it's easy to see why radicals basically identify their politics by friend group, the level of competence required to reliably figure out whether a position is crypto-neo-Strasserist or revisionist post-Juche rivals the bookkeeping required to be a baseball fan
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Replying to @chaosprime
Meh. Someone who's never played an RPG might think the difference between Call of Cthulu and Pathfinder is pretty subtle, but it quickly becomes obvious once you've played.
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Replying to @StevenBrust
you realize you've basically just volunteered to write a chart of which left tendencies are which RPGs right
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Replying to @chaosprime
Given that I've only ever played three (3) actual boxed RPGs, I don't think I have the necessary background.
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Replying to @StevenBrust
oh, yeah, that's more challenging then well, Marxism is obviously D&D: the foundational standby, insanely influential, saying you're doing it actually tells nobody anything, you have to specify what edition and sourcebooks
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neoliberalism is GURPS, monomaniacally devoted to subsuming everything it comes into contact with, everybody seems to hate it and it's hard to find the people who don't, but when you do, boy do they love it
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Replying to @chaosprime @StevenBrust
anarcho-primitivism is Call of Cthulhu, you're probably going to die sooner rather than later
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Replying to @chaosprime @StevenBrust
i'd say why Trotskyism is obviously Pathfinder but i wouldn't want to make you feel personally attacked
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Replying to @chaosprime @StevenBrust
So wait, which RPG system is antinationalist liberal socialism? Now you've got me all curious.
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oh, for sure that's Fiasco; no gamemaster, essentially cooperative, literally designed for everything to go pear-shaped
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