Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Clownfish TV"
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@Keeki95 Any platform is fine when the community is good. The problem is a mixture of both Discord itself, and how the platform impacts users/mods, and how they take advantage of it. Discord is a lot more analogous to IRC than most people might think because it is real time chat that has moderators, but like IRC it also has a nearly infinite log (assuming you set up your IRC client correctly, which many users do). Discord's "log" is even more punishing because it logs things other people say even when you are not online.
The real time chat encourages some moderators to watch all discourse as much as possible. Then those who feel inclined will take rules as seriously as possible, banning people for a one-off comment made in the moment, which might not have been made on a forum. Forums are a bit more cumbersome to use so they have less discourse. IRC was the same way back in its prime and also was filled with overly zealous or petty moderators.
Discord also creates a false sense of privacy for many. Even when the server is publicly joinable, the fact that it is only available to those who bother to search up the link seems to make people believe that only "their people" are in the server. As a result, a surprising number of people have shoved their foot in their mouths on their community Discord, which caused a falling out, all because they mistakenly thought everyone agreed with them when they made some outrageous statement.
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@sadlobster1 I don't know that many RPGs which are real world style war games. The most popular ones I know of are Call of Cthulhu, which is early modern detective style with (obviously) Lovecraft, Shadowrun which is near future cyberpunk with D&D races and magic injected in because why not, 40k RPGs which are sci-fi as you say, and WHFRP which is also fantasy but more renaissance themed instead of high medieval themed. But if you care to look there's a practically inexhaustible number of other fantasy games. Legend of the Five Rings is another big one based on feudal Japan. The Dark Eye is very popular in Germany and I think it got a new release recently.
You can LARP in any game; it adds flavor to any game at all. That is beside the point. The point of buying a rulebook is to take burden away from the GM in trying to make the game fun. You could theoretically start with nothing and make your own game, but that's monumental levels of effort. Most gameplay decisions in D&D rules lack impact and the game rules don't help you with trying to make them impactful. Casting a spell, for example, never results in any mishaps or interesting side effects unless you're wearing armor in which case you get the most boring result -- you lose your spell and nothing happens. Furthermore, mage characters are completely useless when they run out of spells thanks to Vancian magic, another sacred cow long overstaying its welcome.
In many other systems, like Call of Cthulhu, Shadowrun, WHFRP or 40k RPGs, you can cast magic at any time as much as you want but it has significant inherent risk factors. These are usually a combination of social stigma, damage to one's mental state or stamina, unexpected side effects due to the caster's inability to adequately control magic power, etc. This makes the world feel much more alive and causes you to think a little bit more about whether you should cast magic missile for the 3rd time today because it avoids all to-hit rolls. The decision is also connected to roleplaying within the world and not just tactical metagame "should I waste my spell slot or save it" level decision-making.
There are other examples I could go into but I don't want to write a giant essay about why I don't like D&D, just give an example of why one may prefer other systems and to let you know there are other fantasy options out there.
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@Fuchs-c7o It's a "direct result" of oligarchs wanting to control speech. What's truly a mystery is why people like you seem to think that this idea of rich people acquiring control to secure their interests is exclusive to capitalism. You act as if there is a mystic idol of a pig in a top hat and monocle that could be smashed with a sledgehammer, and then a spell will be broken and people will stop wanting to be rich. Take a dip in Chinese social media, and see how people talk about topics there. I guarantee you it makes our euphemisms and nu-speak look tame. I'm sure you'll say, "but that's just the capitalist influence in their shiny, divine, flawless Communist society..."
In truth, it doesn't matter. Not even a little. Because the accrued assets of the historically wealthy has far surpassed critical mass. We're talking about people who have transcended any reliance on government entities, completely. Think of it like a game of Civilization or Risk; they're the players. Actually, even that is inadequate because you can only control one nation at a time in those games. It doesn't matter what system of governance we use; they will pull the strings and we will dance for them. The only thing we can do is be aware, and wait until they inevitably fuck it up for themselves, as they have been on track to do for a few decades now. Also, use the internet, where they still have the inability to control everything, as they do in print and broadcast media.
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