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it lessens my motivation to have anything to do with their product this is not how marketing is supposed to work someone should take these people aside that is dionne kerr and gal and tell them to stop having one on ones with marketing analysts and try getting back to their real authentic selves what they personally see in the product why they made they changes they did what they d like to do next and just stop talking about the fans as objectified things they re so proud to possess now yes i get it it s great to have fans and no doubt they all pay marketing lipservice to thanking the fans every day because fans do in fact like that pandering shit but really the fans aren t in it to be acknowledged as a sort of contagion that s spreading fast they re in it because they want to know who you are because in your eyes you re pretty cool therefore get some lessons in not sounding like what you like is the money you re making because that s what business speak is designed to convey word of mouth for us is huge means in corporatese we are raking in tons of money and we love it that s not good don t talk that way i have no notes for finch he s irredeemable an old word that says in essence his soul is so much in debt now that there s no way of paying it back and as far as stratton goes it s pretty clear he doesn t give a fuck limithron has 5 080 subscribers and after three days it has 3 400 page views even subscribers aren t listening to this shit but these are his best numbers since producing a like post a month ago with dionne again and three other guests which yielded 3 900 page views apart from the 3 700 view post with mike shea the rest of his work generally doesn t top a thousand but that s okay he s found a button that works so expect to see a lot more panel episodes of this cast ten years from now if my luck continues as it has in the past luke stratton will be more popular than mr beast because well that s how far i am from the way the rest of the world is certainly stratton hopes this will be the case i doubt he thinks about anything else posted by alexis smolensk at saturday may 09 2026 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels the gaming community thursday may 7 2026 old man recently listening to a discussion about how easy it can be in a big city like the one i live in to just go out and find a d d game i can t say i disagree i know of a bar where they play on large wooden tables two game stores where they play on folding tables and i suppose either the university or the city college must have some kind of club that i could get into alumni or no but public d d isn t what it used to be for me and hasn t been since i passed 55 first and foremost there s food there s something immensely comforting not just in being able to go to one s own fridge pantry or coffee maker for sustenance during a game there s the pleasure of eating it on plates or in one s own bowls or from one s own cup invariably out of the house there s a limitation on what can be had on how much it costs on how it s served or for that matter policed by the space i ve done the thing where chips aren t allowed or where the pop has to be in house or there s no coffee or tea at all allowed because we can t bring it in from somewhere else not everywhere has all these rules but surely something is disallowed which is understandable because it s not my home their place their rules which only makes it clear that i want to play in my place by my rules next it s seating thirty years ago i could comfortably sit on a wooden bench with no back or a cheap grungy school chair without discomfort now not so much at home i have a nice comfy chair with an extra cushion with arm rests that i can ignore for five or six hours but there s nothing more distracting that having the points of one s hip bone being aggravated by a bench that consists of a log that s been split planed and lacquered to give that je ne sais quoi that makes one wish for a sofa the solution of course is painkillers two every two hours tempting the death of one s liver so that the seating can be ignored and the game run with focus the aspirin however will not solve the larger problem heat as one gets to be an old man that old self generated furnace that used to be stoked on its own body fat just doesn t run like it used to add that to rooms specifically designed to be enormous enough to manage the sound the multiple tables the need to turn the air over continously and the need for younger people to rate the ambience at 68 degrees 19 celsius i appreciate that need i had it once myself in younger days yes i could play in a school cafeteria large enough to fit two tennis courts with a 12 foot room sitting in a plastic and green steel chair while perfectly comfortable now i m pulling a jacket overtop my sweater overtop my t shirt and still rubbing my hands together so i can nimbly handle the dice my place might be a little warm for the players but they can always open the patio door even in the winter time and even go outside if it gets to be too much i have no option in a public space to do the same since the door is 60 feet away half the time the door only leads to a hall that costs another hundred feet to get outside where one might warm himself in the sun like a lizard if it isn t raining then there s the noise my space has carpets large wooden furniture paintings that soak reverberation and a stucco ceiling the lighting is soft pleasant and adjustable as opposed to the cafeteria like space that is hard tile hard laminate tables acoustic ceiling tiles that largely fail and a constant thrum that can always be heard despite the echoes of ten groups of players shouting at dms i hear just fine i don t have a problem there but while once i could sit and play in a room with sixty or eighty like players nowadays it s the headache that follows that again acetaminophen just can t quite cut all this comes well before the strangers themselves must be considered but the point of this is not to talk about the strangers i might play with because long before that long before i meet them i m already uncomfortable in a way that i can do nothing about contrariwise as one accumulates nice things as the world around one s space becomes that much more aesthetic one begins to wonder just who should be invited home once upon a time when i owned a formica table with a broken leg that could easily be kicked out when people sat on benches found in dumpsters when the cups were plastic and the carpet a shag variety that had been tramped down for ten years by former residents a food fight could have broken out and we d have laughed about it but now i get antsy about people who won t use a coaster rather than set their dripping coffee on my hardwood game table it s silly i know but you work to own these things you care about them you hope to keep them in good condition for the short time you have left on this planet you sort of want the kind of players who have their own nice things and know how to care for them the last thing needed is some rube who at forty is still living in assisted housing this is the part where the gentle reader nods their head and thinks yeah old man can t deal with a little noise or a less than plush chair poor guy might just as well shoot himself now to which i reply with the old man s taunt if you re lucky and you don t die one day you will walk in my shoes posted by alexis