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Adam DeCamp. Designer of Kickstarter-backed cyberpunk villain TTRPG Deniable Assets. Writes essays on RPG history and practice for Patreon. (he/they)
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At long last, you can buy DENIABLE ASSETS: The Cyberpunk Villain RPG. Hatch schemes, sell your soul, and go out in flames in this twisting story-based game where players work together to put their own greedy PCs through megacorporate hell. #TTRPG #PbtA
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Deniable Assets: The Cyberpunk Villain RPG - Adam "Rutskarn" DeCamp | DriveThruRPG.com
The game of boardroom backstabs and high-caliber severance packages. YOU'RE THE SUIT. The sleaze. The monster behind
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ELON MUSK: (pre-recorded, wearing SpaceX flightsuit in the Taskmaster house) Okay...yes, I've got it. People want the blue badge, right? So let's try charging, say, eight dollars for it, and—oh shit oh shit STUDIO AUDIENCE: (pitiless laughter)
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HORNE: Well of course, the first thing you need to do is acquire the company. Which you can't just buy it outright... GREG: Of course, because then you've got to pay off billions in debt to avoid going bankrupt. MUSK: (pained look) HORNE: Shall we see how he got on with it?
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ALEX HORNE: Well Greg, you know how sometimes you give one of your special little Tasks to just one contestant? GREG: Why, yes, I do on occasion. HORNE: Say, purely as an example...trying to run an international social media company? ELON MUSK: (puzzled blink; suddenly alert)
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I was unclear. I'm looking for an era that specifically works well as a basis for analog fiction, not just the best one.
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Is there a reason it's not just "every 5 years it got better"? Like, the web went from closed webrings/Usenet, to geocities pages/blogs, to ff/Livejournal, to AO3/Patreon/etc. Things aren't perfect, but most of those feel like positive moves.
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It is very funny to discover that every single fringe group is taken over 90% by serious, borderline tedious people replying to posts like "we have a moral obligation to kill all mailmen" with "um, source?"
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Been on a weird cruise to find the best social media era for analog fic. I was all in on Usenet, but man, everybody on that site wrote like the joy of putting words on the internet transcended actually doing anything with them.
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Why am I learning 3D sculpting? For exactly two reasons: -Make pedantically correct tabletop gaming terrain and minis -Create game assets that would be high quality for 1995
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Actual sculpt went surprisingly fast: took about an hour total starting from sphere/cylinder primitives. Getting it ready to sculpt took about twice as long, and screwing that up added even more time. Hopefully this is something I can reduce with iterations.
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Completed my first 3D sculpt -> 3D print + paint for a Halloween event I ran last weekend! Screwed up by making it hollow, which means there's evidently a reservoir of uncured resin in there for extra horror effect.
A green-and-gold little trophy with a skull on the front and tentacles for arms.
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People roast Keanu's performance, but his awkward uncharming delivery works perfectly. His whole role's to set up Gary Oldman as "guy your betrothed Victorian ingenue tells you not to worry about."
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Coppola’s response about Keanu in Dracula is very sweet (and correct)
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I hope y'all are ready for a week of me being the team's Cricket Expert, which is as alarming as it sounds
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It's Patron Week, and for some reason the patrons really want to watch me "play" Don Bradman Cricket 14. They should have known... youtube.com/watch?v=f_v0YL
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[I still want to make and share things, by the way. I'm just not terrified of what will happen if I don't, which is why I switched my Patreon off "monthly auto" a while back.]
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And I probably would have told you that was a matter of artistic ego, or a desire for extrinsic validation, or any number of other things. But I don't think I've gotten less insecure or egotistical. I think I just have more money now.
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I need to stress that I didn't realize I felt this way about any of it. I found art fun. I found making art fun. But here's the difference: the idea of spending a lifetime making things never meant to be shared with anyone would have then filled me with anxious bafflement.
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And after clambering almost accidentally into stable professionalism, I've realized how much I was missing. Like it's even rewarding to learn HOW to make things! It's rewarding to study something—a face, a prose technique, a language—without sweating the "downtime."
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Whenever I put my time into something, painting or programming or writing, my inspiration came from a lot of places. But a big one was always: maybe this is it. Maybe this one rolls a six and I can move up a few spaces. I can't say how much of an impact this had on my mentality.
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It's not that I haven't always enjoyed making things—or even enjoyed making them for their own sake. But until pretty recently in my life, it was more than a hobby, it was an exit strategy. It was an investment.
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I'm going to admit something deeply embarrassing. Until recently, I think I did not sincerely and completely believe in the intrinsic value of making art. I know this because I'm no longer broke.
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But I couldn't have predicted DE2's apparent demise would be this baffling—or this funny. It's like a guy captivated Broadway with a heartbreaking one-man-show about his painful childhood and now the director's trying to get him to mukbang
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Whatever happens with ZA/UM and Disco Elysium, I'll be honest: I have specifically, actively not been looking forward to a sequel. I'm mildly embarrassed to say I think the original is a masterpiece. "Where's Masterpiece 2" is how you get disappointed every time.
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"This genius played against the local chess club blindfolded. Unfortunately, he lost count and started playing the wrong moves for every single board, which means he lost to everyone except Rutskarn"
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I was taught to play at, like, age 6 and grew up in a house with an heirloom board and chess tutoring software. If they made a Netflix show about my chess career, it would be the full and complete inverse of Queen's Gambit
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In theory the site matches you up against people you have a chance against. Unfortunately, there's a finite number of people who I *just* taught to play chess, which has so far done a lot of heavy lifting for my scorecard
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My chess dot com gameplay is such grim, ragged shit that it visibly circles back around to being stressful to play against. I'll make a move and there will be a five second pregnant pause as my opponent's Queen's Gambit CPU goes into stack overflow
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We asked this Roman centurion what he thinks about elf warrior women, and he said "(Incomprehensible Latin)" and drew a dick on our wall, which we think means "it's cringe bro"
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Our collapsing, decadent society has produced nothing but weak men, like anyone photographed leaning or opening their mouths. We need strong men who care about Western traditions, like elf melanin and anime ass and Cillian Murphy smoking in flatcaps
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My Christian-SPQR-viking-pagan-pilgrim forefathers shed their warrior blood killing orcs, and this is how you honor their legacy? You put a black actor in goofy hobbit prosthetics? They're spinning in their Catholic burning rowboat graves
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"So there's this IP that's had one good adaptation in a hundred years, and now an online department store's turning it into a commercial for their web-based cable service. Why do I think it'll suck? Glad you asked" (flips blackboard labeled RACIST CONSPIRACY THEORY)
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The desire to exclusively engage w/ media/art made by “unproblematic”???? artists is a direct result of Americans viewing media consumption as an inherently political act bc it’s seemingly all that’s left. We’ve been stripped & socialized out of any real political energy & agency
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Christopher Tolkien's ghost just puked glowing green blood
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The Lord of the Rings is coming to Magic: The Gathering in 2023! This set is going to be packed with the flavor and history of the original trilogy.
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Question for millenials who watched Dragonball Z / Pokemon as a child (<13): were you actively aware they were Japanese shows?
  • Yes, obviously
    24.1%
  • Yes
    54.7%
  • No, assumed otherwise
    2.9%
  • No, had no ideas at all
    18.2%
137 votesFinal results
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I can't find it again, but I did see a user review that was like "the critics hated it because it didn't have enough nudity and explosions," which as Rotten Tomatoes astroturf takes go I found very refreshing
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