@Kichae@kbin.social @Kichae@tenforward.social @Kichae@kitchenparty.social

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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • I’ll be honest: I have very little patience for “you can homebrew this game that does’t do what you want, so you should never play something else” folks; it is probably the thing I hate most about 5e stans. This is the equivalant of telling someone not to give up on a show they don’t like because “you can always write fan fiction!”

    Why should I recreate the game when I just spent $150 on it? Isn’t that what I just paid for? For people who actually know game design to supply me with a game that meets my needs? Instead of someome who doesn’t know game design and also paid for the experience?

    There are so many games out there that could do what people want, but everyone’s way too invested in WotC maintaining a monopoly on people’s tables.



  • It’s really, really difficult to get small business owners to see how they personally benefit from social goods. They spend too much time grinding and struggling during the establishment phase. I think it’s something of a traumatizing experience.

    Like, trying to get those who primarily sell to working class folks to see how raising the minimum wage actually benefits them, because it means that all of their customers have more money to spend is nigh impossible. All they see is that they’ll have to raise prices, and it makes them even more hostile toward their employees.

    And the kicker is, they have no reason to trust in any of the social benefits, because we’ve lived in a society that bas spent the last 45 years dismantling them. And one of our two parties that actually makes government now explicitly runs on destroying social services of every kind.