Sin Kiske (Guilty Gear)

rb to have a super gay 2023

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

So I might as well introduce Tumblr to the @vexwerewolf -style roast memes of some of the GMS systems I did a while back. I still gotta make the rest of them but like *attention span* amirite?

Nice opinion

however

I have placed a landmine in an unknown location every step you take is a risky move

i wish i was kinder to my 13 year old self

@rattrapmouse

I hope the author of love bullet knows I adore the series so much that I ordered a copy of the book in Japanese even though I dont know the language very well and nearly cried when I got an extra postcard of the characters

Yall should really check out @anim-ttrpgs EUREKA if you like investigative ttrpgs and or supernatural stuff.

Theyve got a long list of very fun traits that make every character unique and intresting, a fun "Tiers of fear" system i enjoy and really in depth and fast combat should it come down to violence (wich it doesnt too often, but when it does its very well crafted).

The biggest draw for a lot of people may be the fact you can play as a supernatural investigator as well though.

Anything from a wolfman over vampires to gorgons and fae!

Theres also "Misc" investigators, less monstrous, not quite human, like the beloved by the community living doll, or the talking dog, or the humble mage.

And should you ever tire of the pretty large roster of playable investigator types and traits this game really lends itself to making your own misc or monster type to play! (Thats what i did for my most used character)

EUREKA is great and yall should give it a try.

If youre looking for groups to play with youre always welcome to join the @anim-ttrpgs bookclub discord server! Where we play different ttrpgs all the time and the "other games section" is full of people willing to play eureka (or other games) at any time!

Also check out the itch.io page for them, they can always use the support ^^

How would you add depth and complexity to the culture of the Purview?

Right now, the KTB gets way more attention both because of the two supplements dedicated to it and because the competing noble houses each with its different gimmick and political alignment make it so easy to come up with drama and intrigue.

Meanwhile the Purview seems, both in and out of fiction, flat and uniform. I'm sure its leadership would want to see it and have it seen that way, but given how much it keeps expanding, and therefore adding new cultures to itself, it would have to have a lot of diversity under the hood, even if it would like to pretend otherwise.

I definitely think the Purview has a harder time of it than the KTB, but that's largely because we have a Field Guide to the KTB, whereas the Field Guide to Harrison Armory never got published because of Miguel's non-compete.

There's also the problem that the KTB has this... glamour to it, in both the modern and traditional senses of the word. I've noticed this in a lot of sci-fi properties - that applying the veneer of nobility and monarchy to something can make people forget or forgive its transgressions more easily.

When Harrison Armory, the nationalist corprostate, does imperialist expansion, we can point at it and immediately say "that's a fascism" (even when it's actually... not? Imperialist expansion is always bad but it's not always necessarily fascistic). But somehow, when the KTB do the same or sometimes worse things, like using nanite terror weapons on Free Sanjak, I've noticed people are quicker to make excuses? Like, oh, yeah that's obviously bad but their society works different the KTB are a big place and like of course they're shitty traditionalists and that's really only the Hagiographs and at least the Karrakin have Republican elements who want change and reform and yeah it's bad but aren't Knightly Chivalrous Mechs Just So Gosh Darned Cool?!

I think the nuance of the KTB is also helped by the fact that they're explicitly depicted as non-monolithic. There are ten named Major Houses with their own distinct cultures, politics and homeworlds, and great pains are taken to ensure us that there's multifarious cultures and religions even on an individual world. HA suffers because to some extent it would be more monolithic - it's a nationalist corprostate with only 400 years of history, compared to the KTB's hybrid elective-monarchy neofeudal federation with 10,000.

HA is distinctly American in the way that the nation has become a brand, and a good citizen has to remain on-brand, so things would be more homogenized. To add to that, omninet and blinkgate technology has existed for the whole of HA's lifespan. The unique and distinct cultures of the KTB worlds came about largely because they spent millennia separated from one another by light years. HA has never had this issue, and likely never will. They have the option - and, more importantly, are motivated - to keep a homogenous culture across all of the Purview.

Lancer is fundamentally a game about examining and fighting against unjust structures of power that oppress people but also being larger-than-life heroes that have fun doing it, and the KTB has an innate leg up by virtue of the fact that it has what I'd call a really strong "initial sell:" YOU'RE A SPACE KNIGHT! SPACE KNIGHTS ARE COOL! (PLEASE DON'T EXAMINE SPACEE FEUDALISM!)

To make Harrison Armory compelling, you'd need a similarly strong initial sell for them. And I think I know just the thing.

FOR HUMANITY! FOR LIBERTY! FOR HARRISON! (Please don't examine space nationalism!)

If I were to write the Harrison Armory Field Guide (Tom and Miguel HMU - just kidding. Unless...?), I'd make it BIG and LOUD and OVER THE TOP and OBVIOUS PROPAGANDA with insertions of the actual truth from a HORUS hacker on the side. I'd put Harrison Armory's positioning as "liberators of the galaxy" front and center - "we dive feet-first into hell to save people from tyrants and slavers. We do the work even the UDoJ/HR won't do. Please do not examine our imperialism or social credit system."

REMINDER: IT'S NEVER AS BAD AS IT COULD BE

REMINDER: YOU COULD ALSO BE ON FIRE

within the day this gets reblogged by vex and corsair with their infinite followers and my phone turns into a high frequency blade with the notifs

this is what i get for being funny i guess

lancer has done things to me

i used christ-the-buddha as an expletive in front of my parents. i'm finished.