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colinaut

@colinaut@dice.camp

(he/him) Artist, designer (print/web/branding/XD/games), and front-of-the-full-stack-ish developer. My friends are rad. My artistic journey has lead me to be a key organizer for several collaborative art events both large and small — from dapper tweed bike rides to small 1/16 scale art festivals to large immersive performances. I am avidly into tabletop roleplaying games as both a player, facilitator, and designer and I am part of staff for my favorite con, Big Bad Con!

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colinaut , to random
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Soul Coughing is touring again after 25 yrs… Jesus Lizard is putting out an album after a 26 year hiatus, and going on tour… Ministry's Al Jourgenson is reuniting with Paul Barker for Ministry's final album… Front 242 is going on their last tour.

It's quite the year for aging Gen X music lovers.

colinaut OP ,
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I can't help but feel that this musical resurgence is a 90s Gen X punk* response to the dire political state of the world right now… "well fuck this world has had a (not so) good run — let's at least play some music as it burns."

  • noting for clarity that the a majority of Gen X were not and are not punks, let alone leftest. There are a number of Gen X that are the cause of the shit right now: Amy Cohen Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Leonard Leo, Marjorie Taylor Greene, etc.
colinaut OP ,
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@kevin I never really did have hope for my generation as a whole. The punks, creatives, and weirdos found a niche they could survive in. However it’s always been clear at least to me (from as young as 6th grade) that a bulk of Gen X, especially the older ones and especially the white ones, have very retrograde political and social views.

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Last night, we played the fourth and final episode of a playtest of a sci-fi I've been working on. It was a lot of fun and incredibly fruitful.

And I kind of want to talk about it, because it's exactly the kind of playtest I find most productive and in my experience, this isn't the sort of thing folks mean when they say playtest.

So, what's happening? Why does it work for me? And how does it differ from other playtests I've experienced?

colinaut ,
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@epidiah I find one of the hardest parts of playtesting one’s own games is that a good game master with a good player group can make nearly anything fun, masking over a game that doesn’t quite work. Especially with narrative focused mechanics, it can be hard to parse out what worked because the rules supported the story and what worked just because the group was good at creating a story.

epidiah , to random
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I have now read the original works for 5 of the 50 aliens in Barlow's Guide!

colinaut ,
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@epidiah ugh now you got me thinking that this is a fun goal. I still have my Barlow’s guide. I checked and I have 4 books (plus one movie but not the book).

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    colinaut ,
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    @epidiah small personal projects with an defined “done state” are great for learning. As opposed to larger projects like a website where it’s all “I want to do this and this and this” and it’s never really done.

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