do you have any metafictional ttrpgs? or any ttrpgs about nothing (being about the concept of nothing or literally not having something they're "about")?
Theme: Metafictional TTRPGS / Games About Nothing.
Y’all are really pulling out the stops for these requests, huh? I’m not entirely sure if what I pulled up actually counts as metafiction, or as games about nothing, but I hope you find something close to what you’re looking for here.
This is a game about drawing a chair. And then taking a survey. And then drawing a chair. And taking a survey. And so on. It’s an exercise that’s meant to be both repetitive and reflective. It’s hard for me to determine what this game is about, because a) I haven’t played it and b) I suspect it’s going to mean something a little different for each person who plays it. It’s possible that for some people who look at this game, it might be about nothing.
This is a game in which the author is both dead and not dead - they are undead, and it is up to the group to kill them. The author is the author of the game, and the group is responsible for figuring out how to go about and kill them. (Of course, the author is willing to tell you, the GM how they can be killed, but they don’t want you to tell the players. You can keep a secret, right?)
BEACH EPISODE is a microgame mix-in for your regular table-top RPG group. Players take their current characters, quickly adapt them for a rules-light session, and commence to run an anime-inspired, beach-themed adventure. All you need to play is at least 3d6 and an established set of characters.
This is a game that is about nothing in the sense that it isn’t really about anything. It follows the style of the anime beach episode, asking you to take recognized characters, probably from an ongoing campaign, and giving them a moment of rest, relaxation, and (probably) nothing plot-relevant. It’s great for encouraging players to delve into who their characters are without feeling worried about the consequences.
Meta Society is a game about playing a game of Good Society created for the April Fool’s Day Good Society game jam.
This is a game about playing a game - specifically a game of Good Society. When you play, you’ll describe fictional players interacting with a fictional setting, using safety tools and talking about what they did and didn’t like about each session. This requires a copy (as well as experienced knowledge) of how to play Good Society, but I think if you have had the experience of playing Good Society, this might also be something you could adapt to make it a metafictional game about playing a different ttrpg.
You’re dragged into a treacherous fantasy world made from your own fears, doubts and desires. There’s only one way to escape - but with limitless adventure within your grasp, would you even want to?
In DIE: The Roleplaying Game, you play a group of authentically flawed people from the real world who gather together to play a game and are trapped in a magical realm. What are they prepared to sacrifice to escape? What are they prepared to sacrifice to stay?
This is a TTRPG inspired by a comic book, about people who play games, finding themselves being drawn into a game. Your characters will be interacting with a fantasy world of their own creation, knowing that it is a game and yet being drawn into it deeper than they could have ever imagined. If you want to hear this game in action, My First Dungeon has an excellent season from Mar. 31 - May 26 of 2023.
A one page GM-less roleplaying game of suspense for 1 or more players.
The Waiting is inspired by the anxiety caused by waiting for the unknown.
In The Waiting you play as a character in a setting where it hasn’t happened yet. It is definitely going to happen, but no one knows when it will happen. Until it happens, there is only The Waiting.
What are you waiting for?
This feels like a game that could be about nothing because the thing that is going to happen will not happen while you play the game. The game is specifically about the time in which the thing has not yet happened - you just know that it will. The game occurs as a series of rounds, over which players describe what their characters are doing. When the event that the table creates happens, you have one final round of play and then the game is over.
This might also be a great tool for dropping into another game, if you’re like me and you like pairing your TTRPGs like cheeses and fine wines.
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যদি আপনার বা পরিবারের কোনো সদস্যের একটি ই-সিম প্রয়োজন হয় তাহলে অনুগ্রহ করে আমাকে জানান এবং আমি আপনাকে একটি পেতে দিব, নিচে সামঞ্জস্যপূর্ণ ডিভাইসের তালিকা রয়েছে
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war and murder are awful. killing another human being is a horrible thing to do. swords and guns are cool as fuck. these two beliefs exist simultaneously in my mind and do not conflict at all
this is such a non-issue but truly no greater tragedy than seeing a piece of media furryfied and they’ve made your special guy the wrong animal. like that animal does NOT align with the themes in my little guy’s story, do it again.
not everyone can be a wolf, not everyone should be a wolf. hold this in your heart and come to terms with it.
no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive ‘vegan leather’ and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket’ bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate’s back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather… its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years…
also they love love LOVE to try and sell you “plant-based leather” that you then look at the details and it’s “45% cactus” or whatever and there’s no mention of what the rest of it is
it’s plastic.
it’s always plastic.
ALT
Let me tell you a story.
50 years ago or so a cow died. It died in a slaughterhouse after a life on a cattle ranch. It was butchered in a meat packing plant, and it’s body was sent off to a grocery store where it then became an overdone steak or a dry hamburger or maybe dog food. It was the 70s and people had only recently realized that you could put food in things that were not jello. Cut them some slack.
But its skin went to a tannery. And that skin was processed in the hide and then leather. That leather was bought by a clothing company who made jackets out of it, long leather dusters for working men and ranchhands. Cowboy shit.