smolensk at thursday may 07 2026 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels d d culture wednesday may 6 2026 rank is a word for stinks often to force us to rate things in terms of their highest value we re offered a supposition that really doesn t make sense if you were stranded on a desert island what book would you take with you that s framed to force you to commit to a book say the odyssey or the brothers karamazov or anything known for its depth and complexity suggesting that we won t get bored re reading it obviously the better book would be some kind of survival guide preferably one tailor made for the island you re getting stranded on i ll choose the one written by the author who spent 10 years on this self same island giving an account very useful to my situation but foregoing that an education a grasp of depth and complexity is not managed through one book in any case if the reader on the island does not have a long and lengthy understanding of literature or history for that matter or any knowledge of the 19th century then the brothers karamazov is going to be uselessly inscruitable for them and if the individual is educated enough to understand dostoevski then they should already have enough books in their head to manage just fine without any such books since one such book really isn t going to be of much value after the first read anyhow what are we to do in the weeks and months before we re ready to read the same book again for the ninth time the best of anything is a representation of shortcut thinking it presumes that one s favourite food somehow precludes the need to actually have a diet of hundreds of foods or that the best vacation spot means that no other vacation spot anywhere on earth is necessary or that so long as i see the best movie i m done with movies now i ve seen them all saying something is the best is really shorthand for i have no comprehension of nuance so i prefer to speak with my gut it s tiresome it s bland it doesn t say anything real about the thing described and it s an inescapable form of list making content on the internet the pervasiveness of it really is remarkable it allows so many people to say so little about so little while still sounding clever list making is structural rewarded online rankings are faction driven they are easy to argue about and infinitely repeatable this does not conflict that they are the lowest form of discourse one in which individuals really do not need to explain themselves or their choices especially when those choices are framed as visceral personal or in some way political it takes no study to name the best of something since anything not seen or experienced can be discounted with no fault upon the writer or speaker if someone claims that the best sports team is one of the twenty four in a given league there s a very good chance that 1 in 24 people who care at all about sports will agree with them everyone else is obviously biased being unable to see the truth about the best sports team as i personally care to name it moreso people don t hold one another accountable for these opinions it s really just a game just a way to pass the time just a choice some people want to hold dear because they must hold something dear and so randomly or merely because of the way their minds are framed they ve chosen their hill to die on however ludicrous that hill is the best way to have an identity nowadays is to pick something so unpopular that no one really knows it then claim it s the best of its category proving somehow that the speaker is that much more educated and knowledgeable because they alone understand the best to be something that vast majority does not know as a result ranking becomes a stand in for thinking after so many years of it i m quite done with it i do not care what the best version of d d is or what wins best picture this year or what should have won it or anything to do with ranking one thing over another i am perfectly capable of liking a thing supporting it voting for it wanting it to become standard and giving my time and energy to that thing without having to compare it to some other thing this last which is so de rigeuer in this culture holds zero interest for me this allows me to enjoy many things at the same time in a culture that craves comparison i do not live for example in the best country in the world i do not live in the best city of that country i do not think anything like this actually exists i happen to live in canada there are things i like about the country and things i don t on the whole i think i m happy with it as a country i would not like to see it change for the worse but it is not a better country because it happens to sit alongside a country i would rather not live in the one has very little to do with the other except that they are different and that i like how they are different ranking one over the other tells me nothing about either stating those specific things i like on the other hand makes a point just like discussing those things i don t like none of this has anything do to with liking this thing more than that or less than that or anything to do with comparisons it is simply that i have this i like this i d like to go on having this and i d rather not have that the person who lives in the address across the street may feel differently that is just fine they may think what they wish i am fine with them going their own way so long as it does not interfere with me going mine as such i have spent much time on this blog disparaging 5e or the white box or attitudes about d d in general i do not commonly i cannot think of an example but i may have spoken loosely at some point rate things i based my game setting and rules system on ad d because that was the only system available at the time when i started making changes i made changes to those things about ad d that i didn t like i still don t like those things i do not think ad d is a good system but it is irrelevant to say that ad d is a better system than what follows it may be but it is irrelevant to say so it is better to describe in detail taking one s time what things are and how they function and what they attempt to resolve then discuss how others options attempt to resolve those same problems discussing and pointing out why this fails or that succeeds it is not valuable to make blanket statements nor it is valuable to give blanket statements any credence just because we think we should tolerate other people s preferences preference is a form of prejudice it is not an opinion it is a preconceived opinion that sets out to change other people s minds upon the basis of favoritism or partisanship it is not intelligent it is visceral and worse it is performative we must stop as a culture assigning preference a value it does not possess it is not worthy of tolerance because it refuses to give itself value through thought or investigation some might hear preference as when we say i prefer tea to coffee this is not the sort of preference that is stated however what is said however is that tea is better than coffee as though we should obviously drink one and forego the other that coercion the one that says star wars is the best picture ever made and anyone who doesn t think so is blah blah blah underlies every statement of this kind we are not being asked to just rank things we are being asked to revere those things that are ranked because some organisation or even some solitary person h...