Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

The standard #ttrpg dungeon crawl is problematically colonial: "We want these treasures, and if the natives try to stop us, we'll just have to kill them in self defense."

How can the story be tweaked to avoid this, while maintaining the action/adventure idea of solving problems through personal violence?

I guess the obvious answer is to ally the player characters with the oppressed rather than with the empire. Perhaps more interesting would be to have them *start* allied with the empire, then slowly turn up the wrongness until they switch sides.

I'm enjoying reading the Last Parsec: Eris Beta-V campaign book for Savage Worlds, but whoever wrote and illustrated the section on the space stations seems ... unclear on how spin gravity works. Why would you dock to the outer edge of a spinning ring instead of near the center of rotation, where both docking and moving cargo are easier? Parts on the ends of the rotation axis are described as being at the "top" and "bottom". One of these is executive offices -- wouldn't they therefore be in zero g?

#ttrpg #SpaceStation #SavageWorlds #TheLastParsec

The first word of the ending credits of The Meg is 😘 👌 .

The Red Cross likes to give out shirts to platelet donors. This one speaks to my "Northern Tibetan heritage", if you know what I mean. #SubGenius #blood #platelets

@ai6yr It's only a ship if it has a jump drive, right @nyrath?

Why are all the big tech companies throwing money at LLM chatbots? Is it because all the other cool kids are doing it? Because they think they can replace their workforces?

Halfway through Giblin and @pluralistic's Chokepoint Capitalism, I'm beginning to think it's because they believe these will become the first thing people reach for when they need information (especially as search is becoming worthless). Controlling that gateway (to eventually sell access and ads) will be huge.

Finished the audiobook of Bujold's "Falling Free". Another absolute gem, of course.