My Life In Fandom: Gabbing About Fail Wars & Winning At RPGs

Geek Gab returns today with author David West as the guest at 1pm Central Time.

The commentary on the final Chris Pratt MCU film fits what Globohomo will allow from mainstream films; women are not allowed be saved, and they are not allowed to get with the hero- and they are not allowed, as the heroine, to win a man's affection either.

The issue with both the Pratt film and the Chris Pine film is that they are Globohomo mindrot demoralization poison coated with sugar to make it palatable to audiences; it's no less insulting as the unsweetened propaganda coming out of the Hellmouth, and it is just as corrosive to cultural cohesion and national unity, but because they bother to half-ass the entertainment it seems like it's clean when it is not.

Both films are made by people that hate you. You know better than to give them your time, attention, or money.

And Now Musings From A Cripple In A Wheelchair

Digging into the rules of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, seeing what is there, and then assembling it into a working machine as if I were following a blueprint has been quite the experience. The game everyone thinks is there is not what is there; that is the game successive editions iterated their way into creating, and that game sucks harder than a singularity. The game that is on the page, the one I see when I operate the machine, is not what I thought it was- but it was the one promised in the manuals.

Realizing that I'd been playing the game wrong all these decades is not mere eating crow, it's vomiting up a turducken of bullshit.

I am curious now to see what other games I'd been playing wrong- and what games I'd read correctly. Related would be to see which games measure up to what a RPG has been revealed to be, and which is instead conforming to a mistaken impression or a strawman position.

I bet quite a few would surprise people, including myself.

But, for now, I have some mastery to attain.