Post AkxiM2xKYQxabAbbs0 by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
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(DIR) Post #AkxiM2xKYQxabAbbs0 by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-08-14T13:17:35Z
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I don't want to make decent people angry, but I seem to have... this thing... where all of my work is liberally seeded with hand-carved golden apples designed to start arguments between people I actually like.It's not that I want the arguments. I just want my games (and my stories) to be a little bit morally complicated and a little bit uncomfortable. I just don't want to encourage decent people to feel smug about finding easy answers to simple problems.#amwriting #ttrpg #SocialJustice
(DIR) Post #AkxiM46EIpfm93mENc by lextenebris@social.vivaldi.net
2024-08-14T15:44:15Z
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@vkfarfalle If your ideas are not making your friends uncomfortable, you're not really having ideas. You're just repeating what you've heard other people say in a happy tone.There used to be a phrase "discomfort the comfortable," which journalists and artists occasionally attempted to do with that influence pointed at people who agree with them as often or more often than it did people who didn't. A lot of that has gone by the wayside, much to the detriment of society at large and in specific. This is a shame.Discomfort is a sign of paying attention. If you're not a little bit uncomfortable, you're not learning anything. While not everything has to be a learning experience, there should at least be the opportunity
(DIR) Post #AkxiM55Ce8RhCAIvQ0 by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-08-14T13:27:31Z
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I don't have the answers; I don't even have the right questions. I'm just an entertainer and I'm not trying to solve all the world's problems one $30 hardback at a time.I just don't enjoy stories where thorny conflicts can be resolved by a hero making a speech while standing on the corpses of all the stupid, evil people responsible for the whole problem.I don't want to read or write about heroes like that, because people who think that way are never the heroes in real life.
(DIR) Post #AkxiM79AyKoPb4B7tA by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-08-14T13:42:50Z
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That's why my fictional heroes are all problematic, all part of the problem, and why my games make being part of the problem the default.Because we're all born and bred to be part of the problem. Wanting to become a part of the solution is a difficult and painful moral choice.Actually being part of the solution requires us to acknowledge and engage with the fact we've been part of the problem all our lives, and we're going to continue being part of the problem until long after we're dead.
(DIR) Post #Akxim15893piJadZYG by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-08-14T15:49:01Z
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@lextenebris I'm not even advocating moral positions, most of the time.I'm just giving my funny little aliens problems that aren't the same as human problems as an allegory for the fact that human problems are often not the same as human problems.
(DIR) Post #Akxj0zuGnS8p0vhW6K by lextenebris@social.vivaldi.net
2024-08-14T15:51:46Z
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@vkfarfalle My God, implying that different people have different problems and approach them in different ways and could have different motivations for how they solve them? This is anathema! It's not allowed! All this free-thinking belief that may have needs and desires which are different than your own. That's crazy talk. It's impossible. Never happens in a proper universe.(I feel you, bro.)