The dead cow that is now a leather jacket is not technically waterproof because if you stand out in the rain for 6 hours water will eventually work its way through the seams at the shoulders. But its pretty damn waterproof. It keeps off the rain and the snow and the dust and the mud and the brambles and it doesn’t melt if it catches a spark. So 50 years ago a man bought one and he wore it pretty much until he died and his wife shoved it in a closet. Decades of use, from the deserts in the southwest to the arctic, because it turns out that cowboys are wildly adaptable.
Anyway, I pulled grandad’s jacket out of the closet a while back and there is nothing wrong with that coat. It does have some distinctly non-modern vibes, but more importantly it is cool as hell and looks almost new. I have seen faux distressed leather that looks worse.
The cow is still dead. There will be another cow that dies tomorrow for the same reason. But there’s no market for leather these days. Its skin won’t be a garment that lasts 50 years. Its gonna rot in a pile with all the others. Someone will sell a “vintage” cowboycore Americana aesthetic dark academia plastic peice of shit that will be garbage in a year. And then they’ll sell another one.
That cow, that became a leather coat?
It’s probably also a saddle that another cowboy is still riding.
And several belts. Probably some wallets, several gloves, some riding tack.
Nobody who doesn’t work with leather understands how much material you get from one cow. I have sides (like ¼ of a cow) that I’ve been making things out of for years and there’s still lots left in my materials stash.
Once that coat is too worn out to wear, there will still be lots of the leather that’s still good. Someone who can’t afford to buy hides will probably make smaller things from those pieces (that’s how I started working with leather).
Even when every piece of that hide is completely unusable, it will decompose like it was originally going to, and shed no microplastic particles. A synthetic alternative lasts a fraction as long and sheds microplastics for its entire life.
You also can’t use that synthetic leather for many of the things you’d use real leather for. It’s not fire resistant, so welders can’t use it to protect them from sparks. it doesn’t have the tensile strength of real leather, so you can make equestrian tack out of it. It doesn’t provide any abrasion resistance, so you can’t make motorcycle leathers from it. It can’t be used for protective equipment in sports like archery, because it would disintegrate under normal use.
Synthetic leather can only be used in place of real leather in fashion and upholstery applications, and it’s not very good at either. It requires hundreds of times more material for the same applications due to its short lifespan, and it produces plastic pollution constantly.
There’s literally no good argument for replacing real leather with synthetic alternatives. Even if you want to go the animal rights route, how many marine and aquatic ecosystems are you willing to sacrifice for the life of a few cows? Are you even saving cows, when we use them for so many other industries? Does a domesticated animal have more right to life than the wild species impacted by synthetic leather production?
If you’re not from Argentina, please read this carefully
I have no words to describe the pain I feel. after 40 years of democracy, my country elected a party whose only goal is to be a colony once again, to sell the country to Elon Musk, to the USA and the UK, to have our sovereignty impugned and erased.
I remember the video of USAmerican congressists calling Argentina an “important asset for the United States”. I remember when we told all of you to be vigilant because this was gonna turn into a genocide.
Tomorrow, the Mega DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) is going to overrule most of our constitutional rights, and yesterday the Omnibus Law was presented to congress, including measures that make it illegal to gather in public without permission (state of siege), and make it so that protest is a crime. We will have to pay for the bullets that kill us, and cops will have absolute legal immunity to hunt us.
Word for word, a dictatorship. Fascism.
We’ve already gone through this many times, but I want to see worldwide protests about this. I want the UN to intervene. I want the world to make noise.
What worries me is this is not an isolated case. With many genocides going on worldwide, if the world fails Argentina, this will be the blueprint for all of the world.
Make no mistake, what happens here will happen everywhere there’s natural resources and sovereignty. If not through overt genocide, through an extremely libertarian far right that wins elections by manipulating people, funded by Elon Musk. A second Operation Cóndor.
i know this, you know this, we all know they don’t care about us, but i wanna have hope!
Some of you don’t have any idea how deep this one goes, wwhen he was elected he wanted to eliminate ministries
dreamed that kindergarten nap was called sleep class and everybody went to sleep including the teacher. if you were awake it would get a little bit foggy outside and grey and cloudy, and these guys would start approaching the classroom from behind the tree line (forgive my shitty phone drawing)
and they were at least a story tall, some of them were taller, you could see their legs over the trees. they would approach very slowly. this one (the one i drew) had a name for some reason, his name is kick.
before i was totally awake my brain conjured a meme of a bunch of these guys approaching from the treeline and a child watching from the window with the caption “when you the only one awake in sleep class 😂😳😏”
ok this is TERRIFYINGLY close to what i saw in my head while i was sleeping thank you.
ITS HERE. THE CREEPY SLEEP CLASS POST. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I WOULD SCROLL ON INSTA OR WATCH A TUMBLR COMP ON YOUTUBE AND SEE THIS?? YEEHOO
this comment is such a terrifying glimpse of the reach of this post into internet zones beyond my perception, thank you
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It was google by the way, they thought it would be such a good file type it would replace the need for all other image files, that’s why anything they own or partner with tries to force it on us though no art programs can even work with it.
It’s way more efficient, a webp file is (in some cases) even 90% smaller than a png. It therefore speeds up loading for websites massively.
It’s recommended to change your images to webps… by the Google made lighthouse tool that pretty much every developer uses because it’s baked into chrome…
myhouse.wad is good because it takes the reversal from the classic meme “Can [X] run Doom” to “Can Doom run [X]”, with X in this case being House of Leaves
and it turns out that yes, Doom CAN run HoL. it can run HoL phenomenally.
I love piracy but I’d also like to make sure you guys know that it’s only piracy if you actually download it. It’s technically legal to visit Watch Free Online type sites, it’s just illegal for *them* to host those files and share them around without paying. They can’t get you for just Watching free online. Use firefox and adblockers etc but it’s not a crime. They also aren’t going to get you for actually pirating shit more likely than not as long as you’re not, like, running a whole fucking operation of it. It’s so fine. Be free
People have gotten so skittish about not paying for things I feel like I’m feeding you oats out of the palm of my hand except the oats are free books movies tv shows etc. There there. Shhh it’s ok it’s literally fine
Ninjalicious passed on in 2005, just a scant 3 years after his book was released. he was a pioneer of the urbex movement and is still a beloved and respected resource in the community, so many years after he’s been gone. they are hoping to put out an expanded 20th anniversary edition in 2025, and his website is still maintained. you can support his successors, order copies of urbexing zines, and find even more knowledge of the world of locked doors and asbestos warnings in there.
may your memory be a blessing to every nosy parker and curious eye, Ninjalicious, as you crack a crowbar through the back windowsills of the afterlife.
If you want to read an academic article that’s behind a paywall just email the author and ask politely if they will send you the article. Most academics will be thrilled that you want to read their work and will gladly send it to you.
Someone tried to get one of my posts to breach containment almost a week ago now and it’s still only got like 50 notes.
This fact has filled me with hubris.
My containment is unbreachable. I have four blogs and never gotten more than 100 notes on a post. The majority of this site Cannot Percive me. I can post whatever I want and nobody except for some of my beloved mutuals and followers will see it.
I am invisible. I am free.
@jusiri I have blazed posts twice now, my friend, and they have recieved 200 and 100 notes respectively. Enough to make my notifications interesting for 24 hours, but not enough to make them unuseable.
From this I can only conclude that I am immune from the fires of Tumblr blaze. No scorch marks can ravage my notifications, and I can post freely knowing that they can never be rendered unusable.
Still, I’m glad you don’t have that free blaze. Fate, I feel, would have found that too funny a chance to pass up.
IMG ID: a comment from @ jusiri saying “god if only I still had that free 20 dollar blaze” END ID
i saw this and I thought, oh how ironic surely if I am seeing this now it is because in an ironic twist of fate this post has like 15k notes now
but no
it’s at 29 notes
I went looking for irony, a little twist of fate proving you wrong and I only found evidence to your claims
YET
We cracked the 100 note limit so fast guys, I believe in us that we can get this post to the 15k+ notes it deserves
hey i just got back from work what is going on here
The images that Israel claims are of fighters arrested and stripped in Gaza include a journalist and his family, two teenage boys, one United Nations employee, and the director of an UNRWA school.
You will never get it. I will never let you get your hands on this link. I will protect this link from your prying eyes with my life. Okay fine here it is.
Death Certificates – What you need, why you need them, and
how to get them
Prepare to spend a long and miserable time on the phone
What the Everloving Fuck is Probate
Some Simple Dos and Don’ts
Shitty Mad Libs – Templates for writing Obituaries and
Memorials
How to plan a non-religious death party
So you suddenly have to become some sort of hacker or some
shit
This is an eighteen page book that you can print out, download, share, and give away; it is meant to be used to collect information about funeral planning and account management after a death OR you can use it BEFORE you die and give people information so they’re not stuck playing Nancy Fucking Drew while trying to keep seventeen cousins who crawled out of the woodwork from gutting each other in front of the fucking casket as they argue about who’s inheriting grandma’s favorite dentures.
It’s not exactly cheerful and it’s full of things that are probably going to feel really fucking raw if you’re processing a fresh death.
I’m sorry! I love you! Death is shitty! I’m trying to laugh about it a little and I hope you can laugh a little too because otherwise we’re all just going to cry together.
Good luck!
(in memory of my weirdo mother and her weirdo siblings who all died too fucking young and left me holding this flaming bag of dogshit)
the problem is im so used to urasawa/satoshi kon/katsuhiro otomo men that whenever someone asks to show me “an old anime man” with no wrinkles no gray hair no big nose no different face shape at all i feel like ive been cheated
mappa doesnt want you to know that old men should be drawn like this again
