Sam Liberty

Games for impact • ttRPGs • Hobby games • Playable Theater • Game Design prof. @ Northeastern • Founder @ Extra Ludic • Beer • Liberal/left politics • He/him

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

America could wake up on Wednesday with all three branches of our government — the — Executive, Legislative, and Judicial — Trumpist.

With this clip, take five minutes to ponder Germany’s memorials and the price that nation paid for being bamboozled by a bombastic autocrat. Listen to the heartfelt message of my German tour guides, for whom these memorials are like ghosts of mistakes made and evils allowed… ghosts that haunt their society still. These are the same guides who clink glasses in the beer halls and yodel from the hilltops with our American tour members. They admire America. They love America. And they are worried for America.

If we vote for fascism, it’ll likely be won by one or two percent (or even less)…and perhaps just a few stadiums of people will tip the balance. And history has taught my European friends that the cost of a course correction is infinitely more heartbreaking after a wannabe dictator wins an election than before. We are all participants, we are all responsible, and we will all bear the consequences of our collective choice.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

@TVietor08 Why isn't Maine 2nd district a house target?

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@guyinblackhat @KishonnaGray Constantine had a surprisingly cool Devil.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

@asaraviapt @nell_do_well No but I really like the idea and I was talking to @BrandonSichling recently about it.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

@TVietor08 What measures should Biden consider taking to aid Israel with Congress non-functional?

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@KevinPetker @PoMoAnachro Oversized? Max-load?

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

@guyinblackhat I'm always getting in it with people about what immersion is or if it's even actually desirable, or possible.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

@KevinPetker Not as much as I used to. In fact I can't remember the last time I did...

But I was never a fan of balanced encounters. They're boring.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

@KevinPetker Nothing. I do it all the time.

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@SharangBiswas @labxNAS The list making IS game design!

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Bidenomics in action:

✅ We've regained all of the jobs lost during the pandemic, plus 3.8 million more.
✅ Businesses have added 170,600 new clean energy jobs since Biden’s Clean Energy Plan passed.
✅ Unemployment has dropped to its lowest rate in nearly 50 years.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

How Gamification Is Fucking Up Our Elections

https://t.co/4akVo8dZ1w

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

If you design games, play RPGs, or run workshops for work, this one is for you.

Shoutouts to @Epidiah @jmstar @lackingceremony @liamlburke
https://t.co/YqsaRQ2doi

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

@JoePostingg There's no 25% chance. It's a 1% chance, unless something changes drastically.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

*This guy* is complaining about "purple prose?"

[Seth Skorkowsky @SSkorkowsky]

From Dragon Magazine #137, September 1988.
The more things change, the more the same battle has raged in Geekdom.
Honestly, I'm a little surprised the idea of placing a meter on adventures, rating its suitability for Adventurer, Roleplayer, and Problem Solver never got adopted.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

@MuellerSheWrote It's something else even less interesting.

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@novysan @JanineLiberty No! I never knew that! That's awesome. Explains why you know so much about water effects.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

Just realized that my friends who like Adam Sandler and my friends who care about the Mark Twain Award are a Venn diagram that doesn't touch, so I have no one to say "Hey, Adam Sandler's getting the Mark Twain Award!" to.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

@novysan Oh, it was. That was the best thing about it.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

All contemporary, slice of life, urban fantasy or otherwise "modern" RPGs should be set in the "Liquid Television" era (1991-1995).

I am firm on this.

[Sam Liberty @SA_Liberty]

You're thinking of beef jerky.