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Message: <blockquote data-quote="payn" data-source="post: 9361279" data-attributes="member: 90374"><p> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The RPGs you own end up owning you.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It’s only after we’ve lost everything to the dice that we’re free to do anything.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You’re not your role as GM. You’re not how much prep you have in the bank. You’re not the dice you roll. You’re not the contents of your dice bag. You’re not your f$%^& gaming T-Shirts. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Reject the basic assumptions of civilization—especially the importance of gaming material possessions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">F#$%^ off with your editions and expansions. I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let’s evolve—let the dice fall where they may.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The liberator who destroyed my PC has realigned my perceptions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Do you know what a duvet is? It’s a blanket. Just a blanket. Now why do guys like you and me know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our PC's survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then? We are consumers. We’re the byproducts of a gaming lifestyle obsession.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">We’re RPG consumers. We are the byproducts of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty—these things don’t concern me. What concerns me are celebrity live plays, youtube with 500 channels, some guy’s name on my GM screen. Rollmaster, year Zero, 2D20…f#$% McDM. McDM’s polishing the brass on the Titanic. It’s all going down, man. So f!@# off with your editions and expansions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Man, I see in RPG the strongest and smartest folks who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. Goddammit, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy naughty word we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man: No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war; our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been fooled by influencers to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and live play gods, and RPG stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Hitting bottom isn’t a weekend retreat. It’s not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything, and just let go! LET GO!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Only after disaster can we be resurrected</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>

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