Why let a good controversy go to waste?
An addendum to “An Illiterate Hobby”.
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Abuse and exploitation is built into the roots of the TTRPG industry. It doesn't have to be like this. I don't really know the path out of it because I keep coming back to "audiences need to do better" which is pretty difficult to make actionable.
"We aren't making the money to justify commerce"
I have said similar things in the past but not as clear and not as well. The amount of burnout and harm this scene produces is overtly high for how small and industry it is. We should not be competing with the videogame industry in breaking creatives
SEXTROCITY
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Sometimes I fear that our obsession with bombastic Wolfenstein emulation takes away from energy that could be focused on ttrpgs about breaking fascist bedrock through "real" methods like community building and sabotage.
The trailer for Scary Movie 6 they showed in the theater opens with a 5 second reference to the Backrooms and then is a minute and a half of anti-woke humor. We all know it's going to be shit but I was still dumbfounded by how it's not even committed to the Scary part of Scary Movie.