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This is a rolled twitter thread about some of the crazy ass shit the "liberal" government that locked up the worker's party leader and candidate for president and/or the military were doing because the fascist was elected. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1055836519318122496.html "...

Finally, the above is based on the absolute best case scenario that Bolsonaro doesn't start 2019 by simply doing what has been a more or less obvious subtext on his and his vice's speeches and declare opposition illegal . So, things will get dire here, with the only unknown part being if the bad ti...

The main component of the impending disaster here is not even racial, but cultural. There's a huge racist component in brazilian society: We are almost all mixed. But how much of african ancestry shows on you is a pretty good predictor of how much shit you'll get from society. Still, the current ang...

In general the original craft rules work fine relative to basic goods, craftsman skills and wages, and living costs. 3.0 had them all line up and they've carried through. Even armour is mostly OK. It's just the prices for most adventuring gear are anywhere from 10x to 1000x too high, to fit with tr...

Genocide? Against whom? Against me. Bolsonaro is on the record saying that leftists will be "swept off the map". We're in a situation here where the best case scenario is that all that was just campaign bluster and Bolsonaro governs exactly as he behaved as MP for about 30 years: doing no...

Brazil just elected a fascist president and may be on its way to actual genocide. AMA.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/worl ... ction.html

The idea that "Earth, but with a society of supernatural monsters on it" has to have exactly the same violent death rates as RL Earth is an insane constraint. If you want to keep the same population numbers everywhere, just tweak the birth rates up to keep with the increased number of myst...

So yes, your types of vampries should be inspired by things like "We think that we should support playing vampires from the Anita Blake books" or "We think that we should support playing vampires from Twilight" because those are reasonable marketable goals to have. But the actua...

Ah my bad, somehow completely missed your post up there. Still even if there's no civil war, if stabbed dude makes it to president it won't exactly be much better since he's a military fanatic and seemingly advocates shooting first and asquing questions later as far as crime is concerned. Yeah, it'...

Brasil's oldest museum catches fire, millions of ancient artifacts probably lost. Brasilian 2nd runner presidential candidate stabbed at campaign event. Mind you he's openly a racist, anti-LGBTQ (said that if had a gay son he would prefer them to die in an accident), pro-rape so he probably deserve...

If you're not familiar, QAnon is the insane conspiracy theory cobbled together as the alternative to the plain fact that Drumpf is a traitor. The people behind QAnon released their conspiracy map and, man, it's much more insane than I would have expected. (Spoilered for bigness, crazy.) https://i.i...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45398084 Really in-topic, because this actually made me cry. I've been there two months ago and I still can't wrap my mind around everything that has been lost. That place was huge and besides the museum proper it housed several research departments for ...

Serious questing about DMing as a service: What do you do when a player whines about bad things happening to their character and goes into entitled customer mode?

Keep in mind skills can just randomly change attributes for reasons when the DM feels like changing it up. So not only do you not know what you can climb with your +7 athletics, but it might randomly run off int and become lower! 5e has just enough rules so that you are forced to mind caulk and thi...

FrankTrollman wrote:In any case, Paradox has announced its intention to buy up my entire childhood, and now owns the digital rights to Shadowrun as well as all of the intellectual property of Vampire: the Masquerade.

Crossover when?

I'm not sure much inspiration was taken from the Swedish LARP scene or something like that: a number of them have fairly typical body positions, that suggest they were drawn on top of fashion show pics (look at Gangrel Male #4 as one of the most obvious). I suspected something like this was afoot o...

I know that person; they do optimization work and math hammering on /tg/ while posting Touhou images. E: She is legit on the spectrum, so her playing hyperrigid isn't to prove a point. That's just how she is. Doing god's work, I see. EDIT: Holy shit, I went to /tg/ to look for PF2 threads there and...

You never actually get America's obesity problem until Europeans produce a new edition of Vampire and then every sample character is fit. Body shaming apart, once we know that the answers would be the missing clans, it becomes quite easy to tell each group apart. You just look for the fashion week v...

Is "washing" the clan Nosferatu new weakness, or something?

The best thing to come from the absurdist comedy that's Brazil politics right now. I'll buy the T-shirt.

Russia is a weird place to talk about extreme or moderate left fucking over things, because since the end of USSR life expectancy and other well-being indicators just fell and didn't recover. And even Venezuela's plight is more caused of them being sabotaged super hard by economic sanctions (see als...

Ignimortis wrote: And since I live in a country that's been thoroughly fucked by the extreme left and doesn't seem like it's about to recover any time soon (poor people are still fucked)

Unless you're from Venezuela, I find this bit somewhat strange. Care to elaborate?

The brain drain is real.