Fiona Geist
I never try anything. I just do it. Wanna try me?
Currently a bookseller
Everchosen of Chaos
- Reposted by Fiona Geisti haven't seen anyone say this yet, but putting in Tom Homan makes sense bcuz it points out the obvious liberal hypocrisy with Obama, who had given Tom a presidential award. it's such a perfect encapsulation of the moment. liberalism, with its obfuscated State-run horrors, is the ground for fascism.
- Living in Providence is the frustration the city could be a paradise for normal human beings with pleasant urbanism, a good location and active nightlife and the hurdles are the institutional rot of the national parties, cars, our last great mayor being corrupt but magnanimous sets a high bar
- Buddy Cianci is a surreal individual
- Reposted by Fiona GeistNew AT worth your time, especially since these 10 tracks clock in at 1 minute 14 seconds. Feat. members of The Locust, Pinback, and Cattle Decapitation (ALLEGEDLY!) #RESIST
- Bookseller Adjunct Professor Liquor Store Clerk Dishwasher Bouncer
- Reposted by Fiona GeistOped: My testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on ant-LGBTQ+ Senator Michael McCaffrey becoming a judge "Your vote today will forever brand you as a corrupt legislator more interested in behind-the-scenes favors than human and civil rights, and you will wear that badge forever..."
- to whomever in Bayonetta did the vocal line for the continue screen screaming "THE SHADOW'S STILL CAST" thank you for giving me life on many occasions when i have wanted to quit
- I will beat this game on infinity mode but now i'm just trying to not be embarassingly bad at normal (also trying to not rely on witch time based skill correctives to actually improve my comboing)
- Chapter 5 with 5 deaths on Normal and feeling pretty bad about it XD
- You can probably define games by an axis of skill/randomness (i.e. closed systems are defined by the absence of skill because there is a right move with the randomness of "luck of the draw") and TTRPGs by how much skill exists to both circumvent the randomness which is the system
- a good example of a closed system is a jailbroken slot machine, i.e. i can know and factor the odds (theoretically) and the only game, such that it is, is pulling the lever vs craps (since you actively call yr shot and skill is to some degree knowing probability and luck)
- neither have any inherent narrative other than how money flows among either the player-casino or the players shooting dice
- Reposted by Fiona GeistI think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
- Why Write Adventures? (i refuse to resume blogging) because adventures (unlike systems) contain things that people can creatively re-use and reappropriate to whatever their situation is (they are primarily descriptive of a place/time in theory) while systems provide a model for action within a space
- but Fiona, a false interlocutor says, if i make a system i can use KS to leverage value an adventure requires people to play it, enjoy it, use it and generally builds very little interest over a very long period of time because it is hard to sell puff pieces about them to a media cycle? which: sure?
- i don't think the purpose of games or the games community is to sell things or enrich yrself, i think we could phrase this in eco-economics of predators (i've been reading KSR again) or as bad principles for a community but also it seems like most get rich quick gurus tend to be con artists?
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View full threadbut why write adventures? because the world is a miserable enough place you should firmly commit yrself to a path of breaking yr heart, over and over and over again and if you are going to experience pain it may as well be for art
- Reposted by Fiona GeistOn Thursday, the Providence General Assembly will bring their anti-ICE demand to the City Council The PGA will host a “Rally and Speak-Out against ICE on Providence City Property and ICE Terror and Brutality” outside Providence City Hall on Thursday, January 22, at 5 pm.
