The Culture: These Are The People That Exploit Conventional Play For Bad Ends

As if God has heard my prayers, the friendliest aging British liberal in Conventional Play showed why it inevitably ends up with Death Cult nihilism and worse.

Jon Mollison's response understates the insanity.

The Drama Club kids dragged a buncha drama club drama into TTRPG spaces?

knock
me
over
with
a
feather https://t.co/q2ilSL9lBF

— Mr. Wargaming (@NotJonMollison) January 28, 2024

Jim read from a lengthy article, the result of a four year investigation, which is archived here.

No, you won't find a brilliant--if sinister--master plan of grand villainy to subvert an enemy nation and pervert it to the will of the Death Cult.

What you will find, well-

-is somewhere between Lovecraftian horror and disgust at the banality of grown adults engaging in severely childish behavior.

These are the people who deems themselves your overlords and priest-kings.

And they are the people who want to use Consumer Culture to wield Social Proof and Fear Of Missing Out as attack vectors to poz you and yours. That is why they destroyed the Clubhouse back in the day, and that is why they fear its return- and yet, are unable to stop it.

You will see more and more stories like this Epic Saga of Sad-Sack Stupidity come out as things go on and Conventional Play's viability wanes with Current Edition going all-digital, taking the pillar propping up Conventional Play with it.

(Oh, and do go easy on Jim. He means well, and is mostly harmless, despite his politics. He may not appreciate it, but do pray for the man.)