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Deleting twitter. All I used it for was looking at drawings and now it's just a depressing propaganda vehicle. @elonmusk paid for this thing for 'free speech' - we can see now it was always intended to be a way for the richest man in the world to manipulate us. Fuck this place.

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Cannon is a lie that IP holders invented to hold more control over their IP.

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@ThengelStrider @ArturSmiarowski So you think every toy has a rule for it to - what - exist? What are the rules of a stuffed teddy bear ?

Games are just rules. You can have nothing else except your body and another person, and you can play a game of tag, because the game is just a set of rules.

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I don't disagree that art is becoming more safe and corporate and homogeneous, but the woke stuff that you guys are whisper tuned to detect is a biproduct of capital consolidation of the art world.

The collecting of IP into fewer and fewer companies homogenisning everything.

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Honestly, this is my favourite kind of grummz reporting. Scratching around for outrage in a slow news day, we end up writing a multiple tweet thread about dnd and consent forms.

[Grummz @Grummz]

Dungeons and Dragon's FALLS OFF the WOKE CLIFF in the brand new DM's Guide (Dungeon Master's Guide).

There is an entire section where DMs are encouraged to have players fill out sensitivity forms about what might trigger them, and an emergency X gesture where any player can stop a game if they feel uncomfortable (in a fictional fantasy setting!).

Funnier still, WotC @Wizards_DnD are being accused of STEALING these ideas from other games without credit.

A thread. 🧵

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I feel like this woke talking point is literally stapled to this grummz story, which is actually about hasbro allegedly stealing shit from smaller games and a general downswing in the content and quality of the game independent from how 'woke' it is now

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@ArturSmiarowski Fun is a crappy word for fun - and you slyly switch it to engaging in the second part of the sentence.

Yes, a game should probably be engaging, but what a meaningless statement.

Games shouldn't just be 'fun' that would be lame.

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@ArturSmiarowski Who is forcing games to be art pieces?

Games can be whatever the maker wants them to be. Games can be art pieces, games can be pure fun, games can be stuff in the middle. Does the existence of arty games stop other games from existing? No, right?

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@lorenschmidt I think that part of the question I'll always have as an observer is always going to point to the art - the heart of individual editorial choices expressed in unison to the viewer that are maybe ultimately inscrutable- just as any piece of a person isn't extractable and knowable

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@lorenschmidt This tool sounds super interesting. It sounds a bit like a shader language - with each cell looking at neighbours - maybe at like a map of the precious 'turn' - and returning some state that cell should be. Is that close?

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@lorenschmidt Ah OK yeah that makes sense. I think my other question would probably be a book length answer but I thought your description of making lots of CA rules for different things like coasts and mountains through 'mutation' was quite evocative and it would be interesting to hear more