

The concept of religious aliens is fascinating.

We tend to assume spacefaring aliens wouldn't be religious because societies tend to become less religious as technology progresses (at least in our own recent history), but there's actually no reason to assume any aliens we might encounter would atheists.

Even if you're a spacefaring civilization, there's very little purely rational reason to explore beyond your own solar system. If your home planet is running low on resources or living space, it makes much more sense to build artificial habitats in space like ringworlds or O'Neill cylinders that give you total control over the climate than it does to colonize planets, and all of the resources you need could be mined from local asteroids. All of that is vastly easier than going on an extremely long, expensive, and risky journey over multiple light years, and if a civilization finds a way to live a purely digital existence inside a virtual reality, they would likely lose interest in space exploration altogether. This could be a solution to the Fermi paradox; aliens just stay home.

There's little pragmatic reason to travel beyond one's own solar system, but that still leaves religion as a strong motivator, and if any aliens come to us, they might do so for religious reasons